Re: [microsound] being 'political' in non-verbal music

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey folks, missed most of this thread on account of doing a nice 
roadtrip from SF (nice dinner with Mr. C. ;-)) across the Sierras, 
some days in the UFO regions of NV, to the North Rim of the Grand 
Canyon for a bit, and to central Arizona...  inspiring sights and 
sounds...  anyway...

two-sense:  just meditating on this thread -- I think there are 
(political) concepts of revolutionary and reactionary that map into 
creative spaces (making "political sounds") as following:

revolutionary -- taking creative energies and configuring them in 
ways that (the listener) has not been exposed to or is unexpected to 
them -- propelling the listener into an unfamiliar space -- the locus 
of the unknown is a seed site for revelation/revolution, change, and 
transformation :: dynamic, alive

reactionary -- re-presenting the known in known and recognized 
formulas -- does not move the listener into an unknown space, rather 
into a space of comfort and safety -- supporting a status-quo 
situation :: static, dead

so when the regime presently in power in the US talks about the 
"culture of life," it is nothing they know about, and at best is 
wishful thinking from a polarized ideological situation.

the Liberals fall into status quo in equal measure.

forget the safety of labels of any sort.

seek what you cannot describe to others or circumscribe to yourself...

cheers
jh
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