Fuck It, I’ll Do It Myself

 “There was DIY sound before there was institutionalized sound: the ancients will tell you so, through artifacts made by hand spun in eons; those forgotten hands that have incrementally made your precious abilities so possible and real.

Remember them gratefully. And be careful when you’re climbing ladders tilted uncomfortably on their backs.”

 In: Fuck It, I’ll Do It Myself.
eContact! CEC Journal
)-(u||!c|< 2016

Prosthetic Abilities

 “Through prosthetic conceptualization, we learn how all the creations of humanity and the hominid line are, in fact, nature. As awkward as it might be, weapons of mass destruction are as much a manifestation of nature as the swarmed humming of bugs at dusk. Not only is our prosthetic urge to morph our minds and bodies natural, we are also natural through our strengths and our weaknesses as they presently stand.”

In: Prosthetic Abilities.
Leonardo Journal
)-(u||!c|< 2016

Oh Man, This Sideways Crap Is Endless

“— Really, I explained in an ever-so rational tone, it would be better if all the materials were borrowed — without permission.

Gunter was a little over enthusiastic for crime. OK! — from where will you steal them?”

In: Oh Man, This Sideways Crap Is Endless.
The Open Space.

)-(u||!c|< 2015/16

 “There can be no great art without great bravery.”

In: I am that we are a Meta-Listener
Journal of Arts and Communities

Never Mind the Bollocks

We are so perverted by consumerism that we feel we have to argue why at least some art, and at least some sonic art, should be created with a social conscience. And yet the history of humans and art is one heaving howl of a species confronting its/our conscience.

In: Never Mind the Bollocks
The Open Space.
)-(u||!c|< 2013

Sono-psychologized

 “Or maybe the previous generation just has to give up their terms and conditioning so that subsequent generations can create their own language borning culture. Thinkingly shot straight as such, the communities who practice sonic creativity have a right to name and to identify their sonic likeness.”

In: Sono-Psychologized
The Open Space.
)-(u||!c|< 2013

Alien Nation: Felix Werder: The Antipodean Gothic

“As new waves of trauma roll into our shores, Australia has sought insulation rather than isolation. In the land of sheep’s wool the political activist is tolerated and muffled in pleasantly presented segments on the evening news of blood to be quietly paid from within the padding of the magic pudding, 14,000 miles thick. To keep the memories out. Or immigration out. Or the devils in — so the others won’t see. Politely smile and shake the hand…or fade into the gentle night noise…

The Open Space.
)-(u||!c|< 2008