Music:
Member Since: 5/28/2007
Band Members:
Dylan Thomas Walter
Thomas Jefferson Walter
Austin Piccone
Influences: ken vandermark, this heat, basquiat, peter brotzmann, john zorn, james chance & the contortions, can, dna, evan parker, fire engines, salvador dali, public image ltd, cecil taylor, king crimson, faust, henry cow, sonic youth, guided by voices, chrome, gang of four, john coltrane, albert ayler, derek bailey, han bennink, thomas pynchon, north indian raga, balinese gamelan, karlheinz stockhausen, keith rowe, tom robbins, erase errata, josef k, ex-models, red krayola, material, glenn branca, theoretical girls, liquid liquid, the coen brothers, swell maps, taoism, throbbing gristle, jean baudrillard, otomo yoshihide, alexander von schlippenbach, wassily kandinsky, jackson pollock, a certain ratio, 23 skidoo, the velvet underground, bailter space, morton feldman, vestigial organ, robert johnson, bela bartok, pierre boulez, west african percussion, anton webern, klezmer
Sounds Like: In the June 13, 1943 edition of the New York Times, Mark Rothko, together with Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman, published the following brief manifesto:
"1. To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risks.
"2. This world of imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
"3. It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
"4. We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.
"5. It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted."
[Rothko said "this is the essence of academicism".]
Record Label: Starbucks Records
Type of Label: None
