3. “Music is the melody to which the world is the text.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
“Take a structure like a multi-storey car park, one of the
most mysterious buildings ever built. Is it a model for some
strange psychological state, some kind of vision glimpsed
within its bizarre geometry? What effect does using these
buildings have on us? Are the real myths of this century
being written in terms of these huge unnoticed structures?”
- J. G. Ballard
“…a productive utilisation of myth is not impersonal and
neutral, but it is not a purely personal affair either. In fact, it
is explicitly collective: the production of collective
enunciations.”
- Simon O’ Sullivan
See also: Science Fiction > ‘Novum’ as object of ‘epistemological gravity’ > alien logic
5. VAPORWAVE
“We wanted to do something very Debordian,
about how this capitalistic society has
generated a dehumanising hyperreality by
focusing an infinite generation of ideals as
shown through commodities. I view society as
entering a hyperreal state, and how it has is
part of what INTERNET CLUB is about.”
- INTERNET CLUB
“I think it’s very important that we as musicians
react to our world. I guess part of me misses
the era of protest songs. Now everything’s a
protest song, now I feel like the most effective
social commentary is one without dialogue.”
- New Dreams Ltd.
6. > Ballard’s car parks vs. 21st C ‘public plaza’
> Contemporary Myth as Vapor(ware) i.e fabricated future?
> Semantic Apocalypse
> The new punk? (no future)
7. BLACK METAL
> apocalypse
> pessimism (“this is the worst of all
possible worlds”)
> ‘necrosound’
“Nihilism is not an existential quandary
but a speculative opportunity.”
- Ray Brassier
9. “The cold world of Black Metal is a deliberate freezing of the world, fixing it within a
terminal image, in order that it’s frost-bitten surface may be shattered by
anonymous, inhuman forces rising from the depths of the self. It is a withdrawal of
affect from the world, in order to experience ‘the eerie bliss and torture of solitude’
and so discover the forces at war within oneself… The vertiginous dysphoria of
Xasthur’s sound-world is not yet the focused displeasure of the militant, but a
simulacrum – a spiritualisation – of malcontent. It embodies a will that that which is
should not be, but not a will tha that which is should be otherwise.”
- Dominic Fox
12. Afro-Futurism
> Diaspora
> ‘Earworm’
> ‘Dub Virus’ - memetics
The “dub virus” relates not just to the direct influence of the dub reggae sound on
other musics, but more than this, its catalysis of an abstract sound machine
revolving around the studio as instrument and the migration of a number of
production and playback processes. The dub virus hacked the operating system of
sonic reality and imploded it into a remixological field.
- Steve Goodman
14. Exploit.zzxjoanw.Gen
AAS
The Confraternity of Neoflagellants
Plastique Fantastique
Head Gallery
#Postmodem
WE
English Heretic
Michelle Hannah
Benedict Drew
POLLYFIBRE
The Cult of RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ
Xempeer
“…our societies are without a
future that can be presented as
universal.”
- Alain Badiou
17. clips shown:
James Ferraro – Global Lunch
INTERNET CLUB – Wave Temple
Mayhem – Pure Fucking Armageddon
Xasthur – Telepathic with the Deceased
Sun Ra – Space is the Place
Drexciya – Black Sea
Jillian Mayer – MegaMega Uplad
