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Ars Sonora

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Ars Sonora
GenreSound art, experimental music, radio art
Country of originSpain
Language(s)Spanish
Home stationRadio Clásica
Hosted byMiguel Álvarez-Fernández
Original release6 October 1985 (1985-10-06) – present
Websitewww.rtve.es/play/audios/ars-sonora/

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Ars Sonora is a Spanish radio program that focuses on experimental music, radio art, and sound art. Radio Clásica, part of Radio Nacional de España (RNE), broadcasts the show. Francisco Felipe and José Iges founded Ars Sonora in 1985. In addition to broadcasting the mentioned content, the program commissions and produces works created for radio. It has also participated in international broadcasting projects and festivals.[1][2]

History

Ars Sonora started broadcasting on October 6, 1985 on Radio 2, the predecessor of Radio Clásica. From the start, the program featured audio performance, noise music, sound environments, and sound poetry alongside works created especially for radio.[3][1][2][4]

After Francisco Felipe's departure in 1987, José Iges continued as the program’s sole director.

Ars Sonora produced twenty radio art works between 1985 and 1989.[3][1][2] These works included collaborations with the Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea and other institutions that support experimental composition. In November 1988, the program broadcast a radio adaptation of Ricardo Bada's play Loreley Express, featuring actor José Luis Gómez. Centro Nacional de Nuevas Tendencias Escénicas helped develop the production, and Iges directed sound production at the electroacoustic music studio in Cuenca.[5]

The program's relationship with contemporary composition also included Muerte, mudanza y locura (1989), an electroacoustic work by Cristóbal Halffter based on the poem by Miguel de Cervantes. Radio Nacional de España and the Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea commissioned the work.[6][7]

In 2008, Miguel Álvarez-Fernández succeeded Iges as director and presenter of Ars Sonora. The program continued to focus on experimental sound, combining historical material with contemporary artistry. Its broadcasts became and are available through RTVE's online audio archive.[1][8]

Programming and Productions

Ars Sonora covers a broad range of experimental sound, including electroacoustic music, free improvisation, musique concrète, radio performance, sound installations, and sound poetry. Its broadcasts cover individual artists and composers, thematic surveys, and interviews and presentations of new work. Alongside established figures in experimental music, Ars Sonora has featured artists working across musical, literary, and visual disciplines.[1][2] Its commissions and collaborations involved artists and composers, including Luc Ferrari, Luis de Pablo, Esther Ferrer, Philip Corner, Concha Jerez, Francisco López, Eduardo Polonio, and Julio Estrada. In 2012, the program’s retrospective publication included two compact discs that contained a selection of these productions.[9][10]

International Collaborations

Radio Nacional de España commissioned Ferrari's L'Escalier des aveugles (1991), an international production that Ars Sonora and the French organisation La Muse en Circuit co-produced. The work, from recordings made in Madrid, received a special prize at the 1991 Prix Italia. Its first broadcast took place on June 21, 1991, during the European Music Day celebrations.[11][12]

Ars Sonora has participated in the international activities of Ars Acustica, a group in the European Broadcasting Union and concerned with radio art and experimental sound production. These activities have included the international broadcasting projects Horizontal Radio, Rivers & Bridges, and Art's Birthday, the latter associated with the artistic ideas of Robert Filliou.[1]

The program also organised three editions of the Festival Internacional de Radio Art (FIRA), held in 1989, 1990, and 1991, as well as the international radio-art meeting Ciudades Invisibles in Madrid in 1992. Ars Sonora productions were presented at events including Wings of Sound in Helsinki in 1992, Radio Beyond in London that same year, and the International Radio Biennial in Mexico City in 2004.[1]

Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) is among Ars Sonora’s partners, particularly with the experimental radio program Kunstradio. The two collaborated on radio performances and international projects. In December 2005, Austrian musicians Rupert Huber and Mia Zabelka performed Happy Birthday Ars Sonora, a live, multichannel radio work created for Ars Sonora’s twentieth anniversary, broadcast simultaneously in Austria and Spain.[13][14]

Documentation and Historical Context

Ars Sonora is closely connected with the development of experimental music and sound art in Spain during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Its programming brought together artistic activity often treated separately, while its commissions and broadcasting collaborations supported the production and circulation of works created for radio. Its longevity and role in airing experimental music have been addressed in music journalism and studies of Spanish sound art.[2][15]

In 2012, Fundación Autor published Ars Sonora, 25 años: Una experiencia de arte sonoro en radio, a retrospective volume José Iges edited. The book includes historical surveys, essays, and contributions by composers, artists, and broadcasters associated with the program. Two compact discs of selected radio productions accompany the publication, which documents the program's development and connection to the history of experimental sound in Spain.[9][15]

Ars Sonora also figures in studies of Spanish experimental music, including Llorenç Barber and Montserrat Palacios's La mosca tras la oreja: De la música experimental al arte sonoro en España (2010). The book has a chapter devoted to the importance of Ars Sonora in the development of radio-based and sound art.[16][17]

Further reading

  • Barber, Llorenç; Palacios, Montserrat (2010). La mosca tras la oreja: De la música experimental al arte sonoro en España. Madrid: Fundación Autor. ISBN 978-84-8048-815-0 Search this book on ..
  • Flores Galán, Alberto (2006). "Interferir en los medios. Concha Jerez, José Iges y los mass media". In La multiculturalidad en las artes y en la arquitectura: XVI Congreso Nacional de Historia del Arte. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Anroart Ediciones. pp. 241–248.
  • Iges, José, ed. (2012). Ars Sonora, 25 años: Una experiencia de arte sonoro en radio. Madrid: Fundación Autor. ISBN 978-84-8048-844-0 Search this book on ..

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Ars sonora". RTVE Play (in español). Radiotelevisión Española. Retrieved 24 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Costa, José Manuel (2012). "Ars Sonora: 25 años" (PDF). Artecontexto (in español) (34–35): 143.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Molina, Miguel (2016). "Arte sonoro: de los ochenta al cambio de siglo". Escuchar con los ojos: arte sonoro en España, 1961–2016 (PDF) (in español). Fundación Juan March. p. 168. Search this book on
  4. ↑ "Ars Sonora es..." RTVE Play (in español). Radiotelevisión Española. 6 October 1985. Retrieved 24 October 2026.
  5. ↑ "Radio 2 emite la adaptación sonora de la obra teatral "Loreley express"". El País (in español). 25 November 1988. Retrieved 24 October 2026.
  6. ↑ "Capítulo V: Más allá de las ondas (Experimentalismos radiofónicos)". Cineteca Madrid (in español). Retrieved 2 November 2026.
  7. ↑ "Muerte, mudanza y locura". Ressources IRCAM. IRCAM. Retrieved 24 October 2026.
  8. ↑ "Ars Sonora" (in español). Radiotelevisión Española. 15 October 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2026.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Ars Sonora, 25 años. Una experiencia de arte sonoro en radio" (in español). Instituto Cervantes. 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2026.
  10. ↑ "El libro "Ars Sonora, 25 años"". RTVE Play (in español). Radiotelevisión Española. 30 June 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2026.
  11. ↑ "L'Escalier des aveugles". Ressources IRCAM (in français). IRCAM. Retrieved 24 October 2026.
  12. ↑ "Luc Ferrari: L'Escalier des aveugles" (in français). Maison ONA. Retrieved 24 October 2026.
  13. ↑ "Happy Birthday Ars Sonora". Kunstradio. Österreichischer Rundfunk. 11 December 2005. Retrieved 24 October 2026.
  14. ↑ "Kunstradio Classics 2012 – Part 11". Österreichischer Rundfunk. 22 July 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2026.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Una experiencia radiofónica. 25 años de Ars Sonora" (PDF). Scherzo (in español) (275): 8. June 2012.
  16. ↑ "La mosca tras la oreja. De la música experimental al arte sonoro en España" (in español). Instituto Cervantes. 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2026.
  17. ↑ "La mosca tras la oreja: de la música experimental al arte sonoro en España" (in español). El Argonauta. Retrieved 24 October 2026.



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