New podcast: RECEIVED PRONUNCIATIONS by Lawrence Abu Hamdan

New podcast: RECEIVED PRONUNCIATIONS by Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Lawrence Abu Hamdan explores into the contemporary politics of listening and the role of the voice in law.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/received-pronunciations-lawrence-abu-hamdan/capsula

Related info: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140905/Received_Pronunciations_eng.pdf

This sound archive consists of audible extracts of works and interviews by Lawrence Abu Hamdan together with specific fragments of juridical listening and speaking collected from a wide range of sources including the trials of Saddam Hussein and Judas Priest, UK police evidence tapes, films such as Decoder and readings from texts like Italo Calvino's A King Listens. Listeners can access this collection of tracks articulated through listening-seminars and voice-activated audio installations in which individual components of the archive are pooled, extracted and turned into longer audio essays, texts and investigations. The narratives folded into these 3-minute segments expand and combine, generating narrative compositions and essays that weave through the content of this archive and plunge listeners into the heart of a discussion about the relationship between listening and politics, borders, human rights, testimony, truth and international law.

Enjoy!