Book with manifestos, original texts, essays on perception, music and technology history, as well as a manuscript on parrot training. Includes a CD of the original audio piece from 1970. For the first time unabridged, 36:17 minutes. A raucous piece about the impossibility of speaking. After 28 minutes of broadcasting, protests blocked the phones of 11,000 WDR employees for two hours. Klaus Ramm, literary historian, elaborates on the historical significance of the audio piece in his contribution "Speaking is Alien to the Spoken." "The sum of a life!" (Werner Bethsold) "Not even half!" (Schuldt) From the formless void of everyday life, alarming works in art, literature, and photography emerged half a century ago. The author vividly recounts the hoarse barbed wire of voices and the adventures in creating the most primitive radio play.