Oorutaichi

Catching up with Click Opera I came across this guy:



I think he's great, and pretty much agree with everything Momus says about him in this earlier post on him. I love how he creates complex web-like music, where he takes sounds and styles from all over the place and instead of just putting them all together and offering that to the listener, he twists each one and then twists the one-to-one relation each bit has with another and then twists the entire thing. It's a succession of subversions that makes the whole thing really exciting. (Here's the video that Momus links to, it's my fave one I think).



I'm currently flying free with regards to the Masters, insofar as I have no fixed deadline. I am reading various books that will be useful and keeping my eyes and ears open as usual. This guy's music caught my attention for the way it both is and represents a navigation through a world of signs that Bourriaud's altermodern theories talk about. Oorutaichi is obviously a man of his time, not fighting against this plethora of signs but using them all in the service of great music. It occured to me whilst watching the videos that blogging is an exemplary activity in this world, being a personal meandering through a forest of signs, everything connected one way or another to everything else.