Photo exhibition
Workers of the sound
The contradiction is clear between the pleasure of producing art and the need to sell culture in the market. This contradiction makes sound workers, musicians, find themselves in the same working conditions as a cleaning worker when the circumstances of a nation require it. That was the case with cultural workers during the pandemic period.
Thanks to this situation, cultural workers, and not just musicians, were able to remember that they are precisely that, workers and that their privileges in the art world are subordinated to the clear conditions and needs of the market.
Slaves.
Workers of the sound.
Slaves of your waves my worker fingers are.
Slaves.
Waves back and forth making the sound,
for human beings who want to hear your profound.
Our music.
Anger, necessity and an abandoned love,
can be in the waves of your strings,
only if my slave worker fingers,
with accuracy touch the correct note.
But in the same slave waves my freedom understand
the necessity we workers have.
Help me old bass to push harder the strings, so the old mole,
can hear the sound,
and the waves of history can move,
like my slave worker fingers
in the touch of your strings do.
by
Diegobserva