Playlist: Love
Compiled By: Malte Sørensen Warburg
Interested in what love is and what other people think of it? Check out this random selection of works.
Chasing Love
From Miguel Macias | 59:46
A poetic and creative exploration of the notion of romantic love, and the way it drives lives and societies.
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Chasing Love started as a meticulous look at the arrival and evolution of the idea of Romantic Love in Western society. But since the very beginning, I felt attracted by the connection that Octavio Paz establishes between capitalism and Romantic Love. During over 80 hours of interviews, I asked questions having to do with psychology, anthropology, biology, linguistics, history and philosophy. Chasing Love is a one-hour audio 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. In the three years it took to produce this documentary I explored the field of computer music, video art, radio drama and try to mix them all together. The results are contained in Chasing Love. Chasing Love proposes 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. Where the producer is nowhere to be found and present in every second of it.
Broken Love.
From City High Radio | 03:54
A third person account of heartbreak.
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Jessie Birdman, a junior at City High School, tells this moving story of heartbreak. The piece is beautifully written and told in the third person.
Love for Sale
From Michelle Legro | Part of the Storyville series | 09:58
A young woman with a failing ovary searches for sperm among friends.
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Faced with a dud ovary, Abby Rabinowitz had to find some sperm, any sperm, from the male population of greater New York. Rather than go to a sperm bank, she decided it would be better to ask those she loved, and had loved, if they would consider starting an unconventional family.
How To Love
From Barry Vogel | Part of the Radio Curious series | 28:57
Everbody thinks about love and many people say “I love you”, but how is love defined? The book “How To Love” written by psychiatrist Dr. Gordon Livingston answers these and many other questions about love and how to find a compatible and pleasurable partnership.
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In this interview, we discuss how to choose more carefully in matters of love to get what we desire and deserve. The song “Do You Love Me?” from the musical “Fiddler On The Roof” is our background music. Dr. Gordon Livingston spoke from his home in Columbia, Maryland on July 13th 2009, where he lives and practices psychiatry. The conversation began by asking Dr. Livingston to define love.
The book Dr. Gordon Livingston recommends is “All He Ever Wanted,” by Anita Shreve.