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PROBES #18.2 Auxiliaries
05/08/2016 29' 12''
In this auxilliary, bachelor pad hi-fi stereo exotica whips off its kitschy disguise to reveal a revolutionary core, abandoning boring documentation for a hyperreal exploration of novel timbres, impossible spatialities and radical fragmentation. This is where recording technology finally becomes aware of itself as an aesthetic rather than as a purely technical medium.
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PROBES #18 Transcript
25/07/2016
Transcript of PROBES #18, curated by Chris Cutler.
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PROBES #18
29/04/2016 57' 2''
In PROBES #18, Chris Cutler raises lowly percussion high and introduces us in the hyperreal world of hi-fi stereo, pure listening and exotica.
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PROBES #17
26/02/2016 48' 4''
In PROBES #17, we trace how the gamelan collided with western notions of music and exotic percussion spread like a virus into every field.
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17/02/2016
We trace how the gamelan collided with Western notions of music and exotic percussion spread like a virus into every field.
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PROBES #16.2 Auxiliaries
01/02/2016 29' 26''

In PROBES #16.2, we wonder how far you can go with banjos, mandolins, balalaikas, jew’s harps and ensembles of folk instruments. And it’s pretty far.

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PROBES #16
14/01/2016 49' 22''
PROBES #16 concludes the four programmes that investigate the repurposing of folk instruments. This time it’s banjos, mandolins, balalaikas, jew’s harps and ensembles of folk instruments are extracted from their proper contexts and made to do strange and unnatural things.
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PROBES #16 Transcript
16/12/2015

In PROBES #16, banjos, mandolins, balalaikas and the jew’s harp are made to do unaccustomed and groundbreaking things.

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PROBES #15.2 Auxiliaries
03/12/2015 28' 49''
In this new auxiliary, bagpipes, zithers, harmonicas and hurdy-gurdys do things they aren’t supposed to do in contexts in which they aren’t supposed to do them... rather brillantly.
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PROBES #15.1
19/10/2015 49' 48''
In PROBES #15 we look at experimental uses of the more intractable folk instruments: bagpipes, hurdy gurdy and harmonica. Is nothing sacred?
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PROBES #15 Transcript
08/10/2015
Transcript of PROBES #15, curated by Chris Cutler.
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PROBES #14.1
15/09/2015 44' 37''
In PROBES #14 we take a detour to show how a collision of folk mechanisms, social upheaval, sound recording and electrification underpinned the growth of a new polyglot musical language, and a new aesthetic constituency.
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PROBES #14 Transcript
10/09/2015
Transcript of PROBES #14, curated by Chris Cutler.
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PROBES #13.2 Auxiliaries
10/08/2015 29' 49''
This new auxiliary by Chris Cutler digs into new sounds made with long-forgotten instruments.
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PROBES #13.1
09/06/2015 53' 22''
Chris Cutler's PROBES #13 tracks the recovery and reassignment of ancient and folk instruments in unfamiliar contexts.
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PROBES #12.2 Auxiliaries
25/05/2015 30' 32''
This is the auxiliary in which harpsichords boldly go.
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PROBES #12
30/04/2015 52' 17''

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In Chris Cutler's PROBES #12 harpsichords return from the dead; a spectre is haunting music: the harpsichord.

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PROBES #11.2 Auxiliaries
10/04/2015 30' 58''
This auxiliary by Chris Cutler listens to voices, mostly in groups, doing extraordinary things.
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PROBES #11
11/03/2015 61' 3''
PROBES #11 goes oral: everything your mother wouldn’t tell you about what people can do with their mouths, and a little bit of spit.
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PROBES #10.2 Auxiliaries
27/01/2015 28' 32''

This auxiliary by Chris Culter wonders what the human voice can't do.

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PROBES #11 Transcript
16/01/2015
Transcript of PROBES #11, curated by Chris Cutler.
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