Peek – AI! Brought to its Knees

Radio
by Urs Rihs,
Radio Bollwerk

Artificial Intelligence turns emotive on a Swiss underground radio dataset and gives up in peace – collective curatorial practices winning over. This radio feature is a collaboration between Norient and Radio Bollwerk. Based in Bern, we share the same city of origin with this Swiss internet radio.

The feature is to be seen as a local add-on to the Norient book Politics of Curatorship: Collective and Affective Interventions, released in Spring 2023, and a creative by-product of the curation of a Swiss underground spotlight in the program of the 13th edition of our Festival in January 2024 by the radio crew. Radio Bollwerk maintains a network of primarily DJs, but appears to house a concert collective in its studio and to have collaborated with numerous contemporary artists and festivals all over Switzerland.

In this very feature, various artists, curators, and scientists are involved, prominently and in order of appearance: Duex Fontana, art director and programmer of the club and festival Bad Bonn in Düdingen, Sara Palin aka Palinstar, singer and musician from Zurich, Dany Digler, art director and programmer of the club Le Singe in Biel-Bienne, Dr. Marzia Varutti from the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva, Laurence Wagner, art director of the Belluard Bollwerk festival in Fribourg, and last but not least Miro Caltagirone, singer of the bands Puts Marie and Mister Milano, musician, and actor.

tracklist

Palinstar: «Smooth Operator» (unpublished)
Trash Mantra (Dany Digler): «Don’t do Business with the Devils» (unpublished)
Swarm Composing (PLOUK & splatz.space): «Free Swarm». (PLOUK 14.05.2023)

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This feature was produced by Urs Rihs, any rights to the material used in the broadcast stay with Radio Bollwerk or the authors. 

Biography

Urs Rihs (1987, he/him) is co-founder of the internet Radio Bollwerk in Bern, Switzerland, hosting a morning show on the resident FM station Radio RaBe, programming concerts in the underground and beyond since 2010. Hosting club nights, and rushing on sound 24/7 anyways, he views the profane in music as paramount, like pasta e fagioli on a table with friends. Urs is deeply dedicated to the local scene, yet, it doesn’t matter to him where you are from, as long as you come from somewhere with attitude and a frank spirit. He is also a freelance journalist and writer for the collectively attended KSB Kulturmagazin, which works on forms in the twilight of reportage, critical theory, and art. «To experiment is to be hunting chance. It takes time and faith», he is reported to say – «but it’s most rewarding when you catch that spark». He has realized various radio features for festivals such as Face-Z in Geneva and the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival (LUFF). Follow him on Instagram.

Biography

Radio Bollwerkist ein Gemeinschaftsradio mit Avantgarde-Clubmusik in der DNA. Mit Satelliten, auf verschiedensten Bühnen und in möglichst allen Sparten. Qualität hörbar machen, das Spektrum des Untergrunds auffächern, Musik im Netz – 24/7.

Radio Bollwerk is a community radio with avant-garde club music in its DNA. With its satellites, on various stages and in as many sections as possible. Making quality audible, overflowing on different scenes to capture the depth of underground music, music online – 24/7. Follow them on Facebook, Instagram, SoundCloud, and on their Website.

Published on March 19, 2024

Last updated on March 19, 2024

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