---
categories:
- SI18
- Sound
- Text
cover: office.jpg
cover_alt: Hard work at the sound office
date: 22/05/2022
description: Vocal drum machine for the weekly issue release with Em
pad: https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/pad/p/kamem_FIVE
slug: what-is-right-not-to
title: SI18.05 - What is right not to
links:
- title: 🎵
url: https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/SI18/05/recordings/what-is-right-not-to.mp3
- title: txt
url: https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/SI18/05/texts/what-is-right-not-to.txt
---
```
If we censor art what is left to discuss?
but
what is right not to say
not to explore
not to research
not to investigate
not to disturb
not to move
not to play around with
not to harm
not to modify
not to evolve
not to question
what is right not to issue
not to challenge
not to interrogate
not to query
what is right not to intrude
or not to invade
what is right not to mess
not to change
not to develop
not to evaluate
not to violate
not to bother
nor to bore
or to trouble
what is right not to analyze
not to consult
not to explore
not to investigate
not to probe
not to estimate
not to look into
not to care for
not to look for
what is right not to see
what is right not to choose
nor to pick
to want
to hear
nor to feel
what is right
not to deal with
not to stand for
nor to evoke
what is right
not to reflect on
not to think of
not to consider
not to remember
not to believe in
not to mention
what is right
not to understand
not to absorb
not to take over
not to control
nor to check
what is right not to collect
not to correct
nor to connect
what is right not to rush
what is right not to flash
not to smash
not to destroy
not to crash
what is right not to press
what is right not to compress
not to oppress
what is right
not to collection
not to exhibit
not to display
not to visualise
nor to admire
what is right not to
not to confess
not to say
not to convey
what is right not to illustrate
what not to diffract
not to diffuse
neither to share
what is right not to play with
not to start with
not to end with
not to
but
```
In connectioon with the topic of censorship, the research and question of the value of something that it's worth it to stay as it is because of what and how it is. So in a way something related to self censorship ?
There is a structure in the text used:
- if we censor art, what is left to discuss?
- but
- what is right
- not to
- nor to
- or to
- to
- \+ verb* [*variable]
The basic structure that should be kept in the played piece have to contain:
1. First line [the refrain]: if we censor art, what is left to discuss?
2. Container of the text: 2 "but" [one after the first line & one as the final line]
3. The text
### input
collectively written text and audio recordings
### tools
mini-microphone, Ableton, Audacity, Rack
### process log
## brainstorm
- pick a topic we want to write about
- pick a method we want to use
- start writing together on the same pad
- edit the text & proofread
- experiment audio recordings
- experiment with rack and our voices
- find the right method
- create a drum machine
1. record fragments
2. split them up in different audios
3. position audio recordings as notes
4. play!
#our usage of the notation system and the creation of the piece
1. pick verbs already divided in categories from the original text + the repetitive words
2. play around and create a rhythm out of them [see the fragments]
3. between the verbs, insert variations of what is right not to
4. add first line and containers [but]
5. done!
#export mp3
### output
instrument
audio piece
### who
Emm & Kamo
