Noise (part 1)
November 5, 2008The idea with this podcast was to create a rough sketch for adapting Jacques Attali's book Noise to an audio recording. I read a few excerpts from the first chapter of Noise and layered that over a soundtrack of various open source recordings. While written over two decades ago, the book seems to be as relevant as ever, in particular his idea of the four stages of music: sacrifice, representation, repetition, and composition, the final stage uncannily suggests the mash-ups and self generating music that has emerged recently. There's a great wealth of material here about 'the political economy of music' that would be fantastic to hear in full as audio book with a well crafted soundtrack or as a sound art piece.
