Cacophony, by John Wall

Cacophony

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	1.	cacophony I 02:46		buy track
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A certain, often reactionary mode of thinking decries the explicit linkage of music to politics: somehow, in its necessary concreteness, the latter “vulgarizes” the former, draws it out of the realm of shadowy abstraction and into the supposedly finite, discrete, plain and simple—dessicated, dead on arrival. But what is finite, discrete, or simple about the endlessly shifting contingencies of history as reflected in politics? Is this not actually the terrain in which concreteness and abstraction are constantly flowing into—becoming—one another, in which both our analytical skills and experience are tested to their utmost limits? Is there not something to be said for attempting to capture this swarming network of contradictions in sound? Perhaps this is already moving far beyond a conventional description of “political art.” But regardless: in Cacophony I hear sonified the fragmented, scattering, elastic contents of my brain and heart at this moment, weeks into Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine—jagged, molten, crusting over and erupting. This is not merely a subjective whim: this particular politic is objectively embedded into the music; it is woven into its very fabric and wrapped around its alien bones. Just as the Palestinian resistance has acted as a mirror of truth to the world, exposing hidden structures, forces, weaknesses, points of entry—perhaps that same resistance has exposed, and shattered, preconceived notions about “political art” and what classes and social forces such art serves: an opening.
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released November 28, 2023

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