text by Melanie Meltzer and Jacob Barton
film by Rob Scott
How can activism and music composition be resistence AND a contribution? When do either make a difference to society?
When is activism new? When is music new? Composition of activism or sound is new when it resists identity with already-decayed and absorbed activisms/compositions. 
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How do we establish connections and edges between the composition of sound and composition of activism?
Activists generate a problem when they measure society by criteria which that society does not embody. A new projet is reduced when measured by an old standard. Those old standards constitute the status quo. When our best traditional approaches to social protest have lost their ability to influence our governments and each other, we search for alternatives. Composers compose according to their explorations of what is possible, and, out of that, what is desirable.
There is an outcry, at least from us, for a radical change of systems. This means we are living in a time where composition is needed.
Thanks for glimpses of recent efforts to foment change times art equals society.
Here in Minneapolis I work in hospital psychiatry doing dance music creative interactions with those in more or less extreme states.
In community events I cocreate participatory art communities such as leaderless groups practicing Authentic Movement, performance art at local cabaret, learning Brasilian guitar textures and lyrics in Portuguese, eating backyard raspberries, cherries, grapes and plums, biking, parenting and partnering.
Nocturnal spontaneous shaking may indicate impending changes in psyche, sexuality, social or creative events or perhaps just shaking.
Thanks for your node of activated permission slips,
Michael Gardos Reid