Richard Crow - Radio Schreber, Soliloques for Schziophonic (extract), 20.4.2011

Richard Crow - Radio Schreber, Soliloques for Schziophonic (extract), 20.4.2011

Phantasmic voices of Radio Schreber: Richard Crow, Gabriel Séverin, Anna Teresa Scheer, Nick Couldry, Adam Bohman, Douglas Park and others who remain obscure and unknown...

Radio Schreber, Soliloques for Schziophonic voices investigates

the recurring theme of ‘hearing voices’ in sonic and literary

works by paying homage to Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of My

Nervous Illness. Written in 1903 during his second mental illness

at Sonnenstein Public asylum, the Memoirs detail an alternate

delusional world famously analysed by Freud in his Psycho-analytic

Notes on An Autobiographical account of a case of paranoia

(Dementia Paranoides) published in 1911.

For the centenary of Schreber’s death (and Freud’s Psychoanalytic

Notes), a sound performance by artist Richard Crow

will give voice to Schreber’s visionary text through a specially

created composition that will be premiered at the Freud Museum

London. As a continuation of his project, Imaginary Hospital

Radio, Richard Crow will work in collaboration with sound-poet

Gabriel Séverin in exploring a sonic tableaux of phantasmic and

disembodied voices embedded in the text as well as in its physical

and imaginary locations inhabited by Schreber.

Presented by Sound Threshold. Curated by Lucia Farinati with the assistance of Rita Correddu.

Recorded by Colin Potter.