Epithets — Keith Fullerton Whitman
https://keithfullertonwhitman.bandca...album/epithets
1.What is it made of, or its material cause?
Epithets (2015) is a 12-channel, 44 minute electronic work released on cassette and digital stream.
2.What is its structure, or its formal cause?
Electroacoustic music in the tradition of the early pioneers of the 1950’s - 1960’s.
3.How did it get started, or what is its efficient cause?
Tony Myatt & Oli Larkin's "The Morning Line;" a 53-channel hybrid sculpture / Acousmatic space currently installed in front of ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany.
4.What is its purpose, or its final, or telic, cause?”
An objection to dreadful events taking place under social anesthesia. To disrupt routines and to get people unyoked from their habits of mass media long enough to question what’s going on.