Most listened podcasts - December 2013 - Ràdio Web MACBA

Most listened podcasts - December 2013 - Ràdio Web MACBA

1- 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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2- 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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3- 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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4- PROBES #6.2 Auxiliaries. Curated by Chris Cutler

This music selection investigates further preparations of stringed and brass instruments, in the quest for novel sounds.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes6-2_chris_cutler/capsula
Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20131217/Probes6_2_eng.pdf

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5- EN CRISIS #4. Reflections at a critical juncture: Daniela Ortiz, Marcelo Expósito and Miguel Noguera.

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.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/encrisi4/capsula
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6- PROBES #6. Curated by Chris Cutler

There's no end of things that have been laid on, tied to, screwed into or otherwise attached to alter the sound of conventional instruments. This sixth programme draws a map and explores some of the outer reaches of string and wind preparations.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes6_chris_cutler_/capsula

Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130909/Probes6_eng.pdf

Transcript: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130909/06probes_transcript_eng.pdf

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7- 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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8- PROBES #5, Curated by Chris Cutler

This fifth programme sets the scene for a wide range of very different approaches to the exploration of timbre and looks at ways of modifying or preparing the traditional piano.

Link : http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes5_chris_cutler_/capsula

Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130806/Probes5_eng.pdf

Transcript: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130801/05probes_transcript_eng.pdf

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9- 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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10- MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH.... Brian Shimkovitz. Part II.

Islamic, Christian and traditional praise music, all have a place in the market stalls across Africa, and are widely represented in Brian Shimkovitz's tape collection.

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

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

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Enjoy!

  On 1/7/2014 at 3:39 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

care to explain what's going on here? ;)

That's actually unique kind of radio, which puts out stuff by some of the avant masters no other place to be found on. I guess they need to justify their existence under Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona by advertising itself in a couple of places to have at least a dozen of listens. It's interesting to know who suggested WATMM for them initially, they seem strongly out of context here. My only assumption is Mark Fell or Joe Gilmore, who had an interesting program on generative music. Maybe it's just a result of standard search.