New podcast: PROBES #7, curated by Chris Cutler PROBES #7 examines some of the preparations applied to percussion and voice before beginning to look at the recovery and invention of extended performance techniques; starting with the piano.
Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes7-1-chris-cutler/capsula
Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140305/Probes7_eng.pdf
Transcript: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140130/07probes_transcript_eng.pdf In the late nineteenth century two facts conspired to change the face of music: the collapse of common practice tonality (which overturned