Interferences: Live – Radio as an instrument of colonisation.

One of the smallest festival venues - the VOC room in the Goethe-Institut - will host the live premiere of Interferences: Live on Thursday afternoon (29/5) and Friday morning (30/5). It is a combination between a radio play and a performance with live gamelan music and sound material from the colonial archives of the Dutch East Indies.

Researcher and theatre-maker/composer meLê yamomo samples recordings of historical radio programmes from Germany, the Netherlands, Britain and Asia. For gamelan master Krishna Sutedja and composer Thijs van den Geest, it is a unique first moment as the work is played live at the Goethe-Institut.

From 1927, colonial powers - including the Dutch - installed radio stations in Southeast Asia to control and dominate the ‘wild’ inhabitants. Soon after, locals launched radiophonic counter-projects. Interferences: Live is a radio play about global understanding and its failure. Radio as an instrument of colonisation and the sonic counter-movement that fought back through the airwaves. Put on headphones and choose your own position in the room and further building of the Goethe Institute.

➤ Tickets for this performance will come online soon. This performance is not included in the Full Festival Pass.