| Genre | Sound collage |
|---|---|
| Running time | 3 hours |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Home station | KPFA |
| Hosted by | Jon Leidecker ("Wobbly") & Robert Cole ("KrOB") |
| Created by | Don Joyce |
| Recording studio | Berkeley, California |
| Original release | June 1981 |
| Website | www kpfa |
| Podcast | kpfa |
Over the Edge (or OTE) is a sound collage radio program hosted and produced in the United States by Jon Leidecker ("Wobbly") and Robert Cole ("KrOB"), who took over in 2015 after the death of longtime host Don Joyce.
Leidecker, like Joyce, is a member of the pioneering sound collage band Negativland, other members of which have frequently appeared on the show. A series of Over the Edge episodes have been released under the Negativland name, first on cassette and later CD. Critic Ned Raggett[1] describes Over the Edge as "a merry trip into an alternate world," while critic Stephen Cramer[2] describes Over the Edge as "the longest-running block of free-form radio in the history of radio ... essentially live performance art."
Founded in 1981, OTE is broadcast live on KPFA in Berkeley, California, every second, third, and fourth Thursday night/Friday morning from midnight to 3 a.m. On the rare occasion of a month with a fifth Thursday OTE runs an additional two hours, from midnight to 5 a.m. The show is also available online, streamed live from KPFA.org (which podcasts the show), or from Negativland.com, where many older episodes are available as well. As of July 2021,[update] approximately 1300 episodes are stored at the Internet Archive. It is the group's plan to digitize and archive every episode ever made.