Series: No days of innocence!

Electroacoustic music has the reputation of being rooted in purely sonic materiality and trying to evade concrete, social codes at all cost. But as such, it ignores its sociocultural context and throws away its potential of critical participation. But the days of innocence are over: at first glance, Terre Thaemlitz’s and Franz Pomassl’s music is not l’art pour l’art, but very direct and involved.