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PUNC

radio punc moodboard

Last updated: 07/09/26

Quotes

"Radio is one-sided when it should be two. It is purely an apparatus for distribution, for mere sharing out. So here is a positive suggestion: change this apparatus over from distribution to communication. The radio would be the finest possible communication apparatus in public life, a vast network of pipes. That is to say, it would be if it knew how to receive as well as to transmit, how to let the listener speak as well as hear, how to bring him into a relationship instead of isolating him. On this principle the radio should step out of the supply business and organize its listeners as suppliers. Any attempt by the radio to give a truly public character to public occasions is a step in the right direction."

Bertholt Brecht, 1926.

"As far as I can see there has been a mirror placed across reality and all of its shiny reflections are hiding all the brutal stuff which is behind it. It’s a domed mirror that encloses reality. If we can compete with the mirror we can do something. [...] There’s a mirror. It’s like a strange science fiction film. A domed mirror. [...] Imagine hanging out with Sun Ra for a second. [pause] Now imagine that there is somewhere else to go. There is an alternate place. Somewhere beyond the mirror and it is a nutritious place. I like it. It’s pure chaos."

Mark Stewart, interviewed in the Quietus in 2010.

I will tell you what he told me

in the years just after the war

as we then called

the second world war


don't lose your arrogance yet he said

you can do that when you're older

lose it too soon and you may

merely replace it with vanity

excerpt from "Berryman" by W.S Merwin, published in the collection Migration in 2005.