[spectre] New podcast: PROBES #32, by Chris Cutler, tracing the history of some newly invented instruments in the 20th century

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New podcast: PROBES #32, by Chris Cutler
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/probes-32>

In PROBES #32 we trace the history of some newly invented instruments in
the 20th century, including the Chromelodion, the Boo, the Mazdaphone, the
Quadrangulis Reversum, the Crystal Baschets, Harry Bertoia’s Sonambiente,
the unearthly Daxophone and Arthur Harris’ Mother Lap Cello Harp,
Whispering Harp and the 14.5 metre viol, whose lowest strings are inaudible
to the human ear.

Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/probes-32

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.

*E/N/J/O/Y!*
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