Multi-track Mind
Connections in social music, art and anarchy

Marcel Duchamp→

←John Cage

Banksy
← artivism

Development
Original sketch

Duality
-Arty handiwork vs call to action
-Syncretism, combination of beliefs or traditions
(zero gravity)

Duchamp’s
chocolate grinder →

Musicians:
Connor Kent, drums
Luke Norris, tenor
Alonzo Demetrius, trumpet
him, bass
Luis Celis, second bass
Jireh Calo, voice

Husserl→

Reduction
-Nihilism, purity
-Bracketing (phenomenology): breaking down symbolic meanings,
starting over from pure phenomena
-Non-judgment

Original sketch

Musicians:
Julia Connor, violin
Shaun Chen, viola
Aidan Rodier, oboe
Jose Santos Aquino, clarinet
him, bass

“Life has no intrinsic worth, but is kept in motion merely by
desire and illusion.” --Arthur Schopenhauer

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Violin: Ju
Viola: Sh

Inspirations: Dada, Prokofiev 5tet op. 39
Non-intention, spectator completing the work
Hegel quotes:
-Mark this well, you proud men of action! you
are, after all, nothing but unconscious
instruments of the men of thought.
-The history of the world is none other than the progress of the
consciousness of freedom.
-Amid the pressure of great events, a general principal
gives no help.
-1ce the state has been founded, there kin no longer be
any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized
conditions.
“I’m not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.”

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“We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit,
and just as little have we any need to be professionals to
acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.”

“world history is a court of judgment.”

“To him who looks upon the world
rationally, the world in its turn presents
a rational aspect. The relation is
mutual.”

Piñata
-Content out of form (piñata)
-Individualist-anarchist, anti-abstraction
(spooks)

Musicians:
Connor Kent, drums
Luke Norris, tenor
Alonzo Demetrius, trumpet
Jacob, bass

Falling Fruit
“Government is a tree. Its fruits are people. As people ripen, they drop away from
the tree.” Thoreau
from Essay on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Violin: Julia Connor

Clarinet: Jose Santos Aquino

Viola: Shaun Chen

Bass: My[self]

Trumpet: Alonzo Demetrius
Tenor: Dr. Luke Norris

Oboe: Aidan Rodier

Bass 2: Luis Celis

Voice: Jireh Calo
Drums: Connor Kent

“We turn poison into medicine.”
Goals for this project
1.

Reflect on the purpose of music
○ Exploring my own ambivalence without judgment
○ Looking for connections between conflicting values

2.

Five pieces
○ Using resistance from these limitations to create healing work

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Some intellectual history...
Stirner

←Die Fre
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Friedrich
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What is anarchism?

Anarcho-feminist militia (c. 1936)
Spanish Social Revolution

Pyotr Kropotkin (c. 1900)
Russian anarcho-communist activist

Cover art by Man Ray for Mother Earth
“A Monthly Magazine Devoted to
Social Science and Literature”
(1906-1917)

The “Battle in Seattle” (1999)
World Trade Organization protests

H.Fi

History is
fundamentally
irrelevant.

This year has been an essential experience sifting through my
thoughts.feelings and gaining a lot of perspective on what I would like to say
artistically and why, especially helping me move into the future with more
knowledge and confidence to continue finding these things out.
-Further acknowledgments:
●

Chase Morrin, the man the myth the advisor
● Ben Street, the super hero
● JP, Danilo, Marco: mentors
● Patti, committee member
-Benjamin Jephta, boss producer

●

Heidi Martin, engineer

Jasper Johns

Thanks!

Something resembling truth

links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_epistemology
http://postscarcitymagazine.com/Article/Did-anarchism-influence-the-Dadaists-26
https://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=643
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUzDGEDCnX4
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203029275
https://www.elbowmusic.org/single-post/2019/04/08/Life-in-Teaching-Thomas-Martin?fbclid=IwAR2_
hOlMvgXmSJCuCEWF3xzbCwdpPl2Q-G8_SQgceBkqKPdzx6sqMT46ZhQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Louise_O%27Murphy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5JGE3lhuNo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkJnMjj0vDw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB9rp_SAp2U