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Music:

Member Since: 5/9/2006
Band Website: pervertedlogic.com/niwi
Band Members: niwi - everything
Influences:
polly bradfield, tony conrad, ernesto rodrigues, phil durrant, philipp wachsmann, charlotte hug, hubbub, gunda gottschalk, witcyst, amm, frances-marie uitti, helmut lachenmann, michael von biel, henry flynt, alexander bruck, matt milton, malcolm goldstein, kazushige kinoshita, mathieu werchowski, lee rockey, richard maxfield, alessandro bosetti, frédéric blondy, horde catalytique pour la fin, john henry calvinist, leroy jenkins, matt armistead, aditi tahiti, alfredo costa monteiro, ladonna smith, radu malfatti, takehisa kosugi, anla courtis, ferran fages, geeshie wiley, konk pack, arek gulbenkoglu, kurt schwitters, pauline oliveros, peter jacquemyn, cornelius cardew, jocy de oliveira, ivan albright, henry cowell, george crumb, juan hidalgo, pierre henry, maria de alvear, vladimir mayakovsky, cy twombly, walt whitman, gertrude stein, alfred jarry, washington phillips, philip guston, sophie tucker, anna magnani, ilhan mimaroglu, roberto matta, morton feldman, emma goldman, voltairine de cleyre, otto dix, the dead c, max ernst, dorothea tanning, charles ives, eugene chadbourne, remedios varo, wallace stevens, modernism and remodernism, stuckism, expressionism, outsider music, abstract music, various extended techniques, field recordings, prepared instruments, automatic writing/drawing/soundmaking, evp machines

"Being a spiritual artist means addressing unflinchingly our projections, good and bad, the attractive and the grotesque, our strengths as well as our delusions, in order to know ourselves and thereby our true relationship with others and our connection to the divine.

Spiritual art is not about fairyland. It is about taking hold of the rough texture of life. It is about addressing the shadow and making friends with wild dogs. Spirituality is the awareness that everything in life is for a higher purpose.

Spiritual art mediates between the mundane and the unconscious. By definition, the unconscious is what we need to explore and integrate.

It should be noted that technique is dictated by, and only necessary to the extent to which it is commensurate with, the vision of the artist.

Spiritual art is not religion. Spirituality is humanity's quest to understand itself and finds its symbology through the clarity and integrity of its artists."

- from the manifesto 'Remodernism- towards a new spirituality in art'- Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, 1999

today i am influenced by:

"Listen to everything until it all belongs together and you are part of it."
-Pauline Oliveros
Sounds Like:
bagatellen review

"it sounds like a pinball machine."
-chikin

"niwi is a hesher."
-loomah

Record Label: music appreciation, ruralfaune, mymwly
Type of Label: Indie