Anthea Caddy – Projection #3: The Wharf, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Projection #3: The Wharf, Amsterdam, Netherlands is the continuation of a long-term research project by Australian artist Anthea Caddy that harnesses projected sound energy to interrogate the physicality of environments.

Jamila Prowse – An Echo For My Father

An Echo For My Father (2021) is the first iteration in a series of three moving image works, exploring Jamila’s relationship with her late father Russell Herman, a South African jazz musician who migrated to the UK in the 1980s and passed away when Jamila was three.

Son[i]a #339: Aho Ssan

In this podcast Ràdio Web MACBA talk to Aho Ssan about his grandfather’s lost trumpet and about an Ivory Coast jazz band that’s impossible to track down. Along the way, we share the cinematic tension of his debut LP Simulacrum and the various routes that led him there.

Son[i]a #338: Andrea Ballestero

RWM talk to Andrea Ballestero about aquifers and amorphous futures, about imagination as an essential part of the academic research process, and about the potential of bureaucratic practices as cogs in a possible machinery of change—which does not necessarily have to involve large-scale global transformations.

Son[i]a #337: Raw Material Company

Son[i]a #335: Samaneh Moafi

In this podcast, Samaneh Moafi turns a gaze to notions of ecocide, negative commons and environmental violence in pursuit of accountability and change.

Son[i]a #334: DeForrest Brown, Jr. | Speaker Music

In this podcast, Ràdio Web MACBA talk to Deforrest Brown about Detroit veterans, broken futures, Reaganomics, screams, government sanctioned murder, and Disco Demolition in the post-truth era.

The Informals II

The Informals II is an improvised documentary experience: an exhibition and performance by artists Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne, in collaboration with emerging talent from Brighton’s music subcultures.

Alex Brajković – Cincta

Cincta is a multi-channel IDM composition. Changeable, almost danceable beats, dense ambient textures and an immersive experience of spatialization of sound through careful orchestration are the principal traits of this live electronic set.

Andro Giunio – Without centre

Without centre is an electroacoustic composition about an imaginary space of movement, suspension, dissonance and resonance and their subtle interactions. The processes of manipulating and forming loops of multi-channel sound recordings of human voice, wind and string instruments.

Davor Sanvincenti – This Forest Doesn’t Exist Anymore

The multi-channel composition This Forest Doesn’t Exist Anymore comes into being as the final chapter in the sound collage of field recordings initiated some 15 years ago.

Dora Fodor – ECHO, a sonic tale

Multi-channel composition Echo is the result of participation in KONTEJNER’s educational programmes – the workshop and guided work in a multi-channel studio under the mentorship of electroacoustics engineer and artist Miodrag Gladović.

Toni Meštrović – Resonance of Sound

Toni Meštrović’s Resonance of Sound is a 14-channel spatial sound installation that was realised over a seven-day process of experimentation inside the Grič Tunnel in Zagreb.

Rdeča Raketa – … and cannot reach the silence

Aho Ssan – The Falling Man

The Falling Man is a three-part play by Aho Ssan, diving the listener into the unknown.

Sissel Marie Tonn – Plastic Hypersea

Plastic Hypersea is an interactive, site-specific work by artist Sissel Marie Tonn that was developed for the NDSM Wharf in Amsterdam.

Son[i]a #331: Eyal Weizman

In the second conversation with founding director of Forensic Architecture Eyal Weizman, Ràdio Web MACBA explore further the nuances of their sophisticated research practice, this time focusing on the notions of time and duration from a forensic perspective in order to unfold multiple temporalities from an instant.

Avant Joik – ‘Live In Bergen’

‘Live In Bergen’ is the first release by Alan Joik, a project by Katarina Barruk (joik, vocals) and Maja S. K. Ratkje (vocals, live electronics).

‘Basically’ Limited Vinyl Release

Limited edition pink marble vinyl LP of ‘Basically’ by Nikima Jagudajev, Jordan Balaber and Lester St. Louis.

Lockdown Grooves

With “Lockdown Grooves”, the Elevate Festival 2021 shows its first artistic sign of life.

Son[i]a #323: Elaine Gan. Deleted Scenes.

Ràdio Web MACBA dug up some unreleased fragments of a conversation with Elaine Gan that were not included the first time around.

Light+ Collective Imaginings podcast series with Jamila Prowse

New podcast series that act as a resource tool for independent artists and curators, as well as people considering a career in the arts.

Declaration of Independence

Two podcasts related to the on-going project Declaration of Independence by Barby Asante made in collaboration with podcast producer Femi Oriogun Williams and some of the womxn who took part in the workshop and performance in Bergen Kunsthall in 2020.

Son[i]a #319: John Richards/Dirty Electronics. Deleted Scenes.

Ràdio Web MACBA dug up some unreleased fragments of a conversation with sound artist John Richards/Dirty Electronics that were not included the first time around.

Son[i]a #323. Elaine Gan

In this podcast by Radio Web MACBA Elaine Gan talks about crop science, feral technologies, the global pandemic, radical difference, the art of noticing, Matsutake mushrooms, and, of course, the blahblahsphere.

New Release Teum (the Silvery Slit) 2019 by Okkyung Lee

New digital album by INA GRM which includes the commissioned work Teum (the Silver Slit) by Okkyung Lee.

Son[i]a #320: Ji Youn Kang. Deleted Scenes.

Ràdio Web MACBA dug up some unreleased fragments of a conversation with sound artist Ji Youn Kang that were not included the first time around.

Son[i]a #318: Jonáš Gruska. Deleted Scenes.

Radio Web MACBA dug up some unreleased fragments of the conversation with the Slovak sound artist Jonáš Gruska that were not included the first time around.

Son[i]a #322: Hugo Esquinca

Ràdio Web MACBA talks in this podcast to Hugo Esquinca about his work and its ties to his upbringing – or how growing up in the hyperchaos of Mexico City relates to this fascination with speed, overabundance and syncretism.

The Rodina – NEXT World 3D

For the special online edition of the NEXT Festival 2020, The Rodina was commissioned to create a virtual interactive 3D environment with several rooms and stages.

BA – Unrated: Wayfinding

In the commissioned 3D audiovisual performative installation ‘Wayfinding’, digitally de-, and reconstructed somewhat glitchy footages of estranged, scenic landscapes, and the accompanying ambient sound swallows its viewer.

Claw Machine

Commissioned work by Nikita Diakur for the NEXT Festival 2020.

Son[i]a #321: César Rendueles

Ràdio Web MACBA chat to César Rendueles about his new book “Contra la igualdad de oportunidades. Un panflento igualirtarista” (Seix Barral, 2020). the author talks about the myth of universal connectivity and technological dystopia. He also touches on necropolitics, necroeconomics, and the importance of social ties in processes of social change.

Son[i]a #320: Ji Youn Kang

In this podcast, Ji Youn Kang talks about Korean ritual music, perfect 5ths and nature, resonating objects, noise, self-built instruments, uncertainty and tension, Wave Field Synthesis, and strategies to engage online audiences in meaningful communication.

Son[i]a #319: John Richards/Dirty Electronics

In this podcast, John Richards tells about the Luddites and Leicester, touches on his views on functionality, control, and safety nets, and talks about his approach to speculative circuitry, authorship and composition.

Son[i]a #312: Lars Holdhus/TCF. Deleted Scenes.

Ràdio Web MACBA dug up some unreleased fragments of a conversation with sound artist Lars Holdhus that were not included the first time around.

SON[I]A #314: Anja Kanngieser. Deleted Scenes.

Podcast with some unreleased fragments of the earlier conversation with political geographer and sound artist Anja Kanngieser that were not included the first time around.

Protean Sap by Tuomas A. Laitinen

Protaen Sap by Tuomas A. Laitinen is a augmented reality filter and a single channel video co-commissioned from Lighthouse, Daata and The Finnish Institute.

Son[i]a #318: Jonáš Gruska

Podcast about resonating spaces, resonating surfaces, tramways, self-taught electronic circuitry, field recordings, fermentation, mushrooms, and unusual microphones.

Son[i]a #317: Reni Hofmüller

In this podcast, Reni Hofmüller shares her obsession with dismantling the invisible in order to understand and question it.

Avant Joik

A recording from Avant Joik´s concert that took place on September 4, 2020 at Bergen Kunsthall on the occasion of this year’s festival exhibition opening with Joar Nango.

Son[i]a #316: Jennifer Walshe

In this podcast, Ràdio Web MACBA talk to Jennifer Walshe about writing, annotating, teaching, collecting, eavesdropping, performing, faking, and a touch of machine learning.

SON[I]A #309: Terike Haapoja. Deleted Scenes.

Unreleased fragments of a conversation with Finnish artist Terike Haapoja that were not included the first time around.

Son[i]a #314: Anja Kanngieser

In this podcast, we become the listeners as Anja Kanngieser reflects on expanded listening, on the inaudible, and on our anthropocentrism.

Son[i]a #293: Ramon Amaro. Deleted Scenes.

Ràdio Web MACBA dug up some unreleased fragments of the conversation with Ramon Amaro that were not included the first time around.

Son[i]a #313: Joana Moll

In this podcast, we talk to Joana Moll about interfaces and their social implications, about technocolonialism, agency, surveillance, exploitation, speculation and, why not, about laughter.

Son[i]a #312: Lars Holdhus/TCF

In this podcast, Lars Holdhus advocates for presence and awareness. Between tea sips, he reflects on toolmaking and impact, A.I. and the obsession with flesh, human time and machine time.

Son[i]a #309: Terike Haapoja

Finnish artist Terike Haapoja invites us to imagine this posthumanism: a hybrid, expansive, empathetic “we” with room for ambiguity and difference and for interspecies political understanding, in which the morbid fantasy of human exceptionalism and the hierarchy of species is put to rest once and for all.

OBJECTHOOD #7

This new episode of Roc Jiménez de Cisneros’ OBJECTHOOD series features conversations with Diego Falconi, Rick Dolphijn, Dave Phillips, and music by Kali Malone.

Perfomance: Kali Malone

A new commissioned work by American composer and musician Kali Malone who contests standardised tuning through utterly magical compositions.

Half Chance

In a project initiated by Sonic Acts and Elevate, Dorian Concept and Zanshin create a new composition with the Max Brand synthesizer.

Elevator Music

Elevate Festival 2020 commissioned Jimi Tenor to compose a permanent sound installation at the Schlossberglift in Graz: Elevator Music.

Persuasion Lab (ad.watch)

The Persuasion Lab, presented by Nayantara Ranganathan from India and Manuel Beltrán from Spain at esc medien kunst labor during Elevate 2020, provides an infrastructure to interrogate the workings of political advertisements on FACEBOOK Inc.

Son[i]a #280: Raqs Media Collective/Monica Narula. Deleted Scenes.

Radio Web MACBA digs up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Monica Narula that were unable to be included the first time around.

Žaburina

Žaburina, a multichannel sound performance commissioned by Ina GRM, had its world première at Sonic Acts Academy 2020.

The Altitudes

The Altitudes is a twenty-minute multichannel piece which premiered at Sonic Acts Academy 2020.

On ‘A Psychedelic Becoming’

For Hugo Esquinca, sound intervention and research turns in on itself with defined aspects presenting unrepeatable results.

Long Throw: An Exploration of an Expanded Energetic System for Cello and Loud Speaker

At Sonic Acts, Anthea Caddy premièred a live performance that expands the physical properties of projected sound energy via amplified cello.

More Moiré²

Philip Vermeulen provokes emotional reactions with kinetic installations that listen in on unexpected conversations among everyday materials like elastics, textiles and fluorescent lights.

Anton Kats on MÆKUR: Deleted Scenes

In these outtakes, Anton Kats talks about the transition from MAKU to MÆKUR, about slowing down and opening up listening spaces, and about contextual and emotional infrastructure in art practice.

CONDITIONS : 1218-0719

Released as part of Sonic Acts Academy 2020 and now available for digital download, CONDITIONS : 1218 – 0719 is the first release by MÆKUR, the collaborative project of Maiа Urstad, Eva Rowson and Anton Kats.

Son[i]a #305: Anton Kats

In this podcast, Anton Kats talks about the Europe of integration through his embodied experience, about memory, dementia, and different ways of not knowing, about artistic research and art that defies representation, about site-specific projects and mobile, ephemeral devices, and more.

Human Nature – Elevate Festival 2020 Trailer

This video is a commissioned work produced in the framework of the Re-Imagine Europe project, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

Preformance: TCF

TCF is the moniker of Norwegian contemporary artist and musician Lars Holdhus.

Performance: Erik Nyström

For this year’s NEXT festival, Nyström has developed an immersive multichannel live performance

Stirred Mandala II

Intrigued by the phenomena and history of optical sound, Mariska de Groot makes comprehensive analog light-to-sound instruments and installations.

Performance: Lee Gamble

Sound designer, junglist, composer and DJ Lee Gamble’s output defies clear cut genre categorization – from roots as a teenage DJ rinsing state-of-the-art jungle, to exploring the sound architecture and abstraction of computer music.

Son[i]a #296: Nora Sternfeld

In this podcast, Nora Sternfeld problematises the educational turn and talks about the crisis of the museum model, radical pedagogy, emancipatory practices and alliances, para-institutions, unlearning strategies and collective knowledge projected into the future.

Son[i]a #298: Helen Pritchard

In this podcast, Helen Pritchard discusses some of her works and collective projects, and talks about all sorts of double bonds.

What If We Made A Video Game And It Was Like Dark Souls And All The Characters Were Artists

WIWMAVGAIWLDSAATCWA is an enclosure of the audiovisual inputs of reality into the space of art that formally unifies performance and exhibition with the practices of organized interpersonal relationships.

I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess

I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess is a project by female art collective Ljubavnice (‘mistresses’) consisting of six young artists, who start the creation of their seventh member – an artificial identity.

Son[i]a #291: Irit Rogoff. Deleted Scenes.

Ràdio Web MACBA dug up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Irit Rogoff that were not included the first time around.

Son[i]a #291: Irit Rogoff

In this podcast, Irit Rogoff explores and develops new models of research, action, and education that are activated where artistic practices meet philosophies and politics.

Son[i]a #287: Sofía Olascoaga. Deleted Scenes.

Ràdio Web MACBA dug up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Sofía Olascoaga that they were not included the first time around.

Son[i]a #289: John Gerrard

In this podcast, Irish artist John Gerrard talks about his initial fascination with 3D scanners and about how they led him to develop his current practice.

Forma

A new commissioned work by musician Lucy Railton for the Acousmonium.

Son[i]a #288: Teal Triggs

In this podcast, Teal Triggs talks about the historical background of zines and their key role in generating communities outside of the mainstream, from community newsletters to dada publications by way of science-fiction, 1950s rock and roll, and activist zines.

Son[i]a #286: Peter Zinovieff. Deleted Scenes.

Radio Web MACBA dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Peter Zinovieff that they were unable to include the first time around.

Distorted Constellations

Distorted Constellations is an exhibition that uses sound, projections and holograms to immerse the audience in the imagined landscape of the artist’s brain.

Son[i]a #287: Sofía Olascoaga

In this podcast, Sofía Olascoaga gives an overview of the activist history of Cuernavaca (MX). From the 1950s to the 1980s, Cuernavaca attracted several generations of intellectuals and activists becoming a testing ground for social initiatives.

Light+ Season 3: Who’s Doing The Washing Up? Podcast Series

A live recording from Potential Wor(l)ds in which artists Aliyah Hussain and Anna Bunting Branch, Marlborough Theatre , Co-Artistic Director Tarik Elmoutawakil and Devils’ Dyke Network, organisers Claudia Treacher and Violeta Marchenkova share their strategies for making spaces on their own terms.

Son[i]a #285: Bernard Stiegler

In this podcast, Bernard Stiegler talks about education and smartphones, translations and linguists, about economic war, climate change, and political stupidity.

Son[i]a #283: Boris Charmatz

In this podcast, Boris Charmatz reflects on how to address power structures within the artistic field.

Human Nature

‘Human Nature’ is an audio-visual installation which reflects on the theme of truth through the gaze of artificial intelligence.

In A Paraventral Scale (Ambisonic Version)

Lee Gamble (UK) exposes us to a new type of digital theater, a unique and futuristic filmic world blurring the distinction between non-musical sound, music and dance floor, a push and pull between reality and fictional worlds.

Radiant

Radiant is an audiovisual work comprising a white laser beam moving over a large surface covered with phosphorescent pigment.

Electrical Walks (No. 74)

Electrical Walks is a public walk with special sensitive wireless headphones by which the acoustic qualities of electromagnetic fields become amplified and audible.

틈 / Teum (The Silvery Slit)

틈 / Teum (The Silvery Slit) is a piece written for computer generated sounds, pre-recorded materials, and the cello.

Accidental Geopoetics (Reality Patch Living Poster)

Accidental Geopolitics is an introduction to the navigation infrastructure of the Sonic Acts event in Stedelijk.

The Informals / Неформалы

The Informals / Неформалы is an audiovisual performance by Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne. It is partly an autobiographical work, partly a universal statement on the notions of decentralisation, collectivism, and non-conformist ways of living in the digital age.

Liquid Truth

In order to make the fast pace of the truth discourse in digital, political space (Twitter) visible in real time, a generative data sculpture is created.

Sound as Weapon, Sounds 4 Survival

Phoebe Collings-James and Jamila Johnson-Small work with their multi-dimensional bodies as the primary technology and source material for a collaborative live performance.

TIME TIME TIME

TIME TIME TIME is an opera by Jennifer Walshe and Timothy Morton that explores the multiplicity of temporalities at the heart of being human.

ORE

ORE by the Swedish sound artist, field recordist and composer, BJ Nilsen, is a piece about the sound of mining.

Son[i]a #281: José Luis Barrios Lara

In this podcast, José Luis Barrios Lara reflects on the founding myth of the West, modernity, and the invention of the other.

Son[i]a #280: Raqs Media Collective

In this podcast, Raqs Media Collective founder Monica Narula talks to Rádio Web MACBA about raga, the technological body, public domain, the ineffability of time, the Mahabharata, politics of language, exhaustion, dilation and the legibility.

Elevate Festival 2019 – Truth

The 2019 edition of Elevate Festival is dedicated to exploring and debating one of the most important concepts of human society: Truth – and its many (un)secret siblings.

Son[i]a #272: Goodiepal and Pals. Deleted Scenes.

Radio Web MACBA dug up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Goodiepal that were not included the first time around.

Son[i]a #278: Jean-Luc Nancy

RWM and Jean-Luc Nancy talk about the body as an echo chamber and as a sensible and sentient presence, about silence as the “infinite extremity of sound”, and the role of sound and listening in the context of political practice.

Son[i]a #277: Marina Gržinić

In this podcast, Marina Gržinić talks about amnesia, aphasia, and seizure, about biopower and necropolitics, about borders and volumes, corpus and corpses, about deathscapes, intestines, and holograms, and about the disturbing miniaturisation of affect and empathy, as a process that runs parallel to technological acceleration.

Bias Loop

Bias Loop is a sonic poem about reconnecting with the self. The work was commissioned by A4 and Sonic Acts.

Untitled

A4 and Sonic Acts have commissioned Ji Youn Kang to develop new sound works to be played on ‘The Pentacle’ sound system.

“Who’s Doing the Washing Up?” #4: On Maintaining Circulation

Artists Maia Urstad and Anton Kats combine their shared practices and interests in forms of communication technology, the ways in which stories are circulated, recorded and archived and how narratives of technological developments routinely overlook how and by whom these tools have been developed.

Deformation Studies on Dimension and Structure for Fifteen Point Three

A4 and Sonic Acts have commissioned Hugo Esquinca to develop new sound works to be played on ‘The Pentacle’ sound system.

Son[i]a #268: Jodi Dean. Deleted Scenes.

In this podcast, RWM and Jodi Dean talk about vocabularies & theory as a weapon, school shootings, and companies taking the role of legislators.

Bolka + Rosa Menkman

Bolka and Rosa Menkman collaboratively developed an audiovisual performance presented at NEXT Festival 2018 at A4.

“Who’s Doing the Washing Up?” #3: Hospitality, Secrecy, and Other Useless Movements

How can hospitality, silence and secrecy be tools for social organising? Terre Thaemlitz explores this question during a two-day residency and several performances at Bergen Kunsthall.

Son[i]a #272: Goodiepal and Pals

In this podcast, Goodiepal plays a borrowed Casiotone VL-1 VL-Tone as he talks about art, double standards in Europe, creativity in sheer survival strategies, Radical Computer Music, and more.

Son[i]a #264: Maia Urstad. Deleted Scenes.

Ràdio Web MACBA dug up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Maia Urstad that were not included the first time around. In this podcast, Maia Urstad talks about nostalgia, time pips, AM-radio, FM and DAB, and more.

“Who’s Doing the Washing Up?” #2: Potential Wor(l)ds

Aliyah Hussain and Anna Bunting-Branch collaborate for the first time during their residency at Bergen Kunsthall.

Potential Wor(l)ds

Potential Wor(l)ds is a new project by artists Aliyah Hussain and Anna Bunting-Branch.

“Who’s Doing the Washing Up?” #1: Other Supports

Artist-educator Jordi Ferreiro (ES) investigates organisational structures through participatory performance, play and learning experiments.

OBJECTHOOD #6

This is a podcast about objects, in particular about theories that have recently brought us new perspectives on objects from contemporary art and theory.

Son[i]a #268: Jodi Dean

In the podcast, Jodi Dean talks about communism as a still-latent project, about the Party as a scalable global form, about dystopian municipalism, anamorphic ecologies, and liberal democracies, about Not An Alternative and Liberate Tate as examples of sustainable activism practices at museums, and many other things.

Son[i]a #261: Jennifer Lucy Allan. Deleted Scenes.

Radio Web MACBA dugs up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Jennifer Lucy Allan that were not included the first time around.

Son[i]a #261: Jennifer Lucy Allan

In this podcast Jennifer Lucy Allan talks about foghorns, meteorology and aurality, about volumes, distance and communities, about sounds disconnected from their function, holes in YouTube, amateur archivists and holes in official archives.

Last Dance: The Wave Epoch

Lighthouse invites an audience to imagine what culture will be like 2000 years in the future, through a unique collaboration between Elijah, GAIKA, Haroon Mirza and Jack Jelfs.

Re-Imagined Futures: Mimosa Pudica

Gaia Fugazza presents a performance that imagines a future where humans expand their knowledge through interaction with other species (specifically plants).

Son[i]a #256: Nina Power. Deleted Scenes.

Ràdio Web MACBA dug up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Nina Power that were not included the first time around.

Son[i]a #256: Nina Power

In the podcast, Nina Power shares her thoughts on the ideological power of language, on systems of state violence, surveillance and control, and on the need to reverse the savage logic of neoliberalism through strategies such as commoning and her own notion of ‘decapitalism’.

John Chantler at PRÉSENCES éléctronique

For 2018 Ina GRM invited Sweden based artist John Chantler to work with the new version of the Coupigny Synthesizer, the legendary synth created in late 60’s at GRM studio.

Machine Learning City

Machine Learning City is a project about the emerging role of cities and their citizens as databases.

Sonible IKO 3D-Sound Speaker Performance

As a mastering engineer, the Berlin-based composer and producer Rashad Becker intensively deals with musical timbres, textures and tactile hearing.

System Error

For Elevate, Andy King created a series of photographed portraits of whistleblowers that were deformed beyond recognition using various digital glitch techniques.

Video Design by Karl Klomp

For Elevate Festival in collaboration with Sonic Acts, media artist Karl Klomp designs the lighting and video design for the various programmes.

Blue(s) in Green to the 31 Limit

Blue(s) in Green to the 31 Limit elaborates on concepts of space and continues earlier experiments in micro-tonality, just intonation, and the space of sound.

Performance: Číslizvuk / Doe / Kudla

A4 commissions Jano Doe and Adéla Kudlová to create an audiovisual performance with the Číslizvuk-syntheziser.

Performance: Fennesz + David Kollar + Zden

A4 commissioned perennial star of international electronic scene Fennesz to create a new audiovisual performance.