Re: [microsound] Issue-based works

[Mark Roberts <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, but that's exactly what I don't mean... I'm interested in finding out
about stuff where you don't have to give the artist a call to discover the
meaning of the work. And in the soundtrack, it is the film which provides
the meaning.

M


on 24/10/02 05:20, j.frede at jfrede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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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