Noise & Capitalism: Undoing, Understanding & Sharing Time Together
Noise & Capitalism: Undoing, Understanding & Sharing Time Together
We are celebrating the publication of the book Noise & Capitalism with a four days experimental gathering: 14-17 September 2009 Arteleku, Kristobaldegi 14, Donostia-San Sebastian (Gipuzkoa, Basque Country) Emma Hedditch, Howard Slater, Anthony Iles & Mattin This event is part of ERTZ festival organised by Audiolab
This book can be downloaded as a PDF file: http://www.arteleku.net/audiolab/noise_capitalism.pdf
If our senses are appropriated by capitalism and put to work in an ‘attention economy’, let’s, then, reappropriate our senses, our capacity to feel, our receptive powers; let’s start the war at the membrane!
Alienated language is noise, but noise contains possibilities that may, who knows, be more affective than discursive, more enigmatic than dogmatic.
Noise and improvisation are practices of risk, a ‘going fragile’. Yet these risks imply a social responsibility that could take us beyond ‘phoney freedom’ and into unities of differing.
Is this what we should explore in this experiment?
Set up to fail, fail to set up, fall-in behind the failsafe; or share and undo ourselves a little?
Everything is possible. But why, from cradle to stage, from classroom to cantina, do we often just do what is expected from us?
What is it that constrains us, pressures us?
What could our scope of action be in each specific moment?
How can we change our social relations at this or that precise moment?
How are our bodies moving through space?
How are our senses informing our thought?
How are our resonances and silences musical?
What does this mean to different people?
How does our class, gender and sexuality determine what we do, what we think and the way we play?
Can we play without instruments as ‘instruments of sensitive living’ without identities?
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.
Let’s not use ready-made methods and forms; let’s try to find our own.
Everybody is welcome and is free, to register, get texts and other information please email: arteleku@gipuzkoa.net
http://www.arteleku.net/audiolab/?p=2578
ERTZ #10
Irailaren 9tik 19ra / del 9 al 19 de septiembre
09.09.09 Tabakalera . Donostia-San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa)
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE
10.09.09 Tabakalera . Donostia-San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa)
FRANCISCO LOPEZ
12.09.09 Berako kultur etxea . Bera (Nafarroa)
TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA & IGNAZ SCHICK
ANDER LIPUS, MIREN GAZTAÑAGA & XABI STRUBELL
GREGG KOWALSKY
ALEX MENDIZABAL
TZESNE
13.09.09 Kaxerna gaztetxea . Bera (Nafarroa)
MATTIN, EMMA HEDDITCH, ANTHONY ILES & HOWARD SLATER
ALEX MENDIZABAL, JAKOBA ERROKONDO, JUAN JOSE ARANGUREN
ADI BERA
IÑIGO UGARTEBURU
MURSEGO
14.09.09 Bonberenea . Tolosa (Gipuzkoa)
IMPROVISANDO GAZTETXES
14-17.09.09 Arteleku . Donostia-San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa)
RUIDO Y CAPITALISMO workshop
MATTIN, EMMA HEDDITCH, ANTHONY ILES & HOWARD SLATER
19.09.09 Hazparne (Lapurdi)
AKAUZAZTE
TRIO MORAINE
OIERIA
ISLAIA
> ANTOLATZAILEAK:
ERTZ ekartea (Bera) - Berako Kultur Batzordea - Berako Udala
Arteleku (Donostia)- Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia
Tabakalera (Donostia) - Eihartzea kultur etxea (Hazparne)
Bonberenea (Tolosa)
It’s not easy to improvise, it’s the most difficult thing to do. Even when one improvises in front of a camera or microphone, one ventriloquizes or leaves another to speak in one’s place the schemas and languages that are already there. There are already a great number of prescriptions that are prescribed in our memory and in our culture. All the names are already preprogrammed. It’s already the names that inhibit our ability to ever really improvise. One can’t say what ever one wants, one is obliged more or less to reproduce the stereotypical discourse. And so I believe in improvisation and I fight for improvisation. But always with the belief that it is impossible. And there where there is improvisation I am not able to see myself. I am blind to myself. And it’s what I will see, no, I won’t see it. It’s for others to see. The one who is improvised here, no I won’t ever see him. [From: http://www.lettersjournal.org/blog/]
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