Episodes
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Artist, curator, researcher Charl Landvreugd brings with him music that traverses the realm of the body and mind, with that of the spirit. And at the center of this stands the question of the cultural hybrid and the self. We end up in conversation on how these realms and this amalgamation affects our daily lives. Affect the ways in which we work, fight, live, die, and play. In theory and in practice, institutionally and individually.
For Charl, here it is important to return to the beginnings of things, in order to understand the narratives we operate in. To see how and where to reimagine, and retell, our stories. For The Listening Tide he does so generously, by reading from new writing on some of his early works as an artist.
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‘Space is the Place’ (1974)
Writers: Joshua Smith / Sun Ra
Director: John Coney
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‘Libi Yanga, Suka Yu Gado (Laku)’ Anne Goedhart
Walboomers Music (2005)
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‘Requiem Mozart: 11 Communio, Lux Aterna’
Performed at the Cathadrale Città di Castello – 07.11.2021
Emanuela Agatoni, soprano
Stefania Cocco, contralto
Federico Savini, tenore
Massimiliano Mandozzi, basso
CORO Schola Cantorum "Anton Maria Abbatini"
ORCHESTRA OIDA - Orchestra Instabile di Arezzo
Direttore Alessandro Bianconi
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The Listening Tide with Sing Jantzen Tse
Artist Sing Jantzen Tse introduces us to his immense collection of sounds and recordings of his city Hong Kong, and its surroundings. Compiled over a period of ten years, Sing’s recordings are in fact an archive reflecting the many changes the city has underwent during this period. For this episode he brought with him recordings of playgrounds, particular social-economic environs and a lazy walk through a specific neighborhood in Hong Hong. In the ensuing conversation we talk about the difference between memory and nostalgia, his way of working in the congested surroundings that are this city, and the accountability that comes with actively compiling (and possibly further administering) such an archive.
This is the second and final part of a special two-part edition of The Listening Tide and was graciously hosted by and made in collaboration with Current Plans in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong born and raised curator Eunice Tsang shares with us the carnivalesque, rituals and activism that can come from the sound of beating drums. How this can be an instrument to open informal spaces and occupy them temporarily. As communities and in individual rites. To activate exchange and sharpen our senses.
The conversation also speaks about languages. The tongue of Eunice’s professional past as a journalist, as well as the story of her own family history, which together is also a telling story of Hong Kong itself.
This is a special two-part edition of The Listening Tide and was graciously hosted by and made in collaboration with Current Plans in Hong Kong, of which Eunice Tsang is founder and director, as well as a curator for M+ in Hong Kong.
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The Listening Tide with Daniel de Paula
In this episode, artist Daniel de Paula has brought ‘Archeophonics’ (2016) by poet Peter Gizzi to speak about how meaning is held in archives that are obscured from us by our surroundings, and how knowledge(s) within these, also escape language. They can be tuned-in to through sound, image, and spirit, but only if our increasingly accelerated society allows us to afford ourselves this openness.
Daniel also discusses personal antidotes for this demanding acceleration – as well as the solitude it comes with – through the music brought to the program. That of singer *Milton Nascimiento, and the power his sound and lyrics have to take him from his part-time base in Amsterdam and return him to a specific feeling of his native Brazil. As well as the music of North-American post-black-metal band **Agalloch, who offered a proper curve-ball at the end of the show.
As always, good stuff.
(* 'Promeses do Sol' written by Fernando Brandt & Milton Nascimiento, 1976 EMI Records Brasil Ltd.)
(** 'Blood Birds', 2006 The End Records)
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The Listening Tide invited director of Marres house for contemporary culture in Maastricht Valentijn Byvanck to the living room. He brought with him audio by Espen Sommer Eide on the historic sound of spaces, a project on Stasi ideology-voice-tapping, and the enigmatic Miles Davis. An hour well spent...
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This week’s episode begins on a journey through the Netherlands, and ends within the unsure concrete structures of a creative-hub in Amsterdam, where our guest Nell Donkers works as archivist for de Appel, one of Amsterdam’s oldest and signature platforms for contemporary art. Nell has been a dedicated caretaker of this archive - which is such an important part of this institution’s distinction – for more than twenty years, and begged the question what would she bring?Her two distinct contributions -‘The Walk’ (1982) by Willem de Ridder (part I of the episode), and ‘a janitors manifesto’ (2023) by Gunnar Gunnsteinsson (part II) - lead our conversation to how voice and attention to surroundings change our perceptions, ambitions and desires. Also, she tells about where archival thinking begins, how artistic works – and working – can be captured, as well as what the notion of ‘clean’ could mean for the undertaking that is archiving.NOTE: this bilingual episode of The Listening Tide has been cut into two equal parts as we had decided to go from Dutch to English. Part I and Part II are best when listened after each other, but can also be appreciated separately.Enjoy!
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It's when there is so much removed from our everyday surroundings and replaced with the totality of nature, that we find how much of our being is capable of listening. That listening is a possibility not limited to our ears.Artist Irene Kopelman sheds light on this with her stories and sounds from working as an artist in tropical jungles and open water. She reflects on how drawing is a kind of listening, and how this gives a certain agency to her subjects. Often doing so alongside scientists, we also hear about the similarities and differences in the approach and thinking that informs the manner(s) each practice in the field. As well as how each bring back their work to ‘our world’.
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The episode began (part I) with a piece by Keith Jarrett Live from The Köln Concert (1975), and from this a thread of conversation was spun that could be described as the ‘community of things’, which plays such an important part of her person and practice. In this second part we continue in machined-learned opera and the algorithm, we Pump Up the Jam to Technotronic, hear a story about an owl in physiotherapy for his neck, and finish with Dutch heartfelt sorrow.In short, still really nice.Heads-up: next week's episode artist Irene Kopelman will share her sounds and stories of artistic practice in the tropical jungles and open seas, as well as her relationship towards and with science, as well as art. English spoken.
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This week’s episode begins on a journey through the Netherlands, and ends within the unsure concrete structures of a creative-hub in Amsterdam, where our guest Nell Donkers works as archivist for de Appel, one of Amsterdam’s oldest and signature platforms for contemporary art. Nell has been a dedicated caretaker of this archive - which is such an important part of this institution’s distinction – for more than twenty years, and begged the question what would she bring?Her two distinct contributions -‘The Walk’ (1982) by Willem de Ridder (part I of the episode), and ‘a janitors manifesto’ (2023) by Gunnar Gunnsteinsson (part II) - lead our conversation to how voice and attention to surroundings change our perceptions, ambitions and desires. Also, she tells about where archival thinking begins, how artistic works – and working – can be captured, as well as what the notion of ‘clean’ could mean for the undertaking that is archiving.NOTE: this bilingual episode of The Listening Tide has been cut into two equal parts as we had decided to go from Dutch to English. Part I and Part II are best when listened after each other, but can also be appreciated separately.Enjoy!
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For this episode, artist Alexandra Phillips takes the listener along on parts of her roadtrip through the Southeast regions of the U.S.A. where she was raised. A journey intended as an exploration of the many histories specific to this area, including her own. Histories that survive, have been erased, or hold the potential for a new way of looking and listening to loaded surroundings such as these.
Alexandra brought with her to The Listening Tide a large amount of the recordings she made while on this trip, and during the conversation that followed she speaks about the enduring presence of the history of slavery, the merits of autonomous artistic practice, and the spiritual aspects of language, change and creation.
NOTE: a transcript of the conversation between Alexandra and Joe Minter is available here.
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Who better to have as a first guest on The Listening Tide than a polymath like Roosje Klap? Designer, educator, researcher, filmmaker, opera-writer and mother, Roosje brings a spirit and wealth of possibilities to any conversation.The episode begins a piece by Keith Jarrett Live from The Köln Concert (1975), and from this a thread of conversation was spun that could be described as the ‘community of things’, which plays such an important part of her person and practice. The contributions she brought with her takes the listener on a journey from LP albums and their covers to AI & machine-learning, and from Sunday radio to Technotronic Pumping Up the Jam.
In short, nice.
Note: the conversation is Dutch spoken, and being the first episode – and so enjoyable to make – it went a little longer than planned, so this episode consists of two equal parts (±45min).
