Power electronics, free jazz, psychedelia, Anthony Giddens, Bob Black, Anarchism, cassette culture, lo-lo-lo fi home recordings of a challenging and difficult nature, Nature, ethnography, Literary interpretation, street theatre, pranks, circus, carnival, masquerade, industrial music, seattle avant garde sound groups, seattle street art culture (stickers, flyers, graffitti), zines, mel lyman, japanese noise, cats, critical race theory, Native American Indian literature, alys Weinbaum, black metal, Angela Davis, surrealism, dada, art brut, Michael Hardt, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., V.Y. Mudimbe, field recording, archiving local resistant culture, Vinyl records, gift economies, punk, dark ambient, feminist theory, profanity, L'encephale, occultism, Robert Anton Wilson, Asymptotic functions, African poetry, distortion, feedback, and drones, doooooooooommmmmmm, gospel, infernal noise brigade, the seattle freak walk, zombiewalkers and pirate paraders, critical mass, confetti, Alfred Kroeber, Lewis Hyde, Psychick youth, New Blockaders, Organum, SPK, sociology, aktionism, situationism, H.L. Mencken and Bottle Caps candy.
Music
Maurizio Bianchi, Test Dept., Der Blutharsch, Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Irr. App. Ext., Prurient, Infernal Noise Brigade, T'chkung!, Degenerate Art Ensemble, Sunno))), Slicing Grandpa, Khanate, Throbbing Gristle, At Jenny Richie, Filastine, Whitehouse, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Asva, Climax Golden Twins, Sublime Frequencies, Sun City Girls, Black Sun, Door 64, Coil, Gruntsplatter, Taint, Turmoil, Nattefrost, Haemoth, Drop Dead, Extreme Noise Terror, Black Noise Cannon, Wolf Eyes, C.C.C.C., Aube, Merzbow, Ghost, Acid Mothers, Caroliner, Borbetomagus, Sutcliffe Jugend, Brighter Death Now, Bloodhag, Pho Bang, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Brutal SFX, Hototugisu, Double Leopards, The Coup, Dead Prez, Dred-I, Paris, Evan Parker, John Cage, Leviathan, Xasthur, Crawl Unit, Earth, Bastard Noise, Smegma, Dead Voices On Air, Muslimgauze, Vybz Kartel, Ms. Thing, Nocturnal Emissions, Swans/Michael Gira/Angels Of Light, Psychic TV, Autechre, Pain Jerk, Micose and the Mau Mau's, Spider Compass Good Crime Band, Broken Human Machine, Sudden Infant, Broken Penis Orchestra, Crash Worship, Albert Ayler, Negativland, Plunderphonics, People Like Us, Abattoir Kitschen, Patented Applicator, Miami Crack Machine, Rubber O Cement, Lashtal, L.A.Y.L.A.H., Korpses Katatonik, Sleep Chamber, Bunkur, Solid Eye, Death In June, Coltrane, Boris, Conflict, SPK, Pain Teens, Harry Partch, Carpathian Forest, Asunder, Tractor Sex Fatality, Die Todliche Doris, Sigillium S.
Movies
trick n. About 1412 trik thing done to deceive or cheat, ruse, wile; borrowed from Old North French trique trick, deceit, treachery, cheating, from trickier to deceive, cheat, variant of Old French trichier, probably from vulgar Latin *triccare, from Latin tricari be evasive, shuffle, from tricae trifles, nonsense, a tangle of difficulties. --V. 1595, to deceive, cheat; from the noun. An earlier sense of to dress, to adorn (found before 1500) is perhaps an unrelated word of different origin. –trickery n. (1800) --trickster n. (1711) –trickery adj. (1786)
from The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology. Barnhart, Robert K., ed. NY: Harper Collins, 1995.
Television
“We project ourselves– a small, humble elect, perhaps– past the End, so as to see the structure whole, a thing we cannot do from our spot in the middle.”
(Kermode, 8)
Books
Now reading:
"Black Nationalism And The Revolution In Music" by Frank Kofsky.
"Edgard Varese" by Alan Clayson
Heroes
To put oneself in touch with any elsewhere is a process of unending complexity, to open a box that can never be completely unpacked. Our need for certainty, objectivity and distinctions between subject and object are revealed as comforting fictions. Foveation, like genealogy, is a process that raises more questions than answers, and invites ever-new difficulties of knowledge and interpretation. But, as Frank Kermode tells us, “…the fictions must change, or if they are fixed, the interpretations must change. (Kermode, 24)” So, though we may never really be “in touch” with our chosen elsewhere, we may, through close attention, relinquish those paradigms of centrality, origins, fixity, and finality that condition our ways of knowing. We may come to experience our relationship with our objects of study as ever-changing, increasingly complicated interactions in which our fictions about other fictions reveal only one (hardly comforting) conclusion: that in making sense of our object, we make sense with our object. In short, sense is “made” only through relationships, in the broadest sense of the word.
About me: Sparkle Girl is a guerilla sound-art project founded in 1994 by Kurt D and Jim E. A “garbage noise duet” and “cultural esoterrorist auditory affinity group”, Sparkle Girl is a decidedly non-academic, anti-hegemonic, sonic circus of resentment. Sparkle Girl makes few concessions to taste, talent, quality or other such mystical abstractions. In the spirit of play, Sparkle Girl is engaged in the cultural production of sound collages, field recordings, free improvisations and loose compositions. Our work is sonic, visual, literary and propagandistic in nature. Sparkle Girl has produced and distributed over 6,000 handmade recordings in cassette, CD and mp3 formats. The majority of these works have been handed out free at public events such as protests, concerts and live actions. Many have been left on public payphones, toilets and buses to be randomly discovered. Some have been placed in record store bins with labels that say “free”. Many of our cassettes have been recorded over corporate music releases, which were then re-labeled with handcrafted collages. Another source of raw material consisted of hundreds of dumpster dived tapes from AEI music. Their cultural detritus was expropriated and recycled by Sparkle Girl, pressed into service as a tabula rasa for our carnival against boredom. Sparkle Girl agents have distributed these objects in cities around the United States and Canada. Works have also been distributed via the Internet and through trade with other sound artists. Our work as Sparkle Girl represents an assimilation and assortment of our daily experience with sound, media and our own nervous systems.
Sparkle Girl utilizes a wide assortment of tactics and tools in her sonic architecture; Walkmans, samplers, bass, guitar (heavily treated), everyday household objects such as key chains and children’s toys, contact microphones, turntables, megaphones and snare drums. Our work with tapes and found sounds carries over from our field recording activities and our interest in broadcast media as sites of cultural contestation. The sonic detritus of our lived experience is captured, deconstructed and re-organized using briccolage and cut-up methodologies. Snippets of news programs, rainstorms, opera, insects, oceans and answering machines rise and fade amidst classroom lectures, radio static and violent demonstrations. Nothing is off limits. We have even written a “song” now and again.
The sound of Sparkle Girl runs the gamut from easy listening to bizarre transgressive psychodrama. enjoy the sound of egocentric nihilistic decadence, the uncontained howl of irresponsible hermeneutic surrealism
Who I'd like to meet: MARCH 2004 MEMO-------
It has just come to Sparkle Girls attention that the U.S. military has a new toy, the Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD. This nefarious instrument of sonic torture promises to be useful for dispersing hostile crowds and warding off potential enemy combatants. With their customary scientific precision, CNN describes its function; It blasts earsplitting noise in a directed beam. Sparkle Girl is unimpressed. We have been doing that for years. In their playground attempt at one-upsmanship, the coercive state apparatus once again targets Seattles most degenerate sound art cell. The developer of the LRAD, American Technology Corp. of San Diego, recently got a $1.1 million contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to buy the gadgets for units deployed to Iraq. Must be nice. As usual, big business is in collusion with the repressive foot soldiers of state terror, all the worse for Sparkle Girl. Due to our policy against copyright, our ideas were helpless game before the predatory hooks of a Californian corporation so desperately fucking EVIL they feel the need to plunder the intellectual property of two 30-something lumpen- bourgeoisies. Design a weapon of your own invention, you cerebral pickpockets! That it was described as an auditory barrage dispenser is proof-positive that these billionaire bureaucrats did not hesitate to loot the reams of critical analysis written about Sparkle Girl and subvert those sacred texts to their own reptilian and insidious ends. Dubbed "The Sound of Force Protection" in a company brochure, the devices can broadcast sound files containing warning messages. Sparkle Girl has been broadcasting warning messages for 5 grueling years, and the parasitical pigs in power still arent listening! Here is the latest, thenstop ripping us off! Stop hounding Sparkle Girl! Stop calling us at all hours of the night! And trash your ridiculous, infantile noise weapons or we will bring two fifty-watt amplifiers over to your house and teach your grandpa how to fuck!!!
Continuing Audies dream..Benefit Concert in Floyd Va. 6Pm The Sun Music Hall for the Lakota in South Dakota so they will have a warmer winter. Last year many went without heat and during the hardest time during blizzards. Help the Audies Women and Children Project of Pine Ridge. Call 605-407-0582 or 804-370-5249
Sparkle Girl, Happy Thursday to you! Wishing you a restful and relaxed week. If you need some inspirational musical help relaxing, there are 3 albums available now at iTunes! You Can download them at Itunes by clicking below:
"Vadge Moore is an American author and musician that has spent a lifetime testing the boundaries of good and evil. He toured and recorded with the infamous sleaze-punk institution The Dwarves, apocalyptic rock group Neither-Neither World, and his own nihilist-noise unit Chthonic Force. He has written for the early nineties occult journal Primal Chaos, the esoteric magazine Dagobert's Revenge, and the controversial web 'zine Synthesis. Recently Vadge has taken up an aphoristic-prose style of writing that best expresses his iniquitous and sinister insights into the mind of Man. Chthonic: Prose & Theory is just that; prose wedded to theory that scrutinizes the human, all too human, Monster that is Man."
"Chthonic: Prose & Theory" is a collection of perverse and violent prose wedded to his own brand of occult esoterica. Peer into the mind of one of America's greatest living libertines.
