*New transcript: PROBES #14. Curated by Chris Cutler*
*In PROBES #14 we take a detour to show how a collision of folk mechanisms,
social upheaval, sound recording and electrification underpinned the growth
of a new polyglot musical language, and a new aesthetic constituency. *
Link:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/probes14-chris-cutler-transcript/capsula
Podcast coming soon!
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.
In PROBES #14 we take a detour to show how a collision of folk mechanisms,
social upheaval, sound recording and electrification underpinned the growth
of a new polyglot musical language, and a new aesthetic constituency.
And here you can find the complete series of PROBES
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http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag>
Enjoy!