Chris Cutler inaugura la stagione 2023 della sua magnifica serie Probes per Radio Web Macba con un excursus organistico (e organico assai!) su due gioielli di casa Hammond, il celeberrimo B3 e l'avveniristico - ma sfortunato - Novachord. In attesa di rivolgere l'attenzione anche alla concorrenza, per esempio l'Ondioline di Georges Jenny...
Curated by Chris Cutler, Probes takes Marshall McLuhan’s conceptual contrapositions as a starting point to analyse and expose the search for a new sonic language made urgent after the collapse of tonality in the twentieth century. The series looks at the many probes and experiments that were launched in the last century in search of new musical resources, and a new aesthetic; for ways to make music adequate to a world transformed by disorientating technologies.
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