TV Apaguismo - Brazilian Contemporary Music

TV Apaguismo is a Brazilian contemporary movement that joins music and video (artistic and educational).

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TV Apaguismo
'Apaguismo' is a Brazilian contemporary movement that joins music and video, is both artistic and educational, and aims to bring Brazilian essence to a global level. It´s easy to understand why the 'Apaguismo' has to create its own vehicle, a WebTV to express spontaneous creativity, without restrictions, keeping the mind free for experimental art.
'Apagar' means 'to delete, and 'Apaguismo' is a neologism in Portuguese, that we need to explain... The “Apaguismo” movement arose in a cold starry night in the mountains of the Serra da Mantiqueira. We had just played at a music-therapy, holistic gathering, and were intoxicated by the effect of music and the lush landscape. Under the influence of the informal atmosphere that entices those who are partial to the art of thinking, someone proposed a question "What now? What is the next step to save mankind? " It may be hard for people to understand that such a serious question could and should be answered amongst jokes and laughter when philosophers are Brazilians and yet not lose consistency...Therefore, while the night progressed, between all that laughter, we watched as one of us was transfigured into the prophet of “Apaguismo”: Carlos Estevão Simonka, a teacher with astounding knowledge in both biology and philosophy and also an artist with an eclectic mind, was its creator and then proceeded to describe his doctrine. We heard a complete analysis of the evolution of human civilization, always torn between choosing to follow reason, intuition or feeling, leading to an unusual criticism of the Modern Rationalism and also to contemporary Holism. Concluding that all these ideas are diluted, impoverished by their dissemination into the consumer society, the Apaguismo concludes that mankind is reduced to become robot-like, with minds like computers that, despite their incredible potential, spend their time busying themselves with entertainment software. To awaken a civilzation who invested in registering a huge volume of information but missed the profound meaning of life from its deep slumber, the 'Apaguismo' proposes 'to delete', but not in any iconoclastic, destructive manner. As professional jokers devoted to delete the social dystopia, we aim to rethink the Illuminism and the Enlightenment. Like the Beat generation, we seek a pure, spiritual essence. Like Zen Budhist monks, we seek for a clear, transcendental mind. Like carnival parades, we seek dance, joy, and social connection with a roadmap behind it. Beyond good music, our agenda proposes to include a variety of subjects, from ethics, philosophy, sustainable economy, education, new ways of society to freedom and the culture of peace.

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