*New podcast with Norwegian artist Maia Urstad:* In this podcast Maia Urstad talks about <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/maia-urstad/capsula> nostalgia, radio pips, AM, FM and DAB, about the importance of ska, about arches and obelisks, sounds in the fjord, and time capsules, about program 81, freq_out, and foghorns, and about local radio stations and lost tapes.
Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/maia-urstad/capsula Time signals and radio taxis are some of the discreet expressions of radio that have disappeared from our everyday soundscape, with us barely registering when or why they have ceased to be broadcast. The internet and, more recently, digital audio broadcasting (DAB), are changing radio as we knew it. As a result, we are unconsciously forsaking its poetry: the artefacts, interferences, geographies, the instability, the fleetingness… Norwegian artist Maia Urstad works at the intersection of audio and visual art, with a particular fascination for the intersections between technology and communication. Her work explores devices that are on the way to becoming obsolete – such as Morse code and two-way radio taxis – as well as others that are thriving, like optic fibre. Radio, of course, has a leading role at this crossroads. And it does so in the form of sound installations, concerts, theatre, and elaborate performances. In the course of her explorations, Maia Urstad has worked with the Deutsche Welle radio archive, choreographed motor bikers and dancers, reinstated a forgotten meridian, lived alongside a Focke Wulf fighter aircraft, and recorded the taxis of Buenos Aires. And she has even used portable radio sets simultaneously as building blocks and speakers, in her sound sculptures. *Timeline* *05:27* No definition for sound art *07:31* Working with space *08:34* Bergen, theater and ska *12:46* Weaving with a 4-track recorder *15:03* The tuner *17:17* Broadcast and signal as time capsules *19:37* Time pips and other endangered species *20:56* 'Radio Taxi Buenos Aires' *26:49* The poetry of interference *30:44* Deutsche Welle and the history of broadcasting *33:21* 'Yellow 16' *36:05* 'The Return of the Prime Meridian' *44:40* Radio and installations *47:46* 'Stations' at Bergenhus Fortress *50:56* Obelisks and boomboxes: performing 'Cleopatra’s Needles' *55:14* 'Sound barrier': radios as construction material *59:31* Choreography and radio concerts *01:02:01* Fibre Optics *01:05:51* freq_out *E/N/J/O/Y* *E/N/J/O/Y* *E/N/J/O/Y* *E/N/J/O/Y* *E/N/J/O/Y*
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