DatawhoreUK
Motto: Surrendered To My Function Function: Archive of Datawhore work from 1996-date. Fascinated by the dynamics and skewed spirit of cyberspace, DW uses
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The Rich Man's Burden The Rich Man's Burden
Orig. released in 1985 as The Life Ahead Corporation.
Electronic Man (Literacy Is On The Skids) Electronic Man (Literacy Is On The Skids)
The sad tale of a generation lost to literacy.
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Datawhore is a sound poet based in the UK and creating solo or collaborating with a number of other artists. Datawhore's sounds cover a wide spectrum, from the outrightly ironic and satirical to the very serious and intense.Band/artist history
I don't believe in having band members; they are expensive to maintain, and argue. I have a computer instead.Have you performed in front of an audience?I live, I don't have to play at it ;)
Your musical influences
God. Tons. Many. From trad to bad to mad.What equipment do you use?
My mind.Anything else?
Datawhore: A Definition
"An operative or employee who is so low on the corporate rung he has to make a living by jacking in or interfacing, and experienced the result of personality automation. Nevertheless most lower-eschelon corporates at times need to interface with large information devices. Being jacked or -interfaces will have effects on the subjects psychology; after being jacked in more than 4 hours per day on average the interface or 'face' bleeds over in off-hours , causing employees to become dullwitted."
Get to know Datawhore ;)
1. A) Datawhore has been circulating the experimental-techno
underground for some time now. How long have you been producing music?
The Datawhore experiment began in about 1998. Idly surfing, I misread the word 'datawarehouse' for 'datawhorehouse' and was so taken with the latter term that it became a focus for all my word and sound experiments of that time. At that time I was in collaboration with a UK sound poet and composer named Binda23 and had created a cutup text, Surrendered To My Function, that we were making into an album. On my humble 486 I began to create lo-fi chunks of sound to show him the direction I considered likely. Having been a lyricist and singer for many years but never a composer, I found the sudden ability to solely compose very exciting and liberating. My capacities on the machine improved and little by little I became more and more ambitious with my compositions.
B) In a paragraph or two, how would you sum up the sound/genre that you've created for Datawhore?
It really created me. Given the name Datawhore, it had to be justified. So began the years of lonely tinkering. Fascinated by the dynamics and skewed spirit of cyberspace, DW uses PC audio tools to create lateral mutant sound collages that aspire to capture the energy of cyberspace. Chat rooms, cheesy religion, Microsoft and whatever else he can find pieces of floating around online sound file archives, plus his own cut up texts, are juxtaposed over abused generic dance music.
2. A) Musically speaking, what are your primary influences?
My primary musical influences are actually quite orthodox and tend not to fall into the more predictable categories. This is because my work as Datawhore expresses a part of myself that I live with but not always from. I grew up with rock music and with rock music I remain, especially Paul Westerberg. I adore The Beach Boys, The Who, The Stooges, early Bowie, The Smiths and Morrissey. I love cheesy country and trucking music, but also Blue Oyster Cult and The Beatles. However, I enjoy electronic music, usually ambient, and also primo American punk, such as Husker Du and Ramones. I could say I influence myself, but that would be too honest and anal. I listen to very little music like my own. One is only so strong...in fact, I once was mixing a DW track for hours on headphones and at the end of it found myself totally disassociated and neurally damaged. So that mix was a success.
B) And literary influences?
Burroughs, Kafka, Steinbeck, Orwell, Greene, Ishiguro.
C) How evident, would you say, these influences are to the avegrage listener?
Not very, although obviously my adoration of the cutup technique heavily determines my approach to how I use samples and text and characterises my quest for 'unlanguage'.
3. Evidently Datawhore is not for the casual top-40 hits radio
listener. What audience(s) are you aiming for?
The undead.
4. Is there any messege that you try to portray through your art, or is Datawhore more "art-for-art's-sake"?
It's more 'let others suffer for your art', or 'art-for-fuck's-sake'.
5. Why "Datawhore" as your chosen project moniker? is there a story behind that?
See above.
6. What compels you to create?
Now, this is interesting. Once, in meditation and prayer, I asked the Creator, Why all this? This Creation? And a clear, quiet voice said, into my ear, I create because it pleases me. As an artist by nature and vocation, I related to this answer utterly: I create because it pleases me. I do what I am. And I AM.
7. Would you share with us any of your music background?
Probably not.
8. Any interesting or frustrating artistic experiences in the past?
Yes and yes. Part of my motivation for living online from 1995 was, after many reversals offline, the fact that I could control and create without limitation, with no middlemen and no editing. I have operated in the offline recording and publishing worlds with minor success, but annoyance with the offline valuation of creative work - ie how much money it makes - pissed me off. I love the virtual arena because it is less concerned with that orientation. Having said which, I have had some satisfactions working offline and do value physical product, be it a book, CD, or written article.
9. From what i understand, you have fairly strong socio-political
beliefs. would you mind sharing a little bit about those with us?
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