California is a bright sun nightmare. What could be worse than a world without rest. I feel that California is an oppression. The idea of California is a demand for Utopia. The insanity that follows all the failed attempts to achieve nirvana and Utopia is what makes the world insane. One man's Utopia is another's Nazi Germany.
This is an earlier rant done in June of 2001. It's a bit creepy because 2 months later 9/11 happened. What's even stranger is how the underlying messages haven't changed that much. The piece was done for palm pilots. I had the idea for creating a series of news rants back then and shipping them to PDA's. Now this is possible with rss, iPods and cellphones.
This is a performance of Rant/ Rant Back/ Back Rant (12 minutes) performed in September of 2003 for the Split Festival of Film and New Media in Split, Croatia.
The performance is G.H. Hovagimyan and Peter Sinclair.
The keywords are all gathered from news items. They become the raw material for a psychotic information rant. Peter samples GH's voice and throws it back into the sound mix. He adds effects and layers creating a new type of word/ slam/ information performance.