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1. What Isn’t Music After Cage?
when John Cage went to the anechoic Chamber
at Harvard in 1951, he was expecting silence
but he heard two sounds:
1) his nervous system
2) his circulating blood
Douglas Khan, makes the point
that Cage would also have heard a third sound
the sound of him discerning the two other previous sounds
Is then music conceptual instead of perceptual?
after that everything can be perceived as music
a dehearchisation of values
which can also resemble today's real subsumption in capitalism
it allows you to do anything because it knows its power
for recuperation is as strong as ever
the point is not to treat all sounds as valid music
but understand the relations that occur in
the production and the reception and
if possible change those conditions
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2. Aware of its own mediation
punk, folk, improv
be as honest as possible
nothing to hide, you are real
record on the spot
inside of you
there is something pure
a free spirit
that needs to be captured
for the world to explore
but if Cage had to construct
the whole narrative
around the Chamber experience
for his 4'33''
you had to construct
your believe in self-expression
your believe in lived unmediated experiences
you just never show the process
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Stuck In Our Own Trap
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3. Stuck in our own Trap
like in a hamster wheel
going around and round
exercising self-referentiality
discourse as a form of currency
in the art world
how critical we are
going around and round
these complex terms
going around and round
these cool trends
I want to be seen
next to the next big thing
a quote here, a position there,
We are stuck in our own trap
self-conscious of the image we generate
something must really change
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4. Alienation as an Enabling Condition
freedom is a cultural achievement
alienation allows you the necessary distance
to realize that there is no self to come back to
it allows you to distinguish appearances from process
from the experiencing self to the thinking subject
alienation as maximal estrangement
splitting of the subject from the self
in order to find out how the self is produced
resembling the uncovering of the obscurity
of how commodities are produced
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The Act Acting On Itself
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5. The Act Acting on Itself
recognising the un-freedom of voluntary activity
instead
freedom as an act of self-determination
where no selfs are involved
just the act which might contain no humans
the act acting on itself
which in the process becomes a subject
this act requires two different types of behavior:
pattern-governed behavior
rule-governed behavior
pattern-governed behavior:
doing things for a reason
rule-governed behavior:
doing things because of a reason
the ability to act occurs when you superimpose them
follow the rule
compulsive freedom:
how objectivity generates subjectivity
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