“Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed — no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.” — George Orwell. 1984
Tocca Firenze una delle due date del italiane del tour europeo di Messer Chups,
il duo surf elettronico russo scoperto da Mike Patton, oggi accasatosi su Ipecac
Recordings. Psychobilly, lounge, b-movie e delirio. Surf horror inferno bugi!
il circuit bending è un modo semplice e divertente per autocostruirsi
uno strumento musicale attraverso l’utilizzo creativo del corto
circuito su piccoli circuiti sonori, pratica teorizzata da Reed Ghazala
nel libro "Circuit Bending, Make Your Own Alien Istruments". La
leggenda vuole che la cosa sia nata per caso dopo che un giorno del ’66
una sua radiosveglia andò spontaneamente in corto circuito generando
dei rumori favolosamente musicali. Tra i giocattoli più torturati non
possiamo non ricordare la celebre tastiera SK1 Casio e lo Speak &
Spell firmato Texas Instruments nella versione italiana Grillo Parlante
prodotto da Clementoni che ne hanno viste davvero di tutti i colori.
In
the 1930ies Bert Brecht and Walter Benjamin tried to formulate a
participatory and anti-fascist media theory. Benjamin demanded that
every author should also be a producer of new formats and techniques
which would enable people to find their own voice and express
themselves. And Brecht thought that "through continuous, never ending
proprosals how to better use the apparatuses in the interest of the
general public" the left could shake up and destroy the social basis of
those apparatuses, and "discredit their use in the interest of the
few." 70 years later the participatory media paradigm that Brecht and
Benjamin envisioned seems to become possible. Dissident politicized
media activists and free software developers not only own the means of
production, they/us/we actually produce them. Can we change the
relationship of the means of production by producing participatory and
emancipatory technologies? Can capitalism be unspun from within? Or
will this movement be another victim of capitalism's capacity to absorb
progressive and critical movements and divert their power, a tendency
we can already see with Web 2.0.
A lecture supported by audio
interviews with discussion afterwards. 45 RPM is an interim result of
The Next Layer research project, an independent research project into
the art and politics of Free Software. http://theoriebild.ung.at/view