The Australian band Alan refers to was usually referred to as tsk tsk tsk, a noise made with your tongue between your teeth. They were put together by Phillip Brophy, from Melbourne, and he's still active doing stuff. They were sort of an artier version of Talking Heads, doing PoMo pop quite early on. They were mainly active in the late 70's. I saw them live a couple of times, usually at exhibition openings and performance art events. A number of other Australian artists and musicians were involved, like Maria Kozic (better known as a visual artist) and David Chesworth. Although they probably enjoyed their greatest commercial success in the early 1980's, particularly overseas, the scene they were part of (and the group) had lost its vitality by then. They were really an early post-punk phenomena and should be considered alongside groups such as Severed Heads (who are sort of reforming for ISEA next month, with Tom Ellard and Steve Jones back together - something to look forward to).
best Simon On 6 May 2013, at 22:11, Simon Mclennan <[email protected]> wrote: > I tend to agree with this. > > Simon > On 6 May 2013, at 16:54, Alan Sondheim wrote: > >> >> >> I hadn't heard of these either, seem more an extension of the pith >> and omniscience of Baudrillard and Zizek as well as the surface >> fetishiza- tion of hiphop videos but what do I know. There was a >> group 'tch tch tch' (the real name was written by arrows) in >> Australia in the 80s with similar music and surfaces. On the >> political, does any of it matter - capital will continue to enclave >> and increase, everything compresses as a result. The videos tend to >> focus on the 1%, not the slaughter and extinctions of humans plants >> and animals that come in their wake. Part of the real violence >> against us is produced by our insistence at the burial of the cost >> of these surfaces, an insistence that's comfortable and deeply >> passive. It's "hard" to look at something dying, although there was >> a flurry of fetishization of beheading videos on Facebook recently. >> How cool. The only non-saving grace of all of this, is that it will >> rust like everything else, as climate change increases its >> exponential onslaught. Good luck to our always already dying progeny. >> >> There has to be a better way. >> >> - Alan >> >> >>> From: Annie Abrahams <[email protected]> >>> Dear Michael, >>> I like these two videos very much. They are aesthetic, dreamlike, >>> mesmerizing. Great. >>> BlablaWave serving BeautifulVaporVOID >>> Love >>> Annie >>> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Michael Szpakowski >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I had an interesting conversation with Steven on Friday about >>> vaporwave, which I'd not previously heard of. >>> >>> Steven then sent me this: >>> >>> http://www.dummymag.com/features/2012/07/12/adam-harper- >>> vaporwave/ >>> >>> I made this: >>> >>> https://vimeo.com/65457637 >>> >>> and Steven made this >>> >>> https://vimeo.com/65477887 >>> >>> might be more; or you might care to join us >>> >>> cheers >>> michael >>> -- >>> >>> http://www.bram.org >>> http://aaabrahams.wordpres.com >>> http://metalogues.tumblr.com/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> -- >>> ===================================================== >>> directory http://www.alansondheim.org tel 347-383-8552music/sound >>> http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >>> email sondheim ut panix.com, sondheim ut gmail.com >>> ===================================================== >>> -- >>> ===================================================== >>> directory http://www.alansondheim.org tel 347-383-8552 music/sound >>> http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >>> email sondheim ut panix.com, sondheim ut gmail.com >>> ===================================================== >>> >> >> == >> email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >> web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552 >> music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/rz.txt >> ==_______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > Simon Biggs [email protected] http://www.littlepig.org.uk @SimonBiggsUK http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs [email protected] Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art/school-of-art/staff/staff?person_id=182&cw_xml=profile.php http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/simon-biggs%285dfcaf34-56b1-4452-9100-aaab96935e31%29.html http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.movingtargets.org.uk/ http://designinaction.com/ MSc by Research in Interdisciplinary Creative Practices http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees?id=656&cw_xml=details.php
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