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Over the Edge
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Over the Edge (radio) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Over The Edge (or, OTE) is a radio program hosted and produced in the United States by Negativland member Don Joyce. OTE is broadcast live on KPFA every second, third, and fourth Thursday night from 12am to 3am. On the rare occasion of a month with a fifth Thursday OTE runs an additional two hours, from 12am to 5am. Joyce has broadcast OTE since June 1981, usually solo, but sometimes with collaborators. The show began as a rather conventional music show, though Joyce gradually experimented with the format. In the mid-1980's, when Joyce began collaborating with Negativland, OTE established distinctive format it currently follows. The opening theme music is from Heaven and Hell (1975), by Vangelis. At the end of each episode, a woman's voice is played, reading a statement attributed to Man Ray: "To reproduce is human, to create is divine." Joyce typically follows one theme for an entire program. Topics vary wildly, from motion pictures, to various music and copyright issues to UFOs and the CIA; one episode each was devoted to Ken Nordine and to radio comedy team Bob and Ray. Joyce uses sound collage techniques, weaving many sources together throughout the program. Sources might include recordings of other radio programs (including old time radio shows), portions of documentary films, songs and various special effects. Joyce declares that with OTE, he and his collaborators "create 'direct-reference' collages, manip
