New podcast: PROBES #8, curated by Chris Cutler

New podcast: PROBES #8, curated by Chris Cutler

In this eighth instalment, Chris Cutler presents modifications of string instruments that seek to move away from tonality while maintaining coherence.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes8-1-chris-cutler/capsula

Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140710/Probes8_eng.pdf

Transcript: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140619/08probes_transcript_eng.pdf

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. This programme explores ways to coax some highly unusual sounds out of strings.

You can find the complete series here: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag