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bip: Nitsch's music? Yep. His aktions? Not at fucking all - it's self indulgent and cruel, usually. I don't like the way his stuff makes me feel - his art, anyway. I mean, the stage designs are great (for the theatre, not the "mystery plays", but then you think about what they're made of - can't do it. I think he's trading off the "hey! I'm one of the originals! And I'm still alive and can do what I WANT!" thing. Although, I do remember seeing an installation (no flesh) of his at an exhibition here once - two stretchers, a small case of knives, and a basic priest's cassock with dried blood around the neck... it looked like a religious suicide. One of the more compelling things I've seen, but that's possibly because it was divorced from the mechanics of his usual art. At this point, do you think people are being involved just so they can say they were involved in such a fucked-up thing, rather than for any arty purpose?
Actually. Wanna start an art thread? Or is it more head-shoppy? Art versus rights, mayhap?
Musically, though, I think he's interesting. He's big into the kinda Scriabin/Mahler thing, maybe - I'm currently listening to a double disc of his harmonium stuff, and it's MAMMOTH.
I'm meant to be getting a copy of the Island symphony in about a week - if eBay works - and this is what I've read about it:
"Rarely has such a large-scale recording felt so much like an ethnomusicological report from another planet. Island bulges with La Monte Young drones, Alvin Lucier beat patterns, Kagel-esgue cacophony, Ivesian cloud textures, Branca-esque tremolos, Scriabin-esque ritual atmosphere, and Tibetan spirit-evocation, all culminating in the great 20th-Century symphony that we feared had failed to arrive on schedule, but that suddenly appears here in all its chaotically mystical and apocalyptic glory." -- Kyle Gann, The NY Village Voice October 13, 1998.
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Grand Theft Auto's so great... but only when you can shoot helicopters out of the sky.
