PROPTER HOC – Dramaturgy - CD

PROPTER HOC – Dramaturgy - CD

Coming a nice 6-panel Digipak with booklet!

Dramaturgy is the art of making sense of theatre, drawing out its meaning, imagery, symbolism and context. In sociology, as developed by Erving Goffman, dramaturgy refers to the way social interactions in everyday life resemble theatrical performances, where we all play roles specific to the situation, or to the stage we find ourselves on. For Goffman, our identities are not fixed, but shaped by the social setting, and by the way we present ourselves to the people around us. So our personalities and our characters are a performance, but one developed in collaboration with everyone we share our lives with.
 
Propter Hoc is a project by artist/writer J. A. Harrington combining post-punk influenced electronic music with referential lyrics, drawing upon poetry, literature, philosophy and other sources in the hope of connecting through a sense of expanded diegesis.

The name Propter Hoc comes from an essay by artist Martha Rosler, where the phrase is used in the context of photography as fine art, that it might only be considered ‘art’ if that was the intention before creating it.

With this music the aspiration is that perhaps a song is more likely to be meaningful if finding meaning was the motive behind making it in the first place.

Tracklist:

01 In the Physic Garden  
02 Chronophobia  
03 Sturm und Drang  
04 Sophia Jansen’s Dream  
05 Pony Up  
06 The Criminal Mind
07 Moonlight Maze and Titan Rain  
08 The Great Derangement  
09 Okay Fine  
10 The Black Leather Historical Reenactment Society