Part I: Non-Music, (N)Ontology, and Distinguishing Bubbles. It is important to remember from the offset that ‘non’ is not identical to ‘anti’ or ‘counter’, for example, ‘non-philosophy’ is not an ‘anti-philosophy’ in the sense of Badiou, although his work on […]
Like advertising, fashion, and cinema before it, music rules today as a dominant ideogram of power. Not a reflection of a serious materialist power which emanates elsewhere and that precedes it, music is a real ruling laboratory of the age
What is Rhythm? What is Rhythm? Rhythm is a temporally extended pattern in which information-transmitting processes take place. It can be described by the following parameters: spatial (distance, movement, neighbourhood), temporal (speed, limit of human perception, infinite time scales versus
Ultra-blackness in Music. A Non-Mixology
In my album “star of the west” I documented the events that transpired in the USA between November 2020 and January 2021. The original project creation and development was funded by a Stipend from Musikfonds e.V. The following is an
Against escapist entertainment
An interface is choice frozen. Let’s shuck the lid and expose the underneath: YOU ARE NOT INNOCENT: YOUR EXPECTATIONS ARE LEADING TO A BAD LISTENING EXPERIENCE. THIS IS TAP WATER. The truth of a text is never really written anywhere:
When we think of the history of techno, house, and thus inevitably disco or hip-hop, we always think of the (sub)proletariat, queers & PoCs, the repressed, people who are given neither space nor time, who have to appropriate it themselves;
MOMEM, deutsch mich nicht voll! Wenn wir an die Geschichte des Techno, House, damit zwangsläufig auch Disco oder Hip-Hop denken, dann denken wir immer auch an das (Sub-)Proletariat, Queers & PoCs, an Verdrängte, Leute denen weder Raum noch Zeit gegeben
Written explanation of the bachelor thesis 1. Introduction „The future is dark, which is best thing the future can be, I think.“ Virginia Woolf[1] „A call to arm Ain’t gonna fight no moreDone fought the kitchen clockAnd the master’s clockAnd
I always had a deep enthusiasm for the bands like My Bloody Valentine, Seefeel, Slowdive, Lush, you name it … bands defined in many different ways the genre known as SHOEGAZE. What gravitated me towards this genre was basically the
SHOEDRIFT / SIFIR on Mille Plateaux
0. GOBEKLI TEPE No matter if the scientists, researchers, historians, anthropologists seem to have agreed upon that the ruins in Gobekli Tepe should be considered as a clear proof of a primordial and obscure religion with its temples built around
Corry Shores and Meli̇ke Başak Yalçın 0 Introduction Shortly before his death, Gilles Deleuze discovered a new kind of music: glitch, in particular, Oval’s Systemisch. [Achim] Szepanski contacted Deleuze himself, sending material by Oval and other Mille Plateaux artists, and
From Rhythm to Glitch: Digital Deformation in Deleuze
From November 21, 2021 Synnika Frankfurt presents the installation NONPLUSULTRABLACK in collaboration with the Frankfurt music label Mille Plateaux. Since 1991, the network initiated by Achim Szepanski around the labels Force Inc, Mille Plateaux, Position Chrome, Communism Records and many
NONPLUSULTRABLACK / Installation