Words do no justice to the awesomeness of above illustration. As reported earlier, the noise community has stopped tinkering with feedback loops for a moment or two in the name of civic engagement. Noise for Obama, with a most triumphant Wonderful Rainbow-themed background, launched roughly two weeks ago and now has some artist statements up with pledging of support and general thumbs-upness for Obama.

Some highlights for me include Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale on voting:

“So I’ll wander into whatever school gym or apartment complex lobby I’m assigned too and say “chippendale” and the volunteers will all giggle and I’ll make a joke about my rich stripper uncle or something like that. Then I’ll vote, we will all smile and I’ll get my “I voted” sticker and walk out happy that I shared a moment with a few new people from some other walk of life. All of us participating in this grand democratic experiment.”

Nick Hayden from Friends Forever sums up thoughts that I wish we’d hear pundits say more, and in this exact diction:

With Obama we know that there is no great evil, a ” terrorist” is an asshole brain washed by idiotic mislead Muslim radicals and nothing more (on a side note we have a ton of neo-conservative brain washed Evangelical assholes that fuck up our country daily but that’s another story). With Obama we know these mislead Muslim radical assholes can’t be stopped by killing dictators and taking over countries. With Obama we know the lower and middle class will not be forgotten. With Obama we hear no more fear inside us. With Obama we feel we have a part in our future, and see ourselves becoming a nation again. With Obama the focus is on me and you finding the ability and strength within to overcome things that piss us off. Also with Obama we know he’ll have a Vice President that is maybe even more passionate regarding some of the issues that are dribbling into my life without my consent and stealing my time and money.

Greg from Deerhoof:

When most politicians start talking in detail on a technical topic, my eyes glaze over almost instantly. I know I’m just a drummer so that’s probably par for the course, but I firmly believe this is intentional on their part, to create the impression that they are know-it-alls and that us citizens needn’t concern ourselves with the finer points.

Which brings me back to my not-so-fine point, that an Obama presidency would encourage the real and potential agents of positive change. An “understandable” president would be a real danger to the status quo because the citizens might tune in rather than tune out. They would start to develop the expectation that their leaders make sense. They would feel that they are being included in the discussion and that it is their responsibility to be educated about what is being discussed. With an engaged population who knows what might happen?

Head on over to read more statements from the likes of No Age, Russian Circles, Sunken Landscapes, and more.

Not related to Obama, but related to noise, I love Paper Rad’s video for for the Bolt’s “13 Monsters.” Czech it below. Also, Lightning Bolt’s ATP performance is riiiight here.

MP3 :::
Lightning Bolt – 30,000 Monkeys
No Age – Boy Void
Wolf Eyes – Noise Not Music