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2025.07.10 THU 8PM (목요일 저녁 8시)
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Sound of Dystopia — 불편한 정서의 지도

Tilt는 ‘어떻게 들을 것인가’를 묻는 공간입니다. 이번 큐레이션 역시 그 질문을 바탕으로 구성된 청취 목록입니다.

1980년대, 서구의 음악 신(scene)은 급격한 산업 재편과 정치적 보수주의의 그림자 속에서 새로운 언어를 모색해야 했습니다. 이 시기 등장한 인더스트리얼, 포스트펑크, EBM(전자신체음악) 등의 흐름은 음악적 분류를 거부하는 정서의 움직임으로, 도시 불안과 감정 붕괴에 대한 집단적 반응이었습니다.

기계음과 반복, 일그러진 리듬, 감정의 과잉과 단절은 모두 청취를 통한 ‘저항’의 제스처였고, 동시대의 미술과 철학, 실험적 퍼포먼스 또한 비슷한 방식으로 응답했습니다. 몸의 경직, 언어의 파열, 구조의 해체는 모든 감각 장르에서 되풀이되던 질문이었습니다. “무엇이 감정이고, 어디까지가 감각인가.”

그리고 지금, 우리는 또 다른 형태의 도시적 경직과 감각적 피로 속에 놓여 있습니다. 불안정한 경제, 고립된 일상, 무력한 분노, 반복되는 구조적 침묵. 한 세대가 겪은 ‘미래 없음(No Future)’의 정서는, 오늘의 한국 사회에서 기묘하게 되살아나고 있습니다.

이 리스트는 그런 중첩된 시간 위에 놓인 음악들로 구성되어 있습니다. 질서에서 벗어난 리듬과 해체된 구조가 감각을 위로하기보다 낯설게 만들며, 청취자를 멈칫하게 하고 깨어 있게 합니다. 이 사운드들은 춤추는 몸이 아닌 경직된 몸을, 유연한 흐름이 아닌 긴장을, 기분 좋은 배경이 아닌 불편함이라는 정서의 지도를 상상하게 만듭니다.

Tilt는 이 낯선 청취를 통해 다시 묻습니다.
지금, 우리는 어떤 시대의 정서를 듣고 있는가.

1. Throbbing Gristle – 20 Jazz Funk Greats [1979]

2. Cabaret Voltaire – Badge of Evil [1983]

3. Depeche Mode – Pipeline [1983]

4. Coil – Panic [1985]

5. Einstürzende Neubauten – Yü-gung (Fütter mein Ego) [1985]

6. Suicide – Rocket USA [1977]

7. Ike Yard – Motiv [1981]

8. Karl and The Kurbcrawlers – Same Day (Again) [1993]

9. Skinny Puppy – Worlock [1989]

10. Nitzer Ebb – Let Your Body Learn [1987]

11. Keith LeBlanc  – Major Malfunction [1986]

12. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – From Her to Eternity [1984]

13. Tuxedomoon – No Tears [1978]

Tilt is a space that continuously asks the question: How should we listen?

This listening session is curated around that very question.

In the 1980s, the Western music scene found itself searching for a new language in the shadow of rapid industrial restructuring and rising political conservatism. Emerging movements like industrial, post-punk, and EBM (Electronic Body Music) were less about genres than they were about emotional refusal—collective reactions to urban anxiety and emotional breakdown.

Mechanical sounds, repetition, distorted rhythms, and emotional excess or detachment became gestures of resistance through listening. At the same time, contemporary art, philosophy, and experimental performance responded in kind: with stiffened bodies, ruptured language, and structural collapse. Across all sensory forms, the same question echoed: What is emotion, and where does sensation end?

Today, we face a different kind of urban rigidity and sensory fatigue—an unstable economy, isolated daily lives, powerless rage, and a recurring structural silence. The feeling of “No Future” once experienced by a generation is strangely resurfacing in Korean society today.

This playlist brings together music that sits atop these overlapping timelines. Rather than comforting the senses, these tracks unsettle them—with unruly rhythms and dismantled structures that disrupt, pause, and awaken. These sounds don’t imagine the body in dance, but in stiffness; not flow, but tension; not pleasant background, but a map of emotional discomfort.

Through this unfamiliar listening, Tilt asks once again:
What kind of emotional landscape are we listening to now?