#kate soper

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Marseille Memories

In a moment when our government seems to be doing all it can to sever ties of international solidarity, it’s reassuring to be reminded that

In a pre-concert Q&A, ensemble director Raoul Lay translated Telemakhos as “far from the fight”. He meant this in an artistic sense, but ignoring petty aesthetic squabbles leaves more energy for other fights. If there were no overt references to the present in the concert itself, the parallels to concentration camps, armed agents of the state waging campaigns of racist terror in the streets, and the international solidarity necessary to shatter fascist states all but drew themselves.

my latest free post is now live! featuring reviews of four world premieres and also an absolutely mammoth listings section!

[twinkubus]

Instead of improved productive efficiency being used to shorten the working week so we could enjoy growing and preparing more food for ourselves, companies profit from selling us fast food and ready-cooked meals. Deprived of the leisure and facilities to make our everyday journeys by foot or bike, we are co-opted into weekend 'health walks' (with Apps to monitor them) or persuaded to buy stationary cycling and treadmill-walking sessions in the gym. We might have longer holidays, in which we could travel more slowly and experience more genuine relaxation, but meanwhile the tourist and therapy industries provide profitable mini-breaks and stress relieving services. When products are advertised and sold on the basis of their authenticity and naturalness, the market promises to salve nostalgia for the very losses inflicted by its own advances into everyday life.

Kate Soper, Post-Growth Living

[hunklet]

from Post-Growth Living for an Alternative Hedonism (chapter 2, "consumption, consumerism, pleasure", 2020) by Kate Soper

[devilishlyoperatic]

Kate Soper has never written anything that doesn’t slap

[fluterants]

Here’s a piece that I performed last spring, filmed over the summer, and will be performing again this November. I adore this piece with all my heart, and I hope you will too!

[conradtao]

O Sailor, come: Your anchor's line is spun. O Sailor, hear: My beacon calls you near.

O Sailor mine, Leave pitch and yaw behind. O Sailor's soul, This lee shore's your last goal.

O white meridian, Bring fire to blind these men. O tide and wind and wave, Becalm thee as their grave.

O Nereids, come now: Lash keep and mast and prow! O Achelous, god, Receive this sailor's blood!

[marxsound]

Kate Soper - The Understanding of All Things__

a finalist for the pulitzer prize in music this year-will try to post something from the other two if i can

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All this is well known, and in its essentials it follows the usual course of boom and bust capitalism with its material legacy of new but long-unoccupied buildings and half-completed con- struction work. This 'junk space', found across the globe, is subject to the Alzheimers-like deterioration described by the architect, Rem Koolhaas. It is the residue of a capitalism that, according to David Harvey, 'builds a physical landscape appropriate to its own condition at a particular moment in time, only to have to destroy it, usually in the course of a crisis, at a subsequent point in time.'

Kate Soper, Post-Growth Living