REFRAINS : CALL FOR PAPERS

[Tobias <tobias@xxxxxxxxx>]

more information coming shortly--
thought some of you may be interested.
cheers, tobias.




	---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
			CALL FOR PAPERS
	---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---


	REFRAINS: MUSIC POLITICS AESTHETICS

	September 22nd to 23rd, 2001.
	University of British Columbia,
	Vancouver, BC, Canada.

	“What chaos and rhythm have in common is the in-between—between two
milieus, rhythm-	chaos or the chaosmos: “Between night and day, between that
which is constructed and that 	which grows naturally, between mutations from
the inorganic to the organic, from plant to 	animal, from animal to
humankind, yet without this series constituting a progression…” In this
in-between, chaos becomes rhythm, not inexorably, but it has a chance to.
Chaos is not the 	opposite of rhythm, but the milieu of all milieus.”

	- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, “1837: Of the Refrain,” _A Thousand
Plateaus_


	MUSIC. Digital and post-digital music merge media: music fuels social
protest; music 	becomes accident, consequence, and beyond our control. Music
becomes a weapon, a 	defence, and an escape.

	POLITICS. Three thousand people in a warehouse dancing is a political
moment.
	MP3s stir the music industry into legislation: musical format is
political.The power arising 	from independent music distribution and an
aesthetics of consumer control becomes a 	political power with an aesthetic
agenda.

	AESTHETICS. Failure acquires an aesthetic: the mistake and the glitch are
seen as new 	musical forms that stir a politics and redefines music. The
fight over Art is a fight over 	territory: the gallery, the warehouse, the
loft, the street. Reclaim The Streets becomes art on 	the streets becomes
protest and politics.

	Who: undergraduate, graduate, professional; academic or non-academic.
	What: topics that merge the above spectrums in creative and imaginative
ways.
	Where: .doc or .rtf format to: refrainsconference@xxxxxxxxxxx
	Length: 30-50 minutes speaking time.
	Deadline: August 31st, 2001.
	Website: http://www.shrumtribe.com/refrains