FM Module #18. Skin

Episode 18 of FM Module focuses on skin, or on sensitivity to be exact. Or, to be as precise as possible, it focuses on the boundaries of our consciousness.

The organic shell which divides us from the world and also connects us to it is apparently a display of the discrete nature of existence. The transitional phase from the external to the internal, from an object to its projections, from the personal to the environmental (and vice versa) has always given food for thought to philosophers — from Empedocles to Simondon. Yet can we identify that phase and its boundaries? Even if consciousness is born from the touch to the world, that link easily twists into a loop of endless reflections.

Featured in the episode: Andreas Ammer, Rica Blunck, Martin Wuttke, Volker Kamp, Sjang Coenen, Father Karl, Saskia von Klitzing, David Link, Phil Minton, Michael Tregor, Hans-Joachim Friedrichsen, Chrislo Haas, Ulrike Haage, Alexander Hacke, Sebastian Hess, Siegfried Zielinski, Henning Schmidgen, PanSonic, Poetry Machine.

Track list

1. Flusser Haut Fragmente (text: Vilem Flusser, music: Brotzmann, Einheit, voice: Siegfried Zielinski)
2. Lakehurst (text: Andreas Ammer, music: FM Einheit from the radio drama Crashing aeroplanes)
3. Empedocles 1 – The porous skin as a boundary and as a connection (text: Empedocles, Siegfried Zielinski, voice: Siegfried Zielinski, music: FM Einheit)
4. skin of hard spirit (text: Poetry machine, music: FM Einheit)
5. Die apokalyptischen Reiter (text: Andreas Ammer, music: Ulrike Haage from the radio drama Apokalypse live)
6. Empedocles 2 – See: The inner fire and the waste (text: Empedocles, Siegfried Zielinski, voice: Siegfried Zielinski, music: FM Einheit)
7. FM (text: Poetry machine, voice & music: FM Einheit)
8. The Skin Inside Your Head (text & voice: Henning Schmidgen, music: FM Einheit)
9. Under my skin (text: Siegfried Zielinski, voice & music: FM Einheit)
10. The Skin Inside Your Head (text & voice: Henning Schmidgen, music: FM Einheit)
11. red wood flower (text: Poetry machine, voice & music: FM Einheit)
12. Empedocles 3 – Listening: The fleshy twig in the ear (text: Empedocles, Siegfried Zielinski, voice: Siegfried Zielinski, music: FM Einheit)
13. River Johnny (text: Poetry machine, voice & music: FM Einheit)

Follow the link for the transcript of Episode 18

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