Do you like Dark Music? OBSCURE STRUCTURES celebrates the artists navigating the lightless & pushing to the dim edges of existence.
Information blasts you like a fire hose. Endless data overwhelms. Flooding your senses. Obliterating your identity. You struggle to breathe. Conform. Delicate synapses wither and break under the pressure. Conform. Leaving only the most obvious channels through your brain. Conform. Like country towns bypassed by major thoroughfares. A single road for all. Conform.
A society of disturbingly smooth angles. Unchallenging. Coarseness eliminated. Numbing. Uniqueness exorcised. Sharpness removed. Blind alleys illuminated. Ugliness banished to gulags. Left only with that which is sickeningly palatable.
There are no answers for you here.
But this music. A metaphysical map. It will guide you down the byways. Hidden backroads. Forgotten paths. Auditory sign-posts to places of digital cannibals. Occult hackers. Bush-dwelling mystics. Places where information transfers fail. Where data goes to die. Where server errors are farmed like wheat. Oceans of 404s stretch to the horizon.
But these residents. Are they unhinged? Likely. Untethered from convention? Definitely. Dangerous? Only to unethical social contracts. But here is the kicker. You ARE a resident. You always have been. Amnesia. Stimulated by blue light. Let the vicious noise cauterise the open wounds of your mind. Synapses reconnect. Remember. Permit us to sonically kerb-stomp the ghosts infecting your machine. Remember. We can guide you back to where you belong. Remember. Beyond the polluting reach of the sterile LED glow. Remember.
We can take you home. Will you let us?
We invite you to OBSCURE STRUCTURES Vol. 02 on Friday 18 September – a monthly Dark Music event at The Graveyard Bar, Coburg North.
Each month we celebrate the artists and performers navigating the lightless. Embracing the shadow self. Pushing to the dim edges of existence.
OBSCURE STRUCTURES takes place on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. Always was, always will be.
