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Enter the immersive sonic realm of Marianna Magurudumian-O’Reilly, where ambient soundscapes dissolve into experimental frequencies and intimate conversations unfold with guest artists, curators, and musicians. This is a space of surreal acoustics and shifting atmospheres - a living archive of sound where memory, storytelling, and imagination converge.


ARTS & CULTURE HOUR WITH MARIANNA

A monthly bilingual Radio Program in English and Spanish presented and produced by Marianna Magurudumian-O'Reilly for Top Cat Radio, a community Radio Station based in Tortosa, Spain and available online.
You can listen to 10 episodes of the show Here

Listen to Eposode 10 'Arts and Culture Hour' July, 2025

July 18 In this episode: music by Lady Emz & Robin4Tree live performance at Baubo Gallery Barcelona, June '25. Music by 43 70, Barcelona with their tracks DIESEL & NICOTINE & LIBRAS plus the original score by Jordi Carre. Interview in English with Elena Padrell at ArtAmill Gallery, Vinyols, Spain. Interview in English with the artist Josepa Munoz, Spain. Interviews in Spanish with Xavier Bartumeus & Daniel Berdala at MilNou Gallery. Interview in English with Jackie Girvan plus an interview in Spanish with graffiti artist Reos, the organiser of ArtJam. Interview with Italian artist Miriam Colognesi in Spanish. We also visit Venta D'Aubert during the opening of their current sculpture trail in English and Spanish introduced by Elvira Dyangani Ose, the Director of MACBA - The Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona. Hope you enjoy this vibrant mix of cultural offerings!


Listen to Eposode 9 'Arts and Culture Hour' June, 2025

Join me for a virtual tour of the 10th edition of Els Ports | Art i Natura, an ephemeral land-art festival where nature and creativity meet. I dive deep with curator Sergi Quiñonero and share exclusive interviews with artists Paula Vicente, Maite Serna Mata, and Cristina Torta Aubeso. I also chat with Alba G. Corral - a coder, visualist, and artivist - about her live visuals and preparations for Sónar 2025, exploring how technology, politics, and feminism shape her innovative practice. Also featured is the 'Altres Mons' exhibition at Museu de l’Ebre, Tortosa, showcasing abstract paintings by Sonia Domenech alongside social-sculpture installations by Juan Petry. The exhibition runs until July 27, and I bring you exclusive conversations with the artists behind the works. Finally, tune in live from Dr. Flow Club in Barcelona for a mesmerizing evening: a Butoh performance by Josephine Grundy, experimental electronics by Marc J Curcio, and prepared drums by Fred BM come together in a sonic and vocal meditation on dystopia, resistance, and dark techno-poetry.


Listen to Eposode 8 'Arts and Culture Hour' May, 2025

In this May episode, discover how Marian Sanz and her late husband Germán López transformed an 18th-century villa in Cretas into a free-access museum housing over 120 masterpieces from the 1980s, and learn why Marian chose to gift this extraordinary collection to the province of Teruel. I also chat with Santo about his life story, the landscapes that inspire his work, and the paintings that fill his studio in Gandesa, as he prepares for his upcoming solo show at Artevistas Gallery in Barcelona. My husband and collaborator, Daniel O’Reilly , shares exciting details about his forthcoming short-story collection and reflects on how southern Catalonia has shaped his writing. Throughout the episode, listen for my ambient track BREATH weaving gently through the conversation.


Listen to Eposode 7 'Arts and Culture Hour' April, 2025

Join me for a special book-focused edition of Arts and Culture Hour with Marianna on Top Cat Radio! In this vibrant bilingual broadcast - featuring both Spanish and English - we celebrate Catalonia’s unique St George’s Day, where culture meets romance and World Book Day is marked with the gifting of a rose.
Dive into inspiring conversations with creative visionaries: Amanda Curtis discusses sustainable fashion and eco-design through her recent publications; Egyptian surrealist Ghadah Kamal shares the poetic depths of her latest literary journey, The Last Summer of Mr Dipodoidea; Chemeta redefines art with her striking Instagram portraits and insights from her new book Performance; and Sarah Misselbrook reflects on 20 years of artistic evolution and the radical shifts behind her book 'Upon Reflection'.
Don’t miss this dynamic fusion of art, literature, and cultural exploration straight from the heart of Catalonia.


Listen to Eposode 7 'Arts and Culture Hour' March, 2025

This month has been overflowing with cultural events, so we’re bringing you a special extended episode of Arts & Culture Hour - packed with fresh discoveries from across Catalunya and beyond! Our program is multilingual (English & Spanish), making it perfect for art lovers and anyone looking to practice their language skills.
Mariaelena Roque - a deep dive into the avant-garde artist’s fascinating career and her acclaimed retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Tarragona.Alex Espuny & Lo Perkal - step inside his underground, countercultural event where the secret lineup and location are revealed just two hours before the show! Marta Vidal & Arte Contemporary - discover Marta’s latest exhibition set within a stunning sculpture park and gallery in the Catalan mountains near La Ràpita. Live Reggae with Kalahari Sound System - enjoy their vibrant performance recorded live at El Forn de la Canonja throughout the show. Gatzara Exhibition & International Women’s Day - Conversations with Isabel Val & Oriol Pedregosa about their work at El Coll de la Bruguera and their collaboration with the Feminist Circle aDONA’t. Tortosa Art & Craft Market - an inspiring chat with Ester Besolí about this fantastic initiative supporting local artists and artisans.


Auroville Radio Residency

AUROVILLE RADIO RESIDENCY 2016-17

For this very exciting collaboration with Daniel O'Reilly, Marianna took up residency in 2016-17 at Auroville Radio in Tamil Nadu, India, where she recorded events, concerts and debates for the community to access online. As a culmination of this unforgettable and powerful experinece Marianna and Daniel also have created a body of original ambient music called UNVIRONMENTS from this archive, which was broadcast to residents of Auroville on the radio.


UNVIRONMENTS
A series of unique meditative environments created during The Unstitute's 5 months Residency at Auroville Radio in Tamil Nadu, India.

FERTILE (30 min, 2016) A unique sonic meditation environment, engineered from locally-sourced sound vibrations, and organically mastered at the secret jungle studio retreat of The Unstitute. Make a space for yourself, tune in and experience our 30 minute Yoga of Listening sessions of sound-field experiments to stir the tonalities of the soul.


WINDMILL (30 min, 2016) A sonic meditation environment, influenced by local Aurovilian vibrations, and tweaked at the secret jungle studio retreat of The Unstitute. The derive begins at Fertile Windmill, travels through the wastes of abstract tonality, tinged by the bells of the Pongal cow.


TRANSITION (30 min, 2016) A session of experimental electronic meditation environments, generated and engineered inside Auroville for evolutionary purposes. Abstract tonalities and resonant filters make this a sound-field environment for evening meditation.


ARCADIA (30 min, 2016) A sonic exploration of meditative landscapes, this time invoking the legendary 'golden country' of Arcadia, ancient Greece, and latent parallels with the Aurovilian project. In Arcadia, The Unstitute became resonant chambers of mentation, projecting internal worlds onto external landscapes, and vice versa. The ‘ideal country’ of legend is only a tenuous, transient moment existing somewhere between the interplay of external vibration and internal frequency. The dissolution of the parameters of inner and outer, as the ego recognizes its own displacement into fiction, fear or fantasy, is the frequency which we have tried to bring you. This new type of semi-audible space, constructed from audible fractals and projections, echoes of selves creating selves, voices trapped in a chamber of perfect reverberation, evolving into Mandelbrotian sound hallucinations, shall be called an 'Egoscape'.


BREATH (30 min, 2016) This sound environment invokes an inner reality of breath as it unfolds in its rhythmic form and travels through vibrational chambers, echoing in the vast labyrinthine spaces created out layers of recordings of breath, voices and wind instruments.


PSYCHIC FIRE (30 min, 2016) Taken from a recording of the dawn-fire at the amphitheatre on Auroville’s Birthday 2016, 'Psychic Fire' mines deeply the sound vibrations of the flame to release an inner complexity of harmony, dissonance, voices, shadows. The fire, which in its base perception is experienced as Fear, is transcribed into the meditative reality of divine anarchy, the primordial life-energy which is both the characteristic of Homo Sapiens (inquisitiveness/knowingness, burned on the Promethean fire of creative wisdom,) and of the evolution of consciousness, driving ever onwards towards states of greater cognitive complexity, towards the superhuman; the first rung on the ladder of conscious evolution. This is not music, but I feel it is not abstraction either. Hovering between the half-light of conscious and unconscious reality, just as we so often hover between superhuman and ape mentalities, the audio field I have tried to produce is a psychic fire for the mind.

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