<b>Most listened podcasts - February 2013 - Ràdio Web MACBA<br></b><br><b>1- INTERRUPTIONS #10. Radio Maghreb. Curated by Alan Bishop<br></b>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>
Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_10_alan_bishop_radio_maghreb/capsula" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130211/10Interruptions_eng.pdf</a><br>
<br><b>2- PROBES #1. Curated by Chris Cutler<br></b>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>
Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes1_chris_cutler_/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes1_chris_cutler_/capsula</a><br>Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121023/Probes1_eng.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121023/Probes1_eng.pdf</a><br>
Transcript: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121023/Probes1_eng.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121023/Probes1_eng.pdf</a><br><br><b>3- INTERRUPTIONS #4. Bregman / Deutsch Chimaera - 47 minutes in bifurcated attention. Curated by Florian Hecker<br>
</b>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>
Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_4_florian_hecker/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_4_florian_hecker/capsula</a><br>Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110713/04Interruptions_eng_PDF.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110713/04Interruptions_eng_PDF.pdf</a><br>
<br><b>4- MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH.... Jonny Trunk. Part I<br></b>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>
Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_jonny_trunk/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_jonny_trunk/capsula</a><br>Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121120/Memorabilia_Jonny_Trunk_eng.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121120/Memorabilia_Jonny_Trunk_eng.pdf</a><br>
<br><b>5- INTERRUPTIONS #6. Ontology of vibration: economics, music and number. Curated by Marcus Schmickler<br></b>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>
Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_marcus_schmickler/capsula" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20111031/06Interruptions_eng_PDF.pdf</a><br>
<br><b>6- PROBES #2.2. Auxiliaries. Curated by Chris Cutler<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>
Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes2-2_chris_cutler_/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes2-2_chris_cutler_/capsula</a><br>Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130123/Probes2_2_eng.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130123/Probes2_2_eng.pdf</a><br>
<br><b>7- PROBES #3. Curated by Chris Cutler<br></b>This is where pitch becomes weightless and all that is solid melts into air: futurism, noise, electricity, ecstasy and uncertainty. We look at the lure and power of sliding tones.<br>
Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes3_chris_cutler_/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes3_chris_cutler_/capsula</a><br>Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130221/Probes3_eng.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130221/Probes3_eng.pdf</a><br>
<br><b>8- SON[I]A #172. <br></b>Entrevista con Max Jorge Hinderer sobre las "Cosmococa", una serie de proyecciones performance imaginadas durante los años setenta por el artista brasileño Hélio Oiticica junto con el cineasta Neville Almeida.<br>
Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/es/sonia/max_jorge_hinderer/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/es/sonia/max_jorge_hinderer/capsula</a><br><br><b>9- PROBES #2. Curated by Chris Cutler<br></b>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>
Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes2_chris_cutler_/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes2_chris_cutler_/capsula</a><br>Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130123/Probes2_2_eng.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130123/Probes2_2_eng.pdf</a><br>
Transcript: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121129/02probes_transcript_eng.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121129/02probes_transcript_eng.pdf</a><br><br><b>10- SON[I]A #119. <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>
Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/allan_sekula/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/allan_sekula/capsula</a><br><br>Enjoy!