Radio WORM

NEW on Radio WORM: Through the “BFBS” inverse backronym, BARE FREQUENCIES BEGRIMED SIGNALS
reimagines the ongoing transmissions by the British Forces Broadcasting Service in Cyprus. The show will be hosted by the para-fictional character of George: a bleached-haired
MC-aspiring character, found throughout Emiddio Vasquez’s previous work that investigates
the development of UK Garage in Ayia Napa, Cyprus in the vicinity of the British military bases. Assuming the position of Skepta’s cellmate, as documented in his 2006 grime track
“Ayia Napa Skit,” when asked to say something in a snuck in dictaphone, George responded: “I don’t understand.” The BARE FREQUENCIES BEGRIMED SIGNALS show reconsiders that prison cell encounter through a series of sonic archives–part sonic collage, part dj set, part musicological investigation–in order to dissect club culture into its bare frequency components, and through which George finally asks: “Where do militarism and club culture intersect?”

Emiddio Vasquez is a Cypriot-Dominican artist, musician and researcher, whose work is shaped by the politics of matter and how they inform sound and computation. For over a decade he helped shape the Cypriot underground music scene as an organiser, a DJ, and a performer. In 2018, he founded the record label Moneda. He is currently also working as Lower Levant Company, co-representing Cyprus in the 60th Venice Biennale.

BFBS: BARE FREQUENCIES BEGRIMED SIGNALS w/ George, Tuesday 13 October, 22:00-23:00
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