[microsound] Greyg Filastine + Tactical Sound [was]use of songs during wartime

["tobias c. van Veen" <tobias@xxxxxxxxx>]

++ Greyg Filastine did a surprise drop-in @ Mutek this year in Montreal, at
SAT and outside Metropolis on the Saturday evening.

"Yah, people playing music, all over again, here at SAT. And people outside,
well one at least, dressed in an orange Guantanamo jumpsuit, with the
noiz-kart, playing the protest beats. Shopping cart, laptop and metal
loudspeaker, why not? None other than Greyg Filastine of Post-World
Industries and ex-!Tchkung! bandmate. Good to see some spontaneous noise,
art and political force arriving in the staid Mutek crowd (and the response
was good from all quarters)."

pictures (including Greyg) + text:
http://minlove.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id'&ItemidI

text:
http://dustedmagazine.com/features/266


Those interested in such things might want to check out the Journal of
Tactical Sound. They've got a call out (I've pasted it below).

best, tV

==

Tactical Sound
Contact / For More Information

Alexis Bhagat, editor
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Tactical Sound
c/o Jared Bunde
302 Bedford Ave. Box 289
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==

Call for Tactical Sound #4                  Re:  Riot and Protest

1968: Start the Riot!

Why does riot lurk incessantly in the background of phonography? Amid
birdsong, flowing water, traffic and hiss of tape, lurks also creaking
sounds of automobiles being overturned by crowds, smashing glass, beating
helicopter rotors surveying the event, and the shocked voices of broadcast
news correspondents.

Does the tape just pick it all up?  Or do phonographers search for it?

In ³Electronic Revolution,² [1970] William S. Burroughs lists the uses of
tape recorders: among them  ³as a front-line weapon to produce and escalate
riots.² This suggestion reappears perennially in the work of his disciples,
from Psychic TV onward and outward, until finally, Alec Empire hones the
cut-tape-and-playback experiments into a simple rock and roll formula: ³Riot
sounds create riots!²  [Digital Hardcore, 1994]

So what? Can they stop them? Agent Bill, Hassan I Sabbah, gives little
answer ³Could you cool a riot? Maybe, but it¹s a lot easier to start trouble
than to stop it.² There is game, and end of game. Conditioned and not
conditioned. To manipulate peace is still manipulation. ³A front-line
weapon.² The tape-recorder behind the riot keeps war game going. At
front-line, we already fight: pure tactics here. Riot is pure tactics.
Emergent. No strategy.


1999: Remix the Protest!

The cameramen are looking for a riot, frustrated by all the puppets and
unmediated communication of horizontally organized bodies. Where is the
riot, really, in the Carnival against Capital that has been on tour since
November 30th, 1999, except in the press conferences and editorial desks;
except in the imagination of those who do not want to hear the assembly in
the streets? The phonographic archive, drawn from Watts and Detroit,
unwittingly serves the pigs as an easy deployed ³orange netting² [RNC 2004]
of ³probable cause² upon us all. Surely some phonographers have recognized
that and updated their methods with microphones themselves engaged in
protest.

Could you cool a riot? Tactical Sound #5 seeks alternate responses to this
question.  Historical and theoretical writings, discographies of riot and
protest recordings, interviews with sound artists and critical writings on
the emerging ²protest remix² genre are all especially welcome. Writings on
the relationship between riot and protest to music may be considered.



Proposals of sound works are encouraged (though funds for a CD companion
have not yet been secured.)



No Deadline for Proposals. Final works due March 2005



Contact / For More Information

post:                                                                 email:

Tactical Sound

c/o Jared Bunde                                                  Alexis
Bhagat, editor

302 Bedford Ave. Box 289
alexis@xxxxxxxxxx

Brookyln, NY 11211

===

> For the appropriation of these techniques, folks might want to check out
> Grey Filastine's/Infernal Noise Brigade's "Moukabir Sawte:"
>
> <http://www.postworldindustries.com/video/MoukabirSawtestream.mov>
>
> ...whose targets were media outlets in the Seattle area, I believe.
>
> <vze26m98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>



tobias c. van Veen -----------++++
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http://www.thisistheonlyart.com --
McGill Communication + Philosophy
--- New School Philosophy --------
ICQ: 18766209 | AIM: thesaibot +++


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