<div dir="ltr"><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><font class="">25 most listened podcasts @ </font><span class=""> Ràdio Web MACBA</span><font class=""> – January-June 2013 </font></font><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><b>1- COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #8.2. Exclusives by Keith Fullerton Whitman and Carl Michael von Hausswolff</b></font></div>
<div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b>Each episode of this series is followed by a special accompaniment programme of exclusive music by some of the leading sound artists and composers working in the field. This show presents two process-led works by American composer Keith Fullerton Whitman and Swedish artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff.<br>
<br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/composingwithprocess_exclusives_whitman_hausswolff/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/composingwithprocess_exclusives_whitman_hausswolff/capsula</a><br>
Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130325/Composingwithprocess8.2_eng.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130325/Composingwithprocess8.2_eng.pdf</a></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><br>
<b>2- INTERRUPTIONS #11. Playing phenomena as a compositional material. Curated by Ben Vida</b></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b>This mix explores how the use of aural phenomena can manifest in its many forms to become the key element in a compositional practice. By engaging in the use of such expanded sonic techniques the composer can act to create a recalibration of the listeners sense of hearing and by so doing, allow for a reconsideration of what constitutes sonic composition.<br>
<br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/ben_vida_phenomenology/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/ben_vida_phenomenology/capsula</a><br>Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130328/11Interruptions_eng.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130328/11Interruptions_eng.pdf</a><br>
<br></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><b>3- PROBES #1. Curated by Chris Cutler<br></b><br>PROBES #1 sets the scene and investigates early reconsiderations of pitch: probes that postulate new scales to be constructed through the ever-greater subdivision of the inherited intervals of equal temperament.<br>
<br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes1_chris_cutler_/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes1_chris_cutler_/capsula</a><br>Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121023/Probes1_eng.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121023/Probes1_eng.pdf</a><br>
Transcript: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20120718/01probes_transcript_eng.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20120718/01probes_transcript_eng.pdf</a><br><br><b>4- IN CRISIS #1. Reflections at a critical juncture: Perejaume, Ignasi Aballí and Eduard Escoffet (Only available in Catalan)</b></font></div>
<div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b>Overwhelmed by the institutionalised discourse of politics and economists, we invite artists, philosophers, researchers and poets to share their ideas about what is happening to us, to comment on the positive and negative implications of this structural crisis, and to imagine an uncertain future.<br>
<br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/ca/especials/encrisi1/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/ca/especials/encrisi1/capsula</a><br><br><b>5- PROBES #3. Curated by Chris Cutler</b><br><br>PROBES #3 continues to explore probes into pitch, this time through its effective obliteration through ceaseless movement, sliding tones, and radical portamenti which defy all quantisation.<br>
<br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes3_chris_cutler_/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes3_chris_cutler_/capsula</a><br>Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130221/Probes3_eng.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130221/Probes3_eng.pdf</a><br>
Transcript: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130206/03probes_transcript_eng.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130206/03probes_transcript_eng.pdf </a><br><b>6- INTERRUPTIONS #10. Radio Maghreb. Curated by Alan Bishop<br>
</b><br>In this project Alan Bishop vindicates the use of radio as an electronic instrument in a journey through time and space that unearths old recordings from the AM and FM airwaves made during his first trip to Spain and Morocco in 1983.<br>
<br></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif">Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_10_alan_bishop_radio_maghreb/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_10_alan_bishop_radio_maghreb/capsula</a><br>
Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130211/10Interruptions_eng.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130211/10Interruptions_eng.pdf</a><br></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><b>7-IN CRISI #2 Reflections at a critical juncture: Valentín Roma, Beatriz Preciado and Olivier Schulbaum (Only available in Spanish)</b><br><br>Overwhelmed by the institutionalised discourse of politics and economists, we invite artists, philosophers, researchers and poets to share their ideas about what is happening to us, to comment on the positive and negative implications of this structural crisis, and to imagine an uncertain future.<br>
<br></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif">Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/es/especials/encrisi2/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/es/especials/encrisi2/capsula</a></font></div>
<div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><br><b>8- MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Kees Tazelaar. Part I<br></b><br>Straddling art and documentation, the restoration work that Kees Tazelaar carries out is a crucial but largely unknown stage in the recovery of historical sound material. Tazelaar describes his experiences as head of the magnetic tape archive at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, in which nostalgia coexists with academic rigor.<br>
<br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_kees_tazeelar/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_kees_tazeelar/capsula</a><br>Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130311/Memorabilia_Kees_eng.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130311/Memorabilia_Kees_eng.pdf</a><br>
<br><b>9- INTERRUPTIONS #6. Ontology of vibration: economics, music and number. Curated by Marcus Schmickler<br></b><br>This mix revises some of the exciting contemporary musical works utilizing a notion of mathematics and number. These compositions represent what could be called perceptive or sensual mathematics.<br>
<br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_marcus_schmickler/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_marcus_schmickler/capsula</a> <br>Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20111031/06Interruptions_eng_PDF.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20111031/06Interruptions_eng_PDF.pdf</a><br>
<br><b>10-PROBES #2. Curated by Chris Cutler<br></b> <br>All the 'normal' music we listen to is out of tune, especially when it’s 'in tune'. So, should music be in harmony with the laws of physics, or adjusted to fit the wishful thinking of stave notation?<br>
<br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes2_chris_cutler_/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes2_chris_cutler_/capsula</a><br>Transcript: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121129/02probes_transcript_eng.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121129/02probes_transcript_eng.pdf</a><br>
<br><b>11-PROBES #2.2 Auxiliaries. <span class="" style="font-weight:normal"><b>Curated by Chris Cutler</b></span></b></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b>In this music selection we look further at alternative tuning systems based on the naturally occurring harmonic series, opening up a potentially infinite series of customised Just Intonation scales.<br>
<br></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif">Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes2-2_chris_cutler_/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes2-2_chris_cutler_/capsula</a></font></div>
<div><font class="" face="georgia, serif">Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130123/Probes2_2_eng.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130123/Probes2_2_eng.pdf</a><br> <br><b>12- MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Kees Tazelaar. Part II</b></font></div>
<div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b>This mix, clocking in at over two hours, is a retrospective snapshot of the musical legacy of the Institute of Sonology. It alternates classic pieces, recent works and unreleased gems from the Sonology archive.<br>
<br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_kees_tazelaar_collection/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_kees_tazelaar_collection/capsula</a><br>Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130313/Memorabilia_kees_tazeelar_partII_eng.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130313/Memorabilia_kees_tazeelar_partII_eng.pdf</a></font></div>
<div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><br><b>13- INTERRUPTIONS #12 Lost Techno-Pop Weekend in Rural Midwestern America. Curated by Terre Thaemlitz</b></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><br>This show takes a listen to techno-pop of the seventies and early eighties as a brief yet deliberate interruption into the realms of pop, rock, soul and R&B.<br>
<br></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif">Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/terre_thaemlitz_lost_techno_pop/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/terre_thaemlitz_lost_techno_pop/capsula</a><br>
Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130529/12Interruptions_eng.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130529/12Interruptions_eng.pdf</a><br><br></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><b>14 - COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #9.1 Two Discrete Generative Systems. Curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore</b></font></div>
<div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b>Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore wrap up this series on generative and process music with a piece created specifically for the occasion: 'Two Discrete Generative Systems'.<br>
<br></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif">Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/composingwithprocess_9_mark_fell_joe_gilmore/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/composingwithprocess_9_mark_fell_joe_gilmore/capsula </a><br>
</font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><b>15- SON[I]A #170. Interview with Erick Beltrán (Only available in Spanish)<br></b> <br><span class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Mexican artist Erick Beltrán shares some prominent examples from his personal research into archives and libraries.</span><br>
<br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/es/sonia/erick-beltran-archivo/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/es/sonia/erick-beltran-archivo/capsula</a><br> <br><b>16- MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Jonny Trunk. Part I<br>
</b><br></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif">Jonny Trunk walks us through a hard-to-find and yet very familiar genre: library music. Or as he puts it: 'The strange noise that TV makes at night.'<br>
<br></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif">Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_jonny_trunk/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_jonny_trunk/capsula</a><br>
Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121008/Memorabilia_Jonny_Trunk_eng.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121008/Memorabilia_Jonny_Trunk_eng.pdf</a><br> <br><b>17 - FONS ÀUDIO #16 Perejaume (Only available in Catalan)</b></font></div>
<div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b>Perejaume has a long-standing fascination with the shamanic power of mimesis. And writing, artistic practice and endless walks through his natural surroundings have been the means by which the artist has shaped his personal landscape narratives, which lie somewhere between figuration, imagination and theoretical reflection.<br>
<br>Link:<a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fons_audio_perejaume/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fons_audio_perejaume/capsula</a><br> <br><b>18- SON[I]A #168. Interview with Wolfgang Ernst</b></font></div>
<div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><br>Wolfgang Ernst reflects on the possibility of going beyond the concept of the archive by exploring some of the practices around what is now being called the 'anarchive'.<br>
<br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/wolfgang_ernst/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/wolfgang_ernst/capsula</a><br> <br><b>19- SON[I]A #119. Interview with Allan Sekula</b></font></div>
<div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b>Interview with Allan Sekula about the relationship between art and photography, about artistic activism, the role of the artist in the public sphere and "Waiting for Tear Gas".<br>
<br></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif">Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/allan_sekula/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/allan_sekula/capsula</a><br> <br><b>20- LA UTOPIA ÉS POSSIBLE. ICSID. EIVISSA, 1971. #1 Cultura, contracultura, disseny: el camí cap a la llibertat (Only available in Catalan)</b></font></div>
<div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><br><span class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">"UTOPIA IS POSSIBLE. ICSID. EIVISSA, 1971" is a three-part miniseries based on the research carried out for the exhibition of the same name. It brings together the testimonies of some of the participants who took part in the 7th Congress of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), in an ensemble portrait of this collective experience.</span><br>
<br></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif">Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/ca/especials/icsid_ep1/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/ca/especials/icsid_ep1/capsula</a><br> <br><b>21- INTERRUPTIONS #9. Meta-records. Curated by Anki Toner</b><br>
<br></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif">A selection of records that mention, replicate, utilise or study the phenomena of vinyl, the record player and/or recordings.<br> <br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_9_anki_toner_metadiscos/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_9_anki_toner_metadiscos/capsula</a><br>
Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121123/09Interruptions_eng.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121123/09Interruptions_eng.pdf</a><br> <br><b>22- COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #8.1 Models of change. Curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore</b><br>
<br>This episode considers the notion of change in music. It looks at how scientific and mathematical concepts can be used to model change in the acoustic domain.<br> <br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/composingwithprocess_8_mark_fell_joe_gilmore/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/composingwithprocess_8_mark_fell_joe_gilmore/capsula</a></font></div>
<div><font class="" face="georgia, serif">Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/composingwithprocess_exclusives_whitman_hausswolff/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/composingwithprocess_exclusives_whitman_hausswolff/capsula</a><br>
<br><b>23-COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #1.1. </b><b>Curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore</b></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b>A range of sound works representing different periods, traditions and approaches to generative and systems based music.<br>
<br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/composingwithprocess_1_mark_fell_joe_gilmore/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/composingwithprocess_1_mark_fell_joe_gilmore/capsula</a><br>
Transcript:</font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/twitter/Composingwithprocess1_transcript_eng.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/twitter/Composingwithprocess1_transcript_eng.pdf </a><br>
<b><br></b></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><b>24-INTERRUPTIONS #4 Bregman / Deutsch Chimaera - 47 minutes in bifurcated attention. Curated by Florian Hecker</b><br> <br>Florian Hecker suggests an amalgamation of two seminal collections of psychoacoustic works, which demand from its audience a selective piecing-together of distinct units into an overall Gestalt, one that culminates in a chimerical auditory experience.<br>
<br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_4_florian_hecker/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_4_florian_hecker/capsula</a><br>Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_4_florian_hecker/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_4_florian_hecker/capsula</a></font></div>
<div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><br><b>25- SON[I]A #169. Interview with Tom Johnson</b></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><br>The minimalist composer Tom Johnson talks about his compositional methods, and the influence that John Cage and Morton Feldman had upon it.<br>
<br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/tom_johnson/capsula" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/tom_johnson/capsula</a></font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div>
<div><font class="" face="georgia, serif">Enjoy!</font></div><div><font class="" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div></div>