*Ràdio Web MACBA staff picks: best podcasts of 2016 * 1- Andrea Fraser: “It’s important to reflect critically on what producing experience means” <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/andrea-fraser/capsula>
In this podcast, Andrea Fraser talks about the challenges and limitations of cultural activism, the sub-fields of art, the relationship between artists and the market, and the museum in the neoliberal era. Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/andrea-fraser/capsula 2- <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fons-audio-malcolm-le-grice/capsula> Malcolm Le Grice: “Narrative makes it all far too simple” Malcolm Le Grice talks about expanded cinema, materialist structuralism, latency, suspense, politics of perception and the seminal work The London Filmmakers Co-op Workshop. Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fons-audio-malcolm-le-grice/capsula 3- ON LISTENING #1: Is sound an object or an event? <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/on-listening-1/capsula> Can we think through listening? Seth-Kim Cohen, Christoph Cox, Julian Henriques, Casey O’Callaghan, Peter Szendy and Salomé Voegelin help us to explore philosophy’s seeming difficulty in grappling with listening and its counterpart – sound – as a powerful deconstructive means to cut through some of the philosophical certainties that underpin classical and modern Western thought. Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/on-listening-1/capsula 4- Alvin Lucier: “Letting it happen is more important that making it happen” <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/alvin-lucier/capsula> In this podcast Alvin Lucier talks about the need to listen carefully, the composers that have accompanied and influenced him over the years, the transparency of sounds, and the role of space and technology in his work, among many other things. Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/alvin-lucier/capsula *5- Chris Cutler: “I understand music as a kind of ecology; certainly its mechanisms are ecological” <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes-17-1-chris-cutler/capsula>* In his PROBES #17, Chris Cutler traces how the gamelan collided with western notions of music and exotic percussion spread like a virus into every field. The transcript for this podcast can be found <http://goog_988608927/>here. <http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20160217/17probes_transcript_eng.pdf> Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes-17-1-chris-cutler/capsula *+* *BEST WISHES FOR 2017!*
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