How can the cat be both dead and alive? A sound test in noncompliance
Just like in Schrödinger’s cat case, we’re here confronted to a situation of quantum entanglement, a “physical phenomenon whereby the quantum state of each pairs or groups of particles cannot be described independently from the state of the others”. To the colonizer, the colonized is noise, creating an interference against the legitimate signal. When a community radio choses to broadcast the voices of the colonized, we hear the noise entangled to them. It’s all about quantum superpositions of states and their decoherence. It’s all about the shown and the hidden, the audible and the noisy. Street backgrounds and side-effects become first and central.
Dichotomies, dualities and their reflects in broken sonic mirors ripple in a droste effect of community radio recorded in its making. The radio in the radio.
How can homeless people be both dead and alive? Here’s the impossible answer. With street-fed audio formulas, (no)home-made antipsychiatric remedies discovered through loud crash tests in counter-science in denial, invisibilisation and erasure of indigenous voices and bodies, as well as those of other landless and homeless people.

Language/langue: english, québecois

Picture/image: Schrodinger’s cat https://www.tomburtonwood.com/pages/schrodinger.html by/par Magdalena Le Prévostfor/pour Radia, commissioned/proposé by Radio Panik

Short excerpts/courts extraits read by/lus par Samuel Limet, from/de de Marie Thompson, Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism , Michael Goddard, Reverberations: The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise and www.informationphilosopher.com/freedom/noise. Some of the audio material used in this piece was taken from the podcast of the 14 hours long broadcast of the 11th CKUT (McGill university community radio) Homelessness Radio Marathon, held in 2013 outside and inside the Native Friendhip Center of Montreal, in February, with a temperature of around -20 celsius. Most of the material was recorded there by the author/Partie du matériel sonore utilisé pour cette pièce est repris du podcast des 14 heures de diffusion en direct du Centre d’Amitié Autochtone de Montréal lors du onzième marathon des sans-abris organisé par la radio communautaire de l’université de McGill, CKUT, en février 2013, lors d’un studio volant dans la rue par une température d’environ -20 degrés. La plupart du contenu sonore a été enregistré sur place par l’auteure.

Magdalena is a volunteer at Radio Panik, Brussels, and whishes to explore all the obstacles, challenges, restrictions and impossibilities of a radiophonic Cinema Vérité for the ear/ Magdalena est bénévole à Radio Panik, Bruxelles, et souhaite explorer tous les obstacles, défis, restrictions et impossibilités d’un ciné direct radiophonique pour l’oreille.