This paper considers music performance in light of the possibly most radical move away from the Cartesian idea of the body as informed by the higher order rationality of the mind: this is a performance informed by Deleuze’s and Guattari’s body without organs. The paper examines the particular performance activities of ‘hardware hacker’ Nic Collins, of ‘live converter’ Kaffe Matthews as well as ...

Foucault located the _disciplinary societies_ in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; they reach their height at the outset of the twentieth. They initiate the organization of vast spaces of enclosure. The individual never ceases passing from one closed environment to another, each having its own laws: first the family; then the school ("you are no longer in your family"); then the barracks...