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

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

> Nice to see you gettin' political there, Graham, but you're not really
> getting my point.  There's nothing inherently political in sound and
> it's arrangements.  It's the culture that surrounds it.


If one were to broadcast at extremely high volume piercing sinewaves in a
centre of a citycore, the polis would evacuate if nothing could be done
about it.

The centrism of gathering which all politics revolves around -- the polis as
citystate, also the philosophical gesture of enclosure, around oikos, the
hearth, and its connection to the polis, the city, the state -- would be
disrupted.

The polis in and of itself requires its surrounds as inherent to its
boundary construction; culture is inseparable from the gesture of exclusion
necessary for the polis.

High volume sound as tactical dispersion method of polis-itics might drive
some to some mad nomadism -- or another city.

- tV




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