Most listened podcasts – January 2014 - Ràdio Web MACBA

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Most listened podcasts – January 2014 - Ràdio Web MACBA

1- MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH.... Andy Votel. Part II

A selection of records that use eccentric voice manipulation techniques; from human existentialism and sound poetry to electronic, mechanical and computer distortion.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia-andy-votel-collection/capsula
Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140113/Memorabilia_andy_votel_partII_eng.pdf

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2- MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH.... Andy Votel. Part I

Over the past twenty years, Andy Votel has travelled far and wide in a quest to buy as many records as he could. His main motivation is to listen to music, and the only way to get the music he likes is generally to buy and collect it.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia-andy-votel/capsula
Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20131212/Memorabilia_Andy_Votel_eng.pdf

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3- SONA #185. Interview with Maite Muñoz

Interview with Maite Muñoz, Head of MACBA Archive, about how the material in the Archive is organised and strategies for dissemination.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/maite-munoz/capsula

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4- INTERRUPTIONS #15. Cumulative Tails. Curated by Vicki Bennett

Since the late eighteenth century, speech therapists, linguists, entrepreneurs, artists and musicians have nurtured the dream of emulating human speech. In this mix, Genís Segarra offers a personal overview of a subject that fascinates him, with the story of voice synthesis as a narrative thread.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/vicki-bennett-cumulative-tails-/capsula

Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20131230/15Interruptions_eng.pdf

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5- MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH.... Brian Shimkovitz. Part I

The tale of how a student of ethnomusicology from Brooklyn spent a year in West Africa buying tapes off street markets... and how he managed to turn that bizarre collection into one of the most revered record labels in recent years.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_brian_shimkovitz/capsula

Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130903/Memorabilia_Brian_Shimkovitz_eng.pdf

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6- OBJECTHOOD #1. Curated by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros

A historical overview and some new perspectives on objects in contemporary philosophy and art. Featuring interviews with Graham Harman and Luciana Parisi.

 

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood1_graham_harman_luciana_parisi/capsula

Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130823/Objecthood_1_eng.pdf

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7- PROBES #1. Curated by Chris Cutler

This programme 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.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes1_chris_cutler_/capsula

Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121023/Probes1_eng.pdf

Transcript: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20120718/01probes_transcript_eng.pdf

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8- INTERRUPTIONS #13 The inhuman voice. Curated by Genís Segarra

Since the late eighteenth century, speech therapists, linguists, entrepreneurs, artists and musicians have nurtured the dream of emulating human speech. In this mix, Genís Segarra offers a personal overview of a subject that fascinates him, with the story of voice synthesis as a narrative thread.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/genis_segarra_inhuman_voice/capsula

Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130626/13Interruptions_eng.0.pdf

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9- SONA #186. Interview with Sylvain Levy

An interview with DSL Collection co-founder Sylvain Levy about collectors and museums in times of crisis, the motivations behind the collection, and the ecosystem of Chinese contemporary art.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sylvain-levy/capsula

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10- INTERRUPTIONS #14 Mattergy. Curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Carl Michael von Hausswolf opens our ears to the most obscure side of the radiowaves: a very strange place in the electromagnetic spectrum, where energy turns into sounding matter.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/carl_michael_von_hausswolff_mattergy/capsula

Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130812/14interruptions_eng.pdf

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Enjoy!