[spectre] New podcast: PROBES #6, curated by Chris Cutler

[Radio Web MACBA]

*New podcast: PROBES #6, curated by Chris Cutler*

There's no end of things that have been laid on, tied to, screwed into or
otherwise attached to alter the sound of conventional instruments. This
sixth programme draws a map and explores some of the outer reaches of
string and wind preparations.


Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes6_chris_cutler_/capsula

Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130909/Probes6_eng.pdf

Transcript:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130909/06probes_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.
This sixth programme continues to explore probes into pitch through the
preparation and modification of conventional instruments – looking at the
many tapings, wrappings, clampings, clippings, attachments and impairments
applied across the family of strings, before moving on to the less familiar
territory of prepared winds. Some people get up to some pretty strange
behaviour in the pursuit of unusual sounds.


You can find the complete series here: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag
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