Scarlatti - A Radio Romance by Paul Carter is a radio work in the neue Hörspiel tradition broadcast in Australia in 1986. This article discusses a project in-progress, the remaking of Scarlatti in a 'post-radio' environment. German Hörspiel radio rehabilitated sound, often with the political (and poetic) object of developing a listening public resistant to the communicational aesthetics and tactics of mainstream media. Noise was understood as a kind of anonymous vernacular whose orchestration might contribute to the choreography of everyday life. In Scarlatti radio played multiple roles, private, public, performative: atmospherics and other markers of occasion signified a counter discourse of resistance to authority. Incorporated into the composition they represented public space. In a post-radio environment, the remaking of Scarlatti means using radio dramaturgically, in a post-representational way, to reterritorialize spaces of (resistant) listening.
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