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Plan: Not to perceive noise as music, but music as noise. Precisely in the disjunct of failed causation is where we have to look for poetry. Music has fallen into the habit of smoothing things out and slowing things down, and because we are lazy we confuse that sop to our lassitude with so-called aesthetic experience. The mechanics of consciousness require disaster, bloodshed, and fucking in order for us to stop, withold that step for one moment, and percieve what is actually going on. Reconstruction is always the child of violence. Kaliedoscopic refocusing of dust motes in sunlight, but the motes are unique fragments of the world. My motivation is not to produce a well-formed artwork but to track and amplify the microscopic domino-falls and systemic shudders of our synapses -- create a macro-level experience of the pre-sensory world not for the sake of abstracted and somnambulistic appreciation but for DIRECT and ELECTRICAL contact with the subatomic elements of the glances in the street the untied shoelace the fall of a single strand of hair. |
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This is a recording of a live performance: one member of a set of possible solutions. Vertebra is a computer program, an environmental construction, a scaffold, in which the activity of making sense and its suspensions are not merely illustrated, but actually taking place. Vertebra has been performed extensively in the US and Europe, and is available from Pogus Records.
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| Read a review of vertebra from the Utrechtse Niewsblad (translated!) == |
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