Comments on: Scheduled dreariness: Xasthur http://codepoetics.com/poetix/2009/09/19/scheduled-dreariness-xasthur/ mocking the ways of true grown men Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:10:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dominic http://codepoetics.com/poetix/2009/09/19/scheduled-dreariness-xasthur/comment-page-1/#comment-32815 Dominic Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:22:26 +0000 http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=1337#comment-32815 Yes, it isn't just a matter of making a virtue of necessity, but almost of <em>simulating</em> necessity, the point where privation starts to bite. It's a salvaged rawness rather than a primal rawness, as <a href="http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">ECW</a> very rightly points out. Dead's habit of burying his stage clothes days before a performance, then digging them up again and wearing them on stage, exemplifies this kind of necro-monstration. Yes, it isn’t just a matter of making a virtue of necessity, but almost of simulating necessity, the point where privation starts to bite. It’s a salvaged rawness rather than a primal rawness, as ECW very rightly points out. Dead’s habit of burying his stage clothes days before a performance, then digging them up again and wearing them on stage, exemplifies this kind of necro-monstration.

]]> By: Andrew http://codepoetics.com/poetix/2009/09/19/scheduled-dreariness-xasthur/comment-page-1/#comment-32814 Andrew Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:09:48 +0000 http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=1337#comment-32814 The sound of recordings from the early black metal scene was as much a choice of aesthetics as it was a result of limited resources [cf. The Third and the Mortal’s “Sorrow” and Gehenna’s “First Spell”, both released on Head Not Found Records (HNF02 and HNF03, respectively)]. The extremely distorted vocals on “Filosofem” were achieved after Varg Vikernes asked for the worst microphone in the studio. On a related note, Chris Knox (of independent pop group The Tall Dwarves) once protested that his music was “hi-fi”; it was always his intention to have the best possible sound for his recordings, even if the physical constraints left him producing music that was branded “lo-fi”. The sound of recordings from the early black metal scene was as much a choice of aesthetics as it was a result of limited resources [cf. The Third and the Mortal’s “Sorrow” and Gehenna’s “First Spell”, both released on Head Not Found Records (HNF02 and HNF03, respectively)]. The extremely distorted vocals on “Filosofem” were achieved after Varg Vikernes asked for the worst microphone in the studio.

On a related note, Chris Knox (of independent pop group The Tall Dwarves) once protested that his music was “hi-fi”; it was always his intention to have the best possible sound for his recordings, even if the physical constraints left him producing music that was branded “lo-fi”.

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