Beginning of the End: some of the musings off Documenta 13 project

from Documenta 13 official site:
“Variations radio host Jon Leidecker delineates the history of the potential for the radio receiver to be used as a musical instrument from its early beginnings in the Twenties as captured on a comedy record, to formal art experiments in the Forties and Fifties, to its nostalgic presence in one of the very first song-based pop music collage albums, which herald the now familiar practice of sampling.”

Here is the 3rd radio recording of Variations – mid-blowing:

03 – Variations.mp3 (Right-click to Download)