*New podcast: PROBES #18.** Curated by Chris Cutler*
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http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes-18-1-chris-cutler/capsula>In
PROBES #18, Chris Cutler raises lowly percussion high and introduces us in
the hyperreal world of hi-fi stereo, pure listening and exotica.
Link:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes-18-1-chris-cutler/capsula
Playlist:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20160429/Probes18_eng.pdf
Featuring Alvin Lucier, Ricardo Lorenz, Steve Reich, Leonardo Balada,
Joaquín Rodrigo, Takashi Tajima, Juan García Esquivel, The Three Suns and
more.
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.
And here you can find the complete series of PROBES
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http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag>
ENJOY!