POPPING THE SEAMS

Timothy Radar: There is a great of talk in “modern academia” about emergent systems, but these talks usually end up talking about mass communication, the internet, software, ect. It seems to me that d.i.y. music and culture could be a system of emergence. For the longest time there is this idea that one great artist, or set of artists are so tapped into the world that through them they end up “telling the world”. I think shifts in art and social movements just happen because of the climate of the area, they are happenstance. They need an impetus to come about, but they will pretty much out of necessity. The original punks didn’t come up with something totally unique and spread the word from one point to another, a common idea and trend was manifesting world wide, and communication helped expedite the process.