File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1996/d-g_Mar.96, message 43


Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 01:49:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Amardeep Singh <asingh-AT-emerald.tufts.edu>
Subject: Re: indecent transmission (hot hot graphics)


I think everybody is itching to talk about punk. 
I'll start. Punk is generally much more interesting than ambient or 
experimental music precisely because it is heavily (re)territorialized. 
On the other hand, this means that it's potential in terms of things that 
some D+G fans like (things like rhizomaticity, etc.) is maybe limited. 

On the other hand, there is experimental punk, which might also not be 
punk, which might merely be the 'excessivist' side of the generally 
minimalist experimental music that all you somber eccentric geniuses seem 
to be into. There is The Ex, there is Gravity Records (Honeywell in 
particular). There are the weird offshoots of the absurdly 
over-territorialized punk band Born Against: the Men's 
Recovery Project ("Email is a men's room!") and the Young Pioneers 
("sickly and confused with no identity/ that's what it's like to be white 
like me"). Music that is adrift. What does it all mean? 

-deep 

(for info. on Born Against etc. see my web page 
http://www.tufts.edu/~asingh/)

On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Thomas Schumacher wrote:

> I think the more schizo recording is the latest from The Ex called "Instant" 
> which deterritorializes that most territorialized of music, punk itself.
> 
> Tom S.
> 

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