Chris Korda
As unprecedented wildfires are burning across the western United States of late, the effects of weather replacement are clearer, more horrific, and ignored.
While the subject is far too vast and devastating to understand, artist Chris Korda summed up the challenge concisely and set it to music through his new album, Apologize to the Future.
Now available on vinyl through Berlin’s respected Label Perlon and scheduled for a virtual release in October, the six-track album has a total of 1200 words, sung through a chorus of robots, about the realities of the climate crisis, which is to blame and who will suffer. “Your life is based on convenient lies, and now it’s time to apologize, corporations lie, that’s what they do, but you lie to yourself, and it’s up to you,” the robots warn on the album name track.
The Berlin-based producer, functionality artist, activist and software developer has long preached about the realities of climate replacement and what humans can do to deal with them, basically through their old and debatable euthanasia church. “You will not procreate,” the church adopts a list of strategies to reduce the world’s population as a way to resist salvation. This antinatalism – the concept that humans will have to avoid procreation to save the planet – is also a major theme of Excuses to the Future. Pleasant in the auditory point despite the theme, the album incorporates a training in classical music, his paintings as a software engineer and his love of techno.
Here, Korda talks about his trusted system, the new album and the anesthetic effects of dance music.
1. Where are you in the world right now and what does the decoration look like?
110 feet above the point of the sea, relatively from the rise of the sea point. It’s a lovely day.
2. What was the first album or piece of music you purchased and what is the medium?
Made in Japan from Deep Purple, on vinyl.
3. What did your parents do in life when you were a child and what do they do about what you do now in life?
Let’s leave my family circle out of this. They paid their dues and I’m too old to worry about what they think.
4. What was the first song you did?
The first song I wrote that deserves to be remembered is called “Wisdom”. His words seem in factor four of “Snuff It”, which you can find on the church of Euthanasia website.
5. Si you had to present an album to someone who’s going to get into electronic music, what would you give them?
Ralph Towner’s solo concert in 1979, because it revolutionized my harmony.
6. What was the first thing you bought for yourself when you started making money as an artist?
I expected my art to charge more than it brought, and in that sense I was never disappointed. Art has no obligation to be guilty or politically correct. Art is not marketing and is not the result of concentrated committees or groups. Art is personal. The most productive art faithfully represents the inner world of the artist, I am a specific and polarizing person, and my art sometimes shows those same qualities, it is a sign of loyalty.
My recommendation for beginner artists is this: practice your craft, tame your instincts and never impede learning. If he needs to be rich, a lawyer. If you need to be famous, an influencer. Good artistic fortune is his own reward.
7. What’s the last song you heard?
“Gold Dust Woman” via Fleetwood Mac. ” Take your silver spoon / Dig your grave” is one of my favorite phrases. “Leaders make bad lovers” is smart.
8. What song would you have to produce?
I don’t produce music unless it’s mine. I am above all a composer and I produce to be a obligatory evil, I have spent the last few years training sets of atonal concord and tone.
9. How do you spend your time at 40?
This is an intelligent time to deal with difficult questions: why is the value of humanity preserved, how to place it in existence?What are our usual goals? An intelligent and long-lived species would have answers to those questions.
I’m a paint addict, so quarantine doesn’t affect me much. I paint all night, sleep for a few hours and then repaint. Love, paintings and wisdom give meaning to my life. I’m sure Wilhelm Reich was right.
“There is nothing that can merit more of your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is the safest foundation for public happiness in each and every country” – George Washington
10. What characterizes where you grew up and how did you grow up?
I was densely populated, which made me cosmopolitan, and I’m grateful for that. Cities are bastions of literacy and critical thinking. I won the sperm and egg lottery and spent my training years reading and understanding. I benefited from civilization and tried to use the gift wisely, attracting and contributing to civilization.
11. What was the first electronic music exhibition that inspired you?
Led Zeppelin blew my ears off at Madison Square Garden in 1976, and my brain followed soon after. It was other times. My concept of musical exhibition is the virtuosos who sing and play instruments. The French word “disco” “night club to dance” and precedes the musical taste “disco” of several decades. The faceted ball dates back to the 1920s. First he visited a nightclub, they played rock records because disco music wasn’t yet a thing.
12. How did you get to antinatalism as a cause?
Even as a child, I learned that many of us fed too much. In 1992, the climate crisis pulled me out of my dogmatic closed eye to create the Church of Euthanasia. Today, overcrowding is painfully obvious. As the album says, “Earth is in disarray and has to pay. “
These will be your children and grandchildren. Procreation is not only selfish, it is cruel. There is no moral justification for creating new humans just to abandon them on a destroyed planet. Future generations will suffer for crimes they did not commit, while perpetrators will flee, who have died in a sufficient manner.
13. Your new album is Apologize To The Future. Si had to write an apology, how about?
The album is numbered from the point of view of long-term generations. I give the victims a voice, and that’s my apology. One of the roots of the album is Dan Miller’s performance, “A REALLY Inconvenient Truth”. on YouTube. List the things Americans can do and their first detail is “Ask your young people for forgiveness. “This led me to ask, “How will the generations last?”Assuming long-term generations are fortunate enough, or unlucky?
14. You say your record has a “militant existentialism”. What does this do for you?
We are in a hostile universe and totally alien to our destiny. No one is coming to save us and we have nowhere to go. We succeed or fail on Earth. As John Gielgud’s character in the Providence film says, “There, in the frozen universe, there is nothing.
The album’s first track, “A Thin Layer of Oily Rock”, refers to the extinction of the Permian-Trias, the so-called “Great Dying” that eliminated 96% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species. On some cliffs, it is imaginable to identify a thin layer composed of the pulverized remains of the countless organisms that died in this disaster.
We are on the shoulders of giants who took us out of the dust and built civilization with their order, progress, literacy, and evidence-based knowledge. What a tragedy if we waste this monumental effort because we have controlled it to restrict our growth.
15. How do you reconcile the message of your electronic disc with escape trends, hedonists of the electronic music scene?
Not me. I exorcious those trends whenever I have the opportunity, the club is a globally standardized industry that is mainly based on the sale of alcohol, the animation of the festivities is thought of as a culture and is a sign of the times, people are anesthetized and I cannot blame them. Producers need to be popular, so they make anesthetic music. It’s a vicious circle.
The tendency is to chaos and inconsistency, but I am swimming in the opposite direction, towards unity and deep mathematical structure. So many manufacturers live their entire musical life on the small, time-tight island 4/4, yet I left it years ago to never come back. The Ocean of the Unknown is big enough for everyone, so dive in, the water is fine. Join the polymer revolution. My software can, and is free. “Polymer Sequencer” by Google.
16. You inspire others to settle for the fact that a mass extinction is taking place How do we reconcile this fact individually?
In the Kubler-Ross “five stages of mourning” style, we are trapped in denial, and we will have to triumph over this to get to the very important final stage, which is acceptance. Now that crisis is upon us, hating humanity. It is useless. Instead, we deserve to feel sorry for ourselves, because we are our own worst enemy. This is the very essence of the Church of Post-Human Euthanasia.
We’ll have to realize what we’ve done. In the blink of an eye of geological time, we exterminate our fellow non-human adventures and destroy our survival system. Admitting it intellectually is not enough. We have to feel it. The album is meant to hurt. We will have to regret what we have destroyed, adding our own future. Without remorse there can be no restitution.
17. Which electronics manufacturers influenced you?
I am influenced by jazz, and by psychedelic and progressive rock, especially the band Yes, from which I derived my obsession of the time. I studied with Jerry Bergonzi for years. My most powerful influence is John Abercrombie, I’ve heard him play live several times and transcribed some of his delicious solos.
Musical complexity has been diminishing since the 1970s, in terms of rhythm, melody, concord and lyricism. Music is made more and more through non-musicians and breaks my heart. Music generation corporations market their products convincing others that music is solid design, however, it is a pernicious lie.
18. You went to Berlin last year, why is the city right for you?
I don’t care where I’m going. I borrowed this line from one of my favorite movies (again Providence through Alain Resnais). A city looks a lot like it and other people have similar things in their pockets, thanks to globalization.
19. His paintings are described as controversial. Do you like controversy?
I like to tell the truth. My paintings attack solipsism, the concept that the self is real and that truth is all you believe. Solipsism flourished in the 1970s with the ideologies of the new era and the use of psychedelic drugs. The bitter fruit of solipsism is the age of post-truth. , embodied through Trump’s gaslighting.
Magical thinking was an idea to be adaptive in our original evolutionary environment. It’s less hard to handle a lion eating your brother if you’re in a life after death. But our propensity for fairy tales has tragic consequences in the 21st century. We’re hairless monkeys, on a rock that rushes into a vacuum. However, we do not act quickly, the long term does not accompany us. If that’s controversial, so be it.
20. Something you would give your young self?
Brush your teeth more and gently, avoid climbing loose, and please do not reproduce again.
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