*New transcript available online: PROBES #11, by Chris Cutler*
Even more extended uses of the human voice
Link:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/probes11-chris-cutler/capsula
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 #11 is the second programme that traces probes into the limits and
extended uses of the human voice.
The audio will be available online in the near future.
Excerpt: "The way that new voices and new ways with voices have evolved has
been inextricably bound into the myriad probes launched into the new medium
of recording in particular, at its outer fringes, by the medium’s vanguard
genres by which I mean musique concrète, tape and electronic music. These
disciplines and especially their primary instrument, the studio had
functioned prominently in the sixties as initiating contexts and
experimental workshops for the generation of new and unfamiliar sounds.
Perhaps more importantly, they also fostered and encouraged direct
composer/performer collaborations, overturning the conventional hierarchy
that had, until then, routinely privileged composition over performance".
You can find the complete series here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag
Enjoy!