Exhibition

"The romance of sound collecting may be dead – not because of the music, but due to the loss of the personal human component of the process." William Bennett, in a conversation about his music collection on Ràdio Web MACBA, 2011

Memorabilia. Collecting sound with… continues to unearth new materials for the Ràdio Web MACBA series on private collections of music and sound memorabilia, which also charts a historiography of sound collecting at a time dominated by a paradigm shift and changing consumer habits. In this new instalment, we once again invite three collectors to come clean on the interests and peculiarities that have shaped their personal archives, allowing us to reconstruct a series of parallel histories that touch on the evolution of reproduction formats, archiving issues, and the strange mechanisms of the collecting market. But the main motivation of Memorabilia. Collecting sounds with… is to share the obscure object of desire of a group of obsessive characters who have forged their own criteria in a context of information saturation and the fiction of access.

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