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

[Damian Stewart <damian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David Powers wrote:
> What is much more important is political involvement in your nation, 
> working for governments that don't push global economic strategies that 
> make these exploitive factories profitable and inevitable.

To bring about governmental/societal/systemic change you have to 
challenge the headspace of the population, their mental environment. 
That is part of our job as artists, I think.

I'm concerned about the people in the rest of New Zealand. They are 
increasingly sleepwalking consumption machines. I want to bonk them over 
the head. I think the way I am best at communicating anything is through 
music. I want to work toward creating consciousness through the music I 
make, but I don't want to do it through lyrics because I believe lyrics 
can dilute and destroy some very amazing musical experiences. (Tangent - 
there's a track on the Rhythm & Sound self-titled album, the only one 
with lyrics.. there's a point where the lyricist stops talking for two 
or three minutes, allowing the music to just wander for a while; then he 
comes back. The point where he comes back is a jolt, tipping you right 
out of the musical space that just the music has transferred you to. I 
think this is always what lyrics do.)

I have a plan (muahaha), and that is to save up some money and buy some 
advertising time on ZM (the commercial pop shite network radio here), 
and use the advertising time to play sonic art, ideally of an overtly 
anti-consumerist nature. If I can do this without words, it will be even 
more effective.

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