[Glice]

In terms of music... I think the problem is that we're stuck in the idea of the album, still (well, some of us are). It's a fairly outmoded concept - I mean, it's fine if that's what you want to do, but if it's not it seems a pretty pointless obligation.

I've been getting more and more into this idea, from Atalli's noise, of music being a gift or an experience or a theatre - anything but 'band' and 'album'. It's made me much more 'creative' to just say 'fuck it' to a lot of the charades that don't really interest me.

The more interesting musicians are nearly always the older ones, in my head. The problem is that we're still drenched in these preposterous 'invasion of the teenager' things. The problem is that a musician sort of only becomes a musician when s/he realises there's nothing left to prove, nothing left to impress upon the world, and whether they can still be creative after that moment. So, late Bailey, Cage, Smith, Haino and even stuff like Merzbow, Hijokaidan, Whitehouse - I tend to find it most interesting when an artist realises (in both senses) their creative inertia.

Best books, paintings, poems, plays - nearly always the later stuff. And, of course, often the problem with the later stuff is that the artist has created their own world, impenetrable. Joyce, Beckett, Benjamin, Prynne, Eliot...

I don't get this 'I try and do something different' thing. With all the best will in the world - and I do like some of your stuff, Herr Park - that doesn't come through at all for this audience. You have an incredibly precise aesthetic to my mind. Ok, it's not quite a case of using the exact same chords, but aesthetically there's absolute consistency and thematically it's difficult to differentiate one from t'other.

[this was a response to ASP's first response]