The plan was to rewire the role of the radio listener. Set up by Copenhagen natives Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen and Rasmus Stolberg of Efterklang, together with artist Kasper Vang and radio journalist Jan Høgh Stricker, The Lake Radio continues its NOWNESS two-weekend residency with a kitsch delve into the annals of recorded sound. In an age in which sound art has become a serious form, and the iPhone provides a continuous soundtrack, The Lake is trying to free things up: “It is about raising awareness about listening not just to music, but stuff from everyday sounds to noise,” says Stricker. “A lot of the music we play we found by crate-digging in local record stores. It’s a collective approach to curation; its not something we discuss—whether this or that track works. It’s more like we know it already, because we have listened to all this music together for such a long time.”

The Lake selects…

John Giorno presents Andy Warhol’s tapes: “Andy And Man Ray Prepare For A Portrait, November 30, 1973”
Beat poet John Giorno presents some of Andy Warhol’s recordings of his everyday life. 

Chris Watson: “Hippopotami Emerging From River Mara At Dusk”
Recording from Kenya by British field recording guru. 

Sun Ra: “I Am An Instrument.”
Space poetry from the jazz mystic master.

Håkon Stene: “See Our Lake” pt. 1
Solo work by Norwegian percussionist, added to The Lake by Karl Hyde of Underworld. Every week we add new music and sounds to The Lake and every week also have guest curators contributing content. 

Lily Tiger (Berlin’s best taxi driver) on the book she is writing
Sometimes stories evolve out of the blue, for example when chatting with taxi drivers at 4am in the morning. It’s hopefully the beginning of a small archive of conversations with taxi drivers and let this be an open call. Please send us your recordings of conversations with taxi drivers.