[im] Chris Cutler, exotic music instruments

[Radio Web MACBA]

Chris Cutler's PROBES #19 transcript is now available: we continue to 
look at the importation of exotic instruments, in this case from 
Africa, in pursuit of a specifically non-American American expression 
of culture and politics.

<http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/probes19-chris-cutler-transcript/capsula>http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/probes19-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.

><http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag>And here you can find the 
>complete series of PROBES