Noise & Capitalism book released
Title: Noise and Capitalism
Publisher: Arteleku Audiolab (Kritika series), Donostia-San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa), Spain
Publication date: September 2009
ISBN: 978-84-7908-622-1
Contributors: Ray Brassier, Emma Hedditch, Matthew Hyland, Anthony Iles, Sara Kaaman, Mattin, Nina Power, Edwin Prévost, Bruce Russell, Matthieu Saladin, Howard Slater, Csaba Toth, Ben Watson
Editors: Mattin & Anthony Iles
‘Noise’ not only designates the no-man’s-land between electro-acoustic investigation, free improvisation, avant-garde experiment, and sound art; more interestingly,it refers to anomalous zones of interference between genres: between post-punk and free jazz; between musique concrète and folk; between stochastic composition and art brut. – Ray Brassier
If the conditions in which we produce our music affects our playing then let’s try to feel through them, understand them as much as possible and, then, change these conditions.
Alienated language is noise, but noise containspossibilities that may, who knows, be more affective than discursive, more enigmatic than dogmatic.
We find ourselves poised between vicariously florid academic criticism, overspecialised niche markets and basements full of anti-intellectual escapists. There is, afterall, ‘a Franco, Churchill, Roosevelt, inside all of us…’ but this book is written neither by chiefs nor generals. Here the non-appointed, not yet disinterested, practitioners in one way or another, autotheorise ways of thinking through the contemporary conditions for making difficult music and opening up to the willfully perverse satisfactions of the auricular drives.
If you wish to receive a printed copy of this book please write or send an email with your postal address to submitting your own feelings about or responses to the words ‘Capitalism’ and ‘Noise’. Any letters, comments, criticisms, records, CDs or contributions in other media related to this book will be gratefully received in exchange. Post: Arteleku, Kristobaldegi 14 (o nuevo P. Ainzieta), Loiola Auzoa, 20014 Donostia - San Sebastián (Spain). Email: arteleku@gipuzkoa.net
This book can be downloaded as a PDF file:
http://www.arteleku.net/audiolab/noise_capitalism.pdf
