Re: [microsound] Issue-based works

["j.frede" <jfrede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

there is an artist that works under the name terrorstate that all of his
work is political driven or influenced by issues/politics. the audio its
self is minimal but with communication with the artist you find its rich
with reference.
http://www.mp3.com/terrorstate
he also has a track on the soundtrack of "Life or Liberty" a film that
documents the racial profiling that went on after September 11th in the
united states,,, the film has been shown allot around New York.

j.frede
current location:los angeles
http://ritualdocument.com/jfrede
po.box 292045 los angeles, ca 90029

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Roberts" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 1:18 AM
Subject: [microsound] Issue-based works


> Hi
>
> I was wondering if anyone out there is creating microsound works dealing
> directly with specific political or social issues, and if so I'm curious
to
> hear what the results are.
>
> The reason I'm interested is this 'unknown favourites' thread got me
> thinking about the music in my collection which I found really stimulating
> over the last year or two. For example, the works which spring to mind
> immediately are Ultra-Red's Structural Adjustments and Random_Inc's
> Jerusalem CD's. The Ultra Red CD especially deals with a specific
political
> issue (gentrification, to over simplify) and does so within the music
> itself. There is also an accompanying text, but you can 'get the message'
> from the music alone.
>
> It's that kind of work which interests me, as opposed to work which relies
> on an accompanying (con)text to explain its significance - an example
being
> Atau Tanaka's piece '9m14s Over Vietnam' on the End ID compilation from
> Digital Narcis, which uses metasynth to create a piece from the famous
> photograph of the naked girl running from a napalm attack. While this is
an
> interesting piece of music, it relies absolutely on the lenghty text in
the
> booklet explaining it.
>
> I can't think of much more in the line of Ultra-Red, though some of
> Alejandra and Aeron's (very nice) stuff kind of fits in there - the
Haunted
> Folklore series for example.
>
> Anyone know of anything else?
>
> Mark
>
>
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