[microsound-announce] New podcast: PROBES #1, curated by Chris Cutler

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*New podcast: PROBES #1, curated by Chris Cutler
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*PROBES #1* sets the scene and investigates early reconsiderations of
pitch: probes that postulate new scales to be constructed through the
ever-greater subdivision of the inherited intervals of equal temperament.

Link: http://bit.ly/Sb8kL3
MP3: http://bit.ly/NWbbCw
Playlist: http://bit.ly/OiH35c
Transcript: http://bit.ly/M6RM5J

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 first programme sets the scene and investigates early reconsiderations
of pitch: probes that postulate new scales to be constructed through the
ever-greater subdivision of the inherited intervals of equal temperament.

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