Cards against the machine

What is the meaning of action in the context of social systems? Is saying words an act of self-expression rather than an attempt to communicate? When the machine keeps running no matter what we say, the only appropriate expression is play.

The music instrument is made with obsolete bank card reader and microphone cables. Thanks to my own recording technique based on ferromagnetic properties of the material it is possible to record and play back a sound sample directly onto a bank card's magnetic stripe.