*New transcript: Chris Cutlers' PROBES #13*
* explores folk roots: new routes; ancient and folk instruments
re-imagined.*
Link:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/probes13-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.
In* PROBES #13* we explore folk roots: new routes; ancient and folk
instruments re-imagined.
Excerpt: "Before we launch into this, I’d like to backpedal a little and
read a few markers into the record – because official histories tend
typically to gloss over whatever is inconvenient or apparently marginal to
their teleological narratives. The ubiquitous Alex Ross is only the latest
to have captured the imaginations of concert programmers and documentarists
– and all of those who find it easier to take a kings-and-queens approach
to musical history, treating its footsoldiers and forgotten masses as so
many inessential bystanders whose aesthetics and innovations just
complicate their tidy narratives. As Brecht remarked: ‘Caesar defeated the
Gauls. Did he not even have a cook with him?’ This series is for the
cooks".
The podcast will be available soon!
You can find the complete series so far here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag
Enjoy!