MacacoBong.tec: música como tecnologia social de empoderamento estético e político

Abstract

The popularization of the internet and the lowering cost for technical equipment, facilitating its access to certain sectors of the population, provoked, through a string of economic and social processes, changes in ways of experiencing music in cities, enabling aesthetic and political developments in the multiplication of independent music scenes throughout Brazil. New platforms of existence were forged with new industrial and social technologies enabling many musicians and artists to build sustainable and well-structured careers. In the midst of this "rise of Brazilian independent music" mentioned by critics of its time, arises Fora do Eixo - a network of collectives of urban youth comprising a national independent collaborative music circuit and an insurgent digital activism provided with contemporary social and digital technologies - and Macaco Bong - an instrumental rock band whose members participated of the foundation of Fora do Eixo, with clear social and political principles of existence and militancy in the contexts in which they find themselves and built a career of seven successful years in Brazilian independent music, playing throughout Brazil and abroad, as well as several nominations, awards and partnerships with established artists in the sector. This paper is a case study of Macaco Bong, exposing and analyzing their musical pathways and processes in a relational and processual perspective of music, in the context of Fora do Eixo, its principles and technologies, understanding the band as an artisan, along with their partners, of social technologies of music empowering themselves aesthetically and politically for collective protagonization of sociopolitical disputes.