Kara_wOke
Stuttgart
Alan Hilario: Kara_wOke-pieces
for four musicians and an 8-channel recorded track (2025)
1. Music in which aesthetics take precedence over political stance
2. L’art pour l’art by an underprivileged person
3. Pro-‘pagandá’ (Tagalog: ‘to beautify’)
4. Deliberately apolitical, à la cis-white man
5. Subtle, but not ‘harmless’, political music
6. Satirical political music that aims to change the world
7. Political music that stirs up emotions such as feelings of guilt
8. Brilliant, catchy protest music like that of Letzte Generation
9. Anti-anti-woke music
10. Music against hypocritical facades
11. Decolonial political music for the classroom
12. Political music against genocide
Mark Lorenz Kysela, ad hoc instruments/electronics/voice/saxophones
Andrew Digby, trombone/euphonium
Pascal Pons, drums
Alan Hilario, composition/8-channel recorded track/2 videos/bass-contrabass clarinet/soprano saxophone
Duration: 12 x 4’33’’ mins.
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