On January 17, DUPOBS collaborated with Synaptic Sandwich to celebrate the birthday of art during CITR Radio’s 24 Hours of Radio Art. The three-hour performance – podcast on CITR – begins with twenty minutes or so of Tokyo commuter-train ambience, and a sci-fi monologue of dubious quality. Gradually, the ambient soundtrack is overlaid with synthetic noise, somewhat reminiscent of the highway scene from Andrei Tarkovky’s Solaris. Then DUPOBS and Synaptic Sandwich pull out all the stops for perhaps an hour of atmospheric, inspired chaos – somewhere between Violent Onsen Geisha, Plunderphonics, and the weirder moments of Skinny Puppy. The final hour or so is perhaps less inspired, but also has its moments. Here’s what part of the event looked like:

DUPOBS would like to thank Synaptic Sandwich for the opportunity to play live on air, CITR for hosting this excellent event, and our international online friends for their encouragement. Please enjoy the podcast.

24 Hours of Radio Art is CITR Radio’s gift to art on January 17 — the birthday of art as first proposed by Fluxus’ Robert Filliou. The event embraces surrealism and anarchy “as a way of rejecting the fascism of the square world; the world which refuses to break free of conventional wisdom and the inevitable war it falls into again and again.” DUPOBS is proud to be a part of the festivities, and will be collaborating with Synaptic Sandwich on a playfully bizarre experiment between the hours of 21:00 and 23:00 PST on the 17th. (That’s 04:00-06:00 GMT on the 18th.) Regardless of self-promotion, DUPOBS highly recommends tuning in and listening to 24 Hours of Radio Art at CITR’s live stream, at any point on Saturday, January 17, from 00:00 to 24:00 PST. (In GMT, that’s 07:00 on the 17th to 07:00 on the 18th).

+Clues

An arbitrary line is drawn in a calendar. A young woman from Portugal arrives in Helsinki with one large backpack on her back and a small one on her front. Someone is very happy. An Anglophone boy gets on the Narita Express with a copy of William Gibson’s Idoru under his arm. Farm labourers in Madagascar prepare another shipment bound for South Korea. Someone listens to The Neon Judgement and thinks it’s extremely mediocre and wonders why the band didn’t just give up. Someone else dies because a bomb was dropped on their house. A couple on Vancouver’s #16 bus wear matching fingerless gloves. Someone is rejected. A middle-aged man reads the French translation of Abe Kobo’s Secret Rendezvous. Somewhere it snows. Elsewhere it is sunny and hot. The polar ice caps melt. DUPOBS release two new tracks from their latest album, Win Some, Lose Some:

1) We’re Just a Bunch of Fun-Lovin’ Guys / Until We Kick Your Head in, Fat
2) Hometown Blues, Bometown Clues