Olin Caprison, a visual artist and multi-instrumentalist originally hailing from Baltimore, Maryland, composes and performs all aspects of the VIOLENCE project. Compositionally, each of their songs fearlessly disrupts any notions of genre division – creating a universe that is equal parts at-home in the realms of noise, rap, industrial and the more extreme deviations of metal. Lyrically, VIOLENCE meditates on the oppressive nature of history and explores ideas of archetypal memory and the stigmas that come with those memories.

‘The focus of “Human Dust to Fertilise the Impotent Garden” is the overwhelming quality of history's perpetual occurrence. My palette consists of the shattered micro-architecture of an unprejudiced, undiscerning, cosmopolitan, anti-culture massive music archive. A piece of this, a piece of that. The shattered remains of the “genre”, utilising the mythopoeia behind each cultural movement to fight for meaning, schizophrenic terror, where you can’t tell which real aspect of a life coincides with which narrative, which model, or which came first. This music is a struggle. It is a struggle from within this anti-history vacuum, a struggle against the all-embracing, multicultural, ahistorical ecosystem of contemporary music that renders all hierarchies impotent and null.’

Violence Lorem Ipsum. Photo: Angela Fan

Programme

THURSDAY 5 JULY, at 8.30 pm
Venue:
Exhibition Space, Convent dels Àngels

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