Abstract Mediation from Everyday Revolution by The Uncivil Society
TUS_Everyday Revolution
In Raoul Vaneigem’s book “The Revolution of Everyday Life” he posits that because people are manipulated as docile "objects" and without the "qualitative richness" which comes from asserting their irreducible individuality - that we must create a life lived in the first person. Vaneigem equates with modern life - characterized by isolation, humiliation, mis-communication - and to reach freedom, individuals have to tend toward creating new roles that flout stereotyped convention. From this knowledge, perhaps the most radical act an individual can execute in our world is to manifest and engage is acts that bring joy and play to our world.
From this knowledge the Uncivil Society in association with Suburban Utopia Projects shares their sixteenth release “Everyday Revolution”. Paying homage to the passing of Neil Peart, Anon_73 reinterprets and reinvents Rush’s vast array of sonic templates and even goes so far to cover Freewill to implore individuals to think, feel and create their own conventions from their own experience.
1) The Insignificant Signified
2) The Sum of Constraints: Humiliation, Isolation and Suffering
3) Down Quantity Street
4) The Sum of Seductions
5) Power as Mediation
6) Abstract Mediation
7) Sacrifice
8) CSP: Creativity, Spontaneity, and Poetry
9) Counter Argument #7
10) Freewill
“Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the
production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.”
-Raoul Vaneigem
Tracklist
| 6. | Abstract Mediation | 4:13 |
Lyrics
The fight is unfair.
Words serve power
better than they do
space, time, technology
To transcend
depends on language
A develop systems
of signs and symbols
words, dance, ritual
music, sculpture and building
So Finish your
half-completed actions
overcome
self created obstructions
try to continue
in a form from which
hope will spring
Power can be overthrown
When we engage in everyday life
And expel the words and poison of hate
In our own actions and words
Credits
All Tracks Arranged, Performed, Recorded, Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Anon_73
Recorded at Normieville Studios July - September 2021
theuncivilsociety.com
Suburban Utopia Project: #16
License
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.
I do, because I love to do it. I understand that I am a hack musician, a terrible vocalist and a sloppy graphic artist. I don’t care about achieving perfection, because I am happiest while being engaged in the exalted messiness of my creative process. I don’t worry about capturing the perfect take. I am satisfied by the pure joy I derive from expressing myself without filter or restraint.