ORGANIZED NOISE-COLLAGES
FOR THE SYSTEMATICAL ELIMINATION OF THE INSATIABLE BREED!
I was born in 1979 on a warm January Monday, at 4:12 a.m., in Timisoara, Romania. I had a pretty normal childhood, the usual shit. I was a silent child... The older I got, the more I wanted to be alone and play with myself... I used to sing songs from the radio and TV, and to draw... cars, robots, girls...
The Name I was given when I was born changed into Max when I had my (first and only real) birthday party in ’87. Ceausescu, the Romanian dictator at that time, powered off just when the movie "Mad Max" became interesting... I freaked out... a little...
The most important gift I received was a green accordion my grandparents had bought me. My grandfather used to have a band that played Serbian folk music in his hometown Gad when he was young, and he wanted me to play this instrument... I never did...
I started to be addicted to the female anatomy very early, I think I was five years old... or even younger! I saw the first real vagina pic many years later, and the first one I’ve kissed was even more out of reach, but I’ve liked this strange slit between the legs of the three year old girls just the first time I saw it! ...no, I didn’t undress them! It was in the summertime in the city park where they played naked...
Pornography was not allowed and hard to find in Romania at that time, especially for a child, so I was a little shocked and fascinated at the same time as I discovered what’s in there when you open the lips... I think it changed my personality a lot...
I won’t introduce you to my filthy brain, I don’t feel the need to right now, but I had some strange moments with the female human forms, which I consider more strong and evil than they look like... but I respect them... most of them... at least more than the male ones...
In 1990, after the bloody revolution in Romania (which started in Timisoara, where I had the pleasure to be in the crowd incidentally, and big luck to have survived it all...) we moved to Austria in a shitty small town near Graz where I was introduced to all the sick stuff you can imagine! ...no comment! For some stupid reasons I was captive for 17 (!!!) years in this hick town... one of them being that I went to school until I was 27...
Due to the fact that everybody loved me because I came from Romania (by the way, the same thing happened in Romania because I was half a Serb), I isolated myself even more than before and started to put my ideas more intensively on paper. The girls I drew became more realistic and sexy, the sceneries more dark and repulsive...
Horror and porn shaped my mind in my puberty...
In 1989, I started to listen to real music, my favorite bands at that time were Iron Maiden and Depeche Mode (and they’re still deep in my heart), Roxette for a short time, and even Modern Talking for some months... yes, I confess and repent!
In 1993, I started to write lyrics and in 1994 I already finished my first Tape "Operation ’94" under the oh so intelligent name MAX. I wrote and recorded some of the shittiest tapes this obsolete mankind has ever heard! In fact, no one heard them except for some "friends"... The "music" I conceived at that time was made of ridiculous lyrics, stupid pot and coffee can "drums" plus all kinds of toys and objects that made interesting sounds... and the accordion I got as my birthday present.
The "compositions" became more complex as time passed by, the last tape "Extrem pervers" (1997) even had some moments that sounded like music... it contained progressive structures and rhythms that were very difficult to record! (by the way, I had a 300 € double tape deck that was able to record on multiple tracks) ...some sort of porngrind inspired by bands like Haemorrhage, Cannibal Corpse and Infernal Torment (which I’ve discovered through new "friends"), including the sickest lyrics I’ve ever written, no holds barred, no respect for anyone! A cheap guitar replaced the accordion, the vocals became harder and better...
After "Extrem pervers" I admitted I couldn’t do more than that... besides that, I wasn’t really happy with it, and I was already 18 years old... what a shame! So I’ve decided to lock the tapes away and wait for better times. The silly plan was to find some people to form the first real band "Bloody Cunt"! It was a stillbirth... I had no chance to play any instrument, no people with the same ideas, nothing... but I still have the logo in my scrapbook.
Over the next years I wrote tons of lyrics and concentrated on other forms of art, like drawings, paintings and sculptures, to express myself in a way... it always was a sort of self therapy and helped me not to run amok or (even worse) kill myself!
In 2002 I fell in love with the machines, after I was forced to manipulate something in Photoshop at the art school. I bought myself one of these machines... Endless hours of practicing (without teachers) made a pretty good graphic/digital artist out of me... though far from the best...
Soon I’ve mutated into Dr.Winter! Doctor stands for the need to explore and understand things that seem banal and unimportant to most others - Winter stands for the apathy, depression, melancholy and coldness that I feel without reasons ...apparently without reasons!
In 2004 I came in touch with some music software and started recording my ideas ...this time much more professionally than before. Suddenly the cans sounded perfect and even the toys made horrifying strange sounds after adding a little distortion and things like that...
But again I couldn’t finish it! This time it was Bill’s fault that I’ve lost all of the 17 songs. Some of them were as good as finished, but the raw data was gone, only the audio files left over and so they became the first demo under the new name Violenta Domestica. This first "release" had the fitting title "Teratogen 1.0", which was the perfect description for my new music style.
A teratogen is any medication, chemical, infectious disease, or environmental agent that might interfere with the normal development of a foetus and result in the loss of a pregnancy, a birth defect, or a pregnancy complication. Known teratogens that we use daily are alcohol and cigarettes for example, and my music is a new, still unknown one...
The name Violenta Domestica is inspired by things I’ve seen in my family and my circle of friends... it’s also a track from one of my favourite bands, Mr. Bungle. Mike Patton always recorded whatever came into his mind, and so will I... besides that, I would compare my first recordings with their early works... not knowing of them at that time... megalomaniac to say that, I know...
The second try resulted in the EP "A Drama in seven Pieces", which contains the first recordings that I really consider finished after all these years! ...and the small green accordion is still here! It was used in the piece "Room 79" and for the cover of the EP.
The nightmare has just begun! Expect the unexpected...
Fuck me!
Dr.Winter, September 2006
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