MANIFESTO, by Jack Hamill

MANIFESTO

by Jack Hamill

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1.	ᴀ;ᴘꜰɴɢ{}ꜰᴘꜱᴊɴᴋ! 01:40	buy track
2.	pure unbridled serial dogma iv [parts 1+2] 04:44	buy track
3.	II. sometimes...𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝓁𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝒽𝑜𝓁𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒶 𝒽𝑜𝓂𝑒 00:55	buy track
4.	pure, unbridled serial dogma iii 00:58	buy track
5.	𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎: 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 02:20	buy track
6.	I. sometimes...𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝑒𝓃𝒹𝑒𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓇𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝒾𝓍 𝒶 𝒻𝓇𝒶𝑔𝒾𝓁𝑒 𝓅𝑜𝒾𝓃𝓉 𝒶𝓈 𝒸𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇 [parts 1+2] 03:21	buy track
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8.	pure, unbridled, serial dogma ii 01:14	buy track
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10.	III. sometimes..𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝑔𝓇𝒶𝒻𝓉𝓈 𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓅𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒶 𝒷𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀𝒶𝓌𝒶𝓎.... 01:28	buy track
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🄼🄰🄽🄸🄵🄴🅂🅃🄾: 🅃🄴🅇🅃

𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘚 𝘐𝘚 𝘈 𝘔𝘈𝘕𝘐𝘍𝘌𝘚𝘛𝘖, BUT IT’S ALSO A PIECE ABOUT MANIFESTOS. I’M INTERESTED IN THE VIOLENT OVERCONFIDENCE OF SINGULAR VOICES, BUT ALSO IN THE MULTIPLICITY OF CONTRADICTIONS WITHIN AND BETWEEN THEM.

𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘚 𝘐𝘚 𝘈 𝘔𝘈𝘕𝘐𝘍𝘌𝘚𝘛𝘖, BUT IT’S ALSO AN EXPERIMENT. EACH WRITTEN PASSAGE IS GROUNDED IN NO LITTLE-TO-NO PREREQUISITE TESTING OR QUALIFICATION. NOTHING IS ORGANIZED TOWARDS A SPECIFIC END, NOTHING SEEKS TO BE JUSTIFIED BY ITS RESULT.

𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘚 𝘐𝘚 𝘈 𝘔𝘈𝘕𝘐𝘍𝘌𝘚𝘛𝘖, BUT IT’S ALSO A JUMBLED NET OF ETUDES. EVERY WRITTEN PASSAGE IS AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE. THE SCORE IS LITTERED WITH CONTRADICTIONS, REDUNDANCIES, AND IMPOSSIBILITIES. MANIFESTOS NEVER CLARIFY, THEY ONLY CONFUSE. SOME OF THESE PASSAGES WERE CONSTRUCTED, OTHERS ARE TRANSCRIPTIONS, SOME CALL FOR “IMPROVISATION”. MANY OTHERS LIE AROUND AND IN-BETWEEN.

𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘚 𝘐𝘚 𝘈 𝘔𝘈𝘕𝘐𝘍𝘌𝘚𝘛𝘖 BECAUSE IT’S AN EXPLOSION, NOT A CONCENTRATION. NOT THE BEATLES, THE SHAGGS; NOT STEVE REICH, JULIUS EASTMAN; NOT GRISEY, ANA-MARIA AVRAM; NOT MERZBOW, MASONNA; NOT BOULEZ, STOCKHAUSEN (OR KAGEL)- BRAXTON, ETC.

MANIFESTOS HAVE PUSHED OUT FROM HIERARCHICAL AND CONCENTRATED CENTERS OF POWER BY LOCALIZING NEWLY EPHEMERAL ANSWERS AND OPENING UP PERPETUALLY RENEWABLE DIRECTIONS. THEY HAVE SOUGHT TO EXPRESSIVELY DISFIGURE THE POLISHED, TERRITORIAL WALLS OF ARTISTIC AND ACADEMIC ESTABLISHMENTS. THE SPIRIT OF THESE OBSCURE GESTURES OF ORIGINAL THOUGHT MUST BE CONTINUALLY REIMAGINED.

ALL PRE-EXISTING AXIOMS OF STRUCTURAL THOUGHT HAVE COLLAPSED ONTO EACH OTHER. EVERYTHING IS MULTIPLE AND CONNECTED TO OTHER MULTIPLICITIES. HOW IS A MANIFESTO EVEN POSSIBLE TODAY? HOW CAN YOU MAKE AN EXPRESSIVE STATEMENT WHEN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT ANY COHERENT IDEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK WILL COLLAPSE ON ITSELF IS OLD NEWS?

WE DON’T KNOW MUCH BUT HERE IS ONE THING WE DO KNOW: CONTRADICTIONS ARE MORE INTERESTING THAN CONCEPTS AND IMPERFECT ENDS ARE HUMAN ENDS.

GRIDDED AND SEGMENTED SOCIAL FORCES PUSH NOT JUST MUSIC BUT THE ENTIRE REALM OF AESTHETICS ONTO THE SANITIZED PERIPHERY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR. AESTHETIC TERRITORIES: GALLERIES, GARDENS, CONCERT HALLS, ETC. THESE TERRITORIES HAVE WIDENED BUT IN THE PROCESS HAVE BECOME EVEN MORE STRATIFIED. THESE POWER STRUCTURES COVERTLY CONTROL FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF OUR SOCIAL REALITY AND WE SHOULD LOSE CONCERN FOR THEIR SANCTITY IN ORDER TO AFFIRMATIVELY DECONSTRUCT THEM AND THE SOCIAL REALITIES THAT THEY ENGENDER.

ＭＡＮＩＦＥＳＴＯ IS THIS: SCRAMBLE UP ALL OF THE IDEAS IN YOUR HEAD, DON’T TAXONOMIZE THEM, DON’T TIE THEM TO RATIONAL ROOTS, BUT WEAVE THEM ALL TOGETHER IN THE ACT OF LAYING THEM OUT ONTO A HETEROGENEOUS GRID. I PHRASE IT LIKE THIS BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO MAKE YOUR OWN MANIFESTO. ADD YOUR OWN DIMENSION TO CUT THROUGH THE PLANE, AND THEN CUT THROUGH THAT. YOU DON’T NEED TO BE AN ARTIST TO BE ARTISTIC. DISMANTLE, DE-STRATIFY, DISORGANIZE, MULTIPLY. CONNECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS WILL MANIFEST IN EVERY DIRECTION.

THE FETISHIZATION OF EFFICIENCY, PURITY, AND POLISH IS A STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTIC OF OPPRESSIVE AND RIGIDLY HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS OF POWER.

🄼🄰🄽🄸🄵🄴🅂🅃🄾, 2020.
JACK HAMILL

credits

released April 22, 2021

DREW SMITH—midi keyboard [left]
MICHAEL GASPARI—midi kbd [right]
JOSH REINER—midi kbd [center, mvt 1-10]; conductor mvt. 11-12]
JACK HAMILL—midi kbd [center, mvt 11-12]; conductor mvt. 1-10]

HENRY NELSON—midi drum pads [left]
AUTUMN CULP—midi drum pads [right]

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