PROBES #10
Curated by Chris Cutler
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.
PROBES #10 is the first of two programmes that trace probes into the limits and extended uses of the human voice.
Transcript
Transcript of PROBES #11, curated by Chris Cutler.
Transcript
Transcript of PROBES #9, curated by Chris Cutler.
Auxiliaries
This is the auxiliary in which harpsichords boldly go.
Auxiliaries
This auxiliary by Chris Cutler listens to voices, mostly in groups, doing extraordinary things.
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.
Although Gil J Wolman's seminal sound work has been largely overlooked, it was a precursor of sound poetry and is one of the key elements of Lettrist poetry. This radio show reconstructs the link between Lettrism, sound poetry, and the work of some isolated but fundamental figures.
This is an email conversation with the sound poetry and voice collector Eduard Escoffet, which took place in Summer 2013.
The Beauty in Breathing
The mix presented here investigates the artistic use of breath.
The inhuman voice
Since the late eighteenth century, speech therapists, linguists, entrepreneurs, artists and musicians have nurtured the dream of emulating human speech. In this mix, Genís Segarra offers a personal overview of a subject that fascinates him, with the story of voice synthesis as a narrative thread.
Auxiliaries
This auxiliary by Chris Culter wonders what the human voice can't do.
Transcript
Transcript of PROBES #10, curated by Chris Cutler.
Auxiliaries
This auxiliary explores extended techniques for percussion and winds.