Arsenal Brain is a conceptual sound composition dealing with social mechanisms of control which (successfully) attempts to constrain, define, shape and regulate one’s natural and individual skill of sensing. In a reality where increasing efforts are being made to restrain our ability to sense, and where every thought and belief is superimposed upon us and induced from external elements, we may have lost our ability to even desire freedom.
To what extent, then, are we still connected to our “body wisdom” if there’s such thing at all? Is it even possible to reverse engineer the very same social control mechanisms in order to regain our autonomous ability to exploit our senses?
Part structured and part chaotic, part accessible and part alien, the composition is designed for 8-channel performance, and employs a combination of spatial psychoacoustic techniques, aiming at engaging the listener in a disorienting sonic experience, which stands to represent the artificial, deceptive social mechanisms of control that fundamentally encourage and nurture one’s apathy, numbness and modes of unthinking.
