Michael Thallium - Sapere aude - Atrévete a saber - Dare to Know

Episode no. 111 of Sapere aude - Learning to See, a podcast series by Michael Thallium. Today we have with us the Spanish visual artist Carmen González Castro. The title of this episode is A Dialogue between Disciplines. 
With Carmen we'll be speaking about the project Dies Nox. In her own words:
"Dies Nox is a collaboration between Warwick Blair, the musician who initiated the project, Jeppe Ernst and myself. It is a project in which performance, painting, and electronic music engage in a dialogue about their foundations, so to speak.
For its creation, Warwick began by capturing a sound impression after my painting. The result is translated into a series of frequencies that recreate how vibrations naturally travel through the conductive tissues of the human body —muscles, bones, and skin— and how they draw an intimate map of resonances. Lower tones move energy up and down, while higher tones expand vibrations through the torso and limbs.
Apart from this, Warwick’s music primarily evokes an atmosphere.
Jeppe Ernst introduces a final layer of meaning with a third person who reacts silently to these oscillations, alternating with the previous interpretation. When the dancers pause their intervention, he turns the nearly static body of his performer into an instrument, sounding a score of gestures—a silent music that completes the viewer’s perception.
The paintings act as points of gravity within this double dance of gestures, transforming the stage into a tableau vivant. They are traces and anchors of the performers’ choreography, whose movement shapes the lines formed by the peaks of the sonic atmosphere and the volume curves of the audible spectrum.
Within the expanded time in which the action unfolds, the viewer is invited into a deep, multisensory listening. Just as the interaction between the performers is not merely formal or aesthetic, but involves conscious attention to the other, the relationship with the viewer is also shaped through intersubjectivity and shared presence, through a common perception that takes place in the here and now.
Finally, Dies Nox proposes deceleration, with the body as a site of resistance. The project is articulated as a process of interdisciplinary translation (music, performance, and painting). In this series of back-and-forth processes, the three disciplines reflect on their specificity in relation to one another while permeating each other, opening a hybrid space where gestures, sounds, and matter push against their limits until dissolving them: gesture remains movement while also becoming matter; the pictorial image becomes matter in motion; and sound acquires a haptic dimension, ultimately condensing into one or multiple images.
Look people in the eyes. Try to listen. Even if they are silent. That’s what lies behind the paintings and the whole project. We have tried to understand what bodies express when they relate to one another through care and mutual observation, through the idea of action and reaction, or through the dynamic of question and answer—of collaboration and solidarity between us. What the bodies depicted on the canvases convey has become an obsession, because each body is a vital record of the person who inhabits it. I have learned something important: I have come to understand not only the beauty of the body, but also what a body can do—just as Spinoza said, that astonishing capacity to express everything without the need for a single word.
The project is now presented in Madrid at Galería Claudia González, and in June of this year in Copenhagen, with funding from the Danish Arts Foundation and SV Festival Sydhavnens Musikuge."
Here you are Carmen González Castro's web page:
https://carmengonzalezcastro.com

Episodio n.º 110 de Sapere aude - Atrévete a saber, una serie creada por Michael Thallium para personas curiosas, con ganas de saber y aprender cosas nuevas y cosas que no son tan nuevas. Hoy conversamos con la agente de música clásica Mercedes Sánchez del Rio Carrera, conocida como Mercedes Sánchez del Rio.
Estudió canto con Fernando Navarrete en el Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid. Trabajó casi veinte años con Felicitas Keller en Conciertos Vitoria. En 1993 abrió su propia agencia y tuvo la oportunidad de conocer a los artistas más grandes del panorama musical del siglo pasado.
Mercedes fue secretaria personal de Teresa Berganza durante 11 años desde 1976.
Trajo al tenor Pavarotti a Madrid el 11 de mayo de 1991. El Auditorio Nacional registró aquel día la mayor entrada conseguida hasta entonces.
Mercedes ha dedicado literalmente su vida a la música.
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Episodio n.º 109 de Sapere aude - Atrévete a saber, una serie creada por Michael Thallium para personas curiosas, con ganas de saber y aprender. En este episodio hablamos con la filóloga, investigadora, docente y escritora Paloma Díaz-Mas.
Como consta en la página web de la RAE, de la que Paloma Díaz-Mas es académica (ocupa el sillón i), nació en Madrid en 1954 y estudió Filología Románica y Periodismo en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) y se doctoró en la misma universidad en 1981 con la tesis Temas y tópicos en la poesía luctuosa sefardí, dirigida por el profesor Manuel Alvar López (catedrático de la UCM y académico de la RAE) y el investigador Iacob M. Hassán, del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Entre 1978 y 1982 se formó como especialista en estudios sefardíes en el CSIC.
Fue catedrática de universidad en la UPV/EHU, donde impartió muy diversas asignaturas, sobre todo Literatura Española de los Siglos de Oro y Teatro Español Contemporáneo, y también implantó la docencia de Lengua y Literatura Sefardíes.
En 2001 se incorporó al Instituto de la Lengua Española (hoy Instituto de Lengua, Literatura y Antropología) del CSIC, donde fue profesora de investigación y responsable del grupo de investigación de Patrimonio y Culturas Populares, integrado por filólogos y antropólogos. Entre 2009 y 2019 dirigió el programa de investigación «Los sefardíes ante sí mismos y sus relaciones con España», en el que se formaron varios jóvenes investigadores pre- y posdoctorales y uno de cuyos resultados es la web de estudios sefardíes Sefardiweb.
#MichaelThallium #PalomaDíazMas #RAE #lengua #español #palabra #filóloga #literatura #ensayo

Episode no. 108 of Sapere aude - Dare to Know, a podcast series by Michael Thallium. Today we have with us the language teacher, voice coach and singer Daniela Lehner. The title of this episode is A Wandering Life Wondering Why. 

Daniela Lehner studied in Vienna, Salzburg and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. As a mezzosoprano, Daniela has appeared at the Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Musikhalle Hamburg, De Singel Antwerp, Kölner Philharmonie, Aldeburgh Festival, Chichester Festival and the Oxford Lieder Festival.
Prizes include a Georg Solti scholarship, Rotary prize, Académie Musicale de Villecroze prize, first prize in the Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition and a Borletti-Buitoni award. She is currently on the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme.
Daniela has received scholarships to study on the Ravinia Festival Young Artist Program, Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and at Music Academy of the West. She has participated in master classes with Marilyn Horne, Christa Ludwig, Graham Johnson, Roger Vignoles, Malcolm Martineau and others.
As part of Live Music Now! she has given numerous workshops and concerts in hospitals, special needs schools and care homes. She participated in Graham Johnson's complete Schumann song recordings for Hyperion and has performed live on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, ORF and NDR.
Daniela has sung at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Hermia in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream. She has also sung at different venues such as Wigmore Hall, Konzerthaus Wien, Aldeburgh Festival, City of London Festival, BBC Proms and Philharmonie Berlin (with Mitsuko Uchida).
Daniela’s passions are music and languages. 
For more information you can have a look on:
https://www.danielalehner-tutoring.com/

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