RE: MERZBOW
Merzbow was amazing. He is more than just “The Godfather of Noise”, he is God. I saw the Heavens did ope, and I heard The Sound come like a great Noise. And it did say:
“ARRFFFGHHFJFJFKDDFFFJIFEKFSLFJANVOWREQKDALFJDLSKAJFEWDOFNDSAGHSD”
Read more about it on my blogspot: http://archf.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/andrew-wk-merzbow.html
JOURNEY INTO MERZBOW
I’d like to mark this occasion: I am going to see Merzbow tonight, my one and only life-long dream will finally be realized.
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Great Birdemic art by Jeff Victor
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Movie Magicks: Basic Instinct. →
FUCK WHAT THYE FUCK DID I JUYST WATCH FUICKI8NG BUYLLSHIT
I am currently drunk as fuck. It’s amazing I am even able to type this without a proportional number of spelling errors. All I know is that I am currently so fucking smashed that my head feels numb and I just told my housemate that I love him because he’s always been there for me.
That is how…
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Holiday wishes this year, and next.
“If we’re looking at the highlights of human development, you have to look at the evolution of the organism, and then at the development of its interaction with the environment. Evolution of the organism will began with the evolution of life, perceived through the hominid, coming to the evolution of mankind: Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon man. Now, interestingly, what you’re looking at here are three strings: biological, anthropological—development of cities, cultures—and cultural, which is human expression. Now, what you’ve seen here is the evolution of populations, not so much the evolution of individuals. And in addition, if you look at the time scales that’s involved here—two billion years for life, six million years for the hominid, 100,000 years for mankind as we know it—you’re beginning to see the telescoping nature of the evolutionary paradigm. And then when you get to agricultural, when you get to scientific revolution and industrial revolution, you’re looking at: 10,000 years, 400 years, 150 years. You’re seeing a further telescoping of this evolutionary time. What that means is that as we go through the new evolution, it’s gonna telescope to the point we should be able to see it manifest itself: within our lifetime, within the generation! The new evolution stems from information, and it stems from two types of information: digital and analog. The digital is artificial intelligence. The analog results from molecular biology—the cloning of the organism—and you knit the two together with neurobiology. Before on the old evolutionary paradigm, one would die and the other would grow and dominate. But on the new paradigm they would exist as a mutually supportive, noncompetitive grouping. Independent from the external. And what is interesting here is that evolution now becomes an individually centered process—emanating from the needs and the desires of the individual—and not an external process, a passive process where the individual is just at the whim of the collective. So, you produce a neo-human with a new individuality and a new consciousness. But that’s only the beginning of the evolutionary cycle, because as the next cycle proceeds, the input is now this new intelligence. As intelligence piles on intelligence, as ability piles on ability, the speed changes. Until what? Until you reach a crescendo! In a way could be imagined as an enormous instantaneous fulfilment of human: human and neo-human potential. It could be something totally different: it could be the amplification of the individual, the multiplication of individual existences. Parallel existences! Now with the individual no longer restricted by time and space. And the manifestations of this neo-human-type evolution, manifestations could be dramatically counter-intuitive. That’s the interesting part: the old evolution is cold, it’s sterile, it’s efficient, OK? And its manifestations are those social adaptations. You’re talking about parasitism, dominance, morality, OK? War. Predation. These would be subject to de-emphasis; these would be subject to de-evolution. The new evolutionary paradigm will give us the human traits of truth, of loyalty, of justice, of freedom…these will be the manifestations of the new evolution! And that is what we would hope to see from this. That would be nice.”
(From the film Waking Life, written and directed by Richard Linklater, this particular segment featuring Eamonn Healy).
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]CLAMBER - Another “song” designed to play in Beat Hazard Ultra
This one doesn’t play as difficult as “Laser Hell” but I discovered something else which comes with the experimentation of “level design” for an mp3-based game, that is: some levels can have an aesthetic quality to them. It’s easy enough to make speaker-breaking noise for 20 minutes and tell someone to try and beat it, but perhaps there is a finer art to making the pretty lights bloom in a rhythmic quadrille, perhaps as a metaphor for the Universe reduced to a symphony - a symphony of the cosmos!
But as I say, this level isn’t too difficult to play—I even beat it on Insane—but it plays aesthetically, and it’s giving me more ideas for more of these things. So there may be more coming, and if I make enough, I can pack them together as an album and put it on Bandcamp or something.
PS: I do not recommend playing this very loudly.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]LASER HELL - A SONG FOR BEAT HAZARD ULTRA
HERE IS A “SONG” I MADE FOR THE GAME BEAT HAZARD ULTRA WHICH HAS BEEN EXTENSIVELY TESTED AND TWEEKED RESULTING IN A HARD FUCKING LEVEL, WITH SURE-FIRE SEIZURES EVEN AT 50% INTENSITY, ENJOY.
Edit: sorry about the caps I was drinking a lot of caffeine at the time.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]“My Fairy” - downtempo version. A bit of a midi I made, at least I think this is what a midi is supposed to sound like.
Terrence Malick’s new film has a dinosaur in it?
Study this image (a larger version is found on imdb here). The poster alone is enough to make me want to see this movie, no trailer is necessary.
I’ve recently caught up on Malick’s past movies, and so far I would say without a doubt that The New World is the best film ever made. In my view it surpasses Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in its majestic, enigmatic awe-inspiring profundity. I haven’t seen the extended cut yet, I’m still waiting for it to arrive in the mail, but as The Thin Red Line has proven, I could sit through a Terrence Malick film no matter how long it plays (I only wish the 6-hour version of that still exists).
The New World is so much more than just the Pocahontas story the synopsis could care to give. All synopses for Malick’s films are disappointingly brief, and could never encapsulate the poetic brilliance and the arresting visual experience they entail. The New World is about the universe and this green planet that has come of it, and all of life and nature in existence. I have a feeling that The Tree of Life is going to expand on this even further. Richard Gere said in his interview for Days of Heaven (the most enlightening interview I’ve heard): “from the films I’ve seen, Terry has been making the same film”. I would subscribe to that, only I would say that he’s been remaking the same film over and over, always evolving and expanding on the themes. It’s almost like he’s quantifying perfection, and he’s able to add to it and multiply it.
The Tree of Life comes out 27th of May in USA and 20th of June in Australia. Here is the list of his other (directorial) films for the hardcore collectors:
1969 - Lanton Mills (short) - only available at AFI in Los Angeles and even then you have to have a good/scholarly reason to see it.
1973 - Badlands - available on DVD for cheap. Features a brief scene with Malick himself acting in it.
1978 - Days of Heaven - available on Bluray by Criterion Collection
1998 (20 years later!) - The Thin Red Line - available on Bluray by Criterion Collection
2005 - The New World - theatrical cut (135 min) available on DVD, extended cut (171 min) available on Bluray. Features an hour-long making-of feature with not a single shot of Malick in it.
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