Asphyxia: The "Idiote", the Library Wifi and the Suppressed Safe #11 - Fever

Originally commissioned in 2022 as part of Radio Art Zone's tapestry of 22-hour radio productions, this project by Daniel R. Wilson is re-presented here in episodic form. Asphyxia hacks the antagonising systems which thwart and forestall projects (its name also acknowledges the asphyxiating atmosphere of long-form radio when made by a single person). It is a damaged would-be radio documentary exploring the Narnia of restricted access material and gatekept employment.

A fever takes hold over this episode, but the willpower to continue researching persists. When these two things collide, you can be sure that you're in for one hell of a rollercoaster of ride full of spills and thrills without a moderating pragmatist for miles.

Fever effects are unusual; perceptual loops present themselves, of varying tiresomeness. A loud music event outdoors prompts our poorly breathless narrator to trace the source of the sound.

This gives rise to what may become a recurring theme in Asphyxia: namely, a new genre of music called 'creepbeat'; where, like breakbeat, music is sampled, albeit from an unreasonably long lonely distance away. When banging tunes lose their definition, they thrum.