music, entertainment and body-art. The post-human aspect in music and performance. Part IV: 1980-2000 continue the review of the music and art "posthuman". Between images and occult-mystical doomsday scenarios are to be reported the Current 93 (since 1983) and eclecticism Nurse With Wound (since 1980), which reviews a bit 'all electronoise subgenres.
Among the various groups of the period, those who seem more inspired by the concept of posthumanism are Coil, with a noise with moderate and cyclical trends morbid, which also has produced albums of spiritual abstraction (before esoteric) The Angelic Conversation as (1985) or Scatology (1986).
great frequenter of new and experimental music is definitely Brian Eno, ambient music and developing the new age with electronic drifts, rock opera and also broad. He has collaborated with many avant-garde musicians, including Cluster (Electronic unit that leaves the scene of German kraut-rock ) David Byrne and Laurie Anderson recently , multi-faceted personality that enters the right to be part of the posthuman artists. Laurie Anderson is a musician and performer who is quickly showing its nature transartistic collaborating with William Burroughs , organizing events and exhibitions in New York and became famous in the music world with the single O Superman .
back to rock, punk is the cyclone renewing the general drift towards addressing sometimes sterile, more creative, others posthuman. We quote Bauhaus and The Cure , devoted to a crepuscular sound, Gothic, sometimes lyrical, more desperate. On the same line Death in June, The Sisters of Mercy and Joy Division , while separate discussion deserve the Dead Can Dance, which are rooted in a deep and lyrical folk. Is the other cognate new wave (in fact the name is borrowed to the sci-fi genre created by the British magazine New Worlds ), first of all Depeche Mode, Soft Cell the and Ultravox.
without straying too far from essence of posthumanism, worthy of special mention are the Clock Dva (ie "Watch Two" puts the accent on time) with an original electro-jazz, quickly become a pure electronic hypnotic and dreamlike. Albums as Transitional Voices (1990), Buried Dreams (1991) or the more explicit (for posthumanism) Man-Amplified (1991) are the cornerstones of contemporary electronic posthumanism.
continue to throw ideas of possible sound paths posthuman trying to divide the players for coming.
From the United States arrive Ministry, which will begin to produce violence sound with pounding electronic beat and overdriven guitar, evolving, in just three years and four albums in a Technometal granite (the best in The Land of Rape dell'1988 and Honey and The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste 1989). Their sound is picked up by Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor of (since 1989), more electronic, but no less violent.
The research itself is at the forefront of environmental Mike Harris, active on many fronts but especially with the Scorn (since 1993), presenting a minimal and apocalyptic sound. The meeting between Mike Harris and Bill Laswell is essential for the continuation of research in this way, through all the possibilities of ambient-dub, reaching a new wave of isolationism which include Tortoise (1995).
Germany gives us the Einstuerzende Neubauten, which are distinguished by a personal style, characterized by rhythmic pieces played with industrial waste materials such as old appliances, circular saws, drills, scrap metal, plastic, chain, etc.., orchestrated by the voice-dark new wave of singer Blixa . The band gets to make absolutely lovely melodies worthy of a contemporary composer. Listen first Strategies Against Architecture II (1991, more structured of the first self-titled) and immediately after, Tabula Rasa (1993) and note that the artist first "look" and then "find."
then cite the Belgians Front 242 (since 1985), who with their physical and rhythmic music, will kick off a whole generation (and a body-music genre known for its nature, to move the body): Klinik (since 1987) and Insekt (best results in Dreamscape, 1992).
From Eastern Europe come the Slovenes Laibach since 1982, on a draft programmatic provocative and counter-cultural, martial rhythms and playing military marches by the sound very innovative. Posthuman certainly be considered if we consider the conceptual work that lies at the heart of their music: they founded the Neue Kunst Sloveniske , a real micronation with such a passport. A real "posthumanism political."
From England the Nitzer Ebb , the Chakk , and dreamy Komputer .
From France Die Form (which you can enjoy to call the advocates of post-human sex, listen for yourself).
Since coming to Canada's first Skinny Puppy (born in 1983, but without being able to draw insights from their own merits) and the very active Front Line Assembly (listen Tactical Neural Implant of 1992 or Hard Wire 1995).
Finally, we have already mentioned Stelarc, who began with Suspension , move to new performance inspired by the ceremony O-Kee-Pa American Indian. With hooks inserted into the flesh attached to ropes, he was hoisted in the air with a crane, even for twenty minutes. But it is in the 80 Stelarc reaches its character more markedly posthuman. In collaboration with a team of university researchers specialize in robotics, he realizes Third Hand : you graft on his right arm a third artificial hand, controlled by the abdominal muscles and legs. He later worked in Hear Third (Third Ear). An extreme theory: the human body shows the limits of your system evolution.
