Near-perfect noise for Jliat (fr.
http://www.vitalweekly.net/754.html):KERÄNEN - BATS IN THE ATTIC (CD by Pica Disk)
Tommi Ker"nen using vintage analogue synthesizers from EMS in Stockholm. Produces a single piece of 35ish minutes of analogue mayhem. Problematics
of writing about... about say the perfect. the perfect is both simple and difficult, like the blank sheet of paper- perfect until the first mark is made, the silence before sound. and then the great and historic background, the same old story that appears in the garden of Eden, through Greek and world wide myth. for whatever reason, laws of thermodynamics, evil spirits, id, ego, super ego conflict. Comodification of labour and theory, excess.noise is essentially easy and so difficult, or difficult and so easy, as a block of sound or sounds undifferentiated once achieved, and technically this is a relatively simple matter, even of making a mistake, e.g. the feedback loop, then once (this) nirvana is obtained what does one
do, it takes a god or Buddha to do nothing, to not interfere, not offer advice, change a detail, make a mark or even suggest a game of cards. Its not that Nirvana is hard or noise is difficult, its that human nature in the main will want to interfere and impose form, feeling, and above all meaning. I.E. a non existent god is perfect and does not do this, but at a deeper level than human nature, nature itself abhors a vacuum - or as Nietzsche points out nature never reaches perfection as if it could it would (have). I have one criticism of this work and its that at about 16 minutes there is a break which might indicate a second piece/track, but other than this human or natural intervention, this work is and remains, a perfect work of abstract noise. The proof of my thesis is the time it took and number of words written to say just this, but to anyone with ears who can listen that is what this work is, perfect. (jliat)
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