IImaginary Landscapes 4'33" x 4'33" for Sony SW77 (version for UKV)

Audio performance

The piece takes inspiration from the compositions of the American composer and anarchist John Cage. It is the first of four pieces, each one dedicated to a different radio wavelength, that is, besides ultra-short wave, also medium, long and short wave.
 Instead of human stakeholders regulating the strength and modulation of individual radio receivers (i.e. the instrument of the concert), we choose to automatically scan each wavelength as done by SW'77, in accordance with the features of Cage's composition Imaginary Landscapes #4.
This leaves us with an abundance of diverse stations, which in essence only reveal the general poverty of the airwaves. Unfortunately, they can only come to life with each station blaring into the listener's ears. One needs to learn how to listen, even to kitsch.
"Desperate days. Nothing on the airwaves," goes the lyrics of the anarcho-punk band Poison Girls.
The ubiquitous nature of radio junk means either that there is "something on the airwaves" or the lack of silence sift through the scanning of stations, the gaps between songs, the words sought by individual announcers, perhaps even in the unorthodox search for a calm eye of the storm of the wall of noise. The silence, as is the ambition of Cage's 4'33", is a place of zen amidst all the noise.