A game show set in a futuristic version of 1982, in which the contestants are robots and their very lives are on the line. A satire of reality television and neo-futurist comedy, the program imagines a world in which the robot population has grown so large that the only way to reduce their numbers is to make them fight for survival as public entertainment.
Human listeners deciding who lives and who is decommissioned!
Among the contestants: a Wild West cowboy who was once a missile defense robot; a meticulous automaton who dreams of long walks on the beach between filing and collating; Ulton—part comedian, part killer—and many more.
Conceived and written by Thom Baily. Performed with improvisation by Peter Rosenbloom, Chris Hammes, Philip von Zweck, Joe Sterns, Thom Baily, and Eric Humphrey. Engineered by John Wanzel. Sound design and produced by Thom Baily. Executive produced by Philip von Zweck and John Wanzel.
Hour of the Robots originally aired on July 18, 2004 live to air on WLUW 88.7 Chicago.
Blind Spot (2004-2006): a weekly live experimental radio program exploring sound collage, performance, music, improvisation, and field recordings as a broadcast form.
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