Throbbing Gristle Interview: Boing Boing Video (2009 Reunion Tour)

Before we shot this Boing Boing Video interview with legendary industrial music band Throbbing Gristle, Richard Metzger and I spoke to the band's sound technician backstage, and asked what we should expect in the way of sub-bass frequencies -- rumored to be so powerful during performances that cameras can't hold a steady shot, and bowels sometimes can't hold their contents. Charlie Poulet, TG's sound tech, cracked up and flashed an evil grin.

"Oh, we got some frequencies," he laughed, "Yeah, we definitely got some frequencies ready for you people tonight."

Those "frequencies" are part of what make TG's music so transcendental and disturbing, and in the BB interview with Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, we explore their technical and creative underpinnings.

We hear TG members talk about the sort of mind-meld trance they all fall in to while performing, and we learn about the early days of recording work like "Hamburger Lady" to cassette tapes, then walking down to have a hamburger together at a corner sandwich shop down the street from their old studio in what was then a really shitty part of London.

Gen talks about her first time with Twitter, and we hear what it's like for the band once called "wreckers of civilization" to be celebrated, more than 30 years later, as living legends. - Xeni Jardin

Complete blog post on Boing Boing:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/06/boing-boing-video-th.html

More on Throbbing Gristle's website:
http://throbbing-gristle.com/

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[fluffycake1]

These guys are real pioneers and out on their own. Gotta respect that.

They have paved the way for new and old industrial/electronic and experimental acts like Nine Inch Nails, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, Front Line Assembly, Cabaret Voltaire, Front Line Assembly, Coil, Burial, Aphex Twin, Angel Spit, AllFlaws

[princeofdaftness]

RIP Sleazy

[NeedleFactoryTube]

@gustard33 < good example of someone who likes NIN

[NeedleFactoryTube]

Faster the Bruce Springsteen

[pedroincendio]

<3 9:50 !!!

[number7gracestreet]

R. Metzger --to the rescue!

(Whomever he is)

[LenasAK47]

mind- go to watch today The ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye - it s out in the cinemas 24/11/2011

[gustard33]

Screeching, Creaking, Rustling, Buzzing,Crackling, Scraping

Noises obtained by beating on metals, woods, skins, stones, pottery, etc.

Voices of animals and people, Shouts, Screams, Shrieks, Wails, Hoots, Howls, Death rattles, Sobs

He designed and constructed a number of noise-generating devices called Intonarumori and assembled a noise orchestra to perform with them. A performance of his Gran Concerto Futuristico (1917) was met with strong disapproval and violence from the audience.

[gustard33]

Luigi Russolo was perhaps the first noise artist.[3][4] His 1913 manifesto, L'Arte dei Rumori, translated as The Art of Noises, stated that the industrial revolution had given modern men a greater capacity to appreciate more complex sounds.

The Art of Noises classified "noise-sound" into six groups:

Roars, Thunderings, Explosions, Hissing roars, Bangs, Booms

Whistling, Hissing, Puffing

Whispers, Murmurs, Mumbling, Muttering, Gurgling

[gustard33]

Actually the origin of industrial music would be The Art of Noises (L'arte dei Rumori) is a Futurist manifesto, written by Luigi Russolo in a 1913 when throbbing gristle were twinkles in their granfdparents eye

[greedholymoney]

yuck what a piece of shit interview by these two magazine ad styled wankers.