The Listening Tide isn't talk-radio. It’s listen radio. It's a podcast initiative that invites a single guest to bring a handful of audio contributions with them to the host's living-room that they feel passionate about to share with an audience. They listen to these together and use them as a tool to engage in a conversation about our surroundings, positions, perceptions, histories and (alternate) futures. These can be frag ...
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For this episode curator and Sonsbeek director Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg brings with her a thirty year old ear-worm. It takes the conversation into the realm of misophonia, or, how our brain deals with the delicate balance between our emotions and our physical fitness. Scratching, creaking, and tapping noises make space for a conversation about our psychological software and neurological hardware, and how these are intricately bound together. This inherently anthropocentric discussion is then stunningly undermined by feminist poetry on the unique beauty that is marine life, and what we as humans can learn from it. After, this is given a different kind of voice with the sounds of a sperm whale family, yet also takes the conversation back to humanity’s enduring occupation with establishing, classifying and commercializing knowledge and understanding. Often forgetting nature’s own language(s), as an alternative for us all. Track list: ‘Alabama Song’ by The Doors from the album ‘TheDoors’ (1967) Excerpts from ‘Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals’ by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (AK Press, 2021) ‘The Sound of Sperm Whales’ by whalezone.tv ‘Eight Hours of Whale Sounds Deep Underwater for Sleep and Relaxation’ by Jason Lewis @MindAmend
DJ and producer Mo Wrights takes us on a musical journey about ‘his self’. About the search for identity online, and the sounds that shaped him growing up vs. his real surroundings. We speak about the significance of little discoveries in this, the role that archiving plays as a compass, and what it means to dig up your own roots. Alone and together with others. The conversation also reaches his decision to begin doing the work. To start creating and producing music, and about what it means to recognize and accept the agency - and responsibility - that comes with this. As a perpetual task of life. And all this mixed with notch grooves & beats throughout. So good. Tracklist: 1. Scene from film ‘Frog River’ (2002) Mix Kerri Chandler 2. Untitled song with LAMSI 3. Shahz - Aleng (Mo Wrights Remix) 4. Mo Wrights - Mirror 5. Audio excerpts from film ‘Soundtrack To A Coup D’etat’(2024) Cut by Abbey Lincoln Max Roach - WeInsist Freedom Now Suite
Artist and musician Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec brought with him a kind of archaeological approach to sound for this Listening Tide, with recordings of early homo sapiens and the noises of their work. This led to an enveloped conversation on where meaning exists in sound. Is it simply within the speculative setting and context of sound? What does this say about what the actual ‘source’ of sound is? Or can sound actually be an illustration of a specific meaning? In all his thinking and practice, Tao is deeply invested in considering the manifestation of the body in relationship to auditive, and the spatial circumstances that define its measures and tones. For this he shares with us his own experiments and recordings, which additionally offer an insight into how he uses his equipment as instruments to reveal the notion of surroundings, and our place in them as an audience. ‘Benskrapare / Bonescraper’ Casja S. Lund Musica Svecia (1991) ‘Vinare / Bull-roarers’ Casja S. Lund Musica Svecia (1991) ‘Slagsteen / Precussion stones’ Casja S. Lund Musica Svecia (1991) ‘Caressing the Studio (bed, table, window, chair)’ (2012) Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec on CD Outlines, Errant Bodies Records, Berlin (2017) 'Inferior Sounds' (2011) Ryu Hankil: typewriter, snare drum Hong Chulki: turntable Choi Joonyong: cd-player Recorded at STEIM during their residency in 2011. As the title suggests, these are sounds that in general people don’t enjoy hearing. Don’t expect any tunes or melodies and you’ll be alright! Balloon and Needle / bnn26 (2011)
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. ___________________________ ‘Space is the Place’ (1974) Writers: Joshua Smith / Sun Ra Director: John Coney ___________________________ ‘Libi Yanga, Suka Yu Gado (Laku)’ Anne Goedhart Walboomers Music (2005) ___________________________ ‘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
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.