<div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:xx-large"><font color="#ff00ff"><a href="https://rwm.macba.cat/en" target="_blank">Radio Web MACBA</a> - Most listened podcasts February 2022</font></b><br style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:xx-large"><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(90,90,90)"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4" color="#ff00ff"><b>1- <a href="https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-345-claudia-pages">Clàudia Pagès:</a> "El lenguaje jurídico está lleno de gerundios, que son formas no personales del verbo. El gerundio lo que hace es desactivar el sujeto, el sujeto ya no existe, entonces es muy fácil deshumanizar a cualquiera." (only available in Spanish)</b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(90,90,90)"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(90,90,90)">The work of artist Clàudia Pagés (b. Barcelona, 1990) unfolds and contracts in many forms. Words, the body, and movement circulate in multiple directions through her processes, forging a tangled linguistic web of micro-narratives that involve critically listening to the immediate environment, and recording it through persistent writing.</span><span style="color:rgb(90,90,90)">  </span><span style="color:rgb(90,90,90)">In this podcast, we open Clàudia Pagés’s box of tricks and tools. Repetition, 'zoom-ins', physical and metaphorical shifts, and translation emerge as some of her main strategies, while singing, composing, and dancing come together as desire and a pure space of experimentation and possibility. Writing, materiality, orality, rhythm, movement... it all involves the body, and it must all fit into a suitcase too.</span><span style="color:rgb(90,90,90)"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(90,90,90)"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Link: <a href="https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-345-claudia-pages">https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-345-claudia-pages</a><span style="color:rgb(90,90,90)"><br></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.5rem"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><b><font color="#ff00ff">2- <a href="https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-346-jessica-ekomane">Jessica Ekomane: </a><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap">“I was always a bit annoyed about this idea that technology is neutral, that certain knowledge is neutral. It’s like you don’t have a perspective on it, it’s just this idea of neutrality and rationality. And this is something that is always quite present in what I do.” </span></font></b></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.5rem;color:rgb(90,90,90)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><a href="https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-346-jessica-ekomane" target="_blank">Jessica <span class="gmail-il">Ekomane</span></a> is a sound artist and composer, and a lecturer in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the Universität der Künste Berlin. <span class="gmail-il">Ekomane</span>’s quadraphonic performances and installations approach algorithmic/computer music as a social practice that is grounded in questions such as the relationship between individual perception and collective dynamics, and explores listening expectations and their societal roots.<br></font></p></div></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Link: <a href="https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-346-jessica-ekomane">https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-346-jessica-ekomane</a><span style="color:rgb(90,90,90)"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4" color="#ff00ff"><b>3-  <a href="https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/probes-32">Chris Cutler: </a>"Harry Partch’s advocacy of a natural harmonic tuning system was immensely influential, though few other composers followed him into instrument design.  Mostly they turned to electronics - because oscillators can be adjusted to deliver any pitch value one desires. Such a solution, however, would have been anathema to Partch, for whom music had to be rooted in action and the human body. He took as his models the Japanese Noh theatre and the classical Greek drama - and he said that the visual aspects of his instruments were as important to him as the sounds they made; indeed he designed them in such a way as to oblige his performers to move athletically as they played."</b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(90,90,90)"><a href="https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/probes-32">In <span class="gmail-il">PROBES</span> #<span class="gmail-il">32</span> </a>we trace the history of some newly invented instruments in the 20th century, including the Chromelodion, the Bo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