<span style="font-weight: bold;">"TV on the Radio", podcast by Kenneth Goldsmith<br></span>
<br>In MACBA's exhibition, "Are You Ready for TV?", a visitor can see
what happens when the aesthetic of visual artists collides with the
world of television. The results are anything but what you'd expect to
see on TV. Likewise, when television collides with audio arts, a new and
disconcerting soundtrack emerges, one that can only have been a product
of artists swiping, sampling, detourning, recycling, remixing, and
mashing-up sources emanating from the television. There's a great
history of audio works mashed up, inspired by and taken from TV and
we'll be listening to ten of them here. Unlike the works in the
exhibition, these more ephemeral gestures travel in different ways,
often reinserting themselves back into mass culture by means of
mechanical reproduction, spread widely and thinly across culture. In
many cases, this type of distribution has impacted back upon popular
culture itself, creating an historical echo chamber. With no museum
needed to reframe these works as art, the mere displacement from one
medium into another creates an ecosystem unique to the recorded
artifact, distinctly different than that of the visual. These works live
on, perpetuating themselves in popular culture via the internet, as
well as in the form of LPs, cassette tapes, CDs and MP3s.
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<br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials?id_capsula=782" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials?id_capsula=782</a>
<br>MP3: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/specials/TVontheradio.mp3" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/specials/TVontheradio.mp3</a>
<br>Related information: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20101130/TVontheradio_eng.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20101130/TVontheradio_eng.pdf</a>
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<br>Playlist:
<br>Ken Nordine "The Vidiot" (excerpt, 1957) from <i>Word Jazz</i> (Ken Nordine, featuring The Fred Katz Group, Dot Records, 1957)
<br>John Cage appears on the TV show <i>I've Got a Secret</i> and performs his composition "Water Walk," 1960
<br>Charlotte Moorman plays the TV Cello on Nam June Paik's television
show, <i>Good Morning Mr. Orwell</i>, interviewed by George Pimpton, 1984
<br>Ferdinand Kriwet "Apollo Vision" (realisation: Ferdinand Kriwet;
production: Studio Akustische Kunst, WDR, Koln/SWF/BR; script: Klaus
Schoning, 1969)
<br>Donald Swearingen "Salvation at 1 AM" (1990) from <i>Radius #2:
Transmissions from Broadcast Artists</i> (¿What Next? Recordings, 1993)
<br>Robert Watts "Interview" (1963) from <i>Fluxus Anthology</i> (Anthology Records, 1995)
<br>Brian Joseph Davis "Voiceover" (MP3 from <a href="http://brianjosephdavis.com,/" target="_blank">http://brianjosephdavis.com,</a> 2006)
<br>Robert Ashley <i>Perfect Lives: An Opera for Television</i> from "The Bar (Differences)" (Lovely Music, 1983)
<br>William S. Burroughs, "Present Time Exercises" from <i>Break Through In Grey </i>Room (Sub Rosa Records, 1971)
<br>The Evolution Control Committee "Rocked by Rape" (MP3 from ECC website <a href="http://evolution-control.com,/" target="_blank">http://evolution-control.com,</a> 2002)