FEILER, Dror (*1951): Feiler about "Music and Anti-Fascist Existence"
(see also website: www.avantart.com/music/drore.htm )

We are becoming deaf and musically unconscious when we hear nothing but perfect harmony, perfect structures, just new academism, repetition and its refrain. Perfect melodies and perfect chords in popular music, perfect structure, instrumentation and electroacustic sounds in the "new music" scene, just the circulation of clean and sound sound currents, cleaned of the noises and sounds that could disturb prosperity: that's what music offers us today.

This use of chords, melodies, voices, structures and electroacustic sounds that claim to be the music itself, create an aesthetic of boredom, a self sufficient repetition and artistic conformity. The tracks are overwhelmed by signature tunes, the concert halls by "classical" compositions and "new music" academism. This is the potential fascism in music. People are being manipulated into passivity and conformity by the the computer sound, the synthesizer, the "new" pop tune and the "new music" academism . So the structure, the harmony, the chord, the sound even the tone itself must explode; one must open the door to noise itself, make even the channel to the sound currents quake.

That is the place for the NEW AVANT-GARDE to burst in: I am in opposition to the heavy machinery of institutional philosophy and its blatant complicity to power, that is preventing rather than encouraging people to think. I find classical philosophy (and classical education in general and music education in particular) an immense school of intimidation delivering specialists in thought and music, and in addition pressuring outsiders to conform to the phenomena they've come to fight.

My music and words should function as tool kits for an anti-fascist existence. My music is a strategy and subversion, my compositions and writings should escape even my own intentions; the more unplanned uses that my music and words take on the more it pleases me.

Dror Feiler