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<div align="center"><b>MPDS Audio Archive is an archive containing
sounds: interviews, sound art, round tables, artists' and curators'
testimonies, sound interventions and conversations between authors,
critics and fans of contemporary art and music. It is an archive that
can be reached and consulted by anyone at any time at the
address:</b><br>
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<div align="center"><i><b>Listening to art, and the processes that
lead it to define itself, means understanding it beyond the implicit
and manifest gesture of seeing it.</b></i><br>
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<div align="center"><u>INSTRUCTIONS:<br>
- Choose from the home page a drop-down menu between title / author /
year or provenance for search suggestions, otherwise type a keyword to
start your own search<br>
- Once you have made your choice click search: all the audio files
present in the archive will appear with the name or reference
chosen.<br>
- Click play and listen</u></div>
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<div align="center">The MPDS (Mario Pieroni and Dora Stiefelmeier)
audio archive has the ambition of being limitless and never finished.
If the need for an archive stems from having to systematize a
collection of data and save it from oblivion, concentrating the
information in order to preserve its memory, the MPDS aims to go
beyond all of this and build a systematically operative memory. All
previous and current experiences, from the Pieroni Gallery to
Zerynthia, then RAM, SAM (Sound Art Museum) and much more, flow into
this enormous deposit, which is not to be considered concluded but
tied to a desire to integrate it and make it grow continuously.<br>
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<div align="center">Creating an archive is a complex and laborious
operation, a challenge that aims to entrust an immense heritage to the
generations of today and the future. An operation with a dual ambition
in progress: on one hand to contain all that can be catalogued under
the listing of<i> sound art,</i>on the other to conserve every audio
file, sound, word, noise, debate, live radio broadcast that the world
of art produces in its daily development, and this is what makes the
MPDS unique. Conveying the uninterrupted flux of stories, words, poems
that launch art. A process made up of encounters, clashes, moments of
life lived along side artists. Because above all else it is the
relationship with the artists that defines the identity of the
experiences that today have flowed into the archive, from the Pieroni
Gallery to Zerynthia.<br>
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<div align="center">Entering the moment of the audio recording, having
the voices of the artists, poets and writers is a privilege to be
preserved with care.<br>
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<div align="center">An atypical operation, to comprehend the seasons
of art through listening and to convey its history without the images
of what happened and continues to happen.<br>
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<div align="center">A true archive is not indexed with predefined
algorithms. Its quality is founded upon a pact of trust and truth.<br>
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<div align="center">A potentially infinite deposit of sounds that
lends itself to listening, to reuse, to application in new
projects.<br>
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<div align="center">The modalities of use are immediate and simple: a
name, a date, a time line of suggestions.The homepage is built like an
invitation to use the archive, to go inside, to feel and ultimately to
discover how much listening to voices and sounds is crucial in
understanding the processes that make up art.<br>
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<div align="center">Sound is a different way of seeing: it proposes
unexpected options, it creates images that take shape through
listening, it redesigns a space, manipulating it, making it
claustrophobic, it knocks down walls and directs elsewhere. The
condition is trust when predisposing oneself to listening, believing
what sound, word and audio can construct in order to receive in return
an image, a different hypothesis.<br>
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<div align="center">This is what the MPDS audio archive does, with the
declared aim of containing everything. Because there is an urgency for
a utopia and the need to make it come true.</div>
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<div align="center"><i>Copyright © 2022 RAM radioartemobile, All
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Dora Stiefelmeier in 2003, is a platform for contemporary art based in
Rome, dedicated to sound research and exhibitive activity which aims
towards the creation of an international network. RAM sets up
exhibitions and projects in collaboration with both public and private
spaces all over the world, juxtaposing visual and sound art.
www.radioartemobile.it<br>
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