*New transcript: PROBES #9, by Chris Cutler*
Chris Cutler's PROBES #9 looks at some of the more oblique and extreme
performance techniques applied to wind instruments and percussion.
Link:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/probes9-chris-cutler/capsula
A must read!
Here a small excerpt: "Orchestral instruments, like their players, are
expected to eschew individuality and personality while, in a jazz context,
the great soloists raise their instruments to a state so human and profane
that – in an orchestra setting they would have been, as Raymond Chandler
put it, ‘about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel cake’.
Orchestras, like national radio stations, learn to speak in received
pronunciation, while jazz musicians jive in dialect and slang".
You can find the ongoing podcast series here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag