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RADIO WEB MACBA

by MUSEU d’ART CONTEMPORANI de BARCELONA

Ràdio Web MACBA is a non-profit, cultural communication radiophonic project based at MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Operating since 2006, it was the first podcasting project run by an art institution in Spain. Since then, it has engaged in open dialogue with some of the most significant international actors in the field, operating at the intersection of art, radiophonic practices, and experimental music.

Ràdio Web MACBA is radio-beyond-radio; an online project that has amassed 18 years of collective learning and more than 800 files, with programming that explores the museum’s discursive lines –through the Son[i]a and Specials sections-, and specifically addresses the media we inhabit: the internet, sound, expanded radio –in the Research.

SONIC ENTANGLEMENTS

by meLê yamomo

Sonic Entanglements podcast examines the history of sound in Southeast Asia, through conversations with sound experts: historians, archivists, sound engineers, artists, and scholars.

Sonic Entanglements is hosted and produced by meLê yamomo. Thijs van den Geest is our sound engineer and sound editor, and Jean Barcena is our publicity manager. Our theme music is created by Markus Hoogervorst. This podcast is funded by the Dutch Research Organization.

SOUND AND THE MORE-THAN-HUMAN WORLDS

by SEISMOGRAF

Seismograf Peer is a peer-reviewed online platform devoted to practical and theoretical issues in relation to contemporary music, sound art and sound studies. Seismograf Peer covers a broad range of topics including sonic materialities, modes of listening, philosophy of sound and music, aesthetics, technology and audio visuality as well as performative, curatorial and archival matters related to the sonic arts.

Seismograf Peer is hosted by Seismograf, a Danish magazine with a long and proud tradition of publishing essays, interviews and reviews by music journalists and critics as well as academics and composers, acting as an inspiring and important platform within the field.

SOCIAL BROADCASTS

by LUCIA SCAZZOCCHIO

‘Social Broadcasting’ combines community engagement, co-creation, audio production and broadcasting techniques, where everyday conversations and narratives can create meaningful insights around broader social themes. Social Broadcasts are often collaborative and immersive, experimenting with many different forms of audio as well as creating interactive environments where the public are invited to share and record their own experiences and stories. We believe that everyone has a story but they need the right context and framework to be heard.

Featured this month are the series: Love and Life on Lincoln Road, Sounds of the Underline, Racial Equity in the City, and Cherrytree Chronicles.

MÉLIA ROGER: DAWN CHORUS & HONG KONG PROTEST

by MÉLIA ROGER

Field recordist and artist Mélia Roger is engaged to inspire ecological change with environmental and empathic listening. Her work explores the sonic poetics of the landscape, searching for the invisible layers between human and non-humans. Coming from a sound engineering background (ENS Louis-Lumière in Paris, ZHdK in Zurich), Mélia is developing a twofold activity between immersive 7.0.2 sound recordings within HAL, as well as a more experimental and naturalistic approach to listening. Now at Le Fresnoy, she is a practice-based PhD candidate at the University of Lille, focusing on the relations between sound arts and acoustic ecology.

HOME OF THE BRAVE

by SCOTT CARRIER

Scott Carrier is a writer, photographer, and award-winning independent radio producer. In 2015, he started producing Home of the Brave, an ongoing independent podcast with about 100,000 subscribers. He has criss-crossed North America, from Tijuana to Yellowstone to the Gulf Coast and traveled as far as Nepal, Honduras, and Dubai, in search of answers about the subjects that disturb him the most, like war and migration, partisanship and self-righteousness, and the state of the planet.

Consider supporting Scott and his independently produced podcast.

FRAMEWORK RADIO

by PATRICK MCGINLEY

Framework began broadcasting in june, 2002 on the newly reformed Resonance FM in London. The show is consecrated to field recording and its use in composition, and began broadcasting at a time when a new community of sound artists with a special interest in found sound was developing, a community spread across the globe that, thanks to the internet, was no longer limited to a specific geography. Framework’s goal is to present not only the extremely diverse sound environments of our world, but also the extremely diverse work that is being produced by the artists who choose to use these environments as their sonic sources. We hope to ask this question: is ‘field recording’ a style, or a genre, or is it in fact as uncontrollable and undefinable an instrument or tool as any, that may be interpreted, manipulated, and appropriated by anyone with a microphone and an idea?

SONIC GEOGRAPHIES

by UC BERKELEY STUDENTS

Sonic Geographies is a course from the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley.

The aim of the course is to investigate how audio recording and walking can be used as methodologies for exploring our environment and the people that shape it. Students make field recordings and conduct interviews as they move through public spaces of the city. They then edit and structure their sound recordings to express their understandings, feelings, and experiences of that place.

For the past two iterations of the class, the walks have been guided by creeks througout the Bay Area.

LOWLINES

by PETRA BARRAN + SOCIAL BROADCASTS

Lowlines is a sonic scrapbook and a passport to roam. Feeling burned out by the London business hustle, food entrepreneur Petra Barran bought an audio recorder and set off with no itinerary. The series takes us to the heartbeat of New Orleans, the low-slung wetlands of South Louisiana, the slow gyrations of the Amtrak to Tucson. Down to the brittle rasp of the Sonoran desert, the rich, volcanic soil of Mexico City’s Aztec allotments and further, to the soaring jungle chorus of the Peruvian Amazon.

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