O Beautiful Death
Genre: Experimental Music
Sub-Genres: Post-Rock, Psychedelia, IDM, Neoclassical, Breakcore, Math Rock, Glitch, Noise Rock, Rhythmic Noise
Instrumental
O Beautiful Death is a solo post-rock project from Kit Carruthers. It is a bleak and psychedelic Godspeed You! Black Emperor-esque rejection of society. The instruments used are a synthesizer, a piano, two electric guitars, one base guitar, drums, two violins, a cello, a sitar and a bamboo flute. The albums that have influenced this project are Daturah's "Daturah," Jakob's "Cale:Drew," 65daysofstatic's "The Destruction of Small Ideas," Saxon Shore's "The Exquisite Death Of Saxon Shore," 35007's "Liquid," Kashiwa Daisuke's "Program Music I," Plastikman's "Consumed," Mono's "One Step More and You Die," Balmorhea's "Balmorhea," Boards Of Canada's "The Campfire Headphase," The Evpatoria Report's "Golevka," Mono's & World's End Girlfriend's "Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain," Rachel's "Selenography," 65daysofstatic's "The Fall Of Math," Yndi Halda's "Enjoy Eternal Bliss," Bathyscaphe's "-11034m," Maybeshewill's "Not for Want of Trying," Massive Attack's "100th Window," Autechre's "EP7," Boards of Canada's "Geogaddi," Murcof's "Remembranza," The Antarcticans' "Teach Children: Fear All Teachings Of Eternity, The Doom Of Self & Nature," Surface of Eceyon's "The King Beneath the Mountain," MGR's "Nova Lux," Circle's "Alotus," Neu!'s "Neu!," Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.'s "The Day Before the Sky Fell in America," Slint's "Spiderland," Mono's "You Are There," Mogwai's "My Father My King," God Is An Astronaut's "All Is Violent, All Is Bright," Bardo Pond's "Dilate," Venetian Snares' "Rossz Csillag Alatt Született," M83's "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts," Autechre's "Amber," Arovane's "Atol Scrap," Casino Versus Japan's "Whole Numbers Play the Basics," Komet's "Rausch," Actress' "Karma & Desire," Lightning Bolt's "Wonderful Rainbow," Boris' "Akuma no Uta," Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.'s "Does The Cosmic Shepherd Dream of Electric Tapirs?,"
Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians," Jóhann Jóhannsson's "Englabörn," Max Richter's "The Blue Notebooks," Sylvain Chauveau's "Le Livre Noir du Capitalisme," The Doors' "The Doors" and Tim Hecker's "Harmony In Ultraviolet." The only O Beautiful Death show and end of the project will feature a projection and vocal sound bites of how neat and horrible we are as a society and how close we come to ending ourselves again and again. "Our understanding of our physical reality has led to the atomic bomb... N-N-NEAT."
It started with regular marijuana use. I realize, you know I'm just going to present blatant obsession with death all the way to fetish, I'm going underground I only work for the crazies. After formulating the sound I eventually realized the correct vocal samples to use here are rambling psychotic lunatics preaching Godspeed You! Black Emperor-esque take down this garbage-ness except with more of a blatant terrorist edge, people who twist just right... Maybe what I want to use is mysterious moments of people's last words. Oh, if these women are going to speak like artists maybe I can sample some of this executrix material here. Then the idea just came to me for a good visual presentation for the only show, make it surreal and cryptic you don't so much get it. Then I realize, oh, yes, my sound does naturally kind of dissociation brainwash people doesn't it.
And now it's just... Antichrist end of the world rock band. It's my little antichrist art statement. ... AAHH. ... Scary movie disorder me. ... It's just. It's just the end of the sound art transcendence process. It's just... Yeah, God hippie art statement I guess. Ifth's tha END ov tha WURLD! Whatever, no, no it isn't, no it isn't what's being communicated. Revelations is a hippie movement, it has an art festival, it's not a generic Christian church burning. That's not. That's not. That's not what the art statement is it just looks like that on the other end of the mirror, I'm making an entirely different... Non-statement. It isn't even really a statement it just looks pretty.
Revelations IS a hippie music festival. Revelations IS expressed in the form of pop emo rock and roll music. For the sake of being palatable to the fourteen through nineteen year old American demographic.
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Get all of that out of your mind before you go see it, flatten all of it down to nothing. Take MDMA and ketamine. We're ignoring Christianity, they're off over there, they've slipped into the semi-conscious cowering position they're barely people anymore they're pretty much an unconscious format they're not gonna say anything. We'll try to brainwash you out of it with some semi-conscious signaling detailed compartmentalization.