IN THE FUTURE
quiet is manufactured by corporations
and sold to the very rich |
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IN THE FUTURE
undergoing surgery is looked on as a hobby
while sound is available by clinical prescription | |
IN THE FUTURE the family gathers three times a day to listen.
eating takes place in the bedroom
as relaxation or rebellion | |
IN THE FUTURE
noise holds influential positions in government | |
IN THE FUTURE
surgical advance has made it possible
to listen to reverberation without the inconvenience of sound | |
IN THE FUTURE philosophical debates are settled by
sampling the opposing concepts, ring-modulating them,
and feeding the result back through vast loudspeakers in a public space | |
IN THE FUTURE
computers are generated by music | |
IN THE FUTURE
tactile bands are as popular as sonic ones
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IN THE FUTURE some harmonic structures are prohibited by law.
certain rhythms, while they may be listened to
may not be sold or held in possession | |
IN THE FUTURE
genetic recreation has enabled people
to grow sound from their bodies | |
IN THE FUTURE
it is possible to sample the brain patterns of others
and play them back, on sixteen simultaneous channels, with flanger | |
IN THE FUTURE
the music plays the musician | |
