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Inspired by food and wine pairing, composers were asked to select or ‘pair’ themselves with a book from Zabriske bookshop. Jasmine Guffond chose David Graeber’s Debt, the First 5000 Years and composed a Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity which played in the background, diffused over a multi-channel speaker set-up while she read excerpts from Graeber’s book. Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity is a poetic inversion of Muzak’s traditional role in stimulating seemless productivity in the workplace and pays hommage to Graeber’s praise for the “unindustrious poor”.

Listen here: https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/muzak-for-the-encouragement-of-unproductivity