*Most read features - 2012 - Ràdio Web MACBA * *1- MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Conversation with William Bennett on his sound collection *In this conversation, William Bennett gives an archaeological overview of a music collection that reflects his main obsessions: avant-garde rarities, Italo Disco, soundtracks and percussion music from West Africa and Haiti. Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/memorabilia_william_bennett_conversation/capsula PDF: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110627/Memorabilia_William_Bennett_eng.pdf
*2- MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Conversation with Jonny Trunk on his sound collection *Jonny Trunk's record collection consists of around six thousand LPs and his library music collection focuses on the period from 1966 to 1978 and exhaustively explores british, french, italian and german productions. Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/memorabilia_jonny_trunk_conversation/capsula PDF: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20120516/memorabilia_jonny_trunk_conversation_eng.pdf *3. MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... William Bennett. Lecture transcript *Transcript of William Bennett's lecture: "Musical homeostasis: music not just to be heard". Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/william_bennett_lecture_transcript/capsula PDF: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20120611/memorabilia_william_bennett_lecture_eng.pdf *4- QUADERNS D'ÀUDIO. Conversation with Joel Peterson on graphic notation. 16.03.2012 *We talked to American composer and improviser Joel Peterson about the challenges of graphic notation and other related issues. Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/conversation_joel_peterson/capsula PDF: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20120315/Conversation_JoelPeterson_eng.0.pdf *5- MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Conversation with Kenneth Goldsmith on his sound collection *A compulsive digital collector, Goldsmith's personal archive extends far beyond the in itself unfathomable UbuWeb. Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/memorabilia_kenneth_goldsmith_conversation/capsula PDF: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/memorabilia_kenneth_goldsmith_conversation/capsula *6- MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Conversation with Anki Toner on his sound collection *In the conversation, Anki Toner talks about his personal collection of records and gramophonic objects, the evolution of recording media, high and low fidelity, the challenges of the archive, his own collector habits, and the sound collecting market in the twenty-first century. Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/memorabilia_anki_toner_conversation/capsula PDF: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20120810/conversation_anki_toner_cas.pdf *7- MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Conversation with Ed Veenstra on his sound collection *Dutch collector Ed Veenstra collects all kinds of music-objects by plastic artists (a total of around 3,500) who have worked with sound at some point in their careers. Records, but also what he calls “anti-records,” strange, impossible and unclassifiable formats that approach the object from a radically different perspective and exceed the traditional functions of the medium. Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110711/memorabilia_edveenstra_eng.pdf PDF: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/memorabilia_ed_veenstra_conversation/capsula *8- LINES OF SIGHT. A conversation between Tetsuo Kogawa and Yasunao Tone. Transcript. 30.05.2012 *Transcript of the conversation between Tetsuo Kogawa and Yasunao Tone for LINES OF SIGHT #7. Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/tetsuo_kogawa_yasunao_tone/capsula PDF: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20120530/conversation_tetsuo_kogawa_yasunao_tone.pdf *9- MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH.... Kenneth Goldsmith. Lecture transcript. 23.05.2012 *Transcript of Kenneth Goldsmith's lecture: "From collector to archivist: seven thoughts". Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/tetsuo_kogawa_yasunao_tone/capsula PDF: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20120530/conversation_tetsuo_kogawa_yasunao_tone.pdf *10- COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #6.1 Transcript* The sixth episode of COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC considers the relationship between process-based music and space. It explores how musicians and composers have used acoustic space as an active element in music composition. Some historical precedents, such as Tibetan and medieval chanting, are included; acoustic space has not only been explored externally, but also internally, as physiological space. Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/composingwithprocess_6_transcript_mark_fell_joe_gilmore/capsula PDF: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20120411/Composingwithprocess6_transcript_eng.pdf
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