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politics of parasites



> Maybe Kim Cascone's 'Parasites' could be considered as dealing digitally
> with a digital effect - though I'm certainly no authority on the work, so I
> would hope Kim will answer from his own perspective here.

the Parasites CD was meant to serve as a sampling CD as well as an
exploration of the idea of 'miniature' works...the idea being that a
soundfile has viral properties that could make it appear in various
unintended contexts...

most glitch music somehow ends up critiquing the 'politics of digital audio'
whether it is intended or not...just as buying and reading a newspaper could
be construed as a political act...by drawing attention to the aura of
digital audio via a 'misuse' or failure or accident of technology (e.g. CD
skipping, etc) a statement is made concerning the intended economic and
political trajectory set up by the power structures that market and
commercialize digital audio...
this is only one reading of this and could just as easily be lost on someone
who is not familiar with the power structures that make up the audio/music
industry

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