Episode list

Our interest lies more in knowing how flamenco works than in trying to undertake the utopian task of knowing what it is. The dividing lines between being and not being are blurred by the heterodox practices of its agents. An endless number of irregular, unconnected and incoherent aesthetic and political ways of doing things that turn this paradoxical discipline into an art that enables us to free ourselves from imposed canons and dogmas. As a sample of all this, we go through some recordings starring Manuel Cagancho, Val del Omar, Ramón Montoya, Enrique and Estrella Morente, Raúl Cantizano, Rosalía, Inés Bacán, Tomás de Perrate, Pedro G. Romero, Rocío Márquez or Refree.

Cántico Cósmico is the masterpiece of the Nicaraguan writer Ernesto Cardenal which contains all the ancestral wisdom along with a great knowledge of quantum physics and liberation theology. All this guided and strung together by hundreds of sounds, songs and dances that make it a book that sounds unorthodox not only because of its aesthetic and thematic eclecticism but also because of its political and social message, since Ernesto Cardenal was a retaining wall before the clerical dogmas coming from the Vatican, especially in the time of John Paul II. The idea of this series of programs that we will relate to this book is to somehow extract the sound that Ernesto Cardenal invokes us with his words from him. It is a book that invites us to go through the entire history of the cosmos from its creation to the present day. In the episodes that we will carry out based on Ernesto Cardenal's Cántico Cósmico (Cosmic Canticle), we will find all the possible variety and diversity of how good and how bad the world sounds.

The scream is often understood as the lack of, be it melody, tuning, breathing, singing skills or the lack of language, but in the following program we delve into the conception of the scream as the possibility of listening to another, another, what cannot be said, what does not work at an analytical level with the codes of language and music. We will find references and actions shouting or shouting such as the performances of Marina Abramovic and Ulay, the improvisations between the animal and the human by Beñat Achiary, the representation of the diabolical in the voices of Diamanda Galás, Patty Waters or Phil Minton or the various sound forms that the singer Mike Patton poses from music and the different aesthetic tendencies. From this unstable listening, given the material from which we started, only questions will arise that will rather make us think again of the scream as one more form of liberation of the being.

Silence as a mental state, as a phenomenon of radical listening to what surrounds us but also as that space that helps us to know and recognize ourselves through calm or contemplation. A silence in music and not so much a musical silence. Music made from these ways of being in the world and its speed. Silence and its time as an experience that moves us to positions before transgressive life and death. There is always a silence no matter how noisy your perception is. There is always one. You hear it?

Community feelings. Ways of living, asking ourselves how we live and with whom we share life and space. Singing, dancing or some rites that help music emerge as a source of communion, ideal spaces for brotherhood and friendship. Music and sounds that are sustained thanks to different social structures. A journey through the need of the human being to congregate around beats, tambourines, religious images, silent architecture, sounds of day-to-day work. From there we will know how necessary music and its social formalization are for the future of societies throughout their existence. Use this small program as a vindictive example.

A dialogue or having a deep conversation is a critical procedure where previous positions are displaced at the end of the process. From there we have approached these clear examples of artistic projects that have meant a halo of illusion when it comes to believing in the diversification of the different artistic disciplines or aesthetics. A path between different very fruitful meetings where some have turned out to be the essential basis for the development of other current projects. A walk around in company, a hard slap at nihilism.

Starting from the conference given by the poet Federico García Lorca at the Residencia de Estudiantes in December 1928 in Madrid, we went through different ways of approaching the theme and aesthetics of lullabies or lullabies. A journey that will lead us to talk about sleep, the pleasure of sleeping but also about family conflicts, food shortages, hard work or the different values in society.

We never think of nature as the enemy to beat. Neither does the factory. Nor is the factory our enemy. Nor what pollutes. What pollutes is ours, as much as the trees. If we continue to think otherwise, we will not make any decision. There are always interests. The factory, the one that pollutes, that factory is ours. Our house, our country. If we think of it as foreign, it is useless. It is not strange in nature. The factory is the forest. Equal. Pollution is the fear of the forest, the one that raised the mist every morning. We burned the forest to make the houses and the road. Fear was removed. No, we should not fight pollution but rather exterminate it at the root. Rip it off. One day we will go and burn down the factory. For our sake, that day will come and it will sound like this show.

Frank Maubert, upon witnessing the figure of the walking man by the sculptor Giacometti, wrote that man alone does not exist and cannot exist. An idea that helps us string together the idea of the solo in music. A solitude always accompanied, an impossibility of artistic nihilism. Knowing that you are accompanied at all times will tell us about the consolation in music, about listening to everything that surrounds us and, of course, will immerse us in an exciting interior sound reality that will make a great architecture full of common and popular bonds and empathy.

The term noise has been used disparagingly as a designation of the non-musical. Leftover sounds, ruins that do not belong to the glory of ordered sounds, what we understand as a formal composition. Resonances that, given the impossibility of being cataloged within the melodic or harmonic, have been condemned to the container of the unclassifiable. The scream, the dissonance, the grotesque understood in its etymological sense as a cave or even as a crypt. The underground or the unknown, an art of the rare as well as the excluded, all this belongs to understanding ourselves as inevitably noisy beings constantly roaring before the politically correct convention before the utopian idea of the good sounding.

Special edition of the program recorded from the Thyssen Museum of Madrid, with a emblematic picture of Francis Bacon as a witness: Portrait of George Dyer. With the participation of the guitarist Raúl Cantizano.

Given the death of the philosopher and writer Antonio Escohotado, we continue to think about his legacy in relation to drugs. A program that, based on texts, reflections and some audios of public interventions by the writer, we will draw a map of music that has been able to represent, in a certain way, his claims during his intense work of dissemination and knowledge of substances known as drugs. From there, the memory and recognition of one of the beings who has most opened the minds of future youth and who has done the most to uphold the need for individual freedom. Go in honor of his legacy and his tireless work.

Talking about death is talking about life. Some leave although many seem to never make their way back. And there is the other and the other, memories, echoes, vibrations, constant farewells, always speaking with the lack, you never speak alone if there is a dead person in your life. Funeral rites, music of passage, transit not only for those who are leaving. Requiems, Stabat Mater, seguiriyas. Tributes or tributes are also farewell pieces. A see you later always. And we are left with music as a resonance of the past to give it a new reality, a new life.

Starting from a reading of the Greek poet belonging to the archaic period Sappho of Lesbos, we will build a program around the mythical idea that she was the inventor of the musical utensil called plectrum or later plectrum.

Dreamers in some cases, other times confused or deceived, masters of looking for a life or simply attempts to protect their souls but in the end we can recognize them as losers.

A strange and unorthodox repertoire of Christmas carols, often so reviled in our country but welcomed in many others as a popular culture reference for most artists today.

A program where we celebrate the end of the year, that "non finito" party, a constant after hours, a closing time that seems like it will never happen.

We understand magic as an occult science that seeks to achieve an end, a transformation of the spiritual or material order, contemplating an alteration of natural laws.

The first days of every new year are days of recapitulation in the form of a diary or memorandum, an accounting of past time.

Second program dedicated to suicide.

An episode dedicated to different music inspired by the private and egalitarian experience par excellence, such as REM sleep, wakefulness or dreamlike surrealism.

The many faces of the night, of the night that surrounds us and of the literal and metaphorical inner night, of the hidden side of the moon and the dark night of the soul.

We understand that talking about the night is talking about sleeping, but also about waking up, not only due to insomnia but also about the parallel lives that take place in it.

Flamenco as a space for experiment, that which embodies the etymological meaning of the word experimental, experience.

Talking about music is not just talking about compositional structures. Talking about music has more to do with personal affections, ways of understanding listening and the vision of the world that surrounds us and that we inhabit.

There are tiredness that attack us with the force that suffering has, but from it we draw other forces that help us overcome adversity. Becoming aware of the tiredness received will allow us to remove the suffering from the body and from there we will be able to dynamite the idea of work as torture and yes as work. There are tiredness of childhood, maturity and death. there are contemplative tiredness, common tiredness that unite and existential tiredness. There are tiredness that are goodbyes and also some other tiredness that implies immortality. Tiredness of youth related to education and study or the tiredness that we attribute to the hyper-production of the 21st century. All of them make up a being in the current world, a survival that tells us about the body, the mind and the spirit.

Being crazy or being crazy can be positions contrary to the generalized neuroticism of the "normal" realm.

War is not only witnessed, but also heard. Sound as an alarm element, but also as spiritual salvation. Instruments that can become weapons.

The world of music, of art in general, has always felt inspired and traversed by the geological phenomenon of water, as well as its spiritual mysteries.

It is not only heard with the ears, it is also done with the hands, with the eyes, with the body, with gestures, with everything, since music also affects our body rhythms, in which it is inspired.

According to Professor Fernando Palacios, all music is in Re. All of them belong to an invocation, to a way of understanding the legacy, the archive, verbs that are part of the creative engine.

Holy Week, its marches and songs, with its contradictions, are part of the first program of this binomial on this very special Catholic celebration in Spain

Second part of this special about the Holy Week.

The Duende and its darkness help us to get closer to that which is only experienced, to which no verb, word, linguistic meaning can be put.

A fair is an industrial, social and cultural event that takes place in a venue and that generally encompasses a common theme or purpose. Its primary objectives may be the promotion of culture, commercial development and industries.

This program is built as a sequence of songs and reflections based on the reading of some of the cases collected in the first book devoted entirely to so-called sexual perversions written by the German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing, entitled Psychopathia sexualis written in 1886.

Winter is one of the four seasons. Everything related to winter has to do with a temperature but not only of the ecosystem but we can also use its significant world to talk about love or death.

Last winter will visit us all in a different way, but with a similar ending. Then we don't know.

Poetry has different ramifications in its various ways of understanding it. Language cannot be separated from its sound, the phonetic when we refer to speech, vocal dialogue, conversation out loud.

The classic avant-gardes are no longer just the forms that were established as a result of artistic movements.

Along with the texts of the book entitled "En éxtasis" by Joan M. Oleaque, we developed a series of listens and reflections on the origins of the Bakalao route where the importance of knowing new music

We develop a program in which links are established beyond the musical from Valencia with the Moors and Christians festival, the Misteri d'Elx or the electronic music of the Bakalao route, among others.

The whole universe is full of souls and demons, that is, spirits. Because for there to be spirituality there must be spirits.

The strange refers to the Anglo-Saxon term Queer, the meaning of the unusual and it has to do with what is related to people who identify with a sexual or gender identity that does not correspond to the established rules.

The queer, an umbrella term that encompasses the innumerable terminological and experimental world that the genre, its philosophies and its policies await us.

Crying is above all a cultural history since the question of why we cry continues to be a fascinating question to unravel questions about our forms of relationship between human beings.