ended up back West, but with a few leftover health problems from the trip. then school began and what do you know, I haven't ended up posting my notes from the rest of the time in Jamaica.
I will do so again, but for now, regular posting on music, copyright and other stuff will be available back at my regular site: http://djripley.blogspot.com . when I post more notes, I will announce it there as well as posting it here.
Thanks for reading and commenting y'all.
About Me
- ripley
- I mix music to highlight difference rather than seamlessness. Cracking open assumptions about what people relate to – pulling out familiar songs and sounds from people’s childhood or community, and layering them with foreign, distant sounds in ways that make the familiar strange and the strange familiar. Music exists because it crosses borders, literally and figuratively. Physical borders: eardrums, walls, and legal borders: nations, zones. The best musical experiences often occur outside legal frameworks of ownership and licenses (breaking zoning laws, squatted buildings, pirate radio). Although I am not always in official control of the venues in which I perform, I put myself and the audience in undeniable literal control of the space, to the point of creating a kind of solidarity of pleasure across social boundaries. My main goal is challenge the assumption that difference breeds division and distrust – instead, difference, rupture, foreign-ness is a site of conscious, open-eyed and physical pleasure.
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