Re: [microsound] micropolitics

[vze26m98 <vze26m98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/17/03 at 12:49 PM, Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> since this list was set up to discuss all things philosophical,
> aesthetic and digital/post-digital/microsound (or whatever
> sounds good today) I don't think there is any need to separate
> politics and the creation of music on this list...

> but if you are interested in music and politics I can suggest
> reading "Noise" by Jacques Attali or 'Society of the Spectacle'
> by Guy Debord <http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/index.htm>
> to get a bearing on how politics and music intersect...
> 
> any other recommendations for list members?

Well, I could suggest looking at the illustration on page 9 of Curtis
Roads' book, _Microsound_. Although he's more interested in Neanderthal
flutes, certainly politics and culture have a place on his time scale.

In that vein, there's also Olaf Stapledon's _Last and First Men_...

Best,

Tad

<tad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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