cult of zir is a project conducted by nolon ashley, sometimes with the assistance of friends.
the means mainly employed include abstract approaches to electronic musick, collage and cutup esoteric imagery both physical and virtual, and time-based ritual performance technology.
signal sorcery utilized for intentions of manifestation and transmutation. modern memetic mysticism toward effective change and clear perception.
"Cult of Zir is really a singer as well, by the name of Nolon Ashley, though his voice serves chiefly as a raw acoustic source for deconstructed convolutions via sampling and effects. The remaking of sound is Mr. Ashley's obsession when performing alone; though he is perhaps better known as a drummer for Submarine Fleet, Societas Insomnia, and Julian Tulip's Licorice. Cult of Zir is a coming out for his long-term basement experiments. The purest expression of his creative spark." -- Noah Mickens
musick is equally an artform, a drug, a religion, a scientific praxis, a philosophy, a yogic discipline, a means of entertainment, a weapon, an act of love...
musick is none of these things
"...Cult of Zir created an interesting composition. Done with layered vocals, the voice warped, resonated, gorged upon itself, mated with itself and destroyed itself. There are other artists that work with this type of manipulation and it is easy to overindulge into what this type of performance offers. I think he managed to keep it stark enough to allow the idea to shine through instead of being buried under the layers of gimmicky goop." -- morimur
dreaming thru delay..
what, then? and why?
the best we have yet come up with, to this point, is that it opens a conduit from elsewhere to here, and/or vice-versa. there is perhaps a certain something which we have come to find extremely important, which cannot be communicated verbally. to connect with it we must go within, removing the obstacles of self which block its passage into us. it is when we’ve begun to succeed at this that the indwelling of the aforementioned elusive abstract takes place, and communication can begin.
this means of perceiving ourselves, the environment we exist within, the others we share it with, makes us wiser, healthier, more capable of affecting change. we learn more of what it means as we learn to execute these mechanisms, the never-ending aim opens for us like a black rose.
cult of zir bares itself for all to witness this indignant and foolish exploration toward transformation, in hopes it will inspire others to do the same for themselves. as art, it depends on the nervous systems of its witnesses, participants, collaborators, to be complete. it could happen alone, in a basement studio temple, and often does, but that’s merely half the game.
the process must involve sharing itself with others, either in the form of art masked as ritual, or ritual masked as art. wether through trickery or utmost honesty,if we could explain, we wouldn’t need to do it. would we know the difference? and yet we feel tortuously compelled to try, thus here we are.
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
Do not cultivate too much attachment to things of the world, which appeal to carnal desires and sensual thirsts. A moment comes when you have to depart empty-handed, leaving all that you have laboriously collected and proudly called your own.
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