2019-2006: mostlistenedpodcasts
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.
Thinking (through) the ear
Can we think through listening? Seth-Kim Cohen, Christoph Cox, Julian Henriques, Casey O’Callaghan, Peter Szendy and Salomé Voegelin discuss why thinking should not be at odds with resonating...
Chris Cutler traces the immense impact Indian instruments and aesthetics had on both thinking and playing, across all forms of western music from Messiaen and La Monte Young to John Coltrane and the Beatles.
Things that are more than things: frozen embodiments of social relations, petrifications of desires and energies, replicas disguised as everyday objects. Images, microwave, post-its, money, inhalers, cheese. We speak with Hito Steyerl, Helen Hester and Roula Partheniou of these and other ideas. Because things are never quite the way they seem.