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Re: (ot) (Slightly) Politics + electronic Music

yes that thought had to occurred to me especially with my oft ill-fated collaboration attempts and totalitarian/rugged individualistic approach to making music. However, I will say that I utilize the "live" experience as a social experience where I build community by supporting artists and socializing with them. The thing I have noticed about live electronic music is that the artists are usually playing to a room full of artists too. This may be a rather disjointed thought but it says something to me about the open door this type of music and these types of tools provide and about community and democracy.


Thanks,
Kyle

kranning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: 



I have been arguing of
late that the desktop musician is the closest thing to true democracy in
music.  I posit that anyone with a small amount of money can create, record,
distribute and promote from the very same box for far cheaper than doing
things in a non-digital way, with better results.

you're describing the creation and distribution of musical product.
but seperately, the qualities of the actual music itself - the musical
organizational principles used to make it - can be an analogy for some type
of political structure.

recently i realized the political content inherent in [laugh if you must]
Sly + the Family Stone's "Stand!". the 'vibe' of the music is communal,
egalitarian, inclusive, engaged, and fueled with May '68-style righteous
anger. but more important: the actual musical structures and arrangements -
the way ensemble plays together - reflects the same attitudes: an
indefinably large group of individuals work together in a way that furthers
their common goal, within a loose framework that supports each member's free
impulses and best efforts. "from each according to ability, to each
according to need." the utopian socialist ideal, boom-lacka-lacka-lacka.

in comparison, lone microsound auteurs seem disengaged/uncommitted/elitist.
staring at laptops == very much like staring at navels.


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