Together we will unpack a selection of sonic works and recordings in Barbara Held's archive and talk about what sonic archives can contain and how they bring communities together both human and non-human, living or living in the ether.

Barbara Held is a flutist and composer based in Barcelona, Spain. Known for her subtle exploration of the minutiae of sonic material, she creates sensitive, focused sound work that exposes the detail of the physical space of listening in equal part to a keen attention to how we listen as bodies moving through the world. She has performed a very personal body of new repertoire for flute by Spanish and American composers, including Alvin Lucier’s “Self-Portrait” for flute and wind anemometer, Yasunao Tone’s radical score translations of ancient poetry, Seth Cluett’s the bifurcation of nature for performance score and sound sculpture, and films and performance works with Carles Santos and poet Joan Brossa. Recent collaborations include DINS PER DALT, a performance with biologist and audio-naturalist Eloisa Matheu, “LAND-ING”, a multi-channel sound installation with Daniel Neumann that was developed exclusively from recordings they had made interacting with the landscape of the island of Tenerife, Observatory/Lisa Joy, a generative audiovisual installation with Benton C Bainbridge was presented in a show of Spanish sound art, Escuchar con los ojos. Arte sonoro en España (1961-2016) at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid, the video installation BECOMING with artist Eugenia Balcells at the Vilacasas Foundation in Barcelona, and 9 Movements, a recent audiovisual collaboration with Richard Garet. She was the creator and curator of “Music at Metrónom”, a series of concerts of experimental music in Barcelona that gave special support to collaboration between musicians and visual artists, a project that she shared with invited co-curators such as Augusti Fernandez, Paul DeMarinis and Francisco Lopez, and curated “Possibility of Action: the life of the score” for the Documentation Center and Archive of the Barcelona MACBA museum of contemporary art.

As an art curator for over 25 years, Regine Basha began exploring how sound and music can inhabit a variety of spaces (museums, small towns, online and over radio waves) since the early 2000s. Salient projects include the group show Treble (SculptureCenter NY), The Marfa Sessions (Ballroom Marfa, Texas), 9+50: an anniversary of Kluver and Rauschenberg's 9 Evenings (Fridman Gallery NY), Show Up! (5 public parks in NY) and online with her own family archive about music and exile from Iraq, Tuning Baghdad. She was Curator at The Contemporary Austin from 2002-2008 and Director of Residencies at Pioneer Works from 2015-2018. She taught in the MFA Sound Art department at Columbia University from 2016-2021. Her exhibitions and writing can be found on bashaprojects.com.

Sounds, songs, and radio art from a variety of contributors. Tune in for something you've never heard before with familiar classics and transmission art mixed in.