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Felix Kubin is a Hamburg-based musician and multidisciplinary artist. His films, installations, electro-pop music, and experimental radio plays (called ‘Hörspiele’) are hyper-creative, challenging and unique explorations of phenomena both commonplace and obscure. Approaching his various projects from an intellectually rigorous yet playful angle, Kubin could be considered a neo-Dadaist.

In May 2010, I saw Kubin present the radio play Paralektronoia at the Mega­polis experimental audio festival in Baltimore. Paralektronoia was a dexterous meld of musical performance and lect­ure focusing on the parapsycho­logical effects of electronic techno­logies – an appropriate enough topic for an avant-garde electronic musician.

The Hörspiel surveyed audio medium­ship through Electronic Voice Phenomena’s spirit recording techniques (FT104:26–30; 194:26–30) and delved into the talented, tormented existence of recording engineer Joe Meek.