by ROSE LAUREL
A Manual for Becoming
In telling the story of how a radio show hosted by a record label lead to a publishing practice in such a way, we have a chance to begin explicating our take on the changing winds in those most dirty of social sciences and biology. For thousands of years, the West has held music as a matter of pure rationale, something purely of the intellect, but when the body is just an ear itself, and when one might say we are all, at once, being-in-music (or becoming-as-music), how we think about music has to change dramatically, how we speak music or speak about music has to change – music must be able to become something radically "unmusical", to cast off the Image-of-itself that it, like and as philosophy, has become; we must once again pursue a non-music fit for a non-sociology; or better, we must approach a quantum musical social ontology. This book is our first attempt to write towards a theory of a Musica Universalis of the social, the noise (harmony) of the social sphere(s).
Naturally, given the context of the project, we wanted to launch this book alongside a revamped version of our radio show, beginning today on Lumbung Radio at 9am (the live show is aimed at insomniacs who refuse to sleep so that capital may never dream), but the shows are immediately archived for everyone else to access.
The book is very short run and is produced at a time where your support is more appreciated than ever – we are really looking forward to your feedback.
TOPICS COVERED:
- Images of Thought
- Listening modes
- Negativity and The Ear
- Minimalism
- Honest Electronics
- Logocentrism
- Metaphysics of Presence
- Natural Physics
- Lumbung Radio
- Rave Culture, Tripping
- Radio Control Rooms
- Analogical Transmissions
- Anamorphoses
- Insomniac Dream-Machines