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COLONIA is a project that implements death as its theme in order
to represent the epoch: the colonial age. Death is not a mere event
in the epoch - terror or genocide, conflict or destruction - epoch
itself is at stake here; death as time, the age of its reign, death
from perspective of faith that encompasses the totality of any being
which is founded in metaphysical construct. COLONIA expresses a
concept that allows for translation into the political and cultural
domain. Its goal is not to show something real but to understand
notions concerned with a lack of origin, an event that occurs in
a catastrophic age of groundless faith. Originating in the foreign
- here lies a metaphor describing the destructive-establishing,
breaking through characteristic of the metaphysical along with its
dominance in the world. The structure of the sound is syncretic,
composed of multiple levels that on one hand refer to liturgical
forms and on the other to paradoxical junctures of sub-cultural
products of elite technology with proto-urban mythologies. Composition
as a construction of audio images, refers to the musical heritage
of the pre-Gregorian tradition. This reference is evident in both,
the construction of the instrumental fabric as well as the application
of the vocal material. On a general level, the overall construction
discretely corresponds to the suggested rhetoric foundation, specifically,
the archetypal material that supports the generic thematic image.
Individual sequences hold vocal and instrumental sets of dynamic
and dramaturgic structure that are established through the process
of repetition and stages of intensified transformation. Within the
general composition, sequences carry a polysemous role - a stand
that places a mark not only on a traditional understanding of the
classical composition, song layout, and singing method but also
on the contemporary cultural tendencies reflected in present day
mass media. The relationship with the rhetorical is achieved by
referencing the classical tragedy, pantomime, or medieval liturgy.
This means that there exists a potential for a theatrical component,
a mode suggesting a particular form of spectacle. This sense of
"functionality", the relation to the other forms of media, enables
the work to be represented on multiple levels and not only as an
audio production. In relation to the production of audio images,
AUTOPSIA presents the visual component as an integral supplement.
To understand the device that links the two components means to
understand the mode that enables them - the common ground. Simultaneity
in production shapes the desired mental image. Within the communication
schematics, the image is constituted through a form of pseudo-production
where a fixed relation exists between the form of production and
the enabling components. That means that there is consciousness
present in the work and along with its presence in the language
there lies a possibility for continuous renovation and play of representation
and representing. Through pseudo-promotion, AUTOPSIA does not plead
or attempt to declare, it does not call for a departure from the
real into the real - it seeks with its own eyes (autos-opsis). It
itself can be seen - the projection of its own representation. AUTOPSIA
treats the image as an icon that by its nature references notions
regarding origin and recall which can be delivered with ease to
various modes of mass communication. The visual components result
from a procedure of sampling and montage. The selected illustrations
are extracted from the printed material with a unique context (bizarre
handbooks, religious sects, etc.) The focus is placed on death as
a monumentalized mode, an iconography of death with its theme used
as a cultural product. An originating construct appropriates sights
- visions and weaves them into the constellation thus resulting
into a intensified visual charge. Decontextualization of their authentic
appearance and transformation into the realm of higher culture accompanied
with a necessary dose of hermeticism and mystification exist as
a device that familiarizes and engages this particular cultural
realm. AUTOPSIA creates images with which it nourishes that what
it destroys. The result is a layered process - on one level the
relationship of the thematic and the contextual realm is expressed
in the work, and on another, the manipulation of the image, the
sampling of its core features, allow for the testimony of death
to be shown which appears as an image itself. AUTOPSIA recognizes
diabolic symbiosis, mythomanic orchestrations, and its relation
to the artistic has nothing to do with the mystical and the occult,
the scientifically accepted, or with the political pragmatism. AUTOPSIA
treats media devices as forms of code and not as a realm that reduces
cultural tendencies into consumable patterns. As far as production
is concerned, the attention is not placed on the production that
separates and individualizes but on the method of production that
will encompass and focus on the unit as a whole (Her-vor-bringen).
This can not be reduced to cultural reality or cultural history.
Cultural products are units that AUTOPSIA uses as the means for
establishing dispositions for specific processes of media manipulation.
AUTOPSIA treats art as a mode of production and not as a repetitive
play in transformation of its layered existence. COLONIA This new album of Autopsia contains a kind of "best of"
from Hyperium-period. It's a bit unusual to see a band that has been
once signed on Hyperium, joining the more extreme and minimal style
of Staalplaat. Anyway, it's an opportunity to get back this very particular
and single dark ambient project alive! The global atmosphere and inspiration
of this Yugoslavian project remind me to the style of numerous Cold
Meat Industry bands. The orchestral influences have been directly inspired
from the 19th century. It creates a kind of symphonic industrial work
that sounds pretty elaborated and grandoise. You can feel considerable
research in the writing proces, resulting in a particular ambient dimension.
The tracks are covering the nineties decade with a previously unreleased
cut entitled "The secret block for a secret pereson in Ireland,
pt1". This is for sure a unique chance to dive back in the metaphysical
universe of this great project. /DP:6/7/ Autopsia-Colonia Autopsia - Colonia CD SKUG mag | Text: Stefan Parnreiter | Wed 4. Dec. 2002 |
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