Re: [microsound] microsound vs. DJ culture

[Bas Van Heur <basvanheur@xxxxxxx>]

> wouldnt it be more correct to say that 'remix culture' is more 
> capitalist than capitalism?
> 
> the remixer using (without permission and/or payment) the labors of 
> other workers to further his own capital ('name'/trademark is future 
> capital).

to a certain extent, a probable yes. But such an argument ignores the
affective (and embodied) aspect of making and sharing music i.e. why dealing
with and listening to sound is so much fun. Reducing this to these kind of
static structures brings the death to all creative 'enterprises'.

As I come to think of it, maybe it might be useful to think through the
consequences of these critiques that see "sharing resources" i.e. dealing
with / contemplating on products of others as merely an expression of
capitalism. Couldn't it be that this represents a particularly stubborn case
of individualist Eurocentric logic (to refer to some of the earlier
discussions in this thread)?
In any case, black i.e. subaltern i.e. whatever-as-long-as-it-is-not-white
voices surely have had less problems with accepting and embracing a
collective (or at the very least relational) identity as a strategy of
resistance.

bas van heur
editor / cut.up.magazine / www.cut-up.com




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