From Xasthur to Kanye West to Albert Ayler to Sister Nancy and back to Phil Elverum.
Episode #2 is about breakdowns and breakthroughs.
The more time I spend putting these together, the more aware I become that this is not my natural habitat.
Please forgive my tongue being slightly too big for my mouth and please forgive my laziness over going back and pronouncing words properly.
I never nitpick on this blog. I’m not about start now.
Previous episodes: #1
wtf how is this so good??
Just got to the bit about the “breakdown” and the connection with Fiedler’s work – wanted to pop in to say that it reminds me of Deleuze’s discussion of the “crack-up” in Logic of Sense (and ATP), particularly in the chapter titled “Porcelain and Volcano”:
“Of course all life is a process of breaking down. . .. ” Few phrases resonate in our heads with such a hammer blow, few texts possess this final character of a masterpiece, or are able to impose silence or force such terrified acquiescence as Fitzgerald’s The Crack Up. The entire work of Fitzgerald is the unique development of this proposition-in particular, of the “of course”… “Why have we lost peace, love, and health one after the other?” There was a silent, imperceptible crack, at the surface, a unique surface Event. It is as if it were suspended or hovering over itself, flying over its own field. The real difference is not between the inside and the outside, for the crack is neither internal nor external, but is rather at the frontier. It is imperceptible, incorporeal, and ideational. With what happens inside and outside, it has complex relations of interference and interfacing, of syncopated junctions-a pattern of corresponding beats over two different rhythms. Everything noisy happens at the edge of the crack and would be nothing without it. Conversely, the crack pursues its silent course, changes direction following the lines of least resistance, and extends its web only under the immediate influence of what happens, until sound and silence wed each other intimately and continuously in the shattering and bursting of the end. What this means is that the entire play of the crack has become incarnated in the depth of the body, at the same time that the labor of the inside and the outside has widened the edges.”
That D talks about this with reference to polyrhythms and beats seems quite fitting!