Even though they are no longer available to stream on the exhibition website, you can listen to the commissioned sound works (or another work by the same artist) for Every Time A Ear Di Soun, the documenta 14 public radio program, by clicking on the speech bubbles below. Some of the links lead to the full piece and some lead to clips. I want to thank those artists I contacted during 2020 for their permission to share their works with me and my students in the class 7701: Contemporary Theory and Art Education in Fall 2020 (online due to the COVID-19) pandemic. None of those files are shared here, only public available links.
Happy listening!
Updated November 10, 2025
The title ‘A Ear Wah Soun?’ is borrowed from the SavvyFunk show Render – Mobile Radio (Knut Aufermann & Sarah Washington) with Dinah Bird, aired on June 20th, 2017.
Update January 2026
I just discovered that it is possible to listen to all of the radio commissions for documenta 14 via the Way Back Machine of the Internet Archive and so I will be listening and sharing the remaining commissions here (marking the date and context in which I first listened to them)
Monday January 5, 2026, 5-6pm (walking to the gym, at the gym, walking back home)
You can now buy a special vinyl edition of this commission from Archive Books (click the image below).
Wednesday January 7, 2026 (walking around Ohio State University campus – 4pm, then later at the gym – 5:30pm)
In Fall 2020, I was teaching the class Art Ed 7701: Contemporary Theory & Art Education on Zoom (due to the COVID-19 pandemic), a class that, while not about documenta 14, has consistently engaged with and attempted to expand documenta 14, I created assignments in which the students had to make listening notes to a selection of the documenta 14 radio commissions from Every Time a Ear Di Soun. Since they had been removed from the website, I emailed several of the artists to ask if they’d be willing to share their sound works with me and my students, while most agreed, Jace Clayton replied, describing his piece as follows:
Hello Richard —
Thanks for getting in touch. A few clarifying questions: Where is the class being taught? It’s a course centered around the 2017 documenta? This might be what you are looking for: https://www.documenta14.de/en/public-radio/14727/allgegenwart-omnipresence-document-1- However, this is basically a kind of remix-thing of the live performance I did upon request, for broadcast. Right now seems like this isn’t streaming — perhaps it was up for the exhibition time only? (And please note the piece *isn’t* ONNIPRESENCE, which hasn’t yet debuted.) My impulse is to let sleeping dogs lie… there’s so much other work by me available, although not documenta-related…. let me know your thoughts.
all the best,
J
I replied with more info, but didn’t hear back from him. But in the spirit of his reply and to accompany the experience of finally being able to listen to the original piece thanks to the Wayback Machine, here’s two photos documenting the original performance (thanks to this article published by Momus), either side of Part 1 of Clayton’s wonderful The Julius Eastman Memory Depot (which you can buy on Bandcamp here).
I also want to add that I listend to Clayton’s work that engaged with police violence and racist institutional hostility on the same day of the brutal murder of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, a few blocks from the place where George Floyd was murdered back in 2020.
Thursday January 8, 2026 (at the gym with my son, Eneko, 7:30pm, then back home reheating Rebeka’s garbanzos for dinner)
So grateful to finally hear this piece! I had no idea it was about the Bouzouki and Rebetika (as well as money! – learn more about Baghdassarians & Baltschun’s common cents trilogy – of which backing track is the third part – here). Here is the first part of the piece ‘The Widow’ via Soundcloud.
Speaking of Rebetika, on March 20, 2017 the midnight documenta 14 KEIMENA Public TV program on Greek TV station ERT2 at showed this amazing documentary Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World (2005)
[Go to this link to watch with English subtitles – https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/6422/elias-petropoulos-an-underground-world]