[-empyre-] Horsemouth

[Gabriel Menotti]

Hey!

Thanks for jumping in, Anthony. Your participation is very welcome. =)

Just to add another serendipitous resource to the noise thread, I’d
like to call the attention of the list to the recently uploaded
recordings of “noise=noise.theory” - “a live public
lecture/presentation/performance event that took place on thursday
19th january 2012 in london uk” – which also includes a very topical
presentation by Mattin and Anthony.

http://www.archive.org/details/Noisenoise.theory19012012

Best!
Menotti


Em 25 de fevereiro de 2012 13:52,  <anthony at metamute.net> escreveu:
> Hello there,
>
> Apologies for the delay pedal on this response. Earlier this/last week
> Johannes posed some questions about the Noise & Capitalism and book.
>
> At Pauline's prompting I subscribed to Empyre to try to answer some of
> these questions and respond to the interest in this book/ongoing project.
>
> Mattin, a musician originally from Bilbao working with noise, improvised
> music and performance initiated the process of a book consisting of 12
> contributions together with Audiolab - a group dedicated to audio research
> based at Arteleku in San Sebastian. The book was intended to bring some,
> then much needed, critical reflection on the politics of experimental
> music practices and it's relation to capitalism as a social relation.
>
> Mattin and I have been friends since he lived in London around 2000. I
> helped him edit the book which finally saw publication in 2009.
> Arteleku/Audiolab kindly supported the design, printing and distribution
> of the book.
>
> The book was intended to be translated into Basque and Castillian
> Spanish. This has yet to happen, but my hope is that one day it will at
> the very least in Epub or PDF.
>
> As a way of launching the book and opening up it's content to readers,
> practitioners and theoreticians of noise and improvised music, Mattin,
> Emma Hedditch, Howard Slater and myself traveled to San Sebastian where we
> lead a workshop around readings and discussions of the book and
> performative practices we developed together in response to it and the
> situation in the room. An aspect of the ethos developed around the book's
> disseminations involves not separating or hierarchising discussion,
> theory, utterance, gesture, movement, play, 'music', silence and so on.
>
> Since then this group of contributors to the book has worked together with
> others in a  different formations to create performative situations in the
> context of festivals, concerts, workshops, book launches, exhibitions and
> lectures. Notably at the Ertz festival in Brera (at the same time as the
> first workshop) and Kill Your Timid Notion, Dundee 2010, CAC Bretigny,
> Exhibition as Concert 2010 and most recently a performative lecture
> entitled:'Noise & Capitalism: Funeral and Zombification' at DAI, Arnheim.
>
> Another interesting aspect of the book's dissemination was that Arteleku
> are bound by local cultural policy not to sell any product. Therefore,
> in discussion we made it possible for the book to be available through
> trading/swapping. Individuals could obtain a copy of the book by writing to
> Arteleku and sending something in exchange - often an audio project or art
> object. By our request these were to somehow respond to the question which
> informed the book - what is noise? what is capitalism? These works are
> documented on the Arteleku noise and capitalism blog. There were many
> interesting responses and there is a kind of potlatch sensibility to this
> archive. However, in other respects this was a disabling aspect of
> distributing the books - when people hear about a new book people expect
> to find them in the shop or on Amazon - and this is also where people find
> and hear about new books. So, even if a few record shops exchanged in bulk
> with Arteleku and then resold the books, I guess this also showed how
> non-property-based relations are marginalised under capitalism and giving
> stuff away for free does not necessarily challenge the buying and selling
> of everything else and the fact that our access to certain vital
> necessities are only obtained through money - access to money for those
> with out any is through work for someone with money and so on...
>
> An integral aspect of this will be some sort of
> live event in the near future and an opening up of the first book to
> criticism (self-criticism), discussion and new practices in this area.
>
> I hope that answers some questions and that engagement with the book still
> gives some food for thought.
>
> All the best
> Anthony