![]() ![]() Visual and "performance" elements are key pieces of the overall Con-Dom jigsaw, alongside the sound component. Why is this so? Do you then see Con-Dom as a live project essentially, given also that slide/film projections are a necessary part of the whole process? Are some things only possible in a live situation rather than in a studio?Ĭon-Dom is a multi-media operation. Most of your cassette releases are of live assaults. The live performance is an integral part of the Con-Dom experience. People have lost the ability to see beyond the obvious and to use all available information in forming opinions. ![]() The "fascists" applaud, the liberal/socialist/communist abuses. Swastika = "fascist", therefore Con-Dom is a fascist vehicle. The rabidly Pavlovian response to the sight of a Nazi swastika is a yawningly cliched example. In both cases, misunderstanding or misinterpretation is often at the root. Con-Dom invariably provokes a positive (or positive negative) reaction. Actual audience response to Con-Dom is rarely apathetic (but perhaps more so in the UK). A symptom of mass culture.or you create and therefore control your own operational environment. If you don't fit into a stereotype you don't get opportunities. Here, neat categories and tunnel vision prevail - "music" = "instruments", "performance" = "fine art degree" etc. The "openmindedness" of the States, Japan and mainland Europe has led to a warmer reception, in terms of greater opportunities than in the UK. It is never more at home than as an "uninvited" guest in their seats of power, whether it be the committee room, the home or the place of worship.Ĭan you distinguish between how your music has been received in the UK, as opposed to Europe and the USA, for example? What sort of response have you elicited from your audience? It addresses the institutions and mechanisms which perpetrate their dual grip. It does not sit easily in the galleries, concert halls, pubs, clubs, cinemas and playhouses (the controllers of these spaces make sure of that!) Con-Dom is Control-Domination. What motivated you to choose to perform in such unique surroundings?Ĭon-Dom is neither music nor art, film or theatre. You have performed a great deal of live assaults in a whole variety of unusual venues in the UK (a church crypt, a council house etc). Poser debut rar full#A completed oil, full of cluttered detail, is ripe only for slashing. A blank canvas has infinite possibilities a slate wiped clean is ready to start afresh. The creation of blankness may be a necessary step towards enlightenment. If individual texts or ideas are lost in the process of bludgeoning, that is unfortunate - perseverence will serve to uncover them there are other media there will be other times. The aim is to provoke resentment/confusion/ambivalence, to upset and challenge conditioned expectation, to shatter preconceptions. Con-Dom generates brutality, pain, fear, hate (the instruments of control), so that the existence of the forces of control may be acutely felt, experienced and recognised. Or is this brutality too much for people to take, only leaving blankness?Ĭonfrontation is the chosen method of education. Do you feel that this confrontational method can be successful in conveying a message or ideas. The nature of your music is one of extremity. The aim is not to provoke thought about religion and politics - they are in themselves unworthy of serious thought - but rather to stimulate self-analysis, in relation to these and other infections. Religion and politics are but two facets of the issue two contributory causes of the human sickness. Is this fair to say?Ĭon-Dom is Control-Domination is the issue - it is all-pervasive. Is the principle purpose of your harsh sounding music to provoke people to think about important issues, especially religion and politics? Do you regard these two things as being central to the human condition? All your music seems to be issue generated. Control, domination, manipulation, organisation.the forces of control hold sway - mass culture, mass media, mass mentalities. Do you view our society as one in which individuals lack freedom, but are manipulated by outside forces, whether that be state power or organised religion or organised anything for that matter?Ĭon-Dom is Control-Domination is the theme. Family Patrol Group, Smear Campaign, Anal and others were also operating locally at this time.Ĭon-Dom stands for Control-Domination. An education in extremes of sound, vision, approach, thought, action. Time spent in SHC/D Mag 52 was instrumental. What inspired or encouraged you to adopt your extreme form of electronic music? Did you follow or participate in the power electronics scene? Was anything happening locally at the time? ![]()
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