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Chasing Love is a one-hour radio documentary that explores the ways late capitalism has affected and is affecting the idea of Romantic Love and consequently, the way relationships are handled and viewed in American society.
Chasing Love started as a meticulous look at the arrival and evolution of the idea of Romantic Love in Western society. Since the very beginning, I felt very attracted by the vague connection that Octavio Paz establishes between capitalism and Romantic Love.
Wandering through psychology, anthropology, biology, linguistics, history and philosophy the content of this project changed over the time, grew and shrank until one day, I made the last connection, the one I needed to put together the more than 80 hours of interviews collected with experts and ordinary wonderful people.
Many writings have established the connection between capitalism and love, even between late capitalism and emotions.
How about late capitalism and Romantic Love?
The process of creating a piece like this happened both in the paper, and in the waves. Waves that became more and more obscure. In these three years I explored the field of computer music, video art, radio drama and try to mix them all together. The results are in Chasing Love. Chasing Love tries a way of conceiving a piece as a whole, where music is composed as the bits of interviews are blended together, where secrets are told behind words of narration.
Featured on Transom.org. For
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Chasing Love is a one-hour radio documentary that explores the ways late capitalism has affected and is affecting the idea of Romantic Love and consequently, the way relationships are handled and viewed in American society.
Chasing Love started as a meticulous look at the arrival and evolution of the idea of Romantic Love in Western society. Since the very beginning, I felt very attracted by the vague connection that Octavio Paz establishes between capitalism and Romantic Love.
Wandering through psychology, anthropology, biology, linguistics, history and philosophy the content of this project changed over the time, grew and shrank until one day, I made the last connection, the one I needed to put together the more than 80 hours of interviews collected with experts and ordinary wonderful people.
Many writings have established the connection between capitalism and love, even between late capitalism and emotions.
How about late capitalism and Romantic Love?
The process of creating a piece like this happened both in the paper, and in the waves. Waves that became more and more obscure. In these three years I explored the field of computer music, video art, radio drama and try to mix them all together. The results are in Chasing Love. Chasing Love tries a way of conceiving a piece as a whole, where music is composed as the bits of interviews are blended together, where secrets are told behind words of narration.
Featured on Transom.org. For
more information and conversation, visit "Chasing Love" on Transom.
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Review of Chasing LoveEasily one of the best public radio pieces I've ever heard. I remembered this piece from when I first heard it three years ago and sent it to everyone I knew. The producer captures the essence of a fact of so many peoples' lives in a way that gives us each something to relate to, and something new to think about. It is serious without being a downer, and edgy without trying too hard. |
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Review of Chasing LoveThis fascinating objective approach to modern and historical love is mind-blowing in its structure -- an intermix of "expert" and nonexpert declarations (by not labeling the lay from the pro, Miguel Macias forces us to accept all opinions without discretion, and points out the personal nature of our views on the subject), voiceacted prose and recitations -- and entirely schizophrenic. But that's the idea. As different as our ideas of love may be now, they are similar compared to different thoughts of love over time. Is love expressed? Does it exist? Is it affected by (socio)economic influences? This deeply thoughtful, sometimes sentimental, sometimes caustic, entirely cerebral piece forces listeners to take a step back and think about all these, and form our own opinions. |
Broadcast History
After being posted in PRX Chasing Love was licensed and broadcasted by five stations.
Chasing Love was first broadcasted on Brooklyn College radio as part of the 2004 Annual Radio Festival. It was also presented in different venues around New York City.
Musical Works
All music composition on Chasing Love by Miguel Macias except for the Wagner and the Beethoven!
Instruments:
Fender Strat Plus 1991. My oldest guitar. I used it for anything from blues to heavy? and radio.
Antonio Aparicio Flamenco guitar.
Ibanez Bass.
Max/MSP programming.
Some segments of Chasing Love include sounds generated with Max/MSP.
Rodes and Sefan Rusconi.
For three months I had the pleasure of subletting a room to Stefan Rusconi, a Swiss jazz musician who is at a level that I probably can?t even appreciate. But I was able to play and record with him a couple of times. On a section of Chasing Love you will recognize the sound of his Rodes.
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Posted on January 15, 2009 at 02:13 PM | Permalink
in-love with love...
i loved this audio, a well-done temporal sculpture.