Dawn of the Deaf
- 57 minutes of sonic warfare
- Retro style 4:3 letter boxed aspect ratio
- Camera work as uncompromising and challenging as the subject matter itself
- Earbleeding mayhem captured full on guerilla style in New York City’s way below the radar spots
- Watch the full online version of the film on Youtube
Dawn of the Deaf deals with the beauty of infernal sonic warfare and the pleasure one finds in getting assaulted with cacophonies of sound until one’s ears are reduced to a bloody pulp. Fortunately for those who consider said painfull assaults the epidome of joy, New York City offers a lot of dark and forbidden fruits in its deep down underground nightlife. One of the fascinating aspects of ‘noise’ events is the likeliness of young talent sharing the stage with unpretentious established artists who are still, and very well for that matter, connected to current avantgarde affairs. Every so often for example one will find the likes of Thurston Moore or Genesis P-Orridge playing or DJ’ing at those off the beaten path lofts. Mind you, not as the headlining act but an opener or collaborator. It is what I call the beauty of a scene that seems to be above tiresome rockstar cliches. Dawn of the Deaf captured what UN:ART:IG believes to be the most interesting of these moments in recent years. Featuring: Ramleh @ Death By Audio ’07, Prurient & Thurston Moore @ The Hook ’06, Magic Mountain @ Rad Pad ’06, Wolf Eyes @ Death By Audio ’07, Realicide @ 248 McKibbin ’07, Yellow Swans @ Silent Barn ’07, John Wiese & C Spencer Yeh @ Silent Barn ’07, Black Dice @ Market Hotel ’08, Mike Pride’s Drummer’s Corpse @ Tonic ’07, Thee Majesty @ Northsix ’06.
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