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Post by Joe Chip on Dec 1, 2005 19:24:04 GMT
William - the subject matter of Whitehouse lyrics in recent years has become both broader in scope and increasingly intense psychologically. Have there been any occasions while researching material where you've found it hard to switch off afterwards, or felt a real need to draw back from the precipice? And which were the fields which you yourself have found especially distressing to deal with?
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Post by Susan Lawly on Dec 2, 2005 0:34:38 GMT
What you're saying is true, the subject matter could be construed or perceived as distressing - I certainly might feel that along with other emotions if I were a listener (even though I also recognise therapeutic potential in it), and since I'm so intimately and integrally involved with the design process, there's no real need to switch off. I would also like to assure you 'ASCETICISTS - 2006' relentlessly, unforgivingly exploits these elements you've identified, so as not to recommend it to anyone mentally frail. It really f**ks with people's minds to an unprecedented level and intensity, YOU WILL BE CHANGED, my philosophy here is that within the realms of music or art not only is anything (as in dreams for example) permissible, it behoves you to discover it.
WB.
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Post by still cruisin' on Dec 2, 2005 12:27:17 GMT
Sorry to interfere - hope you don't mind, jessefriedman.
William, very recently I read an article where you happened to describe yourself as "a very non-violent person". It really didn't strike me as surprising as the music of Whitehouse has always shown a high and even increasing degree of thought and reflexion I wouldn't describe as simply hate-driven. (Sorry if I'm coming across as a suck-up.) And yet there seems to be the need to "f*ck with people's minds" or whatever you'd like to call it. Do you conceive contents to be at their most powerful if they're both damaging and therapeutic to a similarly high degree? And do you even consciously draw a line between these qualities? (So if you wouldn't recommend 'Asceticists - 2006' to the mentally frail, is Whitehouse today to be perceived as art for the ultra-sane in the first place?)
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Post by Susan Lawly on Dec 2, 2005 12:53:44 GMT
I don't draw a line between the qualities. All I'm saying here is that within the domain of music and art, any type of emotional exploration is fair game. The need lies in exploring these possibilities whatever they are. It's not perceived as art for anybody in particular, least of all the 'ultra-sane'; at the same time I don't wish anyone to be under any illusions as to what this represents.
WB.
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Post by still cruisin' on Dec 5, 2005 13:37:42 GMT
So, talking about the therapeutic aspects of your music: Is that something you've had in mind from the word go? I know you don't consider yourself to have an agenda or anything like that and so one might presume that it might have happened more as a 'side-effect' of mere emotional exploration. Yet at least some of your more current material suggests an increasing awareness of these aspects (correct me if I'm wrong) and so I wonder if it helps to sharpen Whitehouse's vision in any respects.
And concerning a possible use in terms of making art, do you consider any aspects of conventional psychology to be of any personal interest?
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Post by drillbitch on Dec 30, 2005 20:19:25 GMT
What's always amused me is how some people cannot make the distinction between 'performance' and real life. Some people are suprised by the comment that you are not a violent person, maybe even a little disappointed. A while ago there was a post on the guest book that suggested that you had once locked a girl in a cupboard and taped her pleas for release etc...I might be wrong but I sincerely doubt you'd bother when there are so many horror films and pornos in existence that would probably provide better samples... by the way, talking of therapy, a friend of mine recently did a detox programme in Thailand and I put Cruise and Total Sex on his i-pod before he left and he commented on how much he enjoyed listening to you in the monastery (the other residents however did not).
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