<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b>Chris Cutler's PROBES #19 transcript is now available:</b>
we continue to look at the importation of exotic instruments, in this
case from Africa, in pursuit of a specifically non-American American
expression of culture and politics.<br><br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/probes19-chris-cutler-transcript/capsula">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/probes19-chris-cutler-transcript/capsula</a><br><br>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.<br><br>>><a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag">And here you can find the complete series of PROBES</a><br><br></span></div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)">Enjoy!</span></b><br></span></div>