<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">New podcast: <b>PROBES #8, curated by Chris Cutler</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">In this eighth instalment, Chris Cutler presents modifications of string instruments that seek to move away from tonality while maintaining coherence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes8-1-chris-cutler/capsula">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes8-1-chris-cutler/capsula</a>   </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">Playlist: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140710/Probes8_eng.pdf">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140710/Probes8_eng.pdf</a>    </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">Transcript: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140619/08probes_transcript_eng.pdf">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140619/08probes_transcript_eng.pdf</a>    </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">In the late nineteenth century two facts conspired to change the face of music:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">the collapse of common-practice tonality (which overturned the certainties</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">underpinning the world of art music), and the invention of a revolutionary new</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">form of memory, sound recording (which redefined and greatly empowered the</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">world of popular music). A tidal wave of probes and experiments into new musical</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">resources and new organisational practices ploughed through both disciplines,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">bringing parts of each onto shared terrain before rolling on to underpin a new</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">aesthetics able to follow sound and its manipulations beyond the narrow confines</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">of ‘music’. This series tries analytically to trace and explain these developments,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">and to show how, and why, both musical and post-musical genres take the forms</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">they do. This programme explores ways to coax some highly unusual sounds out</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia">of strings.  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia"><br>You can find the complete series here: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag</a></span></p>
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