Thomas Brinkmann at Recombinant Media Labs
June 1, 2006
Fresh from headlining at Montreals MUTEK festival and his hometown in
Cologne, Germany, you >are invited to attend a very special educational
event where Thomas Brinkmann himself will pilot a >series of provocative
real time sessions on the science of sonic propagation at Recombinant
Media >Labs, June 16, 17 and 18th.
Provocative sonic propagation?
This is how invision this über heady event:
Participant: Please, please, let's hear about your childhood.
T. Brinkmann: Very well. Where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly
self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and
a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year old French prostitute named
Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would
make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he
would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only
the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical.
Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets.
When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds.
Pretty standard-really. At the age of 12, I received my first scribe. At
the age of 14, an Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my
testicles. There's nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking I
suggest you try it.
sorry y'all.....had to do it.
No hard feelings Thomas....can I borrow that c+c music factory 12" you
always play?
Or can we have a discussion about how you think jazz is bulls++t?
Sorry, sorry...I can't stop!!!