New podcast: *PROBES #8, curated by Chris Cutler*
In this eighth instalment, Chris Cutler presents modifications of string
instruments that seek to move away from tonality while maintaining
coherence.
Link:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes8-1-chris-cutler/capsula
Playlist:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140710/Probes8_eng.pdf
Transcript:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140619/08probes_transcript_eng.pdf
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. This programme explores ways to coax some highly unusual sounds out
of strings.
You can find the complete series here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag