http://www.vitalweekly.net/1307.html?fbclid=IwAR0Q0ZeTT7PY8QicjQoym1zPyGcQ8kUOm9Fc8mAEoW-nnvODlZYRY9wbigYFLUTWACHT - PULS (CD by Mask of the Slave Records)
Flutwacht " German power-electronics / noise / post-industrial outfit by Daniel Simon around since 2003..." so now almost 20 years, noise 30, and Power Electronics 40 years. So it should be evident that any 'novelty' in these genres will only be for those yet to hear; in themselves, they are no longer novel. Yet some see even novelty as no longer novel, myself included, as if from the late middle of the 20th C 'New' became obsolete, like the ever whiter washing powder- there must be a limit. Another view is that of the late Mark Fisher, (k-punk) The Slow Cancellation Of The Future, (
https://youtu.be/aCgkLICTskQ) that is there is no future, and that what was once 'retro' is the future and so there is no retro. (I've said this before.) "The bad news is the future has disappeared." Yet even before Fisher was the idea of Post-Modernity, and I feel we have even moved on from that. So is there any news? Yes, and I think in some cases the news is good! This work is good. Why so? Well, integrity, for one, is consistency in its aesthetic. (We have left noise behind and returned to aesthetics) What this aesthetic is, you can hear for yourself, here –
https://flutwacht.bandcamp.com/album/puls. So let's use Kant's Critique of Judgement to discover this aesthetic, I will assume you listened, but even if not, the sounds are those of monstrous machinery and mechanics (not the Wasp synth of PE). As if the machinery of the cosmos was some Victorian nightmare mechanism without reason, design or purpose, and this was in a state of constant breaking and collapse. We could go on, as if this was a metaphor, maybe for the present, or maybe for eternity, similar to Kafka's castle, the manifestation in gears and steel of 'unresponsive bureaucracy, the frustration of trying to conduct business with non-transparent, seemingly arbitrary controlling systems, and the futile pursuit of an unobtainable goal – alienation.'. And so we could continue, Giovanni Battista Piranesi depictions of ruined temples - representations not of a Victorian logic which has become monstrous, but that of Greek and Roman reason and light now plunged into Dionysian darkness, the god associated with chaos, it is the Darkness of Unknowing that Camille Paglial writes about, the Apollonian and Dionysian in Sexual Personae, a concept borrowed from Nietzsche. For Paglia, the Dionysian is dark and Chthonic. (Underground, earth mother... also a Taiwanese metal band, formed in 1995!) The Chthonic (Dionysian) is associated with females, wild/chaotic nature, and unconstrained sex/procreation. In contrast, the Apollonian is associated with males, clarity, rationality/reason, and solidity, along with the goal of oriented progress: As she says, "Everything great in western civilization comes from struggle against our origins." in this darkness. If you followed this, what we have done is 'reflective judgement', which is disinterested. Yet, we can appreciate the aesthetic in work, a pleasure, something more than mere sensation from this act of judgment. So if the noise was a mere sensation, noise qua noise, or Harsh Noise Wall, (Vomir) literally nothing, we have departed from these and returned, recovered, the aesthetic in and of sound. To which we might apply the word 'music' and qualify Puls as 'good music'. (jliat)
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https://maskoftheslave.ro/mirgilus/mirgilus.html
