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REFRAINS: MUSIC POLITICS AESTHETICS
September 29th, 2001.
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, BC, Canada.
"What chaos and rhythm have in common is the in-between-between two milieus, rhythm-chaos or the
chaosmos: "Between night and day, between that which is constructed and that which grows naturally, between mutations from the inorganic to the organic, from plant to animal, from animal to humankind, yet without this series constituting a progression…" In this in-between, chaos becomes rhythm, not inexorably, but it has a chance to. Chaos is not the opposite of rhythm, but the milieu of all milieus."
- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, "1837: Of the Refrain," A Thousand
Plateaus
MUSIC. Digital and post-digital music merge media: music fuels social protest; music becomes accident, consequence, and beyond our control. Music becomes a weapon, a defence, and an escape.
POLITICS. Three thousand people in a warehouse dancing is a political moment.
MP3s stir the music industry into legislation: musical
format is political. The power arising from independent music distribution and an aesthetics of consumer control becomes a political power with an aesthetic agenda.
AESTHETICS. Failure acquires an aesthetic: the mistake and the glitch are seen as new musical forms that stir a politics and redefines music. The fight over Art is a fight over territory: the gallery, the warehouse, the loft, the street. Reclaim The Streets becomes art on the streets becomes protest and politics.
Who: undergraduate, graduate, professional; academic or non-academic.
What: topics that merge the above spectrums in creative and imaginative ways.
Where: .doc or .rtf format to: refrainsconference@hotmail.com
Length: 30-50 minutes speaking time.
Deadline: August 31st, 2001. |