The public demand for political information is usually low. Downs (1957) called the general lack of interest in politics “Rational ignorance”. Even with the awareness of censorship and interests in politics, if people don’t know what they’re omitting, the need to circumvent censorship will remain relatively low.

By contrast, if censorship were also applied to entertainment, the need to circumvent censorship would increase. Hobbs & Roberts (2018) describes a “Gateway Effect “in which an individual’s desire to escape censorship for entertainment information leads to access to political information that has long been hidden.

Also, in the period of political events and significant events, People’s motivation to access blocked information will be stimulated.

“Musicology” is similar to “Classics” when it comes to the eurocentric arenas of academia. The word “Ethnomusicology” is commonly referred to as a sub-field of Musicology which nonetheless covers the majority of the world’s music.

Before I start this project :

Since I developed a strong interest in the “Marginalised Sounds” of our society, I have struggled to figure out where my standpoint should be. I believe that the change of subject will inevitably result in the breakage of meaning. Therefore, I know I would never be in a position to speak the truth because there is no such thing as accurate empathy. I can only describe what I hear and what I see, something which is guaranteed to be incorrect and biased in the first place. However, documentations are about telling stories. The important thing is: how to tell the stories convincingly.

To explore how sound and music can function as certain synbolic representations and resources that participants can mobilize in processes or dynamics of radical social context.

• Sound Politics
• Sound and Radical History
• Sound values
• Sound Surveillance
• Depoliticisation
• Political subjectivity
• Participatory democracy
• Palpability

Sounds and music being produced, reproduced, played and used by the general public during historical backgrounds of coups or political protests. This essay will use examples from an ongoing protest in Myanmar.

How is sound used in radical events as medium of argumentation, provocation, and communication.

Examples of sonic approaches adopted(spontaneously) by the general public during the protest and how sonic expressions can possibly transcend discursive modes of communication, solidarizes people, and manifest resistance.

What is the role of sound regards to identity construction and performance.

The approaches by the power organ to regulate and discipline sound and music in the name of public well-being and social order as silence can act as a representation of social discipline and political repression.

Metaphor of sound and silence in politics and the relationship between sound and power.

When you get a strong sense of whether the process of documenting is separating from the creating process itself and standing as an independent work. It just becomes more difficult trying to find something worth documenting.

I began to interpret how the creating process is intertwined and kneaded in life.

The creating process went through many overthrowns and recompositions. Just like my life in recent time, moving around in different places, bouncing on and off, forced to change before even settling. The accustomed timeline was shattered, everything was out of order.

And the creation of this work is the blur portrait of me during this period of time.

– 30 Jan 2021