Hi, I’m Rudiger Meyer, a composer interested in the play between music, sound, and media.
He/him.
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| Poetisk Podcast | https://poetiskpodcast.dk |
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With some inspiration from https://typo.social/@charakterziffer/112880457349918785, here’s a little “zine” that I made covering eight of our recent ‘poetic podcasts’.
https://poetiskpodcast.dk/produktioner
#zine #poetry #podcast https://rudigermeyer.com/notes/2025-06-16-17-16-00
Listening Back, a mixtape for @[email protected]:
Sounds of 80s experimental pop that echo Stockhausen’s electronic works from the 50s. The test equipment used to create those first studies, revived to once again create music today. Environmental sounds from South Africa recreated in the WDR studio in Cologne in the 70s. Minimal music from the WDR studio in Cologne in the 70s. Pianos in Italy. Songs from Iran over the shortwaves. Vibrations ‘in the air’, fusing together.
https://www.mixcloud.com/dontlookbackrecords/dlbmix2304-rudiger-meyer/
Rudiger Meyer is a South African-born composer, living in Copenhagen since 2004. Interested in the play between music, sound and media. Listening Back – a Mixtape Sounds of 80s experimental pop that echo Stockhausen’s electronic works from the 50s. The test equipment used to create those first studies, revived to once again create music today. Environmental sounds from South Africa recreated in the WDR studio in Cologne in the 70s. Minimal music from the WDR studio in Cologne in the 70s. Pianos in Italy. Songs from Iran over the shortwaves. Vibrations ‘in the air’, fusing together. Listening back. To a take, a recording. One’s own. Someone else’s. Like the old process of developing a photograph. Or a print. How did it turn out? What was ‘captured’. Forms gradually emerge. Details can slowly be made out. It’s not the past. It’s now. DLBMIX is produced with kind support from Statens Kunstfond (Denmark's ministry of culture)
Poetisk Podcast #14: Atomernes dans (Dance of the Atoms)
“Ever since I heard about the substance of thought, I have had difficulty finding a way amongst the many objects that block the movement of thought. Molecules, ions, atoms. Synapses, fluids, neurons. Not that free thought has become impossible, but difficult, an obstacle course.”
Poetisk Podcast #13: Atomar (Atomic Scars)
Atomar is based around a collection of 40 poems by Lene Henningsen, read aloud by Marina Bouras and Jens Albinus, with sound and music by yours truly.
One of Lene’s initial images for the collection was in terms of form:
“I saw pages with spread, splintered words before me, with countless variations of spaces and pauses between the statements of the words, images, ‘melody lines’.”
Poetisk Podcast #12: Kære mor (Dear Mom)
Dear Mom, 2050
I’m recording this for you again in the hope that
you will wake up one day
then I’ll tell you everything
you can move in
here with us
I cleaned up for you
the house is as it was when they fetched you
Every day I think about calling you
I forget that you aren’t here
a little further down the road
lives a man whose wife
has also been fetched
