*Ràdio Web MACBA most listened podcasts - January - June 2016*
*1- SON[I]A #220. Angela Dimitrakaki. Feat. commissioned music by AGF*Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/angela-dimitrakaki-agf/capsula Angela Dimitrakaki talks about the new feminist critique, the limits of democracy, the wiles of post-capitalism, and the ambivalence of the commons. We also touch on the notions of radical curating and collaborative practices. *2- COMPOSING WITH PROCESS <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/composingwithprocess_tag> series. Curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore*Link <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/composingwithprocess_tag>: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/composingwithprocess_tag <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/composingwithprocess_tag> COMPOSING WITH PROCESS <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/composingwithprocess_tag> is a series, curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore, which explores generative approaches to composition and performance primarily in the context of experimental technologies and music practices of the latter part of the 20th Century. Each episode is accompanied by an additional programme, entitled EXCLUSIVES <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/exclusives-tag/>, featuring unpublished sound pieces by leading sound artists working in the field. *3- PROBES series. Curated by Chris Cutler <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag>* Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag PROBES <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag> takes Marshall McLuhan’s conceptual contrapositions as a starting point to analyse and expose the search for a new sonic language made urgent after the collapse of tonality in the twentieth century. The series looks at the many probes and experiments that were launched in the last century in search of new musical resources, and a new aesthetic; for ways to make music adequate to a world transformed by disorientating technologies. *4- SON[I]A #223. Abu Ali (only available in Spanish)* Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/abu-ali-toni-serra/capsula Toni Serra/Abu Ali talks about trance, light, shadows, transitions, conditions of life and possibility, about seeing and concealing, about dreaming and unlearning. And about plants, of course. *5- SON[I]A #201. Georges Didi-Huberman*Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/georges-didi-huberman/capsula Interview with Georges Didi-Huberman about the problems regarding the way in which we see and interpret images, a problematic issue that stems from the definition of what an image is, and from the hierarchy that has historically been imposed on the dialectic between words and images. *6- SON[I]A #212. John Chowning * Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/john-chowning-/capsula John Chowning shares the experience of being a pioneer in a discipline at a time when using computers to generate music was a leap into the void between creative eccentricity and scientific adventure. *7-**SON[I]A #225. Lúa Coderch * *(only available in Spanish)*Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/lua-coderch/capsula Lúa Coderch habla sobre fotografías de viajes espaciales, la imitación de los sonidos del paisaje, el trabajo oculto que subyace en sus imágenes, diferentes estrategias del engaño y la improvisación refugios en entornos naturales como posibilidad de encuentro con los otros. *8- OBJECTHOOD #4. Curated by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros*Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood4-nabil-ahmed-arie-altena-agf/capsula The slippery materiality of untraceable objects: from the arsenic poisoning the wells of Bangladesh as told by Nabil Ahmed, to Arie Altena's account of the superstition surrounding the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, or the bizarre biology of the vampire squid from hell in a passage of Vilém Flusser’s ‘Vampyroteuthis Infernalis’ read by AGF. *9- SON[I]A # 217. Jordi Ferreiro (only available in Spanish)* Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/es/sonia/jordi-ferreiro-situaciones-pedagogicas/capsula Jordi Ferreiro habla sobre situaciones pedagógicas fuera de lo normativo, afectos y aprendizaje significativo y sistemas de evaluación experimentales. *10- SON[I]A # 221. Enric Farrés Duran (only available in Catalan)* Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/ca/sonia/antoni-hervas/capsula <http://rwm.macba.cat/es/sonia/antoni-hervas/capsula> Enric Farrés Duran sobre els seus últims projectes, sobre col·leccionar obsessivament, sobre el valor de l'efímer, sobre l'ús de la mentida com a estratègia creativa, sobre la relació de complicitat amb els que l'envolten i sobre altres facetes del seu treball. *+2 you should not miss!* *1/ SON[I]A #224. Natalie Jeremijenko*Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/natalie-jeremijenko/capsula *Natalie Jeremijenko talks about learning by living together, about the vitality and shortcomings of the environmental struggles of the past, and about how to imagine our relationships with natural systems from this point on.* *2/ MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Steve Stapleton (Nurse with Wound)* Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia-steve-stapleton/capsula The brainchild of Nurse with Wound shares the main features of a collection that might help us understand the unorthodox nature of his own trajectory, as influential as it is extensive. *Enjoy!*
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