Re: [microsound] Socio/political implications of microsound music?

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here are some texts that address this topic:


Jacques Attali's Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1985) addresses
this topic directly- it challenges us to consider the social impact of our
work and discusses the possibility for significant social change through
music and the conditions that could give rise to such cultural tropes


I also suggest Guy DeBord's Society of the Spectacle and other
Situationist works (from the late 60's ) about how information and
expression are trafficked in the broader culture and describes some of the
pitfalls that can threaten the integrity of art in a consumer culture

http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/debord.html


other noteworthy texts to consider for this topic in a broader context are
Umberto Eco's "Travels in Hyperreality" and "Kant and the Platypus"

"Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape
it."
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956),



greg pond


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> I believe that art promotes social/political change through the changing of
> individual sensibilities.
>
> Therefore the new musical aesthehic that microsound/digital music
proposes
> will definitly determine social change. How? When? That´s ask to much of
a
> simple guy like me, that works to put sounds and words together.
>
> Be patient. In twenty or thirty years the change will be obvious.
>
> Beni.
>
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> Subject: [microsound] Socio/political implications of microsound music?
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>
>> Dear m'sounders
>> Sorry if that sounds like an essay title. I was wondering if anyone
thought there was an explicit or even implicit sociopolitical aspect of
microsound/digital music. For example, the way that lots of
experimental
>> music in the 60's was interested in non-hierarchical social and political
>> structures which was reflected in the way that music was composed, created
>> and consumed.
>> Discuss!
>> PBJ
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