In conjunction with Radio Revolten, the Audioscopic Research Archive (2004) will be exhibited in the foyer of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. On loan from the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, the archive contains the research materials of Friedrich Jürgenson (1903–1987), who explored radio as a medium of communication with the beyond. In 1959 Jürgenson accidentally stumbled on the Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP). By using radio carrier waves he was later able to recover the great many multi-lingual and often barely comprehensible voices that he interpreted to come from deceased persons.
To re-activate the archive and explore the Electronic Voice Phenomenon, Swedish artists Hampus Lindwall, Joakim Forsgren and Leif Elggren have created an audio-visual performance for the Werkleitz Festival. The artists will attempt to draw Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) and Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759) into a dialogue in the Moritzkirche in Halle. Though for a time the two composers worked not far from one another in the cities of Halle (Saale) and Leipzig, no personal encounter was ever documented.
On 2 October a panel talk will examine the debates on the immaterial inheritance of frequency ranges and the history and current relevance of this parascientific field of research. The talk will be moderated by curator Martin Hartung, who will be joined by experts on transcommunication Gesa Dröge (Lüneburg) and Christian Hilpert (Braunschweig).
Martin Hartung (Curator)