A brief note on ‘sonic utopianism’: a concept to be explored in the section “Posthuman Phonosophy”

In all of complexity there is harmony and dissonance. Singularities emerge where difference, through the play of dissonance and harmony, creates, destroys, and transforms grooves. The reason that things appear teleological is because of the linear transition of time which we experience, but songs communicate across the whole grid, from before or after, across or through, simultaneous or distant, rhizomatic and thus studied schizoanalytically, all with each other and with the world(s) they are a part of. To write minor riffs, to jam, to freestyle, to drive the grooves into counter-grooves, to establish dissonance in order to create anew, to develop harmonies from what has been abandoned and what is yet to arrive. This is sonic utopianism.

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