Towards a Treatise of Speculative Music[1]François LaruelleIn Tétralogos: un opéra de philosophies (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2018), p.593-607. During my thesis defense, one juror, Clémence Ramnoux (a specialist in Greek philosophy including Heraclitus) said this premonitory statement: you wanted to make […]
Towards a Treatise of Speculative Music
Wir haben unser Konzept kürzlich als ultrablack, als non-frequency-music oder einfach als non-music bezeichnet. In der Standard-Musik wird eine punktierte Produktionszeit in den Körper der Musik eingepflanzt, was die non-frequency-music wiederum weiß und deshalb zur pulsierenden rhythmischen Kraft übergeht, eine
Mille Plateaux – Der Zustand des Ungeformten
The Non-Philosophical or Super-Philosophical Rebellion of Music: The Death of Socrates Set to Music Through the Reversal of the Socratic MetaphorFrançois LaruelleIn Tétralogos: Un opéra de philosophies (Paris: Cerf, 2018), p.559-562. Can we imagine a non-philosophical, indeed a super-philosophical rebellion of music which
The Non-Philosophical or Super-Philosophical Rebellion of Music
you can pre-order here Aphàiresis (from the Greek αφαίρεσις, “abstraction”) is an audiovisual work composed between 2017 and 2019, whose aim is to investigate the relationship between materiality and immateriality, between presence and metaphysics. It is from the fruitful relationship
Geriet Sharma taken from the book Ultrablack of Music »Here, perhaps the frightful expression “consumption of music” really does apply after all. For perhaps this continuous tinkle, regardless of whether anyone wants to hear it or not, whether anyone can
Surrounded by Immersion – Means of Post-Democratic Warfare
taken from the book Ultrablack of Music Introduction – The following fragments constitute a series of reflections on techno music and technoculture. They are presented unsystematically as a testimony to the way we communicate on the internet. The key thread
Techno is the Message. Reflections on the Short Circuits of the Electronic Music Industry
taken from the book Ultrablack of Music The vast world Sound is blackened through and through. All sound objects in this world are becoming more and more dark: ten thousand million electronic sounds called »Preset 01«; ten thousand million concrète
Algorithmic Committee taken from the book Ultrablack of Music »Paris changed my life […] A Few days ago, I was re-reading the famous A Thousand Plateaus by Deleuze and Guattari, where at the beginning of the first chapter there is
The Scream and the Sound of the Flesh
taken from the book Ultrablack of Music Considering the current popularity of climate protest movements like Extinction Rebellion, there seems to be a common ground amongst many of our more or less privileged European comrades, that an affective and sensory-based
Don’t Forget to Change The Beat From Time To Time – About Counter-Raving.
“Die Riots kommen; sie sind bereits da. Weitere sind unterwegs, daran besteht kein Zweifel. Und sie verdienen eine angemessene Theorie.” – Joshua Clover (2016) “You will notice the weather only when it starts to die.” – Sean Bonney (2016) Riots
Die unerhörte Sprache des Riot. Joshua Clovers Riot.Strike.Riot.
To enrich means to add, not to substitute or to abolish.—Luigi Russolo, The Enharmonic Bow “Noise,” as an idea, a subject, a field, an instrument, came upon the scene with a power and swiftness that transformed all of science and
Techno-Futurism: Noise, Dissonance, and the Global Avante Garde