Doom party aftermath

Judgment Day, as brought to you by the INTuitron. By all accounts, one of the most outrageous events in recent memory. A true Happening.

Examine the artifactual evidence.

Unfortunately I made a silly mistake and the video sound is horrendous... but those who were there know the wholly new creature which was born: Booty + Doom = BOOM.

The Doom Party

This Saturday at my house will take place the greatest party ever thrown:



Judgment Day on Mt. Zion

Saturday, April 22, 2006
at 329 S. 43rd Street, Philadelphia*

The nonsense begins at 9:30 PM. BYOA. BYOF.**

The dress code is: Absurd. (Any way you choose to interpret that)

Juxtaposing the following contradictory elements:
M. Weed's birthday (old news)
Electro-booty
DOOM DOOM DOOM
Silent video loops
Pre-finals angst release
$1 Polaroids with Francois the Giant Sexopus
Multi-cultural pastiche
Black lights and smoke machines
A straightedge juice bar
Live performance from The INTuitron with special guests James & Emma Sing Country Tunes
The dawning of the Age of Aquarius
And You

*329 is on the East side of 43rd Street between Spruce and Pine. If you can't find it, just listen for the bowel-movement-inducing rumble.
**Bring Your Own Fruit. We'll be making smoothies. Seriously.

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Note: the INTuitron consists of myself and a couple other miscreants, plus huge amplifiers and possibly a robot or two, improvising an electroDOOM performance piece. Think Sunn o))) with Aphex Twin doing beats and Merzbow making noise, plus weird TV monitor video loops, rooms filled with fog, strobe lights, black lights, and a general aura of impending apocalypse. Please come to our happening, you will probably be glad you did.

Here's to Sunn o))) getting a write-up in Artforum. I guess they're haut-couture now.

Easter lilies

Courtesy of a certain well-dressed paparazzi

At least I can look pretty while I pontificate

Thesis show starts TODAY

KILLING FIELDS OPENS TODAY

5pm-9:30pm, Cinemagic @ Penn
3925 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
(next to Philly Diner)
4/14-4/17

It will be open through Monday night -- the loop is about 25 minutes long, so it's not a major time committment to come and see it, but of course you can stay as long as you like.

I am so glad this thing is done. Now you just have to make all this work worthwhile by showing up and hanging out (I'll be on-site, gallery sitting, during all open hours).

DIY stop motion studio

No sleeeeeeeeeeeeeep

Please make my insomnia worthwhile and come to my thesis show this weekend.

A note about MACRoCk: apparently everyone in Rosetta is stupid, or else highly postmodern. None of us brought a camera on Saturday. Thus, no pictures from MACRoCk. If you were there and you have some, please send them to me, I would appreciate it greatly.

MACRoCk

I'm about to leave to go play the Godwin Metal Showcase @ MACRoCk with Municipal Waste.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Pictures Sunday...

If you happen to be at MACRoCk (i.e. right now), come see us and we will hook you up with one of our new DVDs, which I am burning right this second. They have a 5.1-channel surround mix of both CDs of The Galilean Satellites together (disc 1 on the front speakers, disc 2 on the rear), and three live videos too. We will be hand-painting discs and cases for these things and selling them on tour this summer, but you can get one this weekend for free (without the packaging) if you happen to be in the right place.

While having a caffeine heart attack at 5am

I just had a moment of panic when I realized that one month from today I will be done with college. There's definitely an existential crisis in the mail.

Noise

Take a look at this.

Interestingly enough, I consider Masami Akita (Merzbow) to be quite influential in much of the music and soundscape that I make. Supposedly he's a pretty nice guy. Since when is Radiohead a "noise" band? And why is free jazz degenerate?

The main problem here is assumption. M.A.N. is all about the idea that there is a particular form (i.e. the Western diatonic scale, used in Common Practice) that best fulfills the Purpose of music. This is rooted in Kantian Aesthetics, one of the high points of Enlightenment hubris and a validation for centuries of cultural imperialism. Furthermore, the diatonic scale itself is an invention of Pythagoras, which was implemented in Europe only at the beginning of the Renaissance --- which is to say, there is nothing Christian at all about the Western major/minor modalities. In fact, if a religio-philosophical label had to be attached to them, it would be Greek Humanism, as glorified by the Enlightenment. Most actual God-worshipping music of the early church (indeed, quite pioneering in harmony and notation) was written far outside the restrictions of Common Practice compositional methodology.

M.A.N.'s problem is that "noise music," as they define it, deviates from what they consider to be a Universal Standard. Yet that very standard is born of a centuries-old intellectual tradition which is in fact inimical to the core of Christian belief and practice --- and has masqueraded as Biblical morality for so long that it is simply accepted without question by most Christian people. Before they can cry "conspiracy" at a bunch of DIY music nerds, paranoid pharisees need to recognize the lies they themselves have swallowed --- and understand that blind phobia of postmodern cultural production is neither consistent with their core beliefs, nor a loving way of engaging their children.

In lashing out without understanding the ideological underpinnings of either their own or their target's paradigms, M.A.N. is absolutely no better than the legions of ignorant, unquestioning "bluecollar postmoderns" who look to MTV or Pitchfork Media as oracles of truth.