Genesis P-Orridge has died

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51893184

by pmoriarty • 6 years ago

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runnr_az• 6 years ago

Whoa. One of the true weird experiences of my life way see GPO play a little, super rough punk bar in Tempe, AZ about... geez... maybe 9 years ago. S/he played topless.

latchkey• 6 years ago

A long time ago a friend of mine gave me a TG cd. He told me that at the far end of the night when you want people to leave your house party, put this on full volume. He was right.

throwaway7775552• 6 years ago

Thee cool friends are thee ones that would stick around, browse your occult book collection, and talk about works ov ToPY members

tialaramex• 6 years ago

Yup. In my youth plenty of parties went from forty people to just half a dozen of us listening to something... Unconventional like Discopathology or BANG! An open letter.

Some of it's definitely actually good. "Discipline" is good for example. Some of it is important ("All largely propaganda" makes a good point) and lots of it is just annoying and will make people leave. Some of the same friends actually hosted a few live music events at the turn of the century and "Did people leave in disgust?" was a measured criterion of success.

robk• 6 years ago

Irish folk music works wonderfully for this purpose too

krebs_liebhaber• 6 years ago

S/he truly toed the line between genius and insanity. A monumental loss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEjl6V6wC28

s_Hogg• 6 years ago

Vale Genesis P-Orridge. I first became acquainted with their work watching the excellent electronic music documentary _Modulations: Cinema for the Ear_

Anthony-G• 6 years ago

I hadn't heard of that documentary so thanks for mentioning it. Based on the artist listing for the soundtrack, it looks like it'd be worth watching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulations%3A_Cinema_for_the_...

licebmi__at__• 6 years ago

Found about Psychic TV aimlessly downloading stuff from people on soulseek, took me through a deep rabbit hole. Truly weird person, certainly inspired me and and bunch of other people. RIP.

senderista2• 6 years ago

Awww Soulseek. I discovered so much great music there...

telesilla• 6 years ago

A good time to re-watch Decoder, 1974.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoder_(film)

bsenftner4• 6 years ago

Oh man, I was at the Einstürzende Neubauten show in Los Angeles that got them banned from ever performing in California again. Their show's climax was cutting cables allowing two 20 foot steel girders to swing down and crash into each other like a gong. The sonic wave knocked the audience off our feet, everyone had bleeding ears and could not hear for the next several hours. The building, The Palladium in Hollywood, had plaster falling and it was said to be damaged by their show. That was an event.

narrator2• 6 years ago

This reminds me of being at a Survival Research Lab show and having to run from tear gas or whatever horrible noxious smell all the pyrotechnics were putting out. That was under the 80 freeway in a parking lot in SOMA during the dot com boom. Does wild stuff like that even happen anymore?

throwaway7775552• 6 years ago

Vinegar Syndrome actually restored and reissued this within the last year. I've always been a fan of his part in it:

"Information is like a bank. Some of us are rich. Some of us are poor with information. All of us can be rich. Our job--YOUR job is to rob the bank. To kill the guard. To go out there, to destroy everybody who keeps and hides the whole of information."

BelleOfTheBall• 6 years ago

S/he made an immense contribution to music and though I never really fancied industrial stuff, I certainly appreciate a lot of Psychic TV's output for its creativity and diversity. My partner put me onto it and he's bawling his eyes out right now, listening to 'The Orchids'. I highly recommend people watch the (always) excellent Nardwuar interview Genesis [0] to hear some of the crazy stories from h/er life.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4suhp5QNpE

cageface• 6 years ago

I was lucky enough to very briefly meet Genesis outside the venue that Psychic TV was playing in Salt Lake City on their Infinite Beat tour. A real inspiration and a genuine trailblazer. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that music changed my life.

9nGQluzmnq3M• 6 years ago

A far better profile in New York Magazine: https://nymag.com/arts/art/profiles/58864/

gryzzly• 6 years ago

Rest in piece free spirit <3

schmudde• 6 years ago

I grew up with Throbbing Gristle. Genesis has a complicated legacy of control and manipulation that was part of their music and art. They lived their work, which is part of what made it so compelling. Industrial music for industrial people - more prophetic than insane.

bsenftner4• 6 years ago

I grew up listening to them and the Industrial music, art noise, intellectual punk sounds of the 80's. I met Genesis at a dinner party, but he was not really there there, being on some multi-day trip and just sat zoned in the corner. So, no, I did not meet him beyond his eyes glancing my way when my name was stated. Ah, those were the daze...

cmrdporcupine• 6 years ago

A more complicated profile here: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/10/genesis-p-orri...

H/er artistic and personal partner of many years, Cosey Fanny Tutti, has accused h/er of physical and mental abuse over many years.

FWIW, I have always enjoyed her and Chris Carter's work, but I have to admit never really getting into the Psychic TV output despite owning many records.

jghn• 6 years ago

Sad, although it reminded me of a quirky usenet meme in the early 90s that Gen had died via having a Pepsi machine falling on them. I miss rec.music.industrial

mobsrunningriot• 6 years ago

from

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/10/genesis-p-orri...

P-Orridge’s genius didn’t lie in her artistic skills, but rather in her ability to manipulate others

It's true. His now her talent in any musical configuration was always adding a non-musical element. I would liken him now her to a hype man, like Flava Flav, but one that has traveled through and beyond a permanently state of drug induced psychosis to land on some distant shore, mysterious, disturbing, pointless, raw, Dionysian in the Paglian sense (not necessarily in the sense of N).

I love GP because sheitwhat proves that the absolutely psychologically depraved can find a place in this world, can be of value, too. It's an important and reassuring lesson.

innot• 6 years ago

Genesis has finally joined the best people of this world. Rest in bliss.

mistrial9• 6 years ago

powerful poisons, unlovely

senderista2• 6 years ago

For a great retrospective of the British industrial/neofolk scene, check out the book _England’s Hidden Reverse_. I’m more of a neofolk than an industrial fan myself, but there would be no David Tibet without Genesis P-Orridge.

Genesis P-Orridge has died

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