<nettime> International Radio Project

[Brian Conley <lamcon@echonyc.com>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

		WAR!: SERBIA vs. THE UNITED STATES
		A live interactive radio performance


          Conceived by Brian Conley, Immaterial Incorporated

	  November 14, 1999, 12-2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
	     WBAI (99.5 FM, New York) and B-92 (Belgrade)



On November 14, 1999, an international radio performance entitled WAR! 
will be broadcast in New York and Belgrade simultaneously. The event, an
imagined theater of conflict between Serbia and the United States, is a
two-hour interactive live performance between two teams of sound artists
and sound designers gathered at Radio B92 in Belgrade and at WBAI in New
York. The two teams will have read classic books of war strategy (Sun Tzu,
von Clausewitz, van Creveld, and so on) and devised a strategy for waging
war on the other team using cartoon sound effects as the only sound
material. They are allowed to use any technology from home-made
instruments and the human voice to samplers and computers in order to
manipulate and organize the cartoon sound effects. They will not meet
their opponent except at the moment of broadcast. And at that moment they
are involved in a relentless struggle for domination and drive towards
victory over the other in the terrain of the audio. By using the stereo
divide, the sound from each team will be broadcast on one speaker so that
audiences can easily distinguish between the two teams. 

This event is being organized by Immaterial Incorporated of New York and
by Radio B-92. B-92, the pro-democracy radio in Belgrade closed down by
Milosevic at the start of the war in Kosovo, has recently moved back to
Belgrade. The teams will be connected via Internet and broadcast live in
New York from 12 - 2 p.m. on and in Belgrade from 6 - 8 p.m. The broadcast
will also be webcast at http://www.freeb92.com. 


Technical support for this event has been generously provided by
Harvestworks, New York.

For a longer project statement, email war-event@immaterial.net.  Brian
Conley can be contacted at 212 732 5298 or at war@immaterial.net. 


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