Industrial Culture Handbook

RE/Search #6/7

Interviews with:

Throbbing Gristle

(P'Orridge again)

Cabaret Voltaire

(death by disco)

SPK

(violence and gross-outs)

Z'ev

(makes drums out of industrial junk, into Kabbalah & poetry)

Non

(Boyd Rice, see Pranks & Incredibly Strange Films issues)

Monte Cazazza

("I don't recommend that people break the law; then again, I don't not recommend that people break the law.")

Mark Pauline

(Survival Research Labs, makes machines out of industrial junk)

Sordide Sentimental

(record label)

Johanna Went

(very uninhibited performance artist)

R & N

(live computer-interactive video-and- sound presentations).

While punk music used boredom and alienation as its raw materials, industrial artists try to have shocking-good fun playing with the decaying pieces of the dominant structures. It's a world turned upside down where all the heroes, values, and icons of the commodity culture are replaced by all its villains, taboos, and cultural unmentionables. Truth is a lie. Ugliness is beauty. Order is chaos. Noise is music. It's topsy-turvey and taboos out the wazoo!

(R. Moore)

Links:

• Burroughs/Gysin/Throbbing Gristle
• Modern Primitives
• Pranks
• Survival Research Labs
• The Atrocity Exhibition
• Incredibly Strange Films
• Waning Black Ice
• René Cigler's Cyberwear

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