*New transcript*: * In Chris Cutler's PROBES #17*, we trace how the gamelan
collided with Western notions of music and exotic percussion spread like a
virus into every field.
Link:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/probes17-chris-cutler-transcript/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. *In
PROBES #17*, we trace how the gamelan collided with western notions of
music and exotic percussion spread like a virus into every field.
Soon available as a podcast!
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 INTERRUPTIONS #1.
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http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_1_jon_leidecker/capsula>
Pastoral V.2
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http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_1_jon_leidecker/capsula>
by Jon Leidecker
<
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_1_jon_leidecker/capsula>,
a 60 minute mix underlining the history of those classic works of
electronic and concrète music which sought to mimic and extend the voices
and sounds of our pastoral landscape.