May 12, 2022
Alec & Nick conduct a first meeting of the “Neo-Feudalist Captive Music Society,” an invented club that takes shape around how contemporary musicians are obliged to live on borrowed land and provide homage, labor, and shares of their “produce.” The discussion describes how local music networks often exist outside the castle walls of the various abstract systems they operate within. Attempting to trace the limits of political economy, music scenes as liberatory associations, and the critiques of late capitalism from theorists like Franco “Bifo” Berardi & Christian Marrazi, the conversation arrives at the production of a “Captive Music”—an embodied, local, entrapped, but warrior-like music. Other topics include the machineries of irony and sincerity, musical “guilds,” auto-surveillance, american politics, loyalty, colonization, the club, Keiji Haino, and more.