**Links to**: [[09 C is for Communism, and Constraint]], [[Breath as logic]], [[Song]], [[Marx]], [[Music]], [[Buccal polycomputing]], [[Modulations]], [[Collective intentionality]], [[Generosity]].
 
### [[Postulate]]: If speech began as, and can continue to be, _song_, then all *generative* and *generous* reading-writing—in the amplest sense: all languaging—is modulating for the sake of making an opening for others to join in. That way: conversations, fiction, speculation, and even mathematical modelling, can be seen as musical proposals that invite others to join. Crucially: we pick up the rhythm where others left off. Rhythm and its modulation is resistance is labor is exhausting is fascinating.
 
But also:
>Today, with all our technology, and because of it, we stand once more in the magical acoustical sphere of pre-literate {wo}m{x}n. Politics have become musical; music has become politics. Government has become entertainment, and vice versa. Commerce has become incantation and magical gesture. Science and magic have married each other. Technology and the arts meet and mingle.
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>M. McLuhan, “Space, Time and Poetry,” in _Unbound 13_. ed., W. Terrence Gordon. (Corte Madera, CA.: Ginko, 2005), 9), citation found in A. Chrystall’s PhD dissertation, 2008. My amendment with {}.
 
Most arguments/findings related to this concept are in [[Modulations]] and [[Song]].
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How is music like or unlike language? The relation between both is complex. The modern cleanliness of language set music aside as non-linguistic. But nothing is farther than the truth. The redundancy of language is a kind of rhythm (see: ). The referential part is there, in music, too: it evokes things. Following a structuralist (dare I say Derridean) view: all music is language and vice versa, and both are infinite. Because of the novelty evinced by an interpretative context, we have infinite music, no combinatorial problem there. Because of its eternal reinvention: music is permanent revolution.
Musical compositions and fractures: leaving traces in material technique and thought. Article, look up.
_A possible outline for something else that hasn’t been written:_
### Marx and music
Music becoming increasingly commodified (Adorno);
Music and/as work (Rekret);
The rhythms of the factory, of metabolics, etc. (Techno);
The Last Angel of History (Akomfrah, Eshun);
Regaining music/revolution through revolution/music.
Surrealism & Surrationalism - A Permanent Revolution
“ Rationalist commitment is a permanent revolution. The connection between
surrationalism and surrealism is not only onomatological ” - Georges Canguilhem.
“ When this surrationalism has found its doctrine, it can be put in relation with
surrealism, because sensitivity and reason will be returned, both, together, to
their fluidity. ” P10
“ We will establish an experimental reason capable of surrationally organizing
the real in the same way as Tristan Tzara's experimental dream surrealistically
organizes poetic freedom. ” P11
https://www.surrealists.org/LaBelleInutile/3-ARS-Intro/Texts/4 - Bachelard - Surrationalism.pdf