<b>New podcast: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Kenneth Goldsmith. Part I</b><br>
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Kenneth Goldsmith, founder of Ubuweb, takes us on a journey through his personal history as a sound collector.<br><br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_kenneth_goldsmith/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_kenneth_goldsmith/capsula</a><br>
Related info: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20120712/Memorabilia_Kenneth_Goldsmith_eng.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20120712/Memorabilia_Kenneth_Goldsmith_eng.pdf</a><br>MP3: <span></span><span><a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/memorabilia/04_memorabilia_kenneth_goldsmith.mp3" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/memorabilia/04_memorabilia_kenneth_goldsmith.mp3</a><br>
<br><b>Produced by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros</b><br><br>Ubuweb may not be
an ordinary sound archive, precisely because Kenneth Goldsmith is no
ordinary archivist. He himself is quick to refer to his lack of training
in the field as both a disadvantage and a strength, and the sum of the
two produced the amateur immediacy that made it possible to create and
develop such an ambitious repository, conceived and managed outside of
the usual channels. Ubuweb has always been a true reflection of
Goldsmith’s personality and way of looking at the world, and this
becomes apparent in this personal reconstruction of a lifetime of sound
collecting. Starting with childhood memories of his grandfather’s book
collection, Goldsmith looks back over the path that began with him as an
avid music consumer and led him to (or to better understand) his
obsessive dedication to the ‘accumulation of cultural artefacts’ and
ultimately to founding Ubuweb.<br>
<br>Goldsmith remains aloof from some of the practices traditionally
associated with music and sound collecting, and chooses abundance over
rivalry and exclusivity, the content of records over their appearance or
condition, so that listening is stripped of many of its tangential
elements (what William Bennett calls ‘transparent concessions’).
Goldsmith’s personal history as a collector is essentially the history
of the disintegration of the object, which plays out in parallel to the
evolution of sound media and the emergence of the digital networks, in
which the values and interests of this accidental archivist and poet
find their natural habitat. From Howlin’ Wolf to Joseph Beuys, from the
Beatles to People Like Us, the deconstruction of Goldsmith’s collections
sheds light on his tendency to continue to stockpile beyond the limits
of the humanly graspable, his interest in eccentricity and the
unexpected that pays no heed to artistic genres, and his incurable
obsession with sharing with his peers.<br>
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