[microsound-announce] Podcast: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... William Bennett. Part II

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*Podcast: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... William Bennett. Part II

A musical selection of some of the secret jewels found in William Bennett's
sound collection, discovering rare percussion music from West-Africa. *
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Music selected by William Bennett.

Link: http://bit.ly/y9fAvM

There's something particularly intoxicating about sheer physiological
functionality in music. About being acted upon to the extent where granted
permission and forceful imperative become giddily indistinguishable. Not
that you're worrying over the distinction anyway when a sound takes you
whipsawing around into juddering surrender bordering on then slipping into
ecstasy. There just isn't any need to worry about responsible agency, who
or what is answerable for the sudden tyranny of basest autonomy. You're a
character, very nonfiction.

The height of aural power is when a piece you've never heard and can't
place finds you more wantonly suggestible than you'd readily volunteer. And
manifests its hold physically.  Experienced outside and beyond their
original context these specially mixed African and Haitian percussion
pieces evince an extra-intentional intent, a rhythmic seizure of rational
faculties. Timidity of the permeable body, rigid abhorrence of the ass, are
not long for this world.  Too much won't be enough.

Merciless non-judgmental ambiguity: your balled-up two-fisted convictions
defer to a point of gravity somewhere lower, tag team target of relentless
djembe and doun-doun polyrhythms. Best let it exercise full reign, best
allow yourself a suspension of the bounds of good sense, an equivocal lapse
into that unsafe territory where content is subservient to effect. Sublime
indulgence in existential power-play.

William Bennett & Mimsy DeBlois, Edinburgh, 14th December, 2011

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