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Saturday, August 18, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge speaks after The Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jaye screening at the Walker Art Center
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge speaks after The Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jaye screening at the Walker Art Center from Brad Elliott on Vimeo.
Filmed by Brad Elliott Marie Losier(Director) & Genesis Breyer P. Orridge took questions from the audience after the screening of The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis on April 4th, 2012 .Wednesday, August 1, 2012
BREYER P-ORRIDGE Retrospective 2013 announcement: A few notes on upcoming projects from Genesis...
We confirmed a BREYER P-ORRIDGE Retrospective at the Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh for June 14th 2013 (Opening) to Sept 2013. We get the whole Top Floor a third of the museum!!!
There will also be a PTV3 concert for the openingh weekend and a Thee Majesty during the Summer of 2013. A Lecture.
A couple of nights of film and video...etc
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Sabbath Assembly "Ye Are Gods" with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge as voice of High Priest(ess),
Sabbath Assembly Set Release Date For Ye Are Gods Thru Ajna/Svart
As on the critically acclaimed Restored to One debut, Ye Are Gods presents the hymns of the Process Church of the Final Judgment, a religious movement that emerged in the late 1960s as an apocalyptic shadow-side to the flower power and New Age movements.
Reaching beyond the scope of Restored to One, Ye Are Gods incorporates the ritual text and structure of the Process Church’s highest and holiest mass, the “Sabbath Assembly” liturgy from which the band is named.
Ye Are Gods is led by vocalist Jamie Myers, a veteran of Hammers of Misfortune (The Locust Years) and Wolves in the Throne Room (Diadem of 12 Stars, Malevolent Grain). Dave “Christian” Nuss remains drummer and co-producer.
The album features Genesis P-Orridge serving the role of High Priest(ess), aka “Sacrifist,” Eyvind Kang plays viola for the liturgical ‘Declaration of the Gods’, and guitarist / vocalist Imaad Wasif offers a chilling rendition of the hymn ‘We Give Our Lives’. In addition, Timothy Wyllie, an original Process Church member, provides a homily from Process Church founder Robert DeGrimston’s Gods on War. Mr. Wyllie is the author of Feral House’s LOVE SEX FEAR DEATH, which offers an insider’s perspective of the Church and its true leadership.
The album offers a first-ever glimpse into the Process’s most sacred liturgical text, taking the astute listener through the mysterious Gnostic journey of the unification of Christ and Satan; the bliss of total submission to the gods Jehovah, Lucifer, Satan, and Christ; the wilds of the Apocalypse and a face-to-face encounter with the Angel of Death; and finally the moment of spiritual renewal in which the Process’s “Law of the Universe” is revealed.
The influential Process Church opened chapters in London, Europe, and across the USA, dressing in black cloaks and walking the streets with German Shepherds. To promote their controversial theology, they sold intricately-designed magazines, three of which are documented in full-color reproductions in the recently issued Propaganda and Holy Writ of the Process Church of the Final Judgment (Feral House / Ajna).
What's History LP reissue.
Genesis P-Orridge to Reissue Rarity
In 1981 Genesis P-Orridge teamed up with filmmaker Stan Bingo to create the What's History LP, a set of improvised bedroom recordings highly regarded as a rare and dynamic industrial classic that was largely overlooked due to the scarcity of its original format.
Both artists have authorized the pressing of 500 copies on vinyl to be released August 25th on DAIS Records.
Both artists have authorized the pressing of 500 copies on vinyl to be released August 25th on DAIS Records.
Sunday Routine New York Times Genesis Article
http://www.nytimes.com/
Sunday Routine | Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
One Body, but Often Second Person
Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, 62, a British performance artist and lead singer of the industrial band Throbbing Gristle and the experimental group Psychic TV, lives in a tiny apartment on the Lower East Side that she calls “the nest,” and rarely ventures out on Sundays. Ms. P-Orridge, who was born male, embarked on a “pandrogeny” project, which included breast implants, in an effort to merge identities with her soul mate, Lady Jaye. Their love affair was chronicled in the documentary “The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye,” by Marie Losier, which will be released on DVD in the fall. Lady Jaye died suddenly in 2007, though Ms. P-Orridge believes they are still together and often refers to herself in the first person as “we.”
Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
WAKE-UP DRINK I’m afraid we’re not very exciting on Sundays. I go to bed between 6 and 7 a.m. Then we get up at about 10. We never drink coffee because we can’t stand the taste. And we could only ever drink it with sugar, and now we’re diabetic. We drink one of those super five-hour drinks with no sugar that’s supposed to wake you up. We have a row in the kitchen — we take it to bed so it’s right there in the morning, to grab it, and then we drink a glass of ice water to trigger my metabolism.
FANTASY READING Then we stay in bed. We have a bedspread made of about 18 wolfskins, and we lie under the wolves and read a book and that’s considered luxury time. We read what we call airport books — trash fantasy action books. At the moment we’re really into Clive Cussler. It’s a way of switching off my brain. We read really fast; we’re speed readers. It’s my way of escaping and just not having to think about work.
CLEANUP Around 1, I look at the mess in my apartment and I think, “Uh-oh,” and tidy up, basically. And then usually we have one of my assistants come over. There’s so many different things happening. An art exhibit here, collages, three books. There are bits of paper all over the floor. It becomes something of an explosion during the week. At the moment, we’re going to record a new record, with Psychic TV, and after that a poetry project and organizing concerts and exhibits abroad. It’s interesting. Since Lady Jaye dropped her body, everything has exploded in the way she wanted and predicted.
SUSTENANCE Around 6 or 7 p.m. we’ll look in the fridge and see if there’s anything to eat, and then decide what to snack on. We’ll usually cook something simple — one of my favorites is mashed potatoes, peas and poached eggs. Very English, comfort food.
A VISITOR We’re not a very social being. We have a new friend, James, who’s actually female, from New Orleans. She would usually come here with her dog, Sydney, a cocker spaniel, named after Sid Vicious. We always take the dog for a quick walk, but apart from that we don’t venture out. When your job is being in crowds of people and touring with people, being alone is a luxury. Obviously we’d rather not be fully alone. We’d rather Jaye be here.
WHITE NOISE Around 10 we’ll sit on the bed and drink some ice water and turn on mindless television, because that’s the time of day when we really miss Jaye. That’s when it’s really quiet and you feel the emptiness and sometimes we just forget and think she’s going to come through the door. Not to watch TV, there’s nothing on. Just to keep the space agitated so the loneliness is not so bad.
LATE-NIGHT GYM Between midnight and 1 a.m. — the housing co-op where the apartment is has its own gym. Nobody’s ever there at that time. It’s my own gym. I take a stupid book, an airport book, turn on the treadmill and walk for an hour, reading. We’re so drawn in we forget even doing it. And then we return to the little nest, write in the journal and read books until we fall asleep around 6 or 7.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Grimes interviewed By Genesis Breyer P-Orridge V magazine
MUSIC
NEW SOUNDS
THREE FEMALE MUSICIANS ON THE VERGE—SKY FERREIRA, GRIMES, AND CHARLI XCX—GET TOP-SHELF ADVICE ON NAVIGATING THEIR NASCENT CAREERS FROM INDUSTRY ICONS ELTON JOHN, GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE, AND GERI HALLIWELL. READ ON FOR THEIR VIEWS ON SEX, DRUGS, AND POP STARDOM
Photography Sabastian FaenaText Elton John Genesis Breyer P-Orrifge Geri HalliwellYou’ll have to forgive me if we ask questions you’ve heard 100,000 times. Believe me, after doing interviews since ’65, we know it happens. Have you been trained vocally?
GRIMES I have not. I actually have a lot of trouble singing live because apparently I sing from my throat and not from my stomach. I used to try warming up, but I gave that up a couple months ago.
When we first listened to the music, the core sequences or rhythms sounded incredibly like Throbbing Gristle around D.O.A. There was a track, “AB/7A,” that has a really similar sound to it. What kind of equipment are you using?
G I use a Roland Juno G. I think I like crunchy sounds. I like as much bass as possible in the drums and multiple kicks. I definitely listen to a lot of industrial music, more modern like Nine Inch Nails–style industrial.
Can you actually get really raw emotion out of a digital machine?
G I think it’s about the actual sonic experience. When you have that loop going and going on the computer and you’re letting it do it for hours, you’re so into it. For me that’s a really emotional experience, just getting so bound up in the loop that’s happening. It’s like the computer is just my means of interacting with the sound.
It’s your doorway to that space.
G Well, I was raised with a computer. It’s been a pretty big par tof how I have always interacted with the world.
Can you see yourself bringing in other instruments like guitars or violins or orchestras or live percussion?
G If I had more time, that is something I’d really want to do, but right now everything is really immediate. When I’m inspired, if I need to make something, I need to make it right now.
It’s so modern! The contemporary young person who wants instant gratification! We grew up when there weren’t even calculators. When we were 16, there were no calculators.
G Did you use an abacus?
No, silly! You used your head and a piece of paper and a pencil. In a way it isn’t so different. Whatever was available, whether it was a drum or an old tape recorder or putting the microphone into the wrong socket, whatever was there we would use it to make sounds and noises.
G In some ways I’m the opposite of you. I’ve always had such a technical issue with being able to play instruments. I took violin lessons when I was about seven and the woman I took lessons from actually told my mom that I was shockingly bad and that I should just not play. [Laughs]
What’s your approach to lyrics?
G I have a weird relationship with lyrics because my music is pretty personal, so I kind of smudge things lyrically. For me, meaning in music is more of a sonic and nonlinguistic thing.
My ongoing band Psychic TV uses video-created light shows and we notice you have a high visual aspect to your live performances. Do you think of the visuals and sound as one thing?
G I try to think of it as one thing. A big thing about pop music is it’s a really visual type of music. It’s very much the face and the voice—they’re as much a part of it as the music is. For me, the live show has been a really hard thing. But it’s something that is really cool to force myself to do, and it’s really good for the audience when they are interacting and part of it.
Young people are using Facebook and Twitter, and although they say they’re having more contact, in a way they are becoming more and more isolated.
G It’s a huge curse on my generation. I feel like people don’t know how to talk to people. I don’t have a cell phone because my world is so digital that I need to have it not be digital 100 percent of the time. I just think it’s important to use the Internet wisely and know when to stop.
Do you have any questions you want to ask me?
G Oh God, yes! What do you think will happen to you when you die?
When we met Lady Jaye in 1993, we started to experiment more and more with what we call Pandrogeny. At one point we spent a whole year using ketamine every half hour, every day. We had a lot of out-of-body experiences, and it took us a long time to retrieve what we were learning and seeing in these other realms. Jaye had this way of expressing it, which was Existentialism is door #1, door #2 is organized religion, door #3 is what else is there? What can we individually discover about perception and possibility? Then Jaye, as you know, dropped her body in 2007. When one dies, what are we going to do to communicate if it’s possible? Through working with Tibetans, we realized that they do seem to reincarnate. So my answer to your question is, we believe we live in loops. Perhaps the whole point of life is to break those loops: habits, addictions, issues, and at some point it will be possible to leave the physical world and maintain a sense of self. Our ambition has always been to find each other in whatever realm, embrace and become one being, made of the two of us. That’s our goal and that’s the nearest picture we have so far of what might be.
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