22 September 2020
- Experimental
- Informative
For more than half a century, artists are addressing the upcoming ecological catastrophe, and a political system unable to fight that development. On the occasion of this week’s Global Climate Strike, declared by Fridays For Future, here are sounds of protest by Atom™, Diane Di Prima, Janek Schaefer, Leslie Winer, and others – realized between the early 1940‘s and 2020.
Playlist
Gary Clail & On-U Soundsystem – Privatise the Air Part 1The Fugs – Exorcising the evil Spirits from the Pentagon October 21, 1967
The Almanac Singers – Which Side are you on?
Leslie Winer – 5
Amiri Baraka – Dope
Anna Lockwood & Harvey Matusow – End
Atom™ – R3V
Klaus Beyer – Unser deutscher Wald
Dennis Dragon – 25 Years at the same Spot
Joseph Beuys – Description of existing World social and political Systems
Sue Ann Harkey – The Greenhouse Effect
Allen Ginsberg – A Tale of the Tribe (from the preface to T. Leary’s “Jail Notes”)
Diane Di Prima – Revolutionary Letter No. 16
The Evolution Control Committee – Pollution
Janek Schaefer – Imagine a World…
La Düsseldorf – Geld
Jean C. Roché – Palmar