Re: [microsound] micropolitics

["kranning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <kranning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> So my broader question is, what are the possibilities for an "engaged"
> microsound?  Are there any qualities inherent in the medium (if it is a
> medium at all) which lends it to, or bars it from, political practice?  Is
> it a practice in itself?  Is a microsound CD or performance any more or less
> political than, say, Rage Against the Machine, and how might things be done
> differently?

a good question + one difficult to answer.
it's a testament to the sleek surface of this music
that a strong case can be made for either position.

pro: new tools + new sounds require new ways of thinking + being.
con: gazing at laptop, slightly south of gazing at navel.

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