Workers have to run
machines, it's not their job to --
make them make music.
Arbeiders moeten	Arbeiter müssen
machines laten werken --	Maschinen schuften lassen --
geen muziek maken.	nicht Musik machen.

Poem S2997
Amsterdam, 2025-10-01
Noises that don't speak (Arnold Marinissen) - 2023
Composition "Des bruits qui ne parlent pas" (with a text from the essay "La condition ouvrière" ["The working class condition"] by Simone Weil from 1937: factory workers are not free people), performed by Arnold Marinissen (percussion and fixed medis), Agathe Labadie (voice), and Dorien Schouten (barrel organ The Busy Drone) in the Organpark on November 1st, 2025
Collection: org anp ARK 
Keyword: Equality: inequality 
Tribute to: Weil, Simone 
Composer: Marinissen, Arnold