New podcast: COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #9.1, by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore



Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore wrap up this series on generative and process music with a piece created specifically for the occasion: 'Two Discrete Generative Systems'.

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New podcast: INTERRUPTIONS #12 Lost Techno-Pop Weekend in Rural Midwestern America, curated by Terre Thaemlitz

A deliberate attempt to vindicate techno-pop as one of the most important genres of the last century.

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

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New podcast: PROBES #3.2. Auxiliaries, a music selection by Chris Cutler

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes3-2_chris_cutler_/capsula

Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130506/Probes3_2_eng.pdf

The PROBES Auxiliaries collect materials related to each episode…

New podcast: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Kees Tazelaar. Part II. Music selected by Kees Tazelaar



This mix, clocking in at over two hours, is a retrospective snapshot of the musical legacy of the Institute of Sonology. It alternates classic pieces, recent works and unreleased gems from the Sonology archive.

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New podcast: COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #8.2. Exclusive works by Keith Fullerton Whitman and Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore. Narrated by Connie Treanor.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/composingwithprocess_exclusives_whitman_hausswolff/capsula

Each…

New podcast: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Kees Tazeelar. Part I

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_kees_tazeelar/capsula

Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130311/Memorabilia_Kees_eng.pdf

Produced by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros and Rubén Patiño

For several years,…

New podcast: PROBES #3. Curated by Chris Cutler

This is where pitch becomes weightless and all that is solid melts into air: futurism, noise, electricity, ecstasy and uncertainty. We look at the lure and power of sliding tones.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes3_chris_cutler_/capsula

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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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New podcast: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH.... Jonny Trunk. Part II

Jonny Trunk picks his fifteen favourite tracks from the fifteen best library music companies in his collection.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_jonny_trunk/capsula

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New podcast: PROBES #2. Curated by Chris Cutler



Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes2_chris_cutler_/capsula

Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121129/Probes2_eng.pdf

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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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New podcast: Tom Johnson talks about his compositional methods, and the influence that John Cage and Morton Feldman had upon it.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/tom_johnson/capsula

Tom Johnson is an American minimalist composer. A former student of Morton Feldman, his music is mainly based on the application of numerical and logical systems. His approach is unique, quite…

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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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New podcast - Wolfgang Ernst talks about the possibility of going beyond the concept of the archive by exploring some of the practices around what is now being called the 'anarchive'.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/wolfgang_ernst/capsula

Wolfgang Ernst is professor of media theory at the Institute of Musicology and Media Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin, and an expert…

The transcript for the second episode of the podcast series PROBES, curated by Chris Cutler, is available online as a PDF. The podcast will be posted soon.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/probes2_chris_cutler/capsula

PDF: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121129/02probes_transcript_eng.pdf

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New podcast: INTERRUPTIONS #9. Meta-records



Curated by the gramophonic collector Anki Toner

A selection of records that mention, replicate, utilise or study the phenomena of vinyl, the record player and/or recordings.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_9_anki_toner_metadiscos/capsula

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New podcast: SON[I]A #166. Interview with James Pritchett

James Pritchett talks about the work of John Cage, David Tudor and Morton Feldman, and the direct link between his way of studying, playing and writing about their music.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia_james_pritchett/capsula

James Pritchett is a musicologist, writer, pianist and software designer. In 1992, he completed 'The Music…

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Sound collecting:

Here we share our research related to sound collecting, which aims to unearth private collections of music and sound memorabilia in order to create a historiography of sound collecting that reveals the unseen and passionate work of the amateur collector while…

New podcast: COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #8.1. Models of change

Curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore. Narrated by Connie Treanor.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/composingwithprocess_8_mark_fell_joe_gilmore/capsula

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