Ràdio Web MACBA presents Probes #7

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’. Probes 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.

PROBES #7 examines some of the preparations applied to percussion and voice before beginning to look at the recovery and invention of extended performance techniques; starting with the piano. Between not touching it at all and reducing it to firewood many techniques have been proposed.

Transcript available here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140305/Probes7_eng.pdf

Link to the complete series:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/variations_tag

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(Originally broadcast Thursday 7pm, repeats Sunday 7am, Tuesday 7am and Wednesday 9am)(r)