RE: [microsound] micropolitics

[a dontigny <a_dontigny@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Philip Sherburne <philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Invite Sachicko M and Ryoji Ikeda to set up outside the
> White House and
> direct earsplitting sinewaves at the building (a
> microsound version of the
> drum protests that were happening a few years back,
> courtesy the Revolution
> Summer peeps).  That's a very political kind of noise. 
> Its efficacy is up
> for debate, but it's an example of a wordless political
> action.  In fact,
> I'd be very leery of attaching too much importance to the
> verbal; when
> capital controls so many of the channels for debate,
> perhaps to sidestep
> language entirely is the only effective means of making a
> point "heard."

Noise (or any sound) is indeed a physical force that can be
used as a weapon (hence the reference to Burroughs' text on
the use of tape recorders). I was simply wondering if a
wordless statement is a sufficient response to political
"opponents" who uses words against you. At this point, I
really can't rule out any physical means at my disposition
(including speech). My question was: Is the "context"
(title, type of music, cover art, posters, everything that
gives the "colour" of a project) enough to evacuate the
"verbal"? If, like you said, "its efficacy is up for
debate" what's missing in wordless sounds to get a
political point out?

I try in my music to trigger a complete physical responce
in the public, assuming that in the end the experience
itself would be sufficient to "politically change" the
people who positively responded to that experience. But I
still doubt that it is enough.

(I apologize in advance for my abusive use of quotes but I
find that in this type of discussion it is very difficult,
especially because "capital controls so many of the
channels for debate", to find unspoiled words to use)

=====
~ a dontigny

"le bruit est une ressource naturelle"
"noise is a natural resource"

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