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Sunshine

from Red Threads by Bourgeois Speedball

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The commodification of musical culture, which is to say its capture by capital, is dependent upon the juridico-economic fictions of ownership and identity. The recording industry privatizes the sphere of the musical imagination, locates it within the sovereign interiority of the composer, markets the fantasy of individual creativity to a consumer base, and maintains its privatization through the facade of copyright. Copyright is a rich white dude’s word for theft by the ruling class; it then seeks to ground its theft ontologically by writing its delusions into the nature of the world. The history of recorded music can be read as a sustained effort to privatize, individuate and commoditize cultural production through technical-juridical means.

Sampling opens up an alternative pathway towards thinking the commons of culture. It undermines the unity and the self-sameness of the recording, that techno dream of the identical copy, and replaces it with a deterritorialized, mutating, fractured molten mass of sonic data. It asserts the collective nature of creativity, of the inimitably social function and practice of composition that cannot be subsumed under the logic of ownership.

“Sometimes the story is not clear, or it starts in a whisper. It goes around again and again but listening—it is funny every time. This knowledge has been degraded, the research rejected. They can’t get access to books, and no one will publish them. Policy has concluded they are conspiratorial, heretical, criminal, amateur. Policy says they can’t handle debt and will never get credit. But if you listen to them, they will tell you: we will not handle credit, and we cannot handle debt, debt flows through us, and there’s no time to tell you everything, so much bad debt, so much to forget and remember again. But if we listen to them, they will say, “Come, let’s plan something together.” And that’s what we’re going to do. We’re telling all of you, but we’re not telling anyone else.”

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from Red Threads, released September 7, 2016

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Bourgeois Speedball Oakland, California

Bourgeois Speedball lives in ruins. Sculpting compositions from crumbling synthesizers, samplers, and the soundscapes of Bay Area rebellions, Bourgeois Speedball organizes sound within the decaying oikos of globalized neoliberalism.

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