In this project Alan Bishop vindicates the use of radio as an electronic instrument in a journey through time and space that unearths old recordings from the AM and FM airwaves made during his first trip to Spain and Morocco in 1983.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_10_alan_bishop_radio_maghreb/capsula

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If you are attending or already have the CTM FESTIVAL in Berlin these days, you may be interested in the following podcasts

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COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #2.2. Exclusives by Marcus Schmickler and EVOL.

This show presents two contrasting generative works by German composer Marcus Schmickler and Catalan collective EVOL.

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The following is a transcript of the email conversation with the American new age collector Douglas Mcgowan, which took place in winter 2012 as part of the research process for the podcast series MEMORABILIA. Collecting sounds with....

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Ràdio Web MACBA - 2012 Most listened podcasts



1- MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... William Bennett. Part II

A musical selection of some of the secret jewels found in William Bennett's sound collection, discovering rare percussion music from West-Africa.

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In celebration of the 100 year anniversary of John Cage's birth, we dig up two podcasts on the work of John Cage:

FLUXRADIO

Curated by Joe Gilmore and Rhiannon Silver, FLUXRADIO explores some of the concepts and ideas behind the music and performance pratice of Fluxus. Featuring sound pieces by John Cage, George Maciunas, La Monte Young, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, George Brecht, Yoko Ono and others, the programme charts the emergence of Fluxus through 60s…

Quaderns d'àudio (Audio Notebooks) http://rwm.macba.cat/en/quaderns-audio is a collection of publications of texts relating to Ràdio Web MACBA programming. The objective of these publications is to complement the lines of work developed by the radio through the critical edition of hard-to-find works that are important for understanding and delving into sound art in the fields of both music and contemporary art. The texts…

Launched by Folkestone Fringe, Boat Radio is a new commissioning platform for transmission-based sound works on digital radio, following performance duo Lone Twin's boat 'Collective Spirit' as she travels the south east coastline.

http://www.transmissioncommission.com/index.html

LINES OF SIGHT is a Ràdio Web MACBA podcast series, curated by Barbara Held and Pilar Subirà, which takes its name from the interconnected points of the global resonant space created by radio and other wireless technologies. From out of the extraordinary array of music that plays on this world-wide stage, the series follows threads as diverse as musical notation and non-linear composition, and introduces artists who explore the ideas around transmission as a medium for creative…

'Emma Turner, a life in the reeds' is the most recent radio piece in BBC4's Nature series. The programme tells the story of this pioneer bird photographer (1866-1940), who spent 20 years at Hickling Broad in Norfolk, learning the ways of the marsh, and how to find, study and photograph the Broadland birds. In 1911 Emma photographed a young Bittern in the nest, proving that Bitterns were breeding again in Norfolk having been driven to extinction in Britain in the late 1800s.…

The Guardian reports today on a new radio catch-up service planned for the pan-industry radio access service RadioPlayer and Audioboo, the social audio service. As the report says, this could be a huge boon for smaller radio stations unable to employ the technological solutions used by the major…