FWD: warpornTVprotestmusic

— postfixE <[email protected]> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 23:50:35 -0700
> From: "postfixE" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: warpornTVprotestmusic
>
>
> ?The artist must elect to fight for freedom or
> slavery. I have made my choice. I had no
> alternative.? -
> Paul Robeson
>
> ?And you, are you so forgetful of your past, is
> there no echo in your soul of your poets' songs,
> your
> dreamers' dreams, your rebels' calls?? - Emma
> Goldman
>
> Hello friends (and fellow conspirators),
> We are writing to tell you about our newest
> recording project.
> It is called warpornTVprotestmusic. It?s a DIY
> punktronic musical documentary imagined, created and
> recorded at home from 9/2001 - 7/2002. It explores
> the effects of the media (and its limited scope of
> representation) on our consciousness as well as our
> perceptions of reality. It?s also about using the
> available technology and tools to creatively express
> our dissent and frustration.
> It is posted stereo mp3 style on our website
> www.nerdtronica.com
> and can be downloaded now (FREE).
> The recording is just under sixty minutes with 37
> tracks.
> We are preparing a thesis (and video) about this
> project, soon to be posted.
> If you want a CD-R version of the album, reply to us
> at this e-mail address.
>
> peace and love
>
> Rob and Mike
>
> ?When the mass media in some foreign countries serve
> as megaphones for the rhetoric of their
> government, the result is ludicrous propaganda. When
> the mass media in our country serve as
> megaphones for the rhetoric of the U.S. government,
> the result is responsible journalism?
> - Normon Solomon
>
> ?Perhaps this is an obvious point, but the
> democratic postulate is that the media are
> independent and
> committed to discovering and reporting the truth,
> and that they do not merely reflect the world as
> powerful groups wish it to be perceived. Leaders of
> the media claim that their news choices rest on
> unbiased professional and objective criteria, and
> they have support for this contention in the
> intellectual community. If, however, the powerful
> are able to fix the premises of discourse, to decide
> what the general populace is allowed to see, hear,
> and think about, and to "manage" public opinion
> by regular propaganda campaigns, the standard view
> of how the system works is at serious odds
> with reality.? - Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing
> Consent, preface, pg xi
>
> ?The powerful call us ignorant.? - Subcomandante
> Marcos
>
> ?Don't hate the media. Become the media.? ? Jello
> Biafra
>