Over the Edge (radio)
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Over The Edge (or, OTE) is a radio program hosted and produced in the United States by Negativland member Don Joyce. OTE is broadcast live on KPFA every second, third, and fourth Thursday night from 12am to 3am. On the rare occasion of a month with a fifth Thursday OTE runs an additional two hours, from 12am to 5am. Joyce has broadcast OTE since June 1981, usually solo, but sometimes with collaborators.
Joyce typically follows one theme for an entire program. Topics vary wildly, from various music and copyright issues to UFOs and the CIA.
Joyce uses audio collage techniques, drawing on many sources, including recordings of other radio programs (including old time radio shows), portions of documentary films, songs and various special effects. The audience phone participation ("Receptacle Programming") is another element: listeners are encouraged to call-in, and are placed on-air with no prior screening. The highly improvisational content and late hour of the broadcast attract a variety of colorful callers. There are two rules for caller: 1)When the phone stops ringing, you're on the air. 2)Don't say "Hello."
Throughout the 80's and 90's and beyond, Over The Edge has also been an outlet for Negativland's creativity. The group participated in many of the shows, a few of which have been released as edited-down CDs:
- Over the Edge Vol. 1: JAMCON'84 (1985)
- Over the Edge Vol. 1½: The Starting Line with Dick Goodbody (1995, partial reissue)
- Over the Edge Vol. 2: Pastor Dick: Muriel's Purse Fund (1990)
- Over the Edge Vol. 3: The Weatherman's Dumb Stupid Come-Out Line (1990)
- Over the Edge Vol. 4: Dick Vaughn's Moribund Music of the 70's (2001, expanded reissue)
- Over the Edge Vol. 5: Crosley Bendix: The Radio Reviews (1993)
- Over the Edge Vol. 6: The Willsaphone Stupid Show (1994)
- Over the Edge Vol. 7: Time Zones Exchange Project (1994)
- Over the Edge Vol. 8: Sex Dirt (1995)
External links
- Official site (http://www.negativland.com/ote_live/)
- SerpentX's Over The Edge Archive (http://matrix.csustan.edu/Negativ/)