Bull at Nosturi & Possible record to come!

Well. The Bull did a performance at Nosturi, also performed Antti Tolvi with his minimalistic output, Basilian savut & the most disturbingly twisted Justice Yeldham: Although my set had some noise in it, he was totally Mr noise, up to the point where begun self mutilation, which I have to say took the whole performance sub zero. That is the point where I leave the audiance, as a principle, when the shock value of destruction won something that had nuances & construction, which I prefere totally over (postmodern) destructive approaches. I thought it was a shame, and have to say I loath all kinds off violence on stage whether its target is someone else, or the performer him self. I like to think art is aboat life and construction (whether it be painfull pushing it forward or dancing on roses). Death and destruction can however be material to abstract expression, but they have to be transcended to another level: as it was with Ligeti who loathed Stockhausen's joyfull reaction for 11.9. in U.S: Yep, it was not a work of art as Stockhausen had interpreted it, neither is self mutilation, even if we wanted bad to include sacrifical thinking in our expressive acts. The wrong way is taken (I think) where the vacuum of modern/postmodern identity has put us into the point where we have already compromised (aka sacrificed) our being, and we go even further into a form of a kind of double sacrifical-ritual in a sort of: "Look at me, I'm empty"-kind of way, putting our selves through the act of mutilation because we've already been driver over and mugged by the sosiopathic society, that -in a way- wants us to addapt, or in the extreme case, be fooling around with a piece of glass.
However! A performance of "trancended violince", done with a glass instrument (in a more ideal level) would have done the same trick, but would have taken the violence into the control of the performer, or the act, and done even more than the real mutilation (without the the easy way of extreme shock performances), whatever the meaning of using such ideal or trancended forces, or even if there were no intended bright-as- a-day-meaning, but more less obvious metaphoric levels in question, in bringing violence through music into the picture. (Eventhough I won't go to the everlasting art discussion now...)

Well, otherwise, without supermusical stuff, (as it is always there with out pushing it too deliberately there) it would've been great.

Anyway.. There has been some talk aboat putting out a record from Bull In A China Shop, and the material will maybe have some glimpses from "the pedestrian music". It is not yet definite what kind of material it'll be; more like the animal seen on few gigs, or a more minilmalist one spotted on the sidewalk... We'll find out. Maybe a hybrid of these elements. The Bull is an animal of controlled maximalism, and the point where this turns (through the logic of timbre-music) into minimalism is, I think, much more fruitful/meaningful than a prerequisite of minimalistic expression. It's all in the relation of things babe!

More later.... With a possible video clip from the gig. Chauuuuhh!


- T

The Bull strikes again!!!

The B u l l (s) hits the road again with his infernal one-man-band at downstairs Nosturi! The set is going to be more noisy than before, fitting the company mentioned in the poster above. Still it's gonna have some acoustic elements to it, however the final word gonna be said on the spot. There is a rising interest for me to do also some old fashion electronic stuff, so maybe we'll hear some of that also, since it is very much more comfortabe and nice to be working with electronics than mixing them with instruments, but I guess that'll be my cross to carry, since it (I think) has some originality in it mixing different stuff together in a new kind of brew.

So it is Tuesday 3.7. at Nosturi 19.00, a rare animal at the stage! With noise guru Justice Yeldham (Aus) & Antti Tolvi also to be checked out.

- T