[spectre] Sunday reading: PROBES #4 Transcript, by Chris Cutler

[Radio Web MACBA]

*The transcript of PROBES #4, curated by Chris Cutler, is available online*

The transcript for the fourth episode of the podcast series PROBES, curated
by Chris Cutler, is available online as a PDF. The podcast will be posted
soon.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/probes4_chris_cutler/capsula

PDF: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130527/04probes_transcript_eng.pdf

In the late nineteenth century two facts conspired to change the face of
music: the collapse of common practice tonality (which overturned the
certainties underpinning the world of Art music), and the invention of a
revolutionary new form of memory, sound recording (which redefined and
greatly empowered the world of popular music). A tidal wave of probes and
experiments into new musical resources and new organisational practices
ploughed through both disciplines, bringing parts of each onto shared
terrain before rolling on to underpin a new aesthetics able to follow sound
and its manipulations beyond the narrow confines of ‘music’. This series
tries analytically to trace and explain these developments, and to show
how, and why, both musical and post-musical genres take the forms they do.
PROBES #4 concludes our excursion into portamenti, looking at its use in
popular music, before moving on to wholly unpitched probes that begin to
map the many aspects of differentiated noise.

You can find the previous instalments of this series here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag

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