METAMONO MANIFESTO
All sound is now available to all musicians everywhere
Music has become a flaccid shadow of the social power it once was
METAMONO
will restrict and limit the sound sources and techniques available to us in orderĀ TO LIBERATE the imagination
TO ECHO the struggle society endures Our restraints will be our liberties
Our limitations will be our aesthetic We will kick against the pricks
METAMONO WILL NEVER
- use a microphone
- use digital sound generation or sampling
- use mechanical sound generation
- use digital sound processing
- make overdubs
- be afraid of mono
- remix
METAMONO WILL ONLY
- use analogue electronic sound generation
- use analogue electronic sound processing
- use digital recording and basic editing when no alternative is available
- compose and mix simultaneously
- build their own or play used instruments |