Music as Organon of Noise:

Sonic Fiction & Audio Virology

> ‘extra’> ‘alien’> affective / perturbation

“Music is the melody to which the world is the text.”- Arthur Schopenhauer

“Take a structure like a multi-storey car park, one of the most mysterious buildings ever built. Is it a model for some

strange psychological state, some kind of vision glimpsed within its bizarre geometry? What effect does using these

buildings have on us? Are the real myths of this century being written in terms of these huge unnoticed structures?”

- J. G. Ballard

“…a productive utilisation of myth is not impersonal and neutral, but it is not a purely personal affair either. In fact, it

is explicitly collective: the production of collective enunciations.”

- Simon O’ Sullivan

See also: Science Fiction > ‘Novum’ as object of ‘epistemological gravity’ > alien logic

Transmedia / Distrubuted Narrative

VAPORWAVE

“We wanted to do something very Debordian, about how this capitalistic society has

generated a dehumanising hyperreality by focusing an infinite generation of ideals as

shown through commodities. I view society as entering a hyperreal state, and how it has is

part of what INTERNET CLUB is about.”- INTERNET CLUB

“I think it’s very important that we as musicians react to our world. I guess part of me misses the era of protest songs. Now everything’s a

protest song, now I feel like the most effective social commentary is one without dialogue.”

- New Dreams Ltd.

> Ballard’s car parks vs. 21st C ‘public plaza’> Contemporary Myth as Vapor(ware) i.e fabricated future?> Semantic Apocalypse> The new punk? (no future)

> apocalypse> pessimism (“this is the worst of all possible worlds”)> ‘necrosound’

“Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.”

- Ray Brassier

BLACK METAL

SWARMING as a form / strategy

“The cold world of Black Metal is a deliberate freezing of the world, fixing it within a terminal image, in order that it’s frost-bitten surface may be shattered by anonymous, inhuman forces rising from the depths of the self. It is a withdrawal of affect from the

world, in order to experience ‘the eerie bliss and torture of solitude’ and so discover the forces at war within oneself… The vertiginous dysphoria of Xasthur’s sound-world

is not yet the focused displeasure of the militant, but a simulacrum – a spiritualisation – of malcontent. It embodies a will that that which is should not be, but not a will tha

that which is should be otherwise.”- Dominic Fox

‘AFRO-FUTURISM’

Afro-Futurism > Diaspora > ‘Dub Virus’ - memetics> ‘Earworm’

The “dub virus” relates not just to the direct influence of the dub reggae sound on other musics, but more than this, its catalysis of an abstract sound machine revolving

around the studio as instrument and the migration of a number of production and playback processes. The dub virus hacked the operating system of sonic reality and

imploded it into a remixological field. - Steve Goodman

Dan GrahamRock My Religion1982-84

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“…our societies are without a future that can be presented as

universal.”- Alain Badiou

Plastique FantastiqueCloud Gives Birth to New Animal: Plastique Fantastique Loop to Call Forth Neuropatheme2013

POLLYFIBRELive Cut2013

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clips shown:James Ferraro – Global LunchINTERNET CLUB – Wave TempleMayhem – Pure Fucking ArmageddonXasthur – Telepathic with the DeceasedSun Ra – Space is the PlaceDrexciya – Black SeaJillian Mayer – MegaMega Uplad