Philip K. Nixon: CutLure
This is not Music.
This is my most dangerous cut-up yet. I’m giving it away for free. Those I sample (alex jones, graham hancock, texe marrs, ben mack, howard bloom, bill hicks, william s burroughs, mark pesces, philip k dick, william gibson, john perkins, and freeman to name a few) all have important insights to offer, and hence this metalinguistic information virus.
Global Frequency by Warren Ellis, and Things Falling Apart by Nine Inch Nails played a huge part in conceptualization, and National Solo Album Month kinda kicked me in gear.
I want to stress this: this is not music. You can already see the effects of this album in the culture. Listen to it while you’re sleeping and you might end up in the universe next door on waking.
and there’s also a maxi-single… Tanuki Testicles
amazing how you can slap a mention to trent reznor, bill hicks, burroughs etc and put this kinda crap out there and have people think you arent any more cliched than the next joe out there….
Comment by transcendental other — put November 23, 2005 @ 9:29 pm
What a perfect album for JFK Day!
Thanks Wu!
Comment by rich — put November 23, 2005 @ 10:29 pm
Nice piece and nice website rich!
Comment by Anonymous — put November 24, 2005 @ 1:35 am
I’m only in it for the money transcendental.
& thanks rich
Comment by wu — put November 24, 2005 @ 2:33 am
you know what, my comment was uncalled for, your heart is in the right place whilst doing this and it probably wouldve taken some very decent effort to build this collection of works.
Still packaging this as a language virus is the worst way to present a language virus, as your typical language virus is displayed as anything but that, an effective virus has the outer shell of being desirable and/or benign to the host.
When the virus enters the host it is known to change the host to, depending on the type of virus, infect other hosts by somehow reproducing new viruses or exposing other hosts in its vicinity to virus in question.
But with this piece I was not compelled to create lingual viruses of my own to spread to those around me, nor was I compelled to pass this virus to those around me, who in turn pass it to those around them etc etc.
I guess im trying to say is although this virus was not successful with this host, I look forward to seeing the development of future, more successful viruses from this viriis creator.
by the way, Nine Inch Nails is one of the greatest providers of mimetic viruses in this hosts opinion, to those who love an unhealthy addiction I say look them up.
Comment by transcendental other — put November 24, 2005 @ 1:32 pm
We tend to forget that once we even know what a language virus is we have achieved a level of perception that is all too rare.
By calling a language virus a language virus it sort of becomes an antidote to the language virus.
I think Philip K. Nixion is more about exposing virus that propagating it.
For myself personally, there are memetic aspects of this particular recording that are beyond the usual Fnord. Both in timing and content, this material was able to trigger very intense gnostic “narrative” experience.
I guess you have to be “there”…
Comment by Chris Titan — put November 24, 2005 @ 4:54 pm
Trannscendental Other, thanks for your candor. I’m fully aware that this isn’t an earworm - my functional idea was to provide agents with subconscious material for seeing through illusion. Mainly I am trying to draw associations between cultural artifacts. Cut across conscious thought and leave the tracks in the back of the mind. A quick look at the use of DMSO might be in order. This is my attempt at brainwashing, I’m trying to wash away the illusions from listeners brains. As to the list of names, that’s who I sampled from throughout the entire project - not everything mentioned is on the album’s final tracks (as an example: T Reznor only appears on “justice served” on tanuki testicles, the maxisingle associated with the album)
Think of this album as an advertisment for Graham Hancock’s Supernatural & John Perkins Confessions of an Economic Hitman, & the list of names is there because the earlier releases from me failed to include credit, and this time I tried to keep notes. I also tried to provide a description of my working philosophy in this article: Audio Cut-Ups in Theory and Practice
The control structures (”all the props of a safe, comfortable way of life”, as Burroughs quips) are boiled into the backdrop. “I usually say Yeah” - “an unconscious agent is an effective agent” - “roger” - the noise at the end of the track “Big Racket” that Haarp is broadcasting into the ionosphere.
Oh, it’s probably relevant that I didn’t conceive of this album as infecting people, per se.. but as infecting the net, search engines, bots, and webcrawlers. It’s supposed to innoculate people. (Chris seems to have clued in on that..)
& I’m right there with you re: NIN - very few of the Halos aren’t worth experiencing. My favorites are Fixed, Things Falling Apart, & Still.
Comment by wu — put November 24, 2005 @ 9:20 pm
ah, yes, pass a weakened form of a virus to a host for it to dissect it and become immune to its form of attack, quite clever as an innoculisation and further as an artform\social comment.
I tip my hat to you and extend an apology from this befuddled fool.
Also I love the halos you mentioned, still being the best, leaving hope is one of too few songs which holds an emotional grasp on me. I’d also like to add the original downward spiral for it being the best mimetic virus ive come across and the fragile also as being another great emotional rollercoaster.
If I can id also like to recommend another band which I found a while back and puts me in some great mindsets, that being “godspeed you black emperor!”, I recommend songs like “dead flag blues”, “moya”, and “east hastings”.
Comment by transcendental other — put November 26, 2005 @ 2:22 pm
It may also give the military authority the power to act in place of civilian authorities, if a decree specifies it explicitly. ,
Comment by Arnold44 — put October 22, 2009 @ 1:17 pm