Archive for February, 2009

 

Audio Poverty

Feb 04, 2009 in Anthropology of Sound, Exhibition, Festival, Lecture, Link, Performance, Research, Sonic Fictions, Sound Art, Sound Studies, Symposion

Music is currently undergoing a loss of value not only in economic terms, but also in ways that have an impact on the social and aesthetic structure of musical life, affecting forms of publication, the culture of listening, musical discourse, and the music itself.


Audio Poverty explores the link between music and poverty, from impoverished musical material to the starving artist. Audio Poverty looks at music from the margins—the sounds of the viola da gamba and a chirping Barbie doll, between broken vinyl and Africa’s acoustic everyday life, between Philippine art music and Detroit trash. The concert hall and the club are given equal status in a musical discourse where poverty becomes musically concrete.


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