Los Archivos Phonos
Los Archivos Phonos is a monthly radio programme created by Ángel Faraldo for teslafm.net since May 2020, which aims to disseminate material from the Phonos sound archive, reconstructing historical concerts and airing unique works in the collection, with stories and descriptions of the contexts of their creation.
Programmes (in Spanish)
First part of the first concert given by the Phonos Laboratory on 16 October 1976 at the Fundació Joan Miró, as part of the Barcelona International Music Festival.
Second part of the first concert performed by the Phonos Laboratory on 16 October 1976 at the Fundació Joan Miró, as part of the Barcelona International Music Festival.
In this issue we return to the concert that opened the programme of the first Sónar Festival at the CCCB Auditorium in Barcelona, on 2 June 1994, with works by Eduard Resina, Oriol Graus and Martín Matalón.
In this issue of The Phonos Archives #4 we take a look at the programme of the Phonos Fall Festival 2020, with interviews and excerpts from participating artists.
DJ Shak's proposal deconstructing the Phonos archive with digital techniques, four decks, loops, effects and bases, an event that closed the Phonos 2020 Autumn Festival.
Journey from Barcelona in 1987 to Paris (Saariaho) and the USA, where composers such as Scaletti and Spiegel contribute with developments of great relevance for the future of computer music.
We interviewed Pablo Fredes, composer and head of El Sindicato de Altavoces, a multifocal electroacoustic music cycle that has been active since 2005 and continues to date.
We recover the 1999 Barcelona International Week, an annual event at that time at the now defunct Metrònom Gallery, curated by Barbara Held.
Tribute programme dedicated to Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny, a fundamental figure for understanding avant-garde music in Spain, and founding member of Phonos, who passed away in January 2021.
We recover the concert given by the Phonos Instrumental Group at the Electroacoustic Music Festival in Zaragoza in 1986.
In this programme we interview Andrés Lewin-Richter, one of the founding members of Phonos, and listen to a selection of rarely performed works selected by the composer himself.
Suite of fragments of works created in Phonos between 1977 and 1997, and presented at the Metrònom Gallery within the Ribermúsica Festival.
In 1984 the first Electroacoustic Music Seminars were held in Cuenca. In the same year, Artur Palaudarias held an Introduction to Electroacoustic Music Seminar in Barcelona.
Concert by the Phonos Instrumental Group at the 33rd edition of the Darmstadt New Music Courses, a point of encounter for avant-garde music in the second half of the 20th century.
We review our summer 2021 activities, such as our participation in the Colapsoloxías Festival (Santiago de Compostela) and the activity of some of our resident artists during the summer.
We interviewed Japanese composer and Phonos artist-in-residence Reiko Yamada, who talks about her project on quantum noise developed at the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona.
Reprise of the electroacoustic improvisation concert that opened Phonos' 2021-2022 season, by Wade Matthews and Luz Prado.
In this programme we recompose the last concert of El Sindicato de Altavoces, with premieres by Leonardo Espejo-Santis, Pablo Fredes, Francesc Llompart and Octavi Rumbau.
We recover two curious tracks from the Phonos sound archive, two exercises that seem to be improvisations or explorations of some of the sonic possibilities of the RSF Kobol.
We continue the monography on RSF Kobol with compositions generated around the exhibition "Phonos, 40 years of electronic music in Barcelona".
In this program we present soundscapes automatically generated from sounds from the freesound.org sound exchange platform.
We travel back to April 2006, when a Phonos concert was held at the now defunct Sala Metrònom in Barcelona, where electroacoustic works by AMEE members were projected.
We look into May 2022 to present some of the international collaborations that have taken place in Phonos: Reiko Yamada, James Bradbury, Ted Moore, Mattuieu Guillin, Julien Guillamat and Bérangère Maximin.
In this issue we play the last programme by El Sindicato de Altavoces, which took place on 1 June in the Sala Aranyó at Phonos.
This programme brings to a close the series of 25 instalments of The Phonos Archives, in which we have tried to offer threads to facilitate the approach to the sound archive of the Phonos Foundation.
