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Aren’t they going to turn that down? Waiting for
go-go. The medium is the message; growing up
absurd. The go-go girls ordinarily have a cage while
appearing to manifest their energies untrammelled,
unconstrained. Sound, in this kind of world is not
used as something to be listened to, it’s a kind of
foam rubber, which you press against, it presses
back against you, makes you feel kind of wanted.
Sound in the new world of dance, song, it’s not for
listening, it’s for making, and so the go-go girls,
locked up each in her little world, represents a kind
of theatre of the absurd, in which all
communication has broken down. In fact, no
attempt is really made to communicate. Each puts