Works
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.
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.
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 digital album by INA GRM which includes the commissioned work Teum (the Silver Slit) by Okkyung Lee.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Podcast about resonating spaces, resonating surfaces, tramways, self-taught electronic circuitry, field recordings, fermentation, mushrooms, and unusual microphones.
In this podcast, Reni Hofmüller shares her obsession with dismantling the invisible in order to understand and question it.
In this podcast, we talk to Jennifer Walshe about writing, annotating, teaching, collecting, eavesdropping, performing, faking, and a touch of machine learning.
Unreleased fragments of a conversation with Finnish artist Terike Haapoja that were not included the first time around.
In this podcast, we become the listeners as Anja Kanngieser reflects on expanded listening, on the inaudible, and on our anthropocentrism.
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.
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.
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.
This new episode of Roc Jiménez de Cisneros’ OBJECTHOOD series features conversations with Diego Falconi, Rick Dolphijn, Dave Phillips, and music by Kali Malone.
A new commissioned work by American composer and musician Kali Malone who contests standardised tuning through utterly magical compositions.
In a project initiated by Sonic Acts and Elevate, Dorian Concept and Zanshin create a new composition with the Max Brand synthesizer.
Elevate Festival 2020 commissioned Jimi Tenor to compose a permanent sound installation at the Schlossberglift in Graz: Elevator Music.
Radio Web MACBA digs up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Monica Narula that were unable to be included the first time around.
Radio Web MACBA dug up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Goodiepal that were not included the first time around.
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.
Žaburina, a multichannel sound performance commissioned by Ina GRM, had its world première at Sonic Acts Academy 2020.
The Altitudes is a twenty-minute multichannel piece which premiered at Sonic Acts Academy 2020.
For Hugo Esquinca, sound intervention and research turns in on itself with defined aspects presenting unrepeatable results.
With Long Throw: An Exploration of an Expanded Energetic System for Cello and Loud Speaker, Anthea Caddy is back at Sonic Acts to première a live performance that expands the physical properties of projected sound energy via amplified cello.
Philip Vermeulen provokes emotional reactions with kinetic installations that listen in on unexpected conversations among everyday materials like elastics, textiles and fluorescent lights.
Radio Web MACBA dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Peter Zinovieff that they were unable to include the first time around.
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.
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.
Process, liminality, mediation, transmission, radio, resonance, orality, archive, and abundance.
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.
TCF is the moniker of Norwegian contemporary artist and musician Lars Holdhus.
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.
Intrigued by the phenomena and history of optical sound, Mariska de Groot makes comprehensive analog light-to-sound instruments and installations.
For this year’s NEXT festival, Nyström has developed an immersive multichannel live performance
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.
In this podcast, Helen Pritchard discusses some of her works and collective projects, and talks about all sorts of double bonds.
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 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.
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.
Ràdio Web MACBA digs up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Sofía Olascoaga that they were unable to include the first time around.
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.
Residency & Commission by the artist Lucy Railton (UK)
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.
Distorted Constellations is an exhibition that uses sound, projections and holograms to immerse the audience in the imagined landscape of the artist’s brain.
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.
In this podcast Bernard Stiegler talks about education and smartphones, translations and linguists, about economic war, climate change, and political stupidity.
In this Podcast, Boris Charmatz reflects on how to address power structures within the artistic field.
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) is a piece written for computer generated sounds, pre-recorded materials, and the cello.
A white laser beam moves over a large surface and draws lines and curves which are only visible for a very short moment before they disappear…
Accidental Geopolitics is an introduction to the navigation infrastructure of the Sonic Acts event in Stedelijk.
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.
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.
‘Human Nature’ is an audio-visual installation which reflects on the theme of truth through the gaze of artificial intelligence.
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 is an opera by Jennifer Walshe and Timothy Morton that explores the multiplicity of temporalities at the heart of being human.
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.
An acousmatic live performance piece about the sound of mining.
In this podcast, José Luis Barrios Lara reflects on the founding myth of the West, modernity, and the invention of the other.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bolka and Rosa Menkman collaboratively developed an audiovisual performance presented at NEXT Festival 2018 at A4.
A4 and Sonic Acts have commissioned Nina Pixel to develop new sound works to be played on ‘The Pentacle’ sound system.
A4 and Sonic Acts have commissioned Ji Youn Kang to develop new sound works to be played on ‘The Pentacle’ sound system.
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.
A4 and Sonic Acts have commissioned Hugo Esquinca to develop new sound works to be played on ‘The Pentacle’ sound system.
In this podcast, RWM and Jodi Dean talk about vocabularies & theory as a weapon, school shootings, and companies taking the role of legislators.
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.
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.
Aliyah Hussain and Anna Bunting-Branch collaborate for the first time during their residency at Bergen Kunsthall.
Artist-educator Jordi Ferreiro (ES) investigates organisational structures through participatory performance, play and learning experiments.
This is a podcast about objects, in particular about theories that have recently brought us new perspectives on objects from contemporary art and theory.
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.
Radio Web MACBA dugs up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Jennifer Lucy Allan that were not included the first time around.
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.
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.
Gaia Fugazza presents a performance that imagines a future where humans expand their knowledge through interaction with other species (specifically plants).
Ràdio Web MACBA dug up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Nina Power that were not included the first time around.
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’.
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 is a project about the emerging role of cities and their citizens as databases.
As a mastering engineer, the Berlin-based composer and producer Rashad Becker intensively deals with musical timbres, textures and tactile hearing.
For Elevate, Andy King created a series of photographed portraits of whistleblowers that were deformed beyond recognition using various digital glitch techniques.
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 elaborates on concepts of space and continues earlier experiments in micro-tonality, just intonation, and the space of sound.
A4 commissions Jano Doe and Adéla Kudlová to create an audiovisual performance with the Číslizvuk-syntheziser.
A4 commissions perennial star of international electronic scene Fennesz to create a new audiovisual performance.
