toys
Conversation with Douglas Mcgowan on his sound collection
This is a conversation by email with the American new age collector Douglas Mcgowan, which took place in Winter 2012.
In PROBES #24, toys, music boxes and balloons find new roles in contemporary compositions, pop performances, film scores and jazz improvisation, as composers explore alternative acoustic sources for extended, non-electronic, sounds.
Transcript
Transcript of PROBES #24, curated by Chris Cutler.
Auxiliaries
This auxiliary follows a variety of toys as they strut their stuff on rock stages, movie soundtracks, concert halls, galleries and recordings.
PROBES #25 continues to trace the importation of non-instruments into compositions and performances as, in their search for new sonorities, early jazz and blues musicians, contemporary composers, film composers, rock groups, sound artists and improvisers hit the toyshop and the hardware store.