Genesis P-Orridge

GENESIS P-ORRIDGE was born in Manchester, England in 1950. He was a member of the Kinetic action group Exploding Galaxy/Transmedia Exploration in 1969-70. He conceived and founded the seminal British "performance art" group Coum Transmissions in August 1969. He became a member of Throbbing Gristle in 1975, of Psychic TV in 1981, and of spoken word/ambient theatre group Thee Majesty in 1999. He invented the term/genre “Industrial Music” (with Monte Cazazza) on September 3rd, 1975. He has released more than 200 CDs of experiments in music to date. He has worked and collaborated with William S. Burroughs; Brion Gysin (inventor of "Cut-Ups"); filmaker Derek Jarman; Dr. Timothy Leary among others.

As an early pioneer of Rave Movement in UK and USA, he has published thousands of articles, texts, interviews covering the functional and metaphysical implications and strategies of popular culture. He has also explored human behaviour, ritual, and personality modification through the splintering of expectations in private situations to create collaged “Sigils.” He currently lives in New York as an author, cultural engineer/commentator and fine artist. A new exhibition of his paintings with Eric Heist will be shown at Team Gallery, NYC February 2001. For more detailed information visit the official website at: www.genesisp-orridge.com.

Thee Howler :

“Source material of this piece is a field recording of the Howler monkeys at L.A. Zoo donated by Diane Koskie. Ears are merely fast filters to specific reactive brain centers essential for primitive survival. Sound is received through the outer layers, the cellular structures and liquids of the entire body in its totality. Metabolic frequencies trigger hormonal responses and chemical memories, knit together individual fragments of extended organisms expanding into unknown territories. 18 million bits of sensory information per second are reduced to 11bits by the brain. Yet all is received. The group recalls all previous perceptions and choices as its story, building the past in the present, choice by choice. Only the future cannot exist. Change the way to perceive and change all memory. The wailing of a million switches, eating time at will from an unknown possibility. A dawn chorus amplifies the dawning of frustration at being fixed. Being immersed in flux. Wounded and clustered for re-enforcement of expectation sound becomes a raw genetic material spiraling around the secret tree, blasphemous, monstrous and weakened by inherited maps of illusory environments. Inferno of souls as, trapped, they try to consume solidity. “