[spectre] Lecture series "Memorabilia. Collecting Sounds with...". Featuring William Benett, Mark Gergis, Ed Veenstra and Rick Prelinger

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*Lecture series "Memorabilia. Collecting Sounds with..."*
*Featuring William Benett, Mark Gergis, Ed Veenstra and Rick Prelinger*

"A collector of records is by definition a historian, but a radio listener
has a window open to the present." Jon Leidecker, *Quaderns d'àudio #03:
Radio Music*

"Memorabilia. Collecting Sounds with... " is a new series from Ràdio Web
MACBA that seeks to break through to unearth and reveal private collections
of music and sound memorabilia. The documentary series is being presented
this spring in a prospective conference/listening format, and four
collectors have been invited to share the concerns and particular
characteristics that have driven them to build their personal collections.
It is a historiography of sound collecting that reveals the unseen and
passionate work of the amateur collector while reconstructing multiple
parallel histories such as the evolution of recording formats, the file
problem, the collecting market and the evolution of musical styles beyond
the marketplace.

Curator: Anna Ramos. With the collaboration of Raül G. Pratginestós and Roc
Jiménez de Cisneros.

*Friday 1 and 15 April, Thusrday 28 April and 5 May at 9 pm. MACBA
Auditorium. Free admission. Limited seating*

*Friday April 1
William Bennett*

Founding member of the band Whitehouse, William Bennett has chalked up more
than thirty years of exploring the more extreme side of music, in a career
that mixes experimentation with concepts from the fields of linguistics and
psychology. In this presentation, Bennett gives an archaeological overview
of a music collection that reflects his main obsessions: avant-guard
rarities, Italo Disco, soundtracks and percussion music from West Africa and
Haiti.

*Friday April 15
Ed Veenstra*

Dutch collector Ed Veenstra collects all kinds of music-objects by plastic
artists (a total of around 3,500) who have worked with sound at some point
in their careers. Records, but also what he calls “anti-records,” strange,
impossible and unclassifiable formats that approach the object from a
radically different perspective and exceed the traditional functions of the
medium. His thorough and detailed collection and classification work sheds
light on the art world’s fascination with sound and music.

*Thursday April 28
Mark Gergis*

Linked to record label Sublime Frequencies, Mark Gergis is an expert in
popular and folk music from Syria, Iraq, Cambodia and Thailand, spanning
from the mid-twentieth century to the present. This talk offers some of his
cultural, logistic and esoteric reflections on collecting music in the
Middle East and South East Asia, the importance of format, the relevance of
collecting objects from other cultures, as well as other sociological
aspects relating to the practice of music collecting in developing
countries.

*Thursday May 5
Rick Prelinger*

For the past twenty-five years, the founder of the Prelinger Archives has
amassed film material that is generally ignored by traditional archives,
resulting in a collection that prioritizes access and reuse as methods of
preservation. Focusing on films on human perception, speech and sound
recording and playback, Prelinger’s illustrated talk will contextualise the
history of the collection and look at the future of archives and the
possible end of archival institutions.

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