‘Radio Lines: the voice’ was an innovative radio project that highlighted all facets of the voice: singing and speaking, imitating, recording, mixing, distorting. Central are the creation of ‘live’ radio and the central role that mixage plays nowadays (read 1999) in radio productions. Each radio station presented itself with its own project/’island’, with sounds and compositions by two musicians. One musician, the singer, concentrates on the voice: the resulting sound was mixed, modified, reprocessed and re-created by the other musician, using computer, sampler and mixer. The underlying idea was to show which creative process is at the basis of a radio production. The central person in the performance and presentation is the radio producer/composer, not the singer. The two musicians (per radio station) gave a live performance of about fifteen minutes. Subsequently, all six musicians  improvised simultaneously, following a number of predetermined guidelines. Finally I, as the central ‘master controller’, put these improvisations together in a live mix to form a larger whole. This composition is called ‘Radiolines, Line 2’.

‘Radio lines: the voice’ was a co-production of the Goethe-Institut Rome, Rai Radiotre, Italy, Radio Bremen, Germany, and Netherlands Programme Service NPS.