Re: [-empyre-] noise- boundary-empire

[su b <suballard@optusnet.com.au>]

three blurry thoughts --noise -- for me, the point of improv is not to 
make noise some kind of overarching category of sound, but to enable 
manipulations which shift categories, (like Cage did to silence and 
emptiness - suddenly silence was all filled up!)
--boundary -- Maybe it is an idealist position, where cultural 
hegemonies are actually not power struggles but positive forces for 
re-alignment of political positions. I think of the strength of 
indigenous Maori work like that by Nathan Pohio and Rachael Rakena, 
both of whom quietly infiltrate a personal position with a broader 
political agenda.
--- empire -- I'm not sure if .nz does have a centre, this must be one 
of its strengths. Travelling around the South Island I find mention of 
early 19th century european settlement and decisions about the location 
of the political capital city. (collingwood!)