*Radio Web MACBA - Most listened podcasts May 2021* *1- Peter Blasser: "One way technology can keep on getting better is by doing simpler things."*
In this podcast, instrument designer Peter Blasser <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-331-peter-blasser>introduces us to his environmental instruments and meditates on his view on electronics and synthesizers as a form of creativity. Wood, sunlight, wind, touch and craft are invoked in the process. Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-331-peter-blasser *2- Eyal Weizman: "Our aim is always to locate the split-second in its longer history. Whether in the incident itself, what happened before what happened after... But also very importantly, what is the social, political or economic context in which violence has happened?"* In our second conversation with founding director of Forensic Architecture Eyal Weizma <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-331-eyal-weizman>n, we explore further the nuances of their sophisticated research practice, this time focusing on the notions of time and duration from a forensic perspective in order to unfold multiple temporalities from an instant. In doing so, Weizman explains how to build a case for public truth using clouds, architecture, metadata, shadows, testimonies, and surveillance and satellite imagery. Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-331-eyal-weizman *3- Anna Ramos: "Això és el rastre d'un acció" (only available in Spanish and Catalan* As part of the exhibition "Sampler #4. Things that Happen", Enric Farrés Durán turns the tables on us with a proposal to get Ràdio Web MACBA to talk about his practice. In this podcast, we talk about learning together by *doing*, about Enric’s multidirectional transfers of knowledge, and about a practice shot through with discourse. We also touch on the aesthetics of sound, the post-human voice, and the limits of editing; we talk about complexes, accents, and the political act of making vulnerability visible; about the loss of control and about the intimate realm impressed onto the dimension of sound. A space for listening in suspended time that gives voice to the people behind this project. Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/things-happen-radio-web-macba-0 *4- Charles Bernstein: "I’m interested not in the oral but in the aural. I use the expression in an essay a/orality, to put emphasis on what the ear hears."* Charles Bernstein <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-327-charles-bernstein> is a poet, essayist, editor, and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. Together with Bruce Andrews, he edited the magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, which gave its name to a movement of more than a hundred poets interested in the radical exploration of writing that flourished in the late 1970s and the 1980s on both the east and west coasts of the United States. In this podcast, we hear Charles Bernstein think aloud about the performativity of poetry and the multiplicity of voice, elaborating on questions such as the sound of writing, presence and absence, orality, aurality and a/orality. Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-327-charles-bernstein *5- Chris Cutler: "Olivier Messiaen, one of the giants of 20th century composition, collected, transcribed and worked extensively with birdsong all his life."* In this new PROBES Auxiliary by Chris Cutle <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/probes-292-auxiliaries>r, composers and performers expand their classical, contemporary, avant garde, jazz, rock, electronic and installation art vocabularies by incorporating real or virtual collaborations with wildlife, soundscapes, insects, amphibia, birds, whales and wolves. And we learn what a whale has in common with a nightingale. Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/probes-292-auxiliaries *E/N/J/O/Y/* *+* *TAKE CARE!*
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