{"id":8032,"date":"2018-03-23T05:01:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T05:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/more-brilliant-than-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2018-03-23T05:01:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T05:01:25","slug":"more-brilliant-than-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/more-brilliant-than-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"More brilliant than the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published in 1998, British journalist and writer Kodwo Eshun<\/a> ‘s book spoke and speaks so eloquently about music and identity(s), drum computers and (non-)human bodies, electronic sound aesthetics and Afrofuturism, forms of world appropriation and worldliness of popular music, that one can easily become dizzy.<\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a> newspaper wrote in a review(translation: ID Verlag<\/a>) about the book :<\/p>\n

“<\/strong>Each sentence is like a bomb exploding in your skull. The book launches a blitzkrieg, unbelievable in speed and poignancy, against music journalists and cultural scholars who, as ‘brakemen of future shock,’ want to domesticate the alienating sounds of music forever.“<\/strong><\/p>\n

One year later, “Heller als die Sonne. Adventures in Sonic Fiction” the German-language edition translated by writer Dietmar Dath <\/a>. Journalist Judith Schnaubelt outlines the significance of the work in her 2013 portrait<\/a>of Kodwo Eshun published in the Z\u00fcndfunk Generator <\/a>series thus:<\/p>\n

“The exuberant euphoria of the techno generation had long since fizzled out when a book appeared in 1998 that lent a theoretical-historical superstructure to the music to which the last great youth movement of the 20th century danced. Title: “Brighter than the Sun – Adventures in Sonic Fiction”. London music journalist and DJ Kodwo Eshun had written this hymn to techno, electro, house, drum & bass and their forefather, cosmic jazz. Even today, “Brighter Than the Sun” is considered a manifesto by many machine-sound futurists.”<\/p>\n

In 2002 Kodwo Eshun founded the artist collective Otolith Group<\/a> together with Anjalika Sagar<\/a>. He teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London<\/a> Aural and Visual Cultures, <\/em>works as a curator and writes regularly for magazines and journals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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