"This is a mix for instructing posthumans in living a Dada life. It is not advisable, nor was it ever, to lead a Dada life. It is and it was always foolish and self-destructive to lead a Dada life because a Dada life will include by definition pranks, buffoonery, masking, deranged senses, intoxication, sabotage, taboo breaking, playing childish and/or dangerous games, waking up dead gods, and not taking education seriously."

 

Ergo Phizmiz presents this week's mix based on ideas and themes explored in Andrei Codrescu's book "The Posthuman Dada Guide".

 

Within the mix you will hear extracts from -

Salah Ragab / Ramadam in Space Time

Ocora / Aamedat el Karnak

Marie Osmond / Karawane

The Slits / A Boring Life

Youtube / Lenin Speaks!

Gary Kasparov / Making Mistakes in Chess

John Cage / Chesspiece
Youtube / Computer Noise Trouble

Yuri Gagarin / The First Speech from Space

Youtube / 1 Minute Speed Chess

Youtube / How a Gameboy Song is Composed

Youtube / Graffiti Riot - Paintbombs Fly at Cops in London

Youtube / The Sounds of Space

Jean Arp / Je Suis Seul

Berthold Goldschmidt / Die Gewaltige Hahnrei

Henri Chopin / Dialogue Desourds

Alban Berg / Langsam
J.S. Bach / Preludes & Fugues

Youtube / Spam Poetry Reading

Kurt Schwitters / Ursonate

Youtube / SMILE - Generative Music Synth

Youtube / A Flock of Big Mechanical Birds

IBM 704 / First Computer Speech Synthesis

F.T. Marinetti / Dune
Francois Poulenc / Honoloulou

Field-Recording / Back Garden in Bridport with Seagulls

Youtube / Z.X Spectrum Loading Sequence

Victrola Favourites / Big Idiot Buys a Pig

Disappearing Calliope / The Sounds of Space

 

Artwork by Dada artist Raoul Hausmann.

Ergo dedicates this mix to Steven Streight, who introduced him to the book.

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