I enjoyed reading Steve Goodman's stuff on BWOs & breakbeats. As a Drum &
Bass dj & D+G reader I always wondered if there was a link....
Also, I've much enjoyed all the recent stuff from the list on "Contact
Improv." I've never come across this before, but the nearest in my own
experience is the performance/game/fight of Brazilian *Capoeira*. I've
been learning this martial art/dance for six months now & have always been
astounded as to how 'orchid + wasp'-like the two "players" of *capoeira*
become whilst "playing"...but maybe that says more of my reading of the
*jogo*. Is it time to expand upon D+G's elucidation of "assemblages" here?
[At the recent D+G conference at Warwick, Michael Eardley gave an
*astounding* paper which mapped a reading of D+G's "assemblages" onto the
cognitive science/ethological accounts of primates. If the proposed
publication of papers from this conference comes off, then it would be
worth buying for this paper (& El Albert's) alone.]
Which brings me back to Drum & Bass...some of my *Capoeira* academy's
performances take place (Sat. nights) in a London club called 'The
Complex'. The room we perform in is the one usually given over to Drum &
Bass...the Brazilian/Angolan rhythms we chant & play are not a million
miles away fom this music. As I don't have any *Capoeira* music, I train
at home to D'nB...it helps. And if I had the vinyl, I'd drop *Capoeira*
tunes into my own sets.
What bizarre desiring-machine, mutant-assemblage is being built around me?
over me? through me? sweeping me along as it smooths space between south
London, Angola, Brazil, the Histories of Slavery, European Imperialism &
20th C. popular music, Acid House & Drug Culture in Britain since the
60s...
Any more deleuzoguattarian jungle capoeiristas out there? maybe we could
form a support group....
Jamie
Bass dj & D+G reader I always wondered if there was a link....
Also, I've much enjoyed all the recent stuff from the list on "Contact
Improv." I've never come across this before, but the nearest in my own
experience is the performance/game/fight of Brazilian *Capoeira*. I've
been learning this martial art/dance for six months now & have always been
astounded as to how 'orchid + wasp'-like the two "players" of *capoeira*
become whilst "playing"...but maybe that says more of my reading of the
*jogo*. Is it time to expand upon D+G's elucidation of "assemblages" here?
[At the recent D+G conference at Warwick, Michael Eardley gave an
*astounding* paper which mapped a reading of D+G's "assemblages" onto the
cognitive science/ethological accounts of primates. If the proposed
publication of papers from this conference comes off, then it would be
worth buying for this paper (& El Albert's) alone.]
Which brings me back to Drum & Bass...some of my *Capoeira* academy's
performances take place (Sat. nights) in a London club called 'The
Complex'. The room we perform in is the one usually given over to Drum &
Bass...the Brazilian/Angolan rhythms we chant & play are not a million
miles away fom this music. As I don't have any *Capoeira* music, I train
at home to D'nB...it helps. And if I had the vinyl, I'd drop *Capoeira*
tunes into my own sets.
What bizarre desiring-machine, mutant-assemblage is being built around me?
over me? through me? sweeping me along as it smooths space between south
London, Angola, Brazil, the Histories of Slavery, European Imperialism &
20th C. popular music, Acid House & Drug Culture in Britain since the
60s...
Any more deleuzoguattarian jungle capoeiristas out there? maybe we could
form a support group....
Jamie