Research
179 podcasts
26.02.2016
49 MIN
English
PROBES #17
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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01.02.2016
30 MIN
English
PROBES #16.2
Auxiliaries
Auxiliaries
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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14.01.2016
50 MIN
PROBES #16
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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28.12.2015
45 MIN
English
MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH…
Steve Stapleton
Steve Stapleton
The brainchild of Nurse with Wound shares the main features of a collection that might help us understand the unorthodox nature of his own trajectory, as influential as it is extensive.
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03.12.2015
29 MIN
English
PROBES #15.2
Auxiliaries
Auxiliaries
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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about Research
This section explores the confluence of art, music, and mass culture from various angles, in the form of thematic series produced by artists. An ensemble, critical and partial historiography of contemporary culture sieved through sound, which highlights contemporary music practices and related projects from different disciplines. It also includes à la carte music, with accompanying essays, under the umbrella of the Interruptions series.
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