The Borders of Things

John Cage is Coming for the Souls of Your Offspring

Ron Silliman linked to the website for M.A.N.: Mothers Against Noise, an organization dedicated to stopping the spread of Noise Music, those naughty, naughty children of Cage and Co. M.A.N. even has its own merchandise, sporting this nifty logo:

Here's an excerpt from their site:

This current state of popular music provides plenty of motivation for these radicals, and the Internet appears to be facilitating then, even if the large masses of potential followers are currently deaf to their activities. These Noise Groups that are opposed to and mostly ignored by the media have used this new resource very cunningly, the internet is the only way they have been able to spread their message effectively. It is spreading and its goals are to create a virtual distorted mindset for the veiwer. Most Noise Groups are autonomous groups spread out over the globe. The open structure of the Internet supports this clandestine modus operandi as a way for these militants to recruit new members and look for common goals or inspiration. Why the Noise Music agenda has never full taken over in the past is because of fragmentation and extreme descentralisation, currently it has become an fully functioning global network set on infiltrating and influencing the world.

As always, the pharmakon of the internet is there to save the day, and M.A.N. is about to fight fire with fire. No more virtual distorted mindsets (mindsets which are virtual and thus distorted? virtual and also distorted? virtually (as in not literally) distorted?).

I am so endlessly fascinated by stuff like this. It makes me want to compose a poem in sprung rhythm set to the sounds of my heater turning on, dedicated to the proud women of M.A.N.