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Sonic hacking. On lo-fi, critique through practice and fugitive ways out of capitalism

Sonic hacking. On lo-fi, critique through practice and fugitive ways out of capitalism

This is a story about music, hacking and anti-capitalism. But it is also the exact moment when sounds and words and ideas resonate in so many ways at the same time that it becomes almost impossible to organise thoughts in the form of writing. These words should be simultaneous sounds. I have been constantly crashing against the limits of language for a long time. I need something more sensible, something that can physically touch, far beyond the ambiguity and the…

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Neoliberalism stole my virginity*? On being a teenager musician in the Nineties, Blind Melon and the future we lost

Neoliberalism stole my virginity*? On being a teenager musician in the Nineties, Blind Melon and the future we lost

Too many subjects in just one post? Probably. As obvious as it may sound, I do not even know where to start. But, since we seem to live in an emotional capitalism, let’s start this way: about a feeling: being a teenager and playing in a band in the Nineties. I grew up in a small town in northern Italy, I started playing drums when I was 14 in a band with some friends, we believed in it, we did…

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