Aural dialogues This Ràdio Web MACBA <https://rwm.macba.cat/> selection features five specific commissions <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/re-imagine-europe> in which we connect discourse and musical treatment in our podcasts*. Five singular instances in which text and sound listen to each other, by means of different creative strategies. 1/ Kali Malone in dialogue with Diego Falconí Travez <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood-7>
— OBJECTHOOD #7 is a kind of sound essay, carefully woven out of conversations with Diego Falconí Travez, Rick Dolphijn, and Dave Phillips, which sets up a spiral-shaped journey around fire, burning, ashes, rituals, cooking, food, and jungles. Kali Malone delivers one of her signature drone-like compositions which works as a musical illustration of Falconí’s ideas on circular temporalities and alternative views of time and history in Andean cultures. Malone says: “Although we may perceive the music to be changing, going forward, evolving – it is not. It is the same material sounding the entire time – like a rotating wheel where all spokes are perceptible but at any given moment in a different place.” *PODCAST >* <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood-7> 2/ Caterina Barbieri in dialogue with Raqs Media Collective <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-280-raqs-media-collective> — In this podcast we talk with Monica Narula, member of the Raqs Media Collective, about her work with and around constructs that have to do with temporality, collective intelligence, activism, and language. Starting from an idea of time linked to Indian raga melodies with no beginning or end, which Monica Narula talks about in the conversation, Caterina Barbieri explores the tones and moods of raga, giving rise to cyclical permutations and patterns of generative melodic and rhythmic synth-line combinations: a tech-alien yet archaic sound that resembles the timbre of a sitar/tambura. *PODCAST >* <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-280-raqs-media-collective> 3/ Antye Greie in dialogue with Marina Gržinić <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-277-marina-grzinic> — Artist, researcher and LGTB activist Marina Gržinić explores the different ways in which neoliberalism uses human death to fuel processes of commercialisation and surplus value. From Abu Ghraib to Lampedusa by way of the history of African culture and the dissolution of the former socialist block, she assembles a political vocabulary that seeks to unravel the effects of global aesthetics on people, drawing attention to the rise and normalisation of what she calls 'trophy-images': images rooted in the colonial legacy that display confinement, humiliation, and gratuitous brutality on racialised subjects. Steeped in her discourse, German artist Antye Greie embarks on some deep listening to create a sensorial deathscape of sounds and words, resonating with Marina Gržinić’s blunt diagnostic of necropolitics in Europe. *PODCAST >* <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-277-marina-grzinic> 4/ Tiago Pina in dialogue with Jennifer Lucy Allan <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-261-jennifer-lucy-allan> — The foghorn is a sonic marker used in conditions of low visibility to alert vessels of hidden navigational hazards. Part of the coastal landscape since their invention in the nineteenth century, foghorns became obsolete with the rise of automatic alert systems and simpler devices such as compressed air horns. In this podcast, we talk to Jennifer Lucy Allan, British writer, researcher and author of “The Foghorn Lament”, about meteorology and aurality, about volumes, distance and communities, and about sounds disconnected from their function. We also touch on the making of sensory records before the end of the twentieth century and how this archival memory can be interpreted. From these conversations, Portuguese sound artist and graphic designer Tiago Pina built his own recall and reconstruction of this wicked yet haunting sonic marker that dwells in our collective memory. *PODCAST >* <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-261-jennifer-lucy-allan> 5/ François Bonnet in dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-278-jean-luc-nancy> — In this podcast, French Philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy returns to the subject of the body and other questions explored in *À l’écoute*, a controversial but often quoted book in the broad field of contemporary sound and listening studies. We talk to him about the body as an echo chamber and as a sensible and sentient presence, about silence as the “infinite extremity of sound”, and about the role of sound and listening in the context of political practice. In the composition of the small miniatures featured in this podcast, French sound artist François Bonnet departs from Nancy’s notion of “body resonance”, alludes to the abolition of distance, reflects on the silent part of a scream, and opens a small door into the abyss, amongst other strategies. *PODCAST >* <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-278-jean-luc-nancy> And a little extra feature: Radio Beyond Radio: The Ràdio Web MACBA Working Group <https://re-imagine-europe.eu/resources_item/radio-beyond-radio-the-radio-web-macba-working-group/> — The Ràdio Web MACBA Working Group started in 2016 as a means for the closest members of the RWM team to spend some time together, slow down processes, share physical space, and see what happens along the way. The questions in this interview were posed by the editorial team of Re-Imagine Europe <https://re-imagine-europe.eu/resources_item/radio-beyond-radio-the-radio-web-macba-working-group/> and answered by various members of the Ràdio Web MACBA Working Group. *EPUB >* <https://re-imagine-europe.eu/resources_item/radio-beyond-radio-the-radio-web-macba-working-group/> *These podcasts are part of Re-Imagine Europe <https://re-imagine-europe.eu/>, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Re-Imagine Europe is initiated by Sonic Acts (NL) <https://sonicacts.com/portal> and coordinated by Paradiso (NL) <https://www.paradiso.nl/en/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA1pyCBhCtARIsAHaY_5dreB_xcX3tfa6uHNsVwyFHcqNvgOEmSWaoHQHzrXmBbPmjSLIHxKEaApYBEALw_wcB> in collaboration with Elevate Festival (AT) <https://elevate.at/en/>, Lighthouse (UK) <https://www.lighthouse.org.uk/>, Ina GRM (FR) <https://inagrm.com/fr> , Kontejner (HR) <https://www.kontejner.org/en/>, Landmark / Bergen Kunsthall (NO) <https://www.kunsthall.no/>, A4 (SK) <https://nextfestival.sk/2020/>, Disruption Network Lab (DE) <https://www.disruptionlab.org/> and Ràdio Web MACBA (ES) <https://rwm.macba.cat/en>.
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