Topic: Other BROOD ... (Read 907 times)

shen brood · « **on:** April 07, 2006, 03:36:54 AM »

Well when the site suddenly went down I ask myself what is happening so I search google for BROOD Online and here is what I found that is intriguing... well this thread will be dedicated to the other BROODs

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After the painful breakup of her marriage, Nola Carveth seeks treatment at an experimental psychiatric clinic known as the Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmatics. While there, under the care of Dr. Raglan, the institute's founder, she is encouraged to work through her subconscious feelings of hurt and rage in a rather novel way: through bodily manifestation. Some of the clinic's patients develop grotesque sores, others cancerous growths or tumors. But Nola goes a step further. She gives "birth" to living incarnations of her darkest inner impulses. Once released, these walking ids exact gruesome revenge against Nola's family, especially her ex-husband, for every real and imagined slight that she has suffered at their hands over the course of her troubled life. THE BROOD is one of director David Cronenberg's darkest and most twisted films.

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shen brood · « **Reply #1 on:** July 11, 2006, 07:45:50 PM »

Note: The following is taken from the press release for the event described.

The Brood is a unique gathering of musicians from the worlds of rock, electronics and improvisation that will band together to play a program of classic American experimental music on Wednesday, November 6, 1996 at the Purcell Room. It is part of the South Bank's American Independents festival which is already underway.

The idea for The Brood was conceived by Susan Stenger, best known as a member of the American drone rock pioneers Band of Susans. To her, "experimental classics are often performed as novelty numbers on a conventional chamber group's otherwise tired, academic program. The Brood represents an attempt to wrench this music back into a vital context by drawing its performers from several generations, all with a common love a good circuit, a good noise, a good drone."

Susan Stenger hand picked musicians from both sides of the Atlantic who she felt were ideally suited to play the six chosen pieces of music. These include long-standing Band of Susans cohort Robert Poss, Sonic Boom (ex-Spaceman 3), Justine Frischmann from Elastica, Bruce Gilbert and Robert Grey from groundbreaking punk originals Wire, and the ubiqitous Terry Edwards (a member of Gallon Drunk and sometime arranger for the likes of Julian Cope and Tindersticks). The Brood also features techno-scavenger Scanner (Robin Rimbaud), Finnish lo-fi electronicists Panasonic, electric violinist Kaffe Mathews and American avant-diva Shelly Hirsch.

For the musicians involved it is an exciting opportunity to play with people outside of their usual territory and as Justine Frischmann commented, the cross-breeding also helps to "dispel the notion that this type of thing has to be elitist and arty."

The program for the night includes works by Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, John Cage, LaMonte Young, Phill Niblock and Rhys Chatham.

"They are all essential works with musical innovators of American experimental music. Alvin Lucier was a pioneer in the use of home-made electronics and thus is a perfect pairing with Panasonic (who said the performance would be 'the peak of our career'). Christian Wolff and John Cage worked together closely in the 1950s, developing new techniques of composing and notating their music, including indeterminacy and graphic scores. The pieces I chose reflect the way their music eventually diverged, Wolff's towardcareful listening and collaboration and Cage's towards simultaneous unrelated 'sonic events'."

"Varying approaches to minimalism and the use of drones are reflected in the program's second half; LaMonte Young's pure, perfectly tuned intervals, Phill Niblock's massive wall of 'detuned' drones, and Rhys Chatham's unleashing of the essence of rock guitar's most basic building block -- the E chord."

Susan Stenger's career straddles both the rock and experimental camps. She first encountered the music of John Cage in Buffalo, New York in the midst of high school years spent playing flute in local rock bands. This led her to change course dramatically and spend the next few years training at the Academy of Music in Prague, after which she settled in New York. There she joined Petr Kotik's SEM Ensemble and worked extensively with many of the composers on the program as well as performing her own music.

In honor of John Cage's 70th birthday she participated in major performances at the Whitney Museum in New York and throughout Europe. In 1986 she began playing electric guitar in Rhys Chatham's ensemble and soon after she and Robert Poss formed Band of Susans, which incorporated minimalism and drones into rock song forms, much as Wire and Elastica have also done in various ways. Band of Susans went on to release two EPs and five LPs before disbanding in 1995.

The pool of musicians drawn from throughout the evening is:

Susan Stenger -- electric bass/flutes
Terry Edwards -- sax/trumpet
Justine Frischmann -- electric guitar
Bruce Gilbert -- turntables
Robert Grey -- percussion
Shelley Hirsch -- voice
Kaffe Matthews -- electric violin
Phill Niblock -- sampler
Panasonic -- electronics
Robert Poss -- electric guitar
Scanner -- electronics
Sonic Boom -- electric guitar

shen brood · « **Reply #2 on:** July 27, 2006, 08:21:14 PM »

Just post other BROOD's here... here is another one...

Brood is a four-piece from Potsdam, Germany. I got hold of their demo "H" quite by chance - and I was convinced instantly. Their intensive music mixes a lot of influences and can hardly be classified. I like bands that have a different appreciation and that stand out from most other young bands. This is what guitarist Christoph Hennig told me about his band...

Please tell me something about Brood.

“Brood formed around 1996. Since two years we are playing with Dirk (bg), Svemmi (dr), Marco (g) and yours truly, Christoph (g, voc) as players. We´ve all been joining several other bands before, but we know each other since school-time. About two years ago we decided to record a 7”. Because there was noone to be found who was willing to release it we did it ourselves. This was the very first Brood publication. There have been some demos before, but they were more for our own pleasure. Well, then last autumn we released “H” - again an initiative of ourselves. We recorded the album in an old distribution transformer house right in the pampas - definitely the right way for a recording-session: just drive out for 3 or 4 days and let the music move into the centre. We´re very satisfied with this publication.”

How do you call your music?

"We don´t like to pigeonhole ourselves, we leave this to others. Personally I would rather paraphrase it with adjectives: keen, honest, unwieldy, dreamy… of course there are influences. At the beginning it was this whole punk-idea, that means everyone can play one chord. Some time it all developed and meanwhile everyone in the band has his own likings. I would say that we´re all music-junkies. Historically seen we´ve done a lot of noise before."

Raptor · « **Reply #3 on:** August 07, 2006, 04:01:29 PM »

Here's a cute one:

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shen brood · « **Reply #4 on:** August 07, 2006, 05:30:05 PM »

That was really cute... and now I know that the term "BROOD" is really very popular. I remember sometime when I chatted in MIRC, he pmed me and said, "Are you playing Stafcraft?"