Neoliberal economics is killing the arts
By Tim Lutton, originally published by Red Pepper May 28, 2024
"...As a society, we must resist art-as-capital, where it is reduced to pure exchange value in a market of commodities. There, any politically-charged and counter-hegemonic content is rendered powerless, constituted as a stable harmonisation of the dominant socio-political order and drowning out all contradictions.
...In the present era, the tendency towards total marketisation of artistic production accompanies perpetual austerity and an atomised rentier economy that is shrinking public and social life. Without a rupture from neoliberal capitalism in general, the means to make new, generative and disruptive art disappears, and much else that is meaningful in our lives will follow after. The rest is silence."
My sister has 1 ticket for the Final Fantasy distant worlds San Francisco performance June 1 she would like to sell as she cant make it. It's really close to the orchestra. She bought it for $149 and the event is sold out!
My wife is in a small #orchestra (NULCO: Newcastle-under-Lyme Community Orchestra) and they have a chance to get a grant which would make a huge difference for them. Please help by voting, and by sharing the link.
They have #musicians of all ages and abilities, and play for the love of sharing #music.
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This vote will help a #community#orchestra put on our Christmas concert and share our love of #music. NULCO have been more than happy to adapt to my #disability needs by, eg, carrying my things and making sure I have a lift.
Really, they've been a lifeline during a time when I've been able to do very little. It's super important to me that we can keep doing that for all our members.
The Eugene Symphony is having a family concert today. They’re advertising it with “Wigglers and dancers welcome,” and I LOVE IT. I’m going to a chamber music concert which will 100 percent NOT welcome wiggling or dancing, but as an adult who sat, wiggled, and probably made noise through a lot of music as a kid - and got in trouble for it - I appreciate my local #orchestra. #music#children#Oregon
This interests me. There's a classical orchestra in Stockholm, founded in 2005, that is not a public institution but a joint-stock company, Sw. aktiebolag. They've been commercially viable for 19 years and counting. Most rock bands aren't.
Let's start another #SymphonicMonday. Just post some symphonic/orchestral music that you like, from rock/metal or any other genre, symphonies, soundtracks etc.
A chamber orchestra composition I recently put on PeerTube! One of the percussionists is placing a contact mic on a large speaker to make flabby feedback; the pianist is using a contact mic/transducer against the piano strings; and there's lots of microtonal/noise sounds from the rest of the ensemble.
For #SymphonicMonday today, a recent upload on the Nintendo of America Youtube channel: The Legend of Zelda Orchestra Concert [Nintendo Live 2024 TOKYO] 🎮🎶
Miss Admiral Gordon’s Strathspey (William Marshall ) is a 250 yr. old strathspey dance tune. Named for the Strathspey region of Scotland, the strathspey dance is a popular form of country dance, usually in 4/4 time and slower than a reel or jig. It is characterized by the use of the “Scots Snap" rhythm — a sixteenth note followed by a dotted eighth note, or in reverse order.
I'd like to invite you to nominate your favourite pieces of classical music. For example: Pachelbel - Canon, Ravel - Bolero, Vivaldi - Spring. If there's enough interest I'll run a poll.
Any time period, any style -- I'm interested in seeing different ways of combining these forces, and studying the nuts and bolts of #orchestration.
If you're a #conductor, #choral director, or #composer who has wrestled with this, what would you say are the key do's and don'ts of writing for this combination?