{"id":81,"date":"2022-12-29T06:01:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T06:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trashrecords.org\/dumbass\/?p=81"},"modified":"2023-01-19T00:34:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T00:34:10","slug":"d33-modernity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trashrecords.org\/dumbass\/d33-modernity\/","title":{"rendered":"D33 Modernity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tracks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trashrecords.org\/MusicDownloads\/Dumbass\/D33Modernity\/01 Non simultaneity.m4a\">01 Non-Simultaneity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trashrecords.org\/MusicDownloads\/Dumbass\/D33Modernity\/02 Fingers.m4a\">02 Fingers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trashrecords.org\/MusicDownloads\/Dumbass\/D33Modernity\/03 Four days in the life.m4a\">03 Four Days in the Life<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trashrecords.org\/MusicDownloads\/Dumbass\/D33Modernity\/04 Processing plant.m4a\">04 Processing Plant<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trashrecords.org\/MusicDownloads\/Dumbass\/D33Modernity\/05 Self defense.m4a\">05 Self Defense<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trashrecords.org\/MusicDownloads\/Dumbass\/D33Modernity\/06 You know just what to do.m4a\">06 You Know Just What To Do<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trashrecords.org\/MusicDownloads\/Dumbass\/D33Modernity\/07 Machine culture.m4a\">07 Machine Culture<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trashrecords.org\/MusicDownloads\/Dumbass\/D33Modernity\/08 Less than.m4a\">08 Less Than<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trashrecords.org\/MusicDownloads\/Dumbass\/D33Modernity\/09 Give me a reason to belive.m4a\">09 Give Me a Reason to Believe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trashrecords.org\/MusicDownloads\/Dumbass\/D33Modernity\/10 Passing away.m4a\">10 Passing Away<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trashrecords.org\/MusicDownloads\/Dumbass\/D33Modernity\/11 The evolution of entertainment.m4a\">11 The Evolution of Entertainment<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trashrecords.org\/MusicDownloads\/Dumbass\/D33Modernity\/12 Broadband.m4a\">12 Broadband<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trashrecords.org\/MusicDownloads\/Dumbass\/D33Modernity\/13 Impending doom.m4a\">13 Impending Doom<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trashrecords.org\/MusicDownloads\/Dumbass\/D33Modernity\/14 The edge.m4a\">14 The Edge<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, you can stream it on youtube:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dumbass Modernity Movie\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gPpV7X7IMno?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>About Modernity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Television will make up for actual physical presence even more so than<br>does radio. All the more isolated will be the individual in his retreat, and the<br>balance of trade will be correspondingly precarious: an enormous influx of<br>riches, consumption without services in return. The pathetic hermit,<br>squatting in his room, hundreds of miles away from the scene that he<br>experiences as his present life, the \u201cviewer\u201d who cannot even laugh or<br>applaud without feeling ridiculous, is the final product of a century-lung<br>development, which has led from the campfire, the market place, and the<br>arena to the lonesome consumer of spectacles today.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rudolf Arnheim, A Forecast of Television, 1935.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modernity was a project that I began way back in 2000. It was in fact a failed<br>project. I had just finished the gigantic Misery double album, and was<br>perhaps not ready to jump into another project. In any case, several songs<br>were completed, including Cash, which was released as a stand-alone<br>single in 2002, as well as the b-sides on the same single (Profit Machine,<br>Name Withheld, &amp; Gripping). And several songs also ended up on Hymns of<br>Disillusion, including: End of the End, and This Very Earth), of which Cash<br>could have easily been a part of, but for what ever reason we left it off.<br>Similar themes also popped up on The Me Generation, meaning that<br>Modernity is, in a way, the completion of an unintentional trilogy of albums<br>(Hymns of Disillusion, The Me Generation, and Modernity). In a way this is<br>entirely appropriate. Musically the tree albums are siblings, exploring<br>related territory, and thematically they all deal with the modern world in<br>which we live in different, yet related ways. I would encourage the listener to<br>explore them together. Begin here and work your way back, start at the<br>beginning and move forward, or the middle\u2026 put all three on shuffle and<br>experience the modern world in its rapid and random confusion. Enjoy\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zeke Mason<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MORE INFO:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After The Me Generation we went in a very different direction with Lumina and Jouissance. But again, that same cluster of themes from 2000 kept reasserting themselves, but again, as the world of information technology continued to change at a rapid pace, these themes came up in new lights, connected to other themes, and brought up further issues: identity, power, media, technology, commodity culture, information culture, creativity, freedom and dependence, money, choice and the illusion thereof, abundance and lack, and finding our place as human beings in this information-technological world. Once again we started working on an album exploring these themes, and, as things had again changed, the resulting album was different.<br>In a way, though it wasn\u2019t intended at the time, the three albums chart the progress of the massive changes that the internet brought through these years. In each case the goal of the album was to look at the modern human\u2019s place in the modern world. But in each case, that world had changed from the last time we looked in on the situation. 2007, when we finished the last album in this unintended trilogy (the album is called Modernity, after the original idea from 2000), was already different from 2004, to say nothing of 2002, or 2000.<br>Once again, the instrumentation is similar to the previous two, which gives the trilogy a feeling of musical connectedness that is, of course, rooted in the thematic connections. Harsh electronics combine with noisy guitars again, but this album has neither the frenetic feel of Hymns of Disillusion nor the bleak harshness of The Me Generation. Instead Modernity often feels melancholic, more reflective, more empathetic, exploring a different range of emotions and reactions. It\u2019s also more historically reflective; it looks back across the years of change rather than just being a snapshot of the times like the first two albums of the trilogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Modernity Film<\/strong> (Stream above)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Directed by Zeke Mason,<br>the Modernity film is a<br>visual counterpart to the<br>album experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paying close attention to<br>the principles of silent film,<br>the Modernity movie<br>weaves several narratives<br>together, drawing on<br>archival and original<br>footage, using the album as<br>a soundtrack that dictates<br>the pace and flow of the<br>action. Drawing on the<br>same theoretical sources<br>as the Modernity album<br>itself, the Modernity film<br>adds depth and colour to<br>the picture painted, as well<br>as views from other<br>vantage points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"454\" data-id=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trashrecords.org\/dumbass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dv04_modernity_dvd.jpg?resize=454%2C454&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trashrecords.org\/dumbass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dv04_modernity_dvd.jpg?w=454&amp;ssl=1 454w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trashrecords.org\/dumbass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dv04_modernity_dvd.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, 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