Re: [microsound] micropolitics

[Alexandra Hettergott <a.hettergott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Philip Sherburne <philip@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?
Imho, to be "political" art:music is to interact with the society -- by
virtue of the works' own substance, not by politically taking an
explicit stand on the part of the composer/artist him/herself
(presumably implying some publicity with respect to the former, though)
.... -- btw, the recent past did show how pretty indigestible
ideologically heavily impregnated art:music can become for some
post-contemporary era ... (cf. e.g., the socialist realism).
:ah