Savage Accumulation by The Uncivil Society

The Uncivil Society in association with Suburban Utopia Projects presents their nineteenth project “Savage Accumulation”.

Inspired by the ideas in Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s book “The Mushroom at the End of the World”. Tsing highlights both the resilience of the matsuake, which humans have found cannot be domesticated, and the entanglements between and co-dependency of different species—or multi-species "assemblages"—in not only surviving precarious and disturbed environments, but in creating new environments a metaphor for relationship between capitalist exchange and collaborative survival between species for continuing life on Earth.

Sonically, this project was guided by Astor Piazzolla’s an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed Nuevo Tango by creating polyphonic assemblages.

In light of the state of crisis we have lived through and has now formed a new normal Anon_73 has pushed their performance and craft beyond their comfort to create songs with unified rhythms that align with the big ideas from this seminal text.

Tracks:

1) What’s Left?
2) Establishing Entanglements
3) After Progress
4) The Problem with Scale
5) Disturbed Beginnings
6) Gaps and Patches
7) The Art of Noticing
8) In Translation
9) Counter Argument #8
10) Libertango

“Precarious living is always an adventure ”
-Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

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Suburban Utopia Project: #19

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.

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