Radio Freie Modulationen / Was kostet den Kopf?

»Radio Freie Modulationen / Was kostet den Kopf« invites you to discover a fascinating sonic universe that combines the radical ideas of the European avant-garde with the longings and fantasies of the present. The "Ab-Hör-Abend", consisting of a radio play collage and live acts, leads deep into the "An-Archives" of the musician and composer FM Einheit and the media archaeologist Siegfried Zielinski, who have been friends and artistic collaborators for many years.

FM Einheit is one of the best-known representatives of experimental sound art. Not only was he instrumental in developing the sound of the legendary band Einstürzende Neubauten, he has also established himself as a composer of film and theatre music and has received several awards for his radio play productions. FM Einheit and Siegfried Zielinski, who not only shaped media archaeology from the very beginning, but also extended it to non-European perspectives with the idea of "variantology", have realised a series of performances and radio plays together in recent years. For the evening at the ZKM, the two radio plays »Radio Freie Modulationen« and »Was kostet den Kopf?,« which were created for SWR and Deutschlandfunk in 2023, were combined into a version lasting almost one hour. The performance of the dense sound collage will be visually commented by Siegfried Zielinski, followed by a live performance by FM Einheit. 

FM Einheit is a musician, performer, art researcher and composer. He was a member of the band Einstürzende Neubauten from 1980 to 1996. Since the late 1980s, he has increasingly worked as a theater and radio play composer. Twice awarded the »Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden« (1995 and 2002). 2020-2022 he was Composer in Residence at Teodor Currentzis' international ensemble musicAeterna in St. Petersburg.
Since 2021 a digital version of FM Einheit's sound archive is part of the ZKM | Archive. [> Archive FM Einheit]