The Listening Tide

What is special about this episode of The Listening Tide is that curator Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy takes the listener on an audio tour of an audio work by the artist Mario García Torres. Specifically, the LP album ' Um Cabo Lá, Um Porto Cá '(2013), commissioned for the 9 Mercosur Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil, of which she was the artistic director and chief curator. She speaks about what it me...

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,...

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 d...

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...

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 practi...

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 s...

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 p...

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...

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...

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 –...

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 li...

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 p...

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 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...

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...