De: Mathius Shadow-Sky à: sverre.pedersen@freemuse.org, palle.carlsen@freemuse.org, paige.collings@freemuse.org, jasmina.lazovic@freemuse.org, kaja.ciosek@freemuse.org, maria.boyadijan@freemuse.org Date: 20 mai 2020 22:36 Objet: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Hello Gnanapragasam Devadass, Dr Srirak Plipat, Marie Gry Torup Ildvedsen, Brittis Edman, Beatriz Hernandez de Fuhr, Miklos Marschall, Sverre Pedersen, Palle Hejl-Carlsen, Paige Collings, Jasmina Lazović, Kaja Ciosek, Maria Florencia Oyarzo Boyadjian, Does Freemuse is concerned by contemporary music? Here is the summarized story (in French) of the composer Mathius Shadow-Sky's concerts born in Paris in 1961 who since 1979 strives to perform concerts of original music in public space, following and developing the work of Iannis Xenakis and Karlheinz Stockhausen in addition with an open mind to a transgender and transclass electric will which for 41 years has seen all these public concerts censored by the politicians or state workers acting under politician's order (in France and elsewhere). We are curious to know how Freemuse organization could intervene or what arrangements Freemuse would have for this musical censorship to stop? Voici l'histoire résumée (en français) du compositeur Mathius Shadow-Sky né à Paris en 1961 qui depuis 1979 s'efforce de réaliser des concerts de musiques originales dans l'espace public à la suite de Iannis Xenakis et Karlheinz Stockhausen avec en + un esprit ouvert à une disposition électrique transgenre et transclasse qui depuis 41 ans voit toutes ces concerts publics censurés par le pouvoir politique (en France et ailleurs). Nous sommes curieux de savoir, comment votre organisation Freemuse, pourrait intervenir ou quelles dispositions auraient Freemuse pour que cette censure musicale cesse ? L'histoire résumée des créations du compositeur se trouve ici (avec les liens des oeuvres citées) : http://centrebombe.org/livre/2.5.html Any questions? Do not hesitate :) Sincerely, Mathius Shadow-Sky, the composer himself alone without any partner or support (or so little) to create original music for the audience in public places The composer's web site is 23 years old : http://centrebombe.org There is more here: the political purge of French composers labelled "libertarians" at the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century (in French): http://centrebombe.org/LA.PURGE.DES.COMPOSITEURS.FRANCAIS.La.derni%C3%A8re.generation.du.XXe.au.XXIe%20si%C3%A8cle.pdf De: Paige Collings à: Mathius Shadow-Sky Date: 22 mai 2020 17:39 Objet: RE: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Envoyé par: freemuse.org Dear Mathius, Many thanks for reaching out to Freemuse on this important issue! I hope that you are well. Can you please detail the issue a little more and expand upon how you would like our assistance – awareness raising of the censorship through an interview, campaign/advocacy initiative, emergency support etc? Looking forward to connecting soon. All the best and take care, Paige De: Mathius Shadow-Sky à: Paige Collings Date: 23 mai 2020 21:22 Objet: Re: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Thank you for your interest Paige, really :) Yes, Freemuse can really help. 1rst by asking and publishing articles about this purge of original artists since the end of 70s in France (elsewhere I don't know). The silence and fear (from artists) about that national political and economical massive censorship of artists' purge, creates 3 attitudes from artists: 1. or the artist accepts to be sold by restraining him/her creativity (a self censorship) about what it is expected by the commission that allows her/him grants, 2. or the artist refuses to be sold and stays isolated surviving in poverty with her/his not visible not listenable original creations, 3. or the artist give up to become an employee 4. in an artist's life, these 3 possibilities can be mixed Myself, I never moved from the choice number 2. An interview is a good start to uncover that national deny about original and alive artists' purge. Then, it should be assemble several proofs, like artists testimony about the reality of this purge trivialized by "the cultural policy" (even the European cultural policy), this to give to whom wants to know, the hidden reality about the national censorship of real artists' original work, and what the 20 century contemporary art and music became in 21 century: copies to confirm the false art decline and to hide the mental misery resulting of this national censorship. I cannot understand why most of purged artists are afraid to talk about that? Nothing no where about it! They are living their forced isolation every day (for a composer, not to have musicians to perform his her music in public concert). Perhaps because this purge was never named? A French musicologist called what I called 'the purge': 'the restoration'. It depends from what side, you understand it. I sent several letters to him, but without any answer at all. Some of few artists talk to me, because I insist from them to answer me. The others knowing, employed in public institutions, stay silent. We understand why, the risk is to loose his/her salary job. I know some of these people, in the music institution like IRCAM where I started my carrier thinking it is a potential for original music creation, but the reality is a censorship nest at the source of music creation. Same in the universities, like Paris VIII where I was student during its free period that closed in 1987. Before 1987 any student was free to choose what s/he wants to know, after 1987 it wasn't. When and how I could discover that economical political will to restrain art and music creation and artists' freedom to create what ever? It is a long process of understanding (which it is not obvious when you are inside). My composer carrier is now beyond 40 years. During 40 years all my music creations stay forbidden from official concert halls stages and from music festivals. I was almost convinced my music is bad. But valuable musicians tell me the opposite. Receiving from concert halls and festival managers any relevant answer neither any dialogue concerning all my music proposals: "request rejected" is always the only and same answer, with a massive silence and or lies from concerned people. The summary of my (hilarious or sad) story of forbidden concerts during 40 years is published here (in French): http://centrebombe.org/livre/2.5.html The French public censorship acts with the monopoly of the public grants: granted or not granted to the artist. A trivialized process since 1981. Not granted, the art music cannot be created in concert because the subsidized concert halls receive a part of the grant from the artist for the composition to be performed: it is a public economy closed in a loop or, a closed circuitry with public money. At a certain level you ask yourself how it comes? Also, in addition of details, like to erase my resume from CDMC (centre of documentation of contemporary music). At a certain level you ask to yourself what is wrong with these state-worker people who refuse all dialogue and sympathy and banish my music without any explanation (this is world wide with 3 exceptions). There is something wrong: why to entertain political hostility against real free artists? In 2008, a violent public altercation (2000 people was witnesses) with leaders in cultural politics with one of them that has stolen a huge amount of public money (30 millions) hidden by cultural events that never happened in Quebec. The reaction of politicians was unexpectedly aggressive facing these facts. And it uncovers the lies of the political will 'to help purged artists' (implies that French politicians knows about purged artists): these people are socialists! It was like a replay of what started in 1981! Since that time, I strongly tried to create a dialogue between politicians and artists: to make them understand that by banishing real artists from the city, it creates and increases the mediocracy we are living from the beginning of the 21 century. The consequences are serious for human kind: it generates ignorance, fear and idiocy in people's mind. In others words, our degeneration. When by chance, I met the text of the musicologist Makis Solomos published in 2000: « Les évolutions récentes de la musique contemporaine en France », French original from the article « Die neuesten Entwicklungen der zeitgenössischen Musik in Frankreich », German translation, Musik und Ästhetik vol.4 n°16, Stuttgart, 2000, p. 80-89. http://www.univ-montp3.fr/~solomos/lesevolu.html In this text, Solomos specifies something unexpected by dividing different currents of the official contemporary music (especially at IRCAM and in Paris, not elsewhere?) where he says: "the third current would represent the libertarians openings from the 60s and the 70s". Further: "the restoration that followed was so merciless, that not a lot of [composers] names survived"! OK, I feel concerned but I am still alive! In this context of obedience, I am a disobedient composer because I conceive and write musics with total freedom, even by no considering the fact of the music concert creation's context. Adaption comes after. After Solomos, I contacted the composer musicologist Jean Yves Bosseur that confirms me this purge of French inventive and original artists since the end of 70s in France. Also, when François Chesnais had mentioned and named (in his book: The Globalization of the Capital, 1997), the end of people's freedom at the end of the 70s with the invisible "conservative revolution", it cannot be any more a coincidence. 40 years of censorship is a long time, knowing that I never stopped to create music, even in an unnamable poorness. Today, I am still continuing reinventing the concert, like I did with all my music since 1979, and with my last ensemble Les Guitares Volantes a quartet of electric guitars where our sounds are flying independently in space. The massive censorship in 2018 from the city halls of Berlin, Zurich and Toulouse (my city of residence) to perform in city parks was unexpectedly astonishing! Now, I am trying, with the little help from my friends, poor too, to realize these outdoor flying music concerts (that nobody experienced really) on private lands. And here is the paradox: the cost to realize any spatial instrumental music creation is beyond what we can afford! Or, what we can afford, is only to play on the street with an acoustic instrument. Knowing that France is not a poor country; is an additional paradox! To create the polytrajectophonic instrumental music, that I started in 1980, there is a constantly need of electronic audio equipment. 2 years ago I was lucky, the last 7 hardware audio trajectory generators was given to me by its conceptor. Last year I was lucky, a mixing console costing 12 000€, used costed me 600€, I could afford. So, with used cheap equipment, I could create, in my one room apartment, a recording studio dedicated for spatial music! But to perform outdoor, independently from 15.000 € abused fee from PA renters, we need at least 12 guitar cabinet with 6 elevated in the sky with inflated balloons with helium. These costs are not huge, but with my small incomes are unaffordable: 2664€ for 12 cabinets, 618€ for 6x100 meters cables, and at 7€ the m³ helium, it costs: 448€ per balloon, for 5 balloons it costs: 2240€ + 20% taxes (and without the balloon's material, I don't know yet). How could you help us? Or who could help us? I am even ready to leave my French citizenship to concert my choreosonic music! Let us start the interview :) Because I have no idea how to campaign or to advocate to end this old of a half century artists' original works repression, i.e. forbid by any means all public appearance of their works and maintain them isolated in poorness. All the best Mathius mentioned links: The summary of my (hilarious or sad) story of forbidden concerts during 40 years is published here (in French): http://centrebombe.org/livre/2.5.html The French text of the musicologist Makis Solomos talking about the purge of French artists calling it: 'the restoration': http://www.univ-montp3.fr/~solomos/lesevolu.html My discussion about what the musicologist Makis Solomos said in 2000: http://centrebombe.org/LA.PURGE.DES.COMPOSITEURS.FRANCAIS.La.derni%C3%A8re.generation.du.XXe.au.XXIe%20si%C3%A8cle.pdf Les Guitares Volantes (with pictures of my living place): http://centrebombe.org/livre/guitares.volantes.html De: Paige Collings à: Mathius Shadow-Sky Date: 4 juin 2020 16:56 Objet: RE: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Envoyé par: freemuse.org Dear Mathius, Many thanks for your detailed email. I hope that you are well. Do you have any news sources or links that express the themes you have mentioned? Take care! Best wishes, Paige De: Mathius Shadow-Sky à: Paige Collings Date: 9 juin 2020 03:22 Objet: Re: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Dear Paige, Thank you for your answer. As I told you, artists and composers in France avoid talking about this national censorship. I do not really understand why? My suspicions started to be confirmed (I am not the only victim) when the musicologist Makis Solomos mentioned this censorship against "libertarian composers" in a text written in 2000 I read this year describing different currents of contemporary music in Paris in Ircam (I gave you the link). Then, talking with the composer musicologist Jean Yves Bosseur, he confirmed this censorship. Other artists confirmed me that censorship in world of art too (only in private conversations). That is all for now (+ my 40 years, experiencing this censorship forbidding my music works to access any national subsidized concert hall). There is a strange silence around this fact. Like a secret or worse, a national denial of what really happens. We can just imagine the consequences of this affirmation : "how it is possible? France is The country for art and music!" ; proving the contrary will make a serious doubt in what everybody believes, being false. But facts are the facts : the independent art and music, since the end of 70s, are violently forbidden to perform on national stages (without talking that the "cultural policy" is a disaster) as all my music works are. Also my colleagues, for most of them, receive small grants from the State, means, if they talk publicly about the national censorship against free artists, they will no receive grants any more. It is a risk for them and it explains why they stay silent about it. I suppose. My life is music creation, and now I am more busy to record my last music score The Eviction of the Triumphant Beast with my ensemble Les Guitares Volantes than to search other evidences about a fact I am living since 1981 in a world where every artist fears to talk and to write about this fact that they live. Acting by simply don't think about it. Acting as it doesn't exist: many artists live like that. Not me. If we want ours societies growing up, and live without fear, we have to speak the truth. Otherwise, if real art and music perish, our societies perish too. It is what we are living now, and it is named: the mediocracy. The function of the arts is not the aesthetic production which is only its aspect, the function of the arts is to make the human species intelligent. Notice that I have none at all political engagement. What about our interview? Thank you for your interest Paige :) All the best Mathius Shadow-Sky De: Paige Collings à: Mathius Shadow-Sky Date: 11 juin 2020 11:20 Objet: RE: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Envoyé par: freemuse.org signé par: freemuse.onmicrosoft.com Hi Mathius, Many thanks for your email! I hope that you are well. I understand that you mention how people are avoiding discussions about the national censorship but for actions of any sort to be undertaken at Freemuse we have to corroborate information, so we need additional sources of information on the topics you have mentioned. This can be news sourcing, additional testimonies, etc. Please do not hesitate to get back in touch with any questions or comments you may have on this. I look forward to speaking again soon. All my best, Paige De: Mathius Shadow-Sky à: Paige Collings , Jean-Yves Bosseur , Jean-Robert Sédano Date: 12 juin 2020 14:08 Objet: Re: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Nous essayons de rendre public avec Freemuse la censure nationale des arts et de la musique originale des artistes authentiques qui a commencé avec « la révolution conservatrice » dans les années 70 et qui a été renforcée dans les années 80 avec la « politique culturelle » qui 1/2 siècle après est toujours active. Je me permets de communiquer votre email à Paige de Freemuse pour qu'elle puisse corroborer les informations sur la purge nationale française des artistes authentiques. Qui d'autres, quel autre artiste peut confirmer cette « restauration nationale » par la politique de censure nationale ? We are trying to make public with Freemuse the national censorship of the arts and original music of authentic artists which started with "the conservative revolution" in the 70s and which was reinforced in the 80s with the "cultural policy" which 1/2 century after is still active. I allow myself to communicate your email to Paige from Freemuse so that she can corroborate the information on the French national purge of authentic artists. Dear Paige Knowing there is nothing published, or I do not know if there is, to corroborate the information, I can give you the emails of 2 artists that confirmed me the national censorship against authentic artists in France: the composer musicologist Jean-Yves Bosseur: the composer of interactive art: Jean-Robert Sédano: I do not have the email of Makis Solomos, first I tried to discuss with him, about what he said about "the restoration of plenitude": a gentle way to mention the national censorship against "free" French artist. All other composers and artists I know, as I said, do not want and refuse to talk about it. I hope it will help All the best Mathius Shadow-Sky Mes quelques rédactions et réponses sont publiées ici : [1977/1987 : « plénitude sonore » & « restauration » (ou de la domination de l'académisme pour l'évacuation de l'inventivité) ; Histoire (en bouts) du déclin de la musique savante parisienne] De: Mathius Shadow-Sky à: Paige Collings cc: Jean-Yves Bosseur , Jean-Robert Sédano Date: 14 juin 2020 16:17 Objet: Re: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? If Freemuse cannot resolve the general national censorship case, and it is fully understandable (how is it possible to denounce the European way of life we are agree to live?), then let's try to act with an undeniable act of political censorship against my ensemble Les Guitares Volantes. Toulouse, May 14, 2020 I understand Paige. If you ask me, If you ask to me "to corroborate information", It means simply : you do not "corroborate this information" and Freemuse cannot take as real my testimony as artist composer. If Freemuse cannot consider my artist testimony as the truth, it means, that artists, for Freemuse can lie. (Politicians lie, not real artists. It means that Freemuse has to manage with false artists.) Why Freemuse cannot consider all the few letters I received from the politicians (all published in my web site) as sufficient proves of what I am living since 40 years of carrier as composer creating original music works? Why should I lie? To give me an importance I do not have? Sorry, I am not living for glory, but for my music to be realized. Is it a lie? Look at my work. So, I understand that it means that Freemuse cannot take that general politics and economics Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? - centrebombe@gmail.com - Gmail censorship act against freedom of creation in art and music. This real national (and European) censorship who tries continuously blackmailing the not false original (disobedient) artists. That means that Freemuse cannot start the revelation of what the political censorship acts against arts and music in France and in Europe in fact: against ours societies, fact that generates our mediocracy, since a half century? Is it means also that a national censorship (and European art censorship) is a too big case for Freemuse? I understand. But wouldn't be fair just and honest to tell me? Without suspected me to be a fool? To ask to me "to corroborate information"? while it is more the work of Freemuse! It means also that you consider my testimony uncertain questionable, even suspicious. Or false. Or acting under the syndrome of paranoia. What a lack of consideration! It means also, I suppose that it exists musicians asking Freemuse to play a part of something that does not exist. It means also that you did not read my texts published at http://centrebombe.org to understand what I create and who I am. OK, so let us forget it, Paige. Let us forgot what Freemuse is not able to do about mankind painful recent Western history. Am I the only one born French composer living this political economical censorship? It is not to me "to corroborate information". But for knowledge, how this censorship is acting? It is simple: to forbid to free composers the access to all public concert hall, to not finance the work of the composer to not pay the musicians to work with the composer, to make everything to maintain the artist in poverty (= out of any means) if s/he refuse to obey to cultural policy and to politicians of what s/he is commanded to do. That is all. It is not difficult. Quite easy to understand. It is really easy to control the art works public access, to forbid artists to show their art work in public, of what the political and economical domination refuse for them to create. Also ask yourself just these few questions: how it is possible that since 1981 the French government (then Europe) took the monopoly to finance the arts and music? how it is possible that since the end of the 70s the music lovers was replaced by uneducated public? how it is possible that since the 90s all the commercial recording studios bankrupted? how it is possible that since the 80s authentic art music (= politically unapproved) concerts became underground? how is it possible that intelligent free music concerts stay underground since the end of the 70s? [underground concert means: concert organized by private people, out of public concert hall, for few private audience, and not enough paid]. SO Let us try to work on something easier. Something more practical. In 2018, my new born ensemble: Les Guitares Volantes faced the Toulouse mayor hypocrite censorship to perform in Toulouse's public gardens and parks. As politician, the mayor turned that censorship as a national security necessity with the false obligation of "Vigipirate" strict obedience commanded by the government considering any public gathering a threat to people's life. Sounds familiar. And this year with the covid-19, considering any public gathering a threat to people's life. At that time any public concert has to employ additional private police to allow the concert. The price of that private police double/triple any budget for music concert. How convenient. What I was asking to the city hall is a little help to start the first tests of the instrumental outdoor polytrajectophonic music in space. Knowing that Toulouse is the European spot of the European Spatial Agency: it sounds logical to open a spatial music works in Toulouse, no? But, the mayor avoid all meetings, avoid to understand my proposal, arguing: I have to pay to perform. And at the same time being proud that Toulouse is the one city in France having a budget of 135 millions of euros per year for arts and music. The mayor asked me to pay 20.000 euros to sound the first tests of the spatial instrumental music, knowing that: no artist pay to work, especially to give a public concert. Soon in June in France, it will be the election of mayors. In Toulouse there is a "political fight" between the ancient mayor, who desperately wants to keep his place as mayor of Toulouse, and new people called Archipel that want to share the political power with people of Toulouse: a new way to disengage political hostilities regarding the useless violence that happened against people in yellow jacket. So, after the results of the mayor election, if the hostile mayor to free art and music is elected, would Freemuse would and can took a part to make possible any music concert in public gardens and parks? Or what else? Notice also that the city hall of Berlin censored also the outdoor concert by Les Guitares Volantes at Tempelhof park the same year. The argument? The music will kill the skylarks! The history of Les Guitares Volantes since 2017 is published here: http://centrebombe.org/livre/guitares.volantes.html With all my sympathy :) Mathius Shadow-Sky A non insane nor stupid nor idiot nor paranoid human being acting as composer and musician and, by so much political and economical aggression, as a writer too. PS What about our interview? attached document: If Freemuse cannot resolve the general national censorship case.pdf De: Paige Collings à: Mathius Shadow-Sky cc: Jean-Yves Bosseur , Jean-Robert Sédano Date: 15 juin 2020 16:53 Objet: RE: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Envoyé par: freemuse.org signé par: freemuse.onmicrosoft.com Dear Mathius, Thank you for your email. My apologies for using the term corroborating. As a research organisation we use this language regularly to discuss documents which support testimonial and I did not mean any offence or to insinuate that we distrust your testimony. Your testimony is extremely important. And you are right – the research team will look into these incidents further. Would you be willing to make a time to answer some specific questions? Best wishes, Paige De: Mathius Shadow-Sky à: Paige Collings Date: 17 juin 2020 18:41 Objet: Re: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Dear Paige, I am not offended at all :) I am just trying to understand how the massive Western censorship works against arts and music, that started from the end of the 70s. Real artists today are resistants of our cultural disaster, resisting with original creations against our decline. It is a global silent war against human intelligence, against ourselves. Our cultural disaster does not come only from the greed of economical and political domination, but also from people's fear and stupidity. The madness of power and the people's excessive fear of lack, generating excessive capitals, as well as poor and rich, creates the lack for those who do not capitalize is motivated by fear and stupidity. Everybody from the poorest to the richest is blackmailed by money: as the only motivation to act to be paid to pay. It is astonishing to face how people are so easily manipulatable (being so easily brainwashed) by political and economical lies against their own integrity. It is astonishing how our philosophers (last real ones) as Michel Foucault or Gilles Deleuze are insulted on the Internet! And the worst censorship I experienced, was (and still is) coming from friends. Yes, friends telling me that I should not create what I am creating! It is like all the senses of values and beauty of life are reversed! The self censorship in people is so deeply implanted and hidden from themselves that most people believe acting right to harm others, saying: "this is the reality, you should wake up!" (sic). The culture of violence and hostilities is only favourable and only serve the power of stupidity that everybody is complaining about. What a paradox! Very few people understand the huge knot they create and tighten themselves in their own trap they created by obedience (Ronald D. Laing spoke about it). This 40 years of hostile context for arts creation is really painful to live for an artist in our rich Western countries that people being trapped in a global war against knowledge nobody sees! Of course, I will answer any of your questions. :) I have some questions about Freemuse too :) All the best Mathius Shadow-Sky attached document: WHAT IS CENSORSHIP.pdf De: Paige Collings à: Mathius Shadow-Sky Date: 18 juin 2020 16:17 Objet: RE: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Envoyé par: freemuse.org signé par: freemuse.onmicrosoft.com Dear Mathius, Great to hear from you! Many thanks for your email and this information. Here are some questions: Can you please tell us something about yourself and your artistic work? What do you see as main obstacles for the artistic freedoms in France? What profile of artists is the most frequently targeted? Whom do you see as the biggest threat to artistic expression? Can you tell us about the latest situation when you were censored? How did you feel when you were censored? How does the censorship impact your artistic work? Have you experience any other violations of your rights by local authorities in the past? Looking forward to connecting again soon. Take care. All my best, Paige De: Mathius Shadow-Sky à: Paige Collings Date: 21 juin 2020 20:26 Objet: Re: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Dear Paige, Here are my firsts answers to your general questions. I did as best as I can for this first approach to the phenomenon. Also, general questions, to increase knowledge, need particular questions. It is why at the end, I wrote: 'to be continued'. I suppose it is a necessary fundamental approach, regarding what is happening now as the political aftermath of the covid-19 generates a vaste psychological depression among the artists and musicians. This seems to be a real pandemy! I put my answers and your questions in the form of a dialogue. 5 pages is a start for 41 years of original censored music creation. There are several links to some of my music too. Because by listening, you can understand what I cannot. It is important! Tell me if you wish any other format than the attached pdf file All the best reading :) Mathius Shadow-Sky attached document: First questions from Freemuse to the composer Mathius Shadow-Sky.pdf De: Mathius Shadow-Sky à: Paige Collings Date: 23 juin 2020 01:32 Objet: Re: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Dear Paige, I did a small correction in the dialogue to not misunderstand what about my colleagues censoring my music during 4 decades from their festival, institutions, places of creation, concert places, etc. Just one did not censor my music in France. Also, I made important additional explanations regarding your question "How does censorship impact your artistic work?" about the consequence of a half century of arts and music censorship, which is understandable as an arrested development for humankind intelligence. Please Paige get rid of my first pdf file to read this one dated: June 18-22, 2020 :) All the best reading and understanding :) Mathius Shadow-Sky attached document: First questions from Freemuse to the composer Mathius Shadow-Sky_2.6.pdf De: Paige Collings à: Mathius Shadow-Sky Date: 26 juin 2020 17:55 Objet: RE: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Envoyé par: freemuse.org signé par: freemuse.onmicrosoft.com sécurité: Chiffrement standard (TLS) Dear Mathius, Apologies for the delay in getting back to you – I have been out of the office this week. Many thanks for this comprehensive information note! I will speak to my colleagues in communications and get back to you next week with some next steps. Wishing you a wonderful weekend. All my best, Paige De: Paige Collings à: Mathius Shadow-Sky Date: 3 juil. 2020 16:55 Objet: RE: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Envoyé par: freemuse.org signé par: freemuse.onmicrosoft.com sécurité: Chiffrement standard (TLS) Dear Mathius, Apologies for the delay in getting back to you. I hope that you are well. We have sent your interview to our research team and it has been documented. Many thanks for sharing your testimony. Wishing you a lovely weekend. Best wishes and take care, Paige De: Mathius Shadow-Sky à: Paige Collings Date: 4 juil. 2020 15:02 Objet: Re: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Thank you Paige about your concern :) Really, particularly in the context of what happened here in Toulouse: where the hostile mayor against original arts has been re-elected for 6 years! And, What do you mean by "your interview has been documented"? Is it to feed the "next steps" to make our Western art history public? I hope, like I said, that these first answers will provoke new questions about missing details. Let me know, Take care :) Mathius De: Paige Collings à: Mathius Shadow-Sky cc: Emily D’Alterio , Jasmina Lazovic Date: 6 juil. 2020 12:44 Objet: RE: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Envoyé par: freemuse.org signé par: freemuse.onmicrosoft.com sécurité: Chiffrement standard (TLS) Dear Mathius, You are very welcome. Thank you for being so forthcoming with your situation. I am sorry that we could not assist further from an advocacy point of view. Yes, the documentation of your case is an important step in our research and understanding of the situation in Toulouse – which relies very largely media reporting. I CC my colleagues in Research and Communications who will be in touch if they have any further questions. Please take care, and all the best, Paige De: Mathius Shadow-Sky à: Paige Collings cc: Emily D’Alterio , Jasmina Lazovic Date: 11 juil. 2020 16:26 Objet: Re: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Dear Paige, At the same time, I understand and I am disappointed. Indeed, I was expecting some support from Freemuse. With everything I revealed about censored Western "intelligent music", some support like some connections to nice people ignoring "the cultural policy" forbidding what not should be forbidden to make my music exist among nice people. In Sweden? In Norway? These half century Western censorship against "free intelligent music" who started since the end of 70s is not only acting in my city of residency, but in all the Western world in all countries that copy the French "cultural policy". I was not expecting from Freemuse an international or even national trial against the politicians and everybody responsible for a half century of voluntary censorship of "free intelligent music", and arts, and philosophy! It is our contemporary history of arts and music and philosophy involved, and how Western humankind is building its decline (through also the youth's school and university diseducation). Also I am surprised that Freemuse is "sorry that we could not assist further from an advocacy point of view". There is always a way to resolve any misunderstanding. Understanding that killing "free intelligent music" is for us, a Western humankind catastrophe that drives certainly our Western species to idiocracy. Several testimonies already appear in public that nobody can deny. But also, what are the limits of what Freemuse can act to reveal what threats Western humankind is facing? Arts, philosophy and music constantly face the policy and economic domination to exist in public (= the tamed obedient crowd to pay and to buy what they are told to). Politicians are people in need of power to harm others: and they apply that power to injure people. The feeling of the authority for absolute obedience that real artists cannot be submitted because by obeying they cannot create original art. Since a half century, and politicians, and businessmen are volontarely ignoring that fact to perpetrate their domination. An insane game that harms our species. So why to support our Western decline? indirectly by abdication, or directly like European institutions act every day against (real) artists to censor their arts work. It is why I prepared some questions for people from Freemuse to question the sense of what they commit to act to protect the necessary freedom of art and music creation. That this act of creation cannot be sold or be driven by any dictatorship, especially the European one driving through "the cultural policy". I think now it is my turn for the equilibrium to interview Freemuse! And we expect from Freemuse's people answers to all my questions, even if there are 6 pages of it. To answer, will help to point and enhance and clarify the sense to act to protect artists' freedom for human kind mind health. Expecting to tell us. With all my kindness Mathius Shadow-Sky attached document: First questions from the composer Mathius Shadow-Sky to Freemuse.pdf Please consider these questions as the first step of mutual understanding :) attached document: First questions from the composer Mathius Shadow-Sky to Freemuse.pdf De: Emily D’Alterio à: Mathius Shadow-Sky , Paige Collings cc: Jasmina Lazovic Date: 13 juil. 2020 10:06 Objet: RE: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Envoyé par: freemuse.org signé par: freemuse.onmicrosoft.com Dear Mathius, I am Emily D’Alterio, Communications Manager at Freemuse. We do not have the resources to respond to these questions and continue this dialogue. Please see the many resources directed by my colleague. We will not be able to assist you at this time. Best wishes, Emily D’Alterio Communications Manager She | Her | Hers E: emily.dalterio@freemuse.org T: +45 3332 1027 www.freemuse.org Sign up to receive news and information from us. freemuse logo email The content of this email is confidential and intended for the recipient specified in message only. It is strictly forbidden to share any part of this message with any third party, without a written consent of the sender. If you received this message by mistake, please reply to this message and follow with its deletion, so that we can ensure such a mistake does not occur in the future. Please be aware that we may use your contact information to contact you in relation to the matter you have contacted us. We will never share your information with any third party without your written consent. If you do not want us to keep your contact information including your e-mail address, please let us know so we can delete your contact information from our systems. De: Mathius Shadow-Sky à: Emily D’Alterio cc: Paige Collings , Jasmina Lazovic Date: 13 juil. 2020 15:53 Objet: Re: Censorship in France does it exists in contemporary serious music? Dear Emily, Your intensive, authoritarian and forbidding answer is unexpected from an organization defending injured artists! Is it not an act of censorship to break our dialogue? Emily - We do not have the resources to respond to these questions and continue this dialogue. Mathius - Then, I understand, I touched an important point of what is the Freemuse fundamental sense of denouncing artists being abused by "other" political authorities from outside right-thinking (North) Europe. So why Freemuse took the role to defend injured artists? It becomes a paradox in the truth. In the opposition, is it a showcase to convince people with the (false) good intention that massive intelligent arts censorship does not exist in Europe? To break our dialogue shows that my questions are relevant in our situation of arts and music degradation in our Western societies. I feel deeply sorry about your authoritarian answer. Emily - We will not be able to assist you at this time. Mathius - "At this time"? There will be another time to assist my request as a censored artist? Is not the right answer. Freemuse - The content of this email is confidential and intended for the recipient specified in the message only. Mathius - What does Freemuse want to hide by specifying to not share with others this intention in contradiction of what Freemuse is pretending? Freemuse - It is forbidden to share any part of this message with any third party, without a written consent of the sender. Mathius - It is not understandable, because it is in opposition to what Freemuse should protect. And It is impossible. Our dialogue is public. As artist, all my acts are public. It cannot be secret, as in politics. Arts is at the opposite of politics. Mathius - What I am expecting from Freemuse? Well, at least, from its well intentioned people, the recognition of how our Western societies realise the censorship of arts and music by not putting its artists in prison, but by muting/hiding them by ignoring their art works by not allowing their art works simply to not be shown in public, in the official concert halls and exhibition places. No need of prison. There is no spectacle of the arrested and condemn artist which is a reality. Everything is done in secret. It is why that state of massive arts censorship in Europe stays unknowable. "Being a Western artist is an act of resistance against the decline of the Western humanity." When my professor of philosophy Gilles Deleuze said this in the 80s, I did not expected 40 years after that it would be so real and so painful! WHAT I WAS EXPECTED FROM FREEMUSE I expected from Freemuse the recognition of how European intelligent free music is censored massively since the 80s. It is important, because most people acting in the music world have no idea that they act unconsciously this censorship. When you are aware of that, you see all people around you are possessed acting against their will without noticing it, and even, being convinced you are wrong. Yes, it is a nightmare in daylight mare! And above all, about this censorship depends the level of humankind intelligence. I have of course the right to communicate to others your answer Emily D'Alterio as a representative and "Communications Manager" of Freemuse, to European injured censored real artists. To know. This for my own protection, because now I feel really threaten. Or, we need from you a proper explanation, about your act of censorship. For your best Mathius Shadow-Sky