<b>New podcast: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Kees Tazeelar. Part I</b><br><br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_kees_tazeelar/capsula" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130311/Memorabilia_Kees_eng.pdf</a><br><br>Produced by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros and Rubén Patiño<br>
<br>For
several years, Kees Tazelaar (1962) has been the head of one of
Europe’s most important electroacoustic music archives, but he shies
away from the label collector. As he explains, his interests are
informational rather than exclusive, and he has more of an
archaeological urge than an urge to completion.<br>
<br>Tazelaar's artistic and academic career is closely linked to the
prestigious Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands, one of
longest-running research and production hubs on the European
electroacoustic music scene. The Institute, which has been based at the
Royal Conservatory of The Hague since 1986, was born from the ashes of
the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven in 1967, and inherited an
extensive collection of tapes by electronic music pioneers in the
Netherlands. As a result, the archive is an interesting snapshot of the
burst of activity and experimentation that took place mid-century – not
just in the Netherlands but also in many other studios around the world –
under the auspices of universities and private labs (Bell, IBM,
Philips), during a fascinating period of transition in which industry
research into acoustics mingled with the early milestones of electronic
music.<br>
<br>A composer and teacher (lecturer in Sonology since 1993 and Director
of the Institute since 2006), Kees is also known for his work on the
restoration and conservation of essential works of twentieth century
electronic music. He has participated in reconstructions of works by
Gottfried Michael Koenig, Jan Boerman (who taught him composition),
Iannis Xenakis, György Ligety and Luctor Ponse, although his star
project remains Edgar Varèse's 'Poème Électronique'. As an artist,
restorer, administrator of the Sonology archive, and an expert in all
things related to the history of the legendary 1958 Philips Pavilion, in
this interview Tazelaar discusses the challenges of restoration, the
limits of intervention and the concept of artistic responsibility in
reconstructions, the importance of the medium and its maintenance, and
digitalisation. And although he inevitably ends up circling back to the
word collection every now and then, there’s no doubt that he uses it in
the open rather than restrictive sense. Tazelaar’s approach is
ultimately pedagogical, closer to the test tube or the microscope than
the butterfly net or auction house. As we can see from ambitious
restoration projects such as 'Popular Electronics: Early Dutch
Electronic Music From Philips Research Laboratories' (1956 - 1963), his
2004 four-CD project that unearthed forgotten and unreleased works by
the pioneers of early Dutch electronic music, Tazelaar does not stop at
creation and dissemination, he also sets up links between generations
which would otherwise probably remain cut off from each other.<br>
<br>You can find the complete series here: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/memorabilia_tag/" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/memorabilia_tag/</a><br><br>You may also be interested in the following podcasts:<br><b>MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Kenneth Goldsmith. Part I </b><br>
Kenneth Goldsmith, founder of Ubuweb, takes us on a journey through his
personal history as a collector of sounds that spans from his childhood
to adult life and the creation of Ubuweb.<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>
<b>SON[I]A #168. Wolfgang Ernst</b> 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>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/wolfgang_ernst/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/wolfgang_ernst/capsula</a><br>
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