Re: [microsound] micropolitics

[Mark Khemma <mkhemma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

just because this is microsound doesn't mean there has to be no words in
the piece does it? field recordings and its manipulations of the words
within can act as a possible critizism against a given political agenda.
however, microsound would be used here simply as a tool of choice rather
than a means that justifies its own aesthetic ends.
-mark

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, a dontigny wrote:

> don't want to get in another old argument) but when a
> different or "opposing" political force is using the
> all-powerful WORD against you, how can you defend yourself
> while remaining speechless?
> Is the "context" of, for exemple, a cd (titles of the
> tracks, cover, sources of sounds, credits, etc.) sufficient
> in offering a "political key" to the analysis of wordless
> sounds? Is Burroughs' electronic revolution enough for a
> direct political battle?
>
> =====
> ~ a dontigny