• 00:01 Gregorio Paniagua, ‘Anakrousis’, 1978
  • 00:05 Bing Crosby, interview (excerpt)
  • 00:35 Art Gillham, ‘You May Be Lonesome’ (excerpts), 1925
  • 01:36 Max Neuhaus, ‘Fontana Mix-Feed’ (excerpts), 1968
  • 03:12 Gene Austin, ‘Lonesome Road’ (excerpts), 1927
  • 04:46 Grateful Dead, ‘Feedback’ (excerpt), 1969
  • 06:35 Rudy Vallée, ‘Deep Night’, 1929
  • 08:30 Nicolas Collins/Christian Marclay, ‘24 Bells and a Bow’ (excerpt) 2010
  • 09:40 Naked City, ‘Leng Tch’e’ (excerpt), 1992
  • 11:37 Mario Rubio, ‘Concerto for Bowed Microphone’ (excerpt), 2014
  • 12:31 Rose Murphy, ‘Busy Line’ (excerpts), 1949
  • 14:19 The Boredoms, ‘Soul Discharge ’99’ (excerpts), 1994
  • 15:59 Haco, ‘Howling Rose’ (excerpts), 2002
  • 17:45 Alvin Lucier, ‘Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels’, 1990
  • 19:15 John Zorn, ‘Cycles Du Nord’ (excerpt), 1998 (revised 2009)
  • 20:41 René Lussier, ‘Déboutonné 2, 5, 6, 7’ (excerpts), 2000
  • 22:34 Fred Astaire, ‘Let’s Face the Music and Dance’ (excerpts), 1936
  • 23:57 23:57 Captain Beefheart, ‘Big-Eyed Beans from Venus’ (Live at Rainbow Theatre, excerpt), 1973
  • 24:16 The Jimi Hendrix Experience, improvised stretch from a live bootleg recording made in Copenhagen (excerpt), 1969
  • 25:36 Bing Crosby, ‘Learn to Croon’ (excerpt), 1933
  • 26:41 Zeitkratzer, ‘Metal Machine Music’ (excerpt), 2007
  • 28:27 Francesco Serra, ‘Guest Room’ (excerpt), 2021
  • 29:29 Toshiya Tsunoda, ‘Vibration of Mooring Rope of a Fishing Boat at Anchor’ (excerpt), 2007-2018
  • 30:21 Gregorio Paniagua, ‘Anakrousis’, 1978]
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Chris Cutler and Bob Drake at Studio Midi-Pyrenees, Caudeval, France. Illustration by Peter Blegvad.

The PROBES AUXILIARIES dig deeper into the main programme topic but are also programmed for your ecstatic listening pleasure; so examples here are edited and sequenced and cut together on the wheels of steal; there’s no talking either (at least not by me), so you need to download the playlist to get the details, backstory and relevance of each of the pieces featured. In PROBES #37.2, crooners, experimental artists, and rock legends exchange notes at their EA (electricionists  anonymous) meeting on their mutual dependency on microphones and loudspeakers (feedback welcome).

Curated by Chris Cutler.

Image: Chris Cutler and Bob Drake at Studio Midi-Pyrenees, Caudeval, France. Illustration by Peter Blegvad.

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