[spectre] New podcast: PROBES #8, curated by Chris Cutler

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New podcast: *PROBES #8, curated by Chris Cutler*



In this eighth instalment, Chris Cutler presents modifications of string
instruments that seek to move away from tonality while maintaining
coherence.



Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes8-1-chris-cutler/capsula

Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140710/Probes8_eng.pdf

Transcript:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140619/08probes_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 programme explores ways to coax some highly unusual sounds out

of strings.


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