WHY, ACTUALLY? Tom McDonough on Christopher Williams’s “Radio Play”
Listening bars are currently all the rage in Berlin, with devout music lovers increasingly eschewing noisy clubs and bars to listen to choice vinyl selections on audiophile sound systems. A recent event by Christopher Williams put a unique spin on this trend by presenting two recent adaptations of a vintage radio play, originally broadcast in different East and West German versions in the early 1970s. The listening party format might seem custom-made for Williams, as an artist whose work often requires both a high standard of technical expertise and a high level of attention from viewers in highlighting the gaps and continuities that exist within technological processes of transmission – between different places and times, and between different systems and ideologies. Tom McDonough was in attendance and experienced Williams’s characteristic complexity in maximum fidelity.
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