A. p. vague

Politics

Though most of Vague's work is instrumental, the accompanying album art and song titles (along with occasional spoken word recordings) express a political disposition toward the extreme left. What happens when our backyard rockets reach the moon? from 2006's Sleep is a Myth pt 2 ([1]) pairs a recording of a hymn with poetry that reflects an anticapitalist stance and a highly pejorative form of classism. More recently Vague has sharply criticized the U.S. military, sometimes referring to military personnel as "terrorists" and advocating extreme violence toward officers. 2010's One note song for Malalai Joya ([2]) was accompanied by a series of drawings depicting the floorplan and general architecture of the U.S. treasury along with the repeated image of broken glass and shrapnel. The audio for this piece was created by programming four laptop computers to automatically generate a never ending cycle of tonal variations once the piece is triggered. Vague was instrumental in coordinating an appearance by Joya, but solely exhibited the piece in her honor after she was denied entry into the United States.

Links

[3] Blog

[4] Audio