Some Excursions into Sonic Fiction
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| D I R K V A N W E E L D E N |
| Some Excursions into Sonic Fiction |
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Kodwo Eshun's More Brilliant Than The Sun is an essay about music, and one of the most trailblazing you can read nowadays. It is certainly not a journalistic investigation into the social or biographical backgrounds of music. It presents itself as a form of theory. But not theory in the classical sense, that is, the abstract representation of a subject by a disinterested outsider. Theory for Eshun exists to ridicule and break through oppressive thought patterns and at the same time to make new possibilities visible. Thus his inspiration for the many new concepts and terms he uses in his book originate not only with philosophers and writers, but most of all from musicians, djs and producers. The result is naturally not an analytical aesthetics, but rather an inspired provocation, a tool box for thinking further and making music.
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