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Dominick Fernow
American experimental musician
Musical artist
Ian Dominick Fernow[1] is an American experimental musician, poet and multimedia artist. He is best known for extreme music released under the stage name Prurient, as well as numerous other aliases including Vatican Shadow, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement and Christian Cosmos.[2] His first releases date back to 1998, the same year in which he founded the record label Hospital Productions.
Life
[edit]Fernow hails from Wisconsin[3][4] and his mother is the poet and former Wisconsin Public Radio host Jean Feraca.[5] He recounts his entrance into public school and his exposure to death metal and tape trading as early sources of musical interest.[6] In particular, Fernow cites the death metal band Deicide's album Once upon the Cross as, "frightening ... A huge record for me, still to this day."[6]
Fernow has resided in Providence, New
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Fernow has little patience for the hermetic dogma of noise purists, an oxymoronic set who regard his increasingly klar forays into rhythm and melody with suspicion. Although these themes have been present throughout the Prurient project's 16 years (notably on Pleasure Ground, Cocaine Death, and the overlooked Colonialist natur and Misanthropy), they were with 2011's Bermuda Drain presented with the glistening clarity of an open wound. Ironically Fernow's most accessible skiva was his most controversial, and cries of Judas went up in the more conservative corners of the noise community, betrayed by the emotional and sonic earnestness of what The Wire would herald as "noise's first breakup album". Although some could follow him no further, many eagerly engaged with his evolving sonics as he released a series of works exploring techno via the fractured lens of the Prurient planerat arbete , creating new audiences alongside territories explored with Vatican Shadow.
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Noise is important. Or it isn’t, it can be taken of an absolute refusal of such designations, and that’s what makes it useful. Or maybe, if you’re inclined towards abstractions like “total freedom,” it’s absolutely useless and that’s why it’s important. Noise (by “noise” I mean the genre of music, or “music”-see, it gets confusing/annoying fast) is a blank slate. It takes you to the river but you can drink, spit, or be baptized; up to you depending on your predilections. Fans claim they can tell it all apart and who am I to tell them they can’t. It is most fun when taken very seriously while admitting how absurd it is. This can be taken as an admittance of nuance or as self-delusional poserdom. Isn’t it neat to be complicated? Or isn’t it neat to be willfully primitive? Krrrrrzzzzzzzzkkkkkkkkzkzkkzkzkzkzkzkzk
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Dominick Fernow makes “good” Noise, though Fernow himself seems to struggle with the notions of art being of any qu