![]() Working by mail allows time and space for adding elements and offers a chance to work with someone who you don’t live near. What are some benefits you think can be achieved from by-mail tape collaborations? Or hindrances? IOS has done a good deal of collaboration. We attempt to make every piece stand out in some way, whether it’s subtle or in your face. Most of our sounds I would not consider rough, and I’m not sure what you mean by sublime. Would you consider this an intrinsic factor in your material? We do power electronics, sound collage, decomposition, ambient emotive fields, information drifts, and totalitarian pseudo-rock.Įven amidst the rough sounds of some of your music, I’ve still noticed a sort of sublime element. It has been described as ‘the soundtrack to nightmares you don’t remember in the morning’. ![]() They call it ‘industrial’, so do I, even though I can’t really define that term. ![]() Jim O’Rourke has taken over the networking thing, he has a few excellent solo tapes out and he was the founding member of the 'Elvis Messiahs'.Ĭan you describe the kind of music you perform? I do the funding, booking and most of the graphics and correspondence. Thymme, Chris and Jim are the only ‘real’ musicians in the band, but that doesn’t stop the rest of us, we all do soundwork, and I am often the one attempting the more musical structures. Of our releases, “In 70 Countries,” “Fifteen” and the two live tapes are good examples of our ‘group’ work. Many of our pieces are individually oriented or collaborations of 2 or 3 members. IOS is a revolving membership, I work with whoever is available or appropriate. Clein (our photographer), and our newest member Jim O’Rourke (later in Sonic Youth). ![]() I also work with Mitch Enderle (he has a solo tape of industrial grind called “Dead Tech”), Spark Lunch (our disco man), Mark D. Dot Dot Dot broke up, but I continued to work with Thyme Jones and Chris Block (from DDD, also members of Cheer-Accident). They enjoyed the opportunity to ignore musical structures and do something experimental. ![]() They were a progressive rock group and we did a few performances together as Illusion Of Safety. I began working with a band called 'Dot Dot Dot' in 1984. Interview with Burke from "Spinal Jaundice" Issue 9 (1989). ![]()
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