[spectre] Noise and the Possibility for a Future, The Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, March 6, 7

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For Immediate Release:
Noise and the Possibility for a Future

Organized by Warren Neidich
March 6th and 7th
The Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
Adresse: 5750 Wilshire Boulevard, 100, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Participants:
Victor   Albarracin, Andrew Berandini,  David  Burrows, Luciano
Chessa, Mathieu Copeland, D.J. Spookey (aka Paul Miller), Corey Fogel,
Simone Forti, Paul Hegarty, Sarah Kessler, Ulrich Krieger, Gregory
Lenczycki,  Mattin, Daniel Munoz, Renee Petropoulis,  David Schafer,
Marcus Schmickler, Susan Silton,  Gabie Strong Karen Tongson, John
Wiese, Susanne Winterling

Music is prophecy. Its styles and economic organization are ahead of
the rest of society because it explores, much faster than material
reality can, the entire range of possibilities in a given code. It
makes audible the new world that will gradually become visible, that
will impose itself and regulate the order of things. (Jacques Attali,
Noise: The Political Economy of Music)

Noise is prevalent in our post-industrial society, like it or not!
Whether experienced as the cacophony of an industrial era eroded and
broken, breeding new forms of information, war machines and
inspirational responses such as those of Throbbing Gristle's, in which
over-painted and appropriated sounds are collaged with real time
performance, producing a clangorous, disharmonic din.  Or whether,
instead, the dissonance resulting from an overly compressed and
accelerated cultural habitus occurring near highways and airports that
makes life a little less livable,  generating protective responses
such as noise barriers, those Serra-esque barricades shielding
adjacent built communities.

Noise usually gets a bad rap. It is appreciated as something
offensive, rendering systems inefficient and therefore requiring
control or mitigation. However, noise has another side, more positive
and emancipatory. This 'other side' is the focus of this conference
which understands it in an expanded form. It asks instead whether it
might be considered as something liberating. Could we think of it
rather as a mode of production beyond capitalism's capacity to
recuperate its alterity for its own purposes; a sublime place of
freedom?

This symposium aims to understand how Noise acts as a destabilizing
force through which the inherent diversity and variability in the
world, its pluri-potentiality, is first unleashed and then
reregistered to create alternative events that reroute institutional
networks, hoping to ‘undistribute’ and disentangle the
contemporary mesh of our highly-connected social, political, economic,
and psychological world. What then might emerge? This
cross-disciplinary intervention links the fields of visual art and
music, especially their theories of the avant-garde, to other fields
of study such as performance studies, auto-destructive art, social
constructivism, critical theory, gender and queer studies and
political philosophy, in order to understand an expanded notion of
noise as a discursive apparatus of building. After all, in our
information and knowledge economies, ideas and discourses create the
surplus value of exo-evolutionary fields that become embodied in
neural, social and economic circuitry. Of special importance will be a
conception of noise as it relates to the emerging field of
communicative and cognitive capitalism in which the mind and brain are
the new sites of wealth production and control.  As the introductory
quote implies, music and noise create new possibilities for
contemporary forms, shapes and events active in the cultural
landscape.  Warren Neidich

For more information:

phone: +1 (323) 5253388 ( tel:%2B1%20%28323%29%205253388 )
fax +1 (323) 9343597 ( tel:%2B1%20%28323%29%209343597 )
info at losangeles.goethe.org
www.goethe.de/losangeles

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