DREAM FM
(/ˌef ˈem/)
dream frequency modulator for wakeful nights
seeding dreams and nightmares alike
with Constance DeJong, Delia Derbyshire, Pati Hill and René Bertholo
Dreams are no longer our own. Borrowed nonsense infiltrates our slumbering minds. Metal fillings in our teeth act as antennas for radio waves. Outside, inside, all around, external frequencies whisper the brain.
How can you record a dream in which you can’t name even one thing that’s happening. It’s just like the moon, black black white. Today those same facts are sent into the space of much repetition. One-third of the day in sleep. Two-thirds daydreaming. The way out is left right, is somewhere ahead of you. Green yellow orange – one two three – not overlapping. I simply seem to have turned on the day. I think it’s bound to disturb our sleeping arrangements. Yesterday’s podcast in the air. Back to sleep, back to that place called the mystery of our double existence in the dark.
SATURDAY'S 44 mins.
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Constance DeJong
This Feels Like (2:03), 2017–18
Originally broadcast on a re-engineered vintage radio or performed live
Bedside (3:46), 2020
Sound excerpt of an installation
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Delia Derbyshire
Falling (8:03), Landscape (6:30), 1963
Two of five movements from Dreams, composed for Inventions for Radio directed by Barry Bermange
Broadcast on BBC radio, 1964 and 1975
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Pati Hill
Dreams (10:15), 1977
Selection from Dreams Objects Moments, read by herself on an episode of Audience, produced by Don Mowatt, with sound effects by James Reed
Broadcast on CBC stereo, 1978
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René Bertholo
Intermission (5:33)
Computer animation of a drawing by René Bertholo (Leitura: o Livro das Transformações, 1979), triggered by África Aqui composed for Makina (1988–1999). The original drawing is displayed at Cine-Galeria.
This session is made possible by the efforts of dedicated caretakers at the Delia Derbyshire archive at the University of Manchester; the Pati Hill collection at the Arcadia University in Philadelphia; and Paulo Vinhas who rescued René Bertholo’s idle Makina. As for the living, we’d like to thank Constance DeJong for generously accepting our invitation; to Gabrielle Giattino, from Bureau Gallery in New York for the unconditional support and to Ellie Ga for being a conduit of enthusiasm. We thank Borja Caro for the soft machine building for this session; and extend our thoughts to those who have contributed with works and working hands to put up this cycle. At the end of a short-lived summer, we would like to thank Filho Único for daring us to join them in high frequency, and to those who did.
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