*New podcast*: PROBES #17 sees the gamelan crash into Western sensibility,
and composers accumulate percussion in search of new timbres and pitch-free
noise to meet the demands of restless modernism.
Link:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes-17-1-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.
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http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes-17-1-chris-cutler/capsula>*In
PROBES #17*
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http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes-17-1-chris-cutler/capsula>, we
trace how the gamelan collided with western notions of music and exotic
percussion spread like a virus into every field
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http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes-17-1-chris-cutler/capsula>.
Transcript available here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/probes17-chris-cutler-transcript/capsula
You can find the complete series here <
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag>:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag
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If you like this series, you may also enjoy our LINES OF SIGHT
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http://rwm.macba.cat/en/linesofsight-tag/> podcast series, exploring different
ideas linked to transmission as a means of creative expression