Music is prophecy. Its styles and economic organisation are ahead of the rest of society because it explores, much faster than material reality can, the entire range of possibilities in a given code. It makes audible the new world that will gradually become visible, that will impose itself and regulate the order of things.
Jacques Attali, Noise, Theory and History of Literature, Vol 16, Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Excerpt from the book Noise and Capitalism, San Sebastian: Arteleku, 2009.
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