<b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">UPDATED FILE! </span>New podcast: PROBES #3. Curated by Chris Cutler<br></b><br><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">Sorry for the inconvenience. We just noted the file had a couple of glitches due to an error of compression!<br>
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where pitch becomes weightless and all that is solid melts into air:
futurism, noise, electricity, ecstasy and uncertainty. We look at the
lure and power of sliding tones.<br>
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Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes3_chris_cutler_/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes3_chris_cutler_/capsula</a><br>
Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130221/Probes3_eng.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130221/Probes3_eng.pdf</a><br>
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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 #3 continues to
explore probes into pitch, this time through its effective obliteration
through ceaseless movement, sliding tones, and radical portamenti which
defy all quantisation.<br>
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Transcript (PDF): <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130206/03probes_transcript_eng.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130206/03probes_transcript_eng.pdf</a><br>
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