Cerca del cielo no se vive bien. Historias del éter

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Title:

Programme:

Resident collective programme (Amphytrion), 2018-2019

Date:

26-03-2019 / 23-07-2019

Place:

Atrium of Cultures, floor 0

Author(s):

consonni

Speaker(s):

Erkizia, Xabier (1975- )

Produced by:

Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao
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Type:

Podcast

Tags:

Radio broadcasting
Contemporary culture
Culture diffusion

Summary:

"Cerca del cielo no se vive bien. Historias del éter", presented by Xabier Erkizia, is another programme which consonni presents. It is a radio programme about the radio, and a proposal which reviews, through several characters of the twentieth century, not only the forms this medium has evolved into since its beginnings, but also the forms it could have turned into. It is also a forensic analysis of a means of communication which, in addition to proposing a new world model, has radically changed the way of understanding the body. In conclusion, a series of stories of the ether, written from the site

Description:

PROGRAMS

#01. Cerca del cielo no se vive bien. Historias del éter (26/06/2019) - Sometimes the desire to listen is more than sufficient. Over the centuries, almost all religions of the world have made use of and exploited the relation between listen and desire. And even though these techniques may seem obsolete to us -we have been born in the lap of the intrinsic schizophrenia of the media and information which penetrate our ears-, in fact we function in the same way as our ancestors, biologically speaking. It would be sufficient to change the word God to whatever each of us desires. Desire pushes us to listen to sounds which are soundless, and we complete them with memories built which, in the best case, our ears only half hear.
#02. About the past of the future radio: Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922) (16/04/2019) - Our futures are as imperfect as ourselves. Imagining the future is something so human, that any activity performed under these keys, rather than bringing to light our right answers, it shows our greatest mistakes. We need only look where those exercises have gone which, through literature or film, tried to assume the responsibility for predicting our future. Where, and in which calendars, were those imagined futures left chained. Velimir Khlebnikov (1888-1922) imagined futuristic radio and unintentionally predicted our future diseases.
#03. Interferences, ghosts, desire and fear' (21/05/2019) - Frederic Jurgensson (1903-1987) and Konstantin Raudive (1909-1974) are considered the fathers of EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) or what is commonly known as psychophony. The first an artist and the second a psychology got together to establish the theoretical bases of one of the most common practices worldwide in modern parapsychology. Listening to voices in the ether noise shares many characteristics with the fact of listening to the radio. We could even state they are the same. The dictions, words and music change, but never the desire or fear of hearing what we really want to hear.
#04. Listening to war can cause deafness Armand Robin (1912-1961) (18/06/2019) - The innumerable sound conflicts which occurred during World War II are largely to blame for our contemporary ways of listening. Loudspeakers, radios, sonic cannons or sonic strategies used to generate fear, are part of our so-called peaceful day-to-day, although they were originally powerful sonic weapons capable of questioning the world. A war needs hearers and listeners, hunters and prey, but it also needs sentries capable of understanding the horror hidden behind the walls of noise. Armand Robin, a poet, essayist and translator, but above all an expert in false words, was one of them.
#05. Silvia Guerrico (1905-1983) (23/07/2019) - Shortly after birth, the radio established the parameters on which voice policies would be governed for a whole century. The radio, country and exile of incorporeal presences meant at the same time a constant laboratory and a kind of cage for those who believed in change through the ear. Silvia Guerrico (1905–1983), a Uruguayan journalist and writer, was one of the most recognizable voices during the early start of Argentine radio, and perhaps her first great victim. For her, it was said that women and microphones were not compatible.

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