http://www.ebay.com/itm/Survival-Research-Labs-Large-Scale-Machine-Performance-/390449362377?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5ae89875c9
I've seen SRL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvWo-OV1Nrc
Anyone else?
holy mother molar war of the machines!!!!!
Prostate destroyer
SICK
I'd love to see SRL again, armed with digital camera & audio recorder. They didn't allow cameras into the race track I saw them perform at in Austin & that was in '97.
One of my main inspirations when I was first getting into noise, I started out wanting to make some kind of machine/electronics art and discovered it was easier to make giant sounds than giant robots :)
Really hope I get to see them in reality some day
This looks a lot like how I imagined JG Ballard's Atrocity Exhibiton, which is, to me, like WS Burroughs, noise-prose.
Can't find any evidence of this right now but I believe Johnathan Weiss who directed the (2000 I think) movie of The Atrocity Exhibition also worked with SRL in the past...
Not the same guy. John Reiss worked with SRL http://jonreiss.com . He was a bit taken back when I started to talk to him about those videos when I meet a couple of years ago. He is this guru of DIY distribution of documentaries these days.
Ah right, I must have been remembering some misconception from back in the day :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVRI93tWFyY
Jon Reiss' work.
I have one SRL dvd, "Ten Years of Mechanical Mayhem"; a lot of them are over-priced & not very long. I do believe the dvd has the film(s) shot by Reiss.
Seems like SRL could make their own private performances, even small scale, film it, & sell dvd's. What are the chances someone with $100,000+ to blow on them to do a
performance ? Or offer their machines to other filmmakers to use. Something, anything; I want to see new machine destruction!
Nice recent interview/article/documentary on Mark Pauline:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/9/3408030/mark-pauline-spine-robot-machines-robots-terrorism-as-art
Quote"When I grew up I wanted to be a terrorist. When I was a teenager, that's what I wanted to do. That's what was going on back in the sixties," he says, "I wanted to blow up buildings, all that stuff."
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