http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqAfAQuprpE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asSRNR33BTI&feature=related
I tried to add enclosure links from two YouTube clips of a Soft Focus interview with Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV Fame. Parts 3 and 4 specifically if the links don't work. Genesis is really fucking interesting. This whole interview is good but these are the best parts.
The thought of having a space where you don't need to be cool or hip and you are free to have fun and feel joy as a radical notion is astonishingly true. It doesn't matter what you are doing, cruising facebook, going to work or standing in line at a grocery store, most places aren't designed for people to feel genuine happiness. I've been lucky enough to eek out some "safe" spaces like that.
In my last blog I said I would talk about the Lungfish. They had this song they used to play live called Armageddon. One of the lines said something like "music, ruined by recording". Its been awhile but I recall reading something where they said music exists in the world and musicians manage to capture it, even if only temporarily. It reminds me of this interview I heard with a photographer who said you don't create art, it already out there, hopefully you're lucky enough to witness it.
That makes a lot of sense to me...
In part 4, the interviewer asks Genesis about the ubiquitousness of music and Genesis talks about the idea of recorded music becoming dubious while live music is "re-empowered". For the sake of argument, I LOVE recorded music, I'm listening to it while I type. Regularly though, I see a band I enjoy watching live but when I play the record, the vim is gone. Listening to music is a very internal, visceral experience for me most of the time. Sadly there are a lot of recordings that don't phase me at all. A recording that truly captures the experience of seeing a band play live is remarkable. As I get older I'd like to think I hear more in the music I listen to but I am always still looking for the record that delivers the proverbial kick in the gut.
Listening to: DUM DUM Girls, Pollution, Devil's Dung
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not to be as typically dramatic as i typically am...but i posted a segment from that soft focus bit awhile back because it literally brought tears to my eyes. it was from the part where they talk about gender as an illusion and how technology is aiding us in controling evolution. but the whole she-bang is so damn fascinating.
ReplyDeletegenesis' statement on live music was totally fleshed out when i saw TG last year. the best part, i thought, was that they kept the house lights on the entire time. people were yelling out to turn them off, genesis came back with something witty like "don't you want to see how gorgeous we are?"...but it really made for this uncommon experience where you were forced to be completely aware (so long as your eyes were open) of everyone around you. it made me realize how much we hide within the darkness at shows, it gives us comfort and low visability not to mention that it impairs any type of communal feeling. have to say it was probably the best live show i've ever witnessed.
I can not believe I missed that show, ugh...also, much props for the DUM DUM girls suggestion, I like.
ReplyDeleteYeah the whole interview is great, I also really liked "you can look just like me for $50"
:)