AFTER WEEKS OF BRAINSTORMING, CONFIGURING AND EXPERIMENTING WITH IDEAS AND PROCESS, AS A GROUP WE HAVE ARRIVED TO A COMPLETED DEMO. A FIFTEEN MINTUE PEACE EXPLORING IDEAS OF SONIC PSYCHEDELIA, CACOPHONY, AND DYSPHORIA.
USING FOUND AUDIO FOOTAGE OF SPECIFIC RELIGIOUS CULT FIGURES SUCH AS RON HUBBARD OF THE SCIENTOLOGY CULT AND JIM JONES OF THE PEOPLES TEMPLE, WE CONSTRUCTED A SOUND-BED AUDIO TEXTURED NOISE, RADIO STATIC, ATONAL PERCUSSION AND RESAMPLE FEEDBACK TO CREATE AN FEELING OF FRENZY, DISSONANCE, DISCORDANCE AND MANIA, MUCH REFLECTIVE OF THE ENVIRONMENTS AND IDEAS OF THESE CULT FIGURES.
THIS DEMO SERVES AS A SKETCH TO OUR FINAL DESIGN, IN WHICH NOISE MUSIC WAS AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FACTOR AND INSPIRATION FOR THE PIECE. NOISE AND INDUSTRIAL MUSIC HAS ALWAYS EXPLORED THE ARCANE AND DARK ELEMENTS OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY WHICH HAS SERVED AS THE IDEAL BEDROCK OF SOURCE MATERIAL FOR OUR RADIO PIECE.
THE ERA OF SATANIC PANIC DURING THE 1970’S ALSO SERVED AS A BIG PART OF INSPIRATION FOR THIS PROJECT. THE POLITICS OF ANTON LAVEY WITHIN THE CHURCH OF SATANISM AND HIS IDEAS OF HEDONISM AND HYPER-INDIVIDUALITY AND THE HELTER SKELTER THEORY OF CHARLES MANSON THE PARANOIA THAT INFLUENCED THE PSYCHOSPHERE OF AMERICA THAT AT THIS TIME WAS SOMETHING THAT REACHED ALL ASPECTS OF VISUAL AND AUDIBLE MEDIA.