| "The esthetic
of the fabrication defect will re-utilize the sonorous civilized trash (everyday
symphony), be they conventional or unconventional instruments (for example:
toys, cars, whistles, saws, hertz orchestra, street noises, etc.) - all
of this put into a rhythmic or dance music format, with choruses, and within
the parameters of popular music. It will recycle an alphabet of emotions
contained in songs and musical symbols of the first world, that sealed each
marked step of our affective and emotional life. They will be put to use
in small "cells" of "plagiarized" materials. This deliberate practice
unleashes an esthetic of plagiarism, an esthetic of arrastão
that ambushes the universe of the well-known and traditional music. We are
at the end, thus, of the composers' era, inaugurating the plagi-combinator
era.
Arrastão - a dragnet; technique* used in urban robbery. A small group fan out and then run furiosly through a crowd, taking people’s money, jewelry, bags, sometimes even clothes. translator’s note: a type of "wilding" with a purpose, I.e. robbery." Tom Zé * created in Rio de Janeiro |