The weight of apocalyptic doom lays heavy on Terra but it is far too easy to be pessimistic and give up on the world because “nothing is going to make it better” – as generating disharmonies by the use of analogue electronics is just too easy. Pessimism leads to even more destruction out of resignation, or ignorance or sheer obscenity, like with some accelerationists. Making harmonies of any scale with analogue and acoustic equipment is somewhat more difficult, as it is difficult to be optimistic and persistently produce small solutions without projecting them to some ultimate future utopia. Donna Harraway advises that “staying with the trouble does not require […] the future [but] learning to be truly present, not as a vanishing pivot between awful or edenic pasts and apocalyptic or salvic futures, but as mortal critters entwined in myriad unfinished configurations of places, times, matters, meanings”. Through these composition, I’d like to remember the good things and invoke important historical events – like a cockchafer landing on the audio recorder.
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