O Beautiful Death
Genre: Experimental Music
Sub-Genres: Post-Rock, Psychedelia, IDM, Neoclassical, Breakcore, Math Rock, Glitch, Noise Rock, Rhythmic Noise
Instrumental
O Beautiful Death is a solo post-rock project from Kit Carruthers. It is a bleak and psychedelic Godspeed You! Black Emperor-esque rejection of society. The instruments used are a synthesizer, a piano, two electric guitars, one base guitar, drums, two violins, a cello, a sitar and a bamboo flute. The albums that have influenced this project are Daturah's "Daturah," Jakob's "Cale:Drew," 65daysofstatic's "The Destruction of Small Ideas," Saxon Shore's "The Exquisite Death Of Saxon Shore," 35007's "Liquid," Kashiwa Daisuke's "Program Music I," Plastikman's "Consumed," Mono's "One Step More and You Die," Balmorhea's "Balmorhea," Boards Of Canada's "The Campfire Headphase," The Evpatoria Report's "Golevka," Mono's & World's End Girlfriend's "Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain," Rachel's "Selenography," 65daysofstatic's "The Fall Of Math," Yndi Halda's "Enjoy Eternal Bliss," Bathyscaphe's "-11034m," Maybeshewill's "Not for Want of Trying," Massive Attack's "100th Window," Autechre's "EP7," Boards of Canada's "Geogaddi," Murcof's "Remembranza," The Antarcticans' "Teach Children: Fear All Teachings Of Eternity, The Doom Of Self & Nature," Surface of Eceyon's "The King Beneath the Mountain," MGR's "Nova Lux," Circle's "Alotus," Neu!'s "Neu!," Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.'s "The Day Before the Sky Fell in America," Slint's "Spiderland," Mono's "You Are There," Mogwai's "My Father My King," God Is An Astronaut's "All Is Violent, All Is Bright," Bardo Pond's "Dilate," Venetian Snares' "Rossz Csillag Alatt Született," M83's "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts," Autechre's "Amber," Arovane's "Atol Scrap," Casino Versus Japan's "Whole Numbers Play the Basics," Komet's "Rausch," Actress' "Karma & Desire," Lightning Bolt's "Wonderful Rainbow," Boris' "Akuma no Uta," Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.'s "Does The Cosmic Shepherd Dream of Electric Tapirs?,"
Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians," Jóhann Jóhannsson's "Englabörn," Max Richter's "The Blue Notebooks," Sylvain Chauveau's "Le Livre Noir du Capitalisme," The Doors' "The Doors" and Tim Hecker's "Harmony In Ultraviolet." The only O Beautiful Death show and end of the project will feature a projection and vocal sound bites of how neat and horrible we are as a society and how close we come to ending ourselves again and again. "Our understanding of our physical reality has led to the atomic bomb... N-N-NEAT."
The processes that led me to the awareness of the final accidental brainwashing message within the project are multi faceted, seven layers of multi faceted over two decades of considering what I'm going to do to this project, I didn't mean to do any of it I never meant any aspect of it to bring me to the message. It's basically what post-rock has always been attempting to get through to you but nobody was ever quite able to hit it, it's:
hear the words people are capable of saying fear them become inspired build a paranoid death psychosis sadness rage horror is happiness is bliss make sex and the desire to murder or be murdered the same feeling suffering is nothing to fear death is nothing to fear happiness is nothing to fear here's humanity it destroys itself by saves itself by destroys itself by saves itself love both desire both desire neither everyone shuts up everyone's happy
I believe every one of us post-rockers were able to make it all the way from the beginning of the movement to the point of that message being presented without ever uttering a hail Satan? Did the perfect cover of there's no reason to consider saying that because we're not being silly stupid scary we're being mysterious scary? We're not saying it Christians we're saying it everyone? Particularily not Christians? And we're not Christians or former Christians the only people who think saying that is a thing that would ever mean anything? But also simultaneously the only people with whom presenting something mysterious looking would ever draw fear? I'm pretty sure we made it.