[kj] GENESIS: Stop the Loops

[Tim Bucknall]

Thanks for that, i'm always interested to hear what gen says,
i'm glad i opened this email, i thought it was about the band genesis and i
nearly didn't bother!


On 21/06/07, Change <crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>

> Here is an excerpt from a recent interview with

> Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV /

> PTV3 and Thee Majesty. A drastically edited version of

> the interview willappear in the next issue of Flux

> magzine and the full conversation will appear in the

> July issue of Perfect Sound Forver webzine.

>

> B. Hell: Do you ever get that with people, when you

> meet someone for the first time you feel as though you

> already know them?

>

> Genesis: Oh yes, that's the way it is with Lady Jaye.

> We've been together since the first day we met,

> thirteen years ago. Definitely! Its nice when that

> happens isn't it?

> A lot of people I collaborate with are like that too.

> Brion Gysin was like that - a mixture of a mentor and

> a familiar friend. Those are always the most powerful

> relationships I think. Those are the ones that change

> you. Do you think there's reincarnation? Or what do

> you think it is when that happens?

>

> B. Hell: I think reincarnation is quite likely but I

> can't say for sure. When you meet someone and it feels

> as though you already know each other its usually a

> sign you're heading in the right direction I suppose.

>

> Genesis: Its difficult isn't it? There are so many

> things that suggest its possible. I was just reading a

> book about the nature of time and the fact that we try

> to measure it. Physics is beginning to realise with

> quantum mechanics that we've been trying to measure

> things that are immeasurable because everything

> permeates everything else, in which case we would

> recognise previous loops. I think of existance as

> loops. The idea of reincarnation suggests we get born

> into a human body and then carry on learning. I don't

> think its quite like that - sequences of loops. The

> trick is to break the loops until there aren't any

> left!

>

> B. Hell: That's a very Throbbing Gristle way of

> thinking. Its almost as if you are describing the

> music of Throbbing Gristle.

>

> Genesis: Oh yeah! I think the nature of art is to try

> to explain how you perceive things so it would make

> sense that that would happen. But I think the looping

> has become something I'm feeling stronger than ever

> rather than it just being absorbed into the way we

> work. We do that with PTV too, very much - a lot of

> the songs begin with loops or phrases repeated until

> something suddenly breaks through. The longer I live,

> the more I'm convinced that its the equivalent of of a

> series of videos I've been watching that keep on

> repeating themselves and its very frustrating. I'm

> trying to figure out how to stop the loops.

>

> INTERZONE

> http://www.augustineleudar.110mb.com/Interzone.htm

>

> RTX, Kristin Hersh, Githead, Shellac, Michael Gira & the Dirty Three

> interviewed here:

> http://www.perfectsoundforever.com

>

> Polysics interviewed here:

> http://www.cultcargo.net

>

>

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