I agree with acattoir. What's the point? If you're looking for specific advice then you'd ask a specific question--but that's not the case here. You're basically saying "This isn't so good. What do you think of it?"
FWIW--"Anti-perfection" or "anti-sterile" doesn't equal art any more than perfect or sterile do. It may be a valid part of your artistic process, but its not art in and of itself. You need a point. (Maybe you have one, but it seems to me more like your process is your only point.)
Your videos looked like self-gratifying experiments. Acceptable as a starting point, but not for public consumption.
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I certainly see your point. I agree that "anti perfection" isn't art. However, our aesthetic for that period was "wherever he falls, there shall he be buried" and the idea was to capture this moment in our history. That idea has garnered us some fucking crazy fans that range the gamut from satanists to born again christians. So maybe it's not the best approach
As far as they self gratifying experiment comment, I've got to respectfully disagree. I posit that what is acceptable for public consumption is what the public consumes. I wanted to do a pair of videos that well represented the idea behind these songs. They've been very well recieved in our little circle of local musicians. We're not trying for a pro look or sound. People said many the same things about early punk as about our stuff. Not that we're punk.
A question I ask; is it possible that despite a shift away from large recording operations, a move to "pro level DIY," a major shift towards home recording, and the destruction of the music industry people still think that music (and frankly all modern media) should look and act like the big boys used to? (polished, perfect and boring as hell)
I think there are a hundred tape punk bands that could never sound as good with the 24+ tracks that we've all got now.
We make music that is destined to never be heard by a group of people outside of our community. We're a part of that community so naturally that aesthetic influences us. We've rejected the idea that we've got to get the performance perfect every time. We've made the perfection of the show the important part. People come to see us because we're going to scare them, make them laugh or have something to talk shit about. I'm not going to go into a studio and pay some idiot engineer that thinks that rock and roll is Bob Seger or Fall Out Boy to make me sound like Danzig meets emo.
We like dirty. I hope you like it too.
BTW, I don't think if people don't like it, they don't get it. I think if they don't like it, good. There needs to be more stuff out there that some people like and others don't. As a culture, we've got way too much shit that's designed to get as many demographics as possible satisfied to make as much money as possible. We're not into money, other than what is needed to build up a space that we like and get the equipment and beer we want.
