PRESENTING: HEY YOU LIL’ PISSBABY + CR8RFCE
Justin Dudzinski, cr8rfce HEY YOU LIL’ PISSBABY: THE RELEVANCE OF 100 GECS IN A LARGER NARRATIVE OF POSTMODERN AND POST-INTERNET ART
• 100 gecs is the current apex of postmodern music • –Modernism vs. Postmodernism, Jonathan Kramer • –Post-Internet art, Grafton Tanner • –Who is100 gecs? Kramer’s 16 characteristics of Postmodern Music HEY YOU LIL’ PISSBABY: THE RELEVANCE OF 100 GECS IN A LARGER NARRATIVE OF POSTMODERN AND POST-INTERNET ART HEY YOU LIL’ PISSBABY: THE RELEVANCE OF 100 GECS IN A LARGER NARRATIVE OF POSTMODERN AND POST-INTERNET ART
• Social relevance, Guerilla Girls, Meme Culture, YouTubePoop • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2zCY92X8ao • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97qLNXeAMQ HEY YOU LIL’ PISSBABY: THE RELEVANCE OF 100 GECS IN A LARGER NARRATIVE OF POSTMODERN AND POST-INTERNET ART
• Societal Context, Frederic Jameson, Linda Hutcheon, Judith Butler, Michael Waugh • “High Arts perverse addiction to subtlety” • Link to Naked City • Are 100 gecs also modernist in any way? • Why Pop Music? WORKS CITED
• Butler, Judith. Your Behavior Creates Your Gender. Youtube, 6 June 2011, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7o2LYATDc. • Dicker, Rory Cooke. A History of U.S. Feminisms. Seal Press, 2016. • Hutcheon, Linda. The Politics of Postmodernism. Routledge, 2007. • Jameson, Frederic. POSTMODERNISM: or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. VERSO Books, 2019.
• Kramer, Jonathan D., and Robert Carl. Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. • Les, Laura. Lyrics to “How to Dress as Human.” Genius, 2019, genius.com/laura-les-how-to-dress-as-human-lyrics. • “Pop Culture: Pop and Philosophy.” YouTube, YouTube, 23 Mar. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ypg71Aixwc • Tanner, Grafton. Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts. Zero Books, 2016.
• Waugh, Michael. “‘My Laptop Is an Extension of My Memory and Self’: Post-Internet Identity, Virtual Intimacy and Digital Queering in Online Popular Music.” Popular Music, vol. 36, no. 2, 2017, pp. 233–251., doi:10.1017/s0261143017000083. • 100 gecs. Lyrics to “Money Machine.” Genius, 2019, genius.com/100-gecs-money-machine-lyrics. • 100 gecs Ama <33.” July 2019. • https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/c6848z/100_gecs_ama_33/ WHAT GOT LEFT OUT
• A further synthesis of connection with PC Music, Vaporwave, Nightcore, YouTubePoop, other influences mentioned in my paper, I would’ve loved to explore these things in greater depth but it felt like it was starting to go down a rabbit hole. • Exploration and analysis of figures like Dylan Brady, Sophie, and A.G. Cook who have begun to crossover into a much larger mainstream • Further analysis and refutation of Jameson, Hutcheon CR8RFCE
• The name cr8rfce takes on multiple meanings for me • –it is a reference to my horrible skin • –it is very indistinct looking, the characters almost hide from each other • –feels like a serial number or barcode or license plate ARTIST STATEMENT
cr8rfce is the new beginning to a long road of music making for me. In the past four years I have had various music making experiences in multiple bands and by myself, with some moments I was incredibly proud of, and some moments that brutally damaged my creative capacity. I went through an experience that is the opposite of many people’s time at art school; I entered The University of The Arts hoping to work at a record label or music venue, but found out about 3 years in that I want to be an artist. In my time here, I have tried my hardest to absorb as much information as possible, learning new instruments, listening to as much new music as I could, and trying my hand at making absolutely anything and everything I wanted to. cr8rfce is the first phase in sharing what feels like tiny shards of myself. THE IDEA OF AUTHORSHIP
The Resident’s Theory of Obscurity has come to inform the way I hope to share myself with the world, along with the Vaporwave producers of the early 2010’s who created entire communities filled with pseudonym’s and aliases. While I do not wish to, and do not think it is worth it to stick 100% to The Residents values of anonymity, I am incredibly fascinated with toying with classic notions of authorship. I love the idea of world building, due to the influence of books and video games, but also because of artists like The Residents and Ramona Xavier who have created a lore surrounding their music. I hope to create under a vast amount of aliases and in a large number of bands, creating a tree of music that spreads in unpredictable ways into unchartered territories. SOME INFLUENCES
• Kate Bush • Smino • Eric Andre • The Garden • Slipknot • Deli Girls • 100 Gecs • Palm • The Cardigans • RP Boo • DAUGHTERS • Captain Beefheart • Young Thug • Billy Woods • BROCKHAMPTON • System of a Down • Daniel Lopatin • Angles • SOPHIE • Lil Uzi Vert • Tim Robinson • Brad Troem el • Kurt Vonnegut • Patti Harrison • Jorge Luis Borges • The Residents • Joan of Arc • Skyrim • Bong Joon Ho • Phantomsmasher THE LIVE SHOW
The live show is crucial to the cr8rfce persona. The intention is for a show that is never the same thing- I have a large enough array of material and a vast amount of ways to improvise and hope to put on shows where people truly do not know what to expect. I was very into booking shows for a bit while I had a house I could do that in, and I have always been a large proprietor of mixed genre shows, and I fully intend to carry that spirit on as an artist. COPYRIGHT + ROYALTY COLLECTION
I have placed a copyright on the sound recording + composition of 8 songs already, and have become a registered member of BMI who has approved all of my works that are about to be released.
I am copyrighting works in bunches because I have very little money to my name and it is more expensive than I would like. Currently I am waiting to finish about 3 more songs until I have a full 10 to do another round of copyrighting.
I have also registered for the Harry Fox Agency, Soundexchange, Audiam, and Songfile, and am exploring ways I can license and monetize my music creatively. I would love to help provide music for film/video games at some point in my life. DISTRIBUTION
Using Routenote for free distribution to major streaming services. Compared with other sites but went with them due to their reputation, cleanness of website and process, and past experience. I attempted a few 100% cut websites and found them messy and complicated. However they have also been giving me some problems and their wait period is long, so I am beginning to experiment with a couple others (Amuse, Sounddrop)
I have also set up a Bandcamp page. https://cr8rfce.bandcamp.com/ ART DIRECTION
• Two strains of Digital Brutalism • Pastel colors • Discomforting • Ambiguity • Uncanny Valley • Video Games + World Building • Memes DON’T COME HERE AGAIN, OR TRY TO CONTACT ANY OF US
- Response to Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room - Noise, video game music, neoclassical, drone - Keyboard, vocal samples, assorted midi instruments GARAGE ROCK 4 DUMMIES :P
- Musique Concrete - Dynamics - Simplification - Language - All household sounds KNEE MEET ARROW
- (I always wanted to make an) intro, knee meet arrow, ghost hits off a ghost blunt - Noise, industrial, improv - The Art of Random - Max MSP patch, electronic drums - Skyrim NO MORE WINE
- Classic house/dance music, UK Drill - Shiny Garbage, Glitzy Trash, Gold Dookie, Glamourous Turd - Midi instrumentation, voice SAVE THE BEES
- Noise, lofi r&b, emo rap, pop, Shoegaze - Sparsity to maximalism - Save the bees EP - Crumpling of the track - Tenderness of voice, coldness of track - Midi instrumentation, voice RING RING RING RING (DEMO)
- Pop, ‘Golden Era’ Hip-Hop, Surf Punk, Noise, Nightmare Carnival Music, Inspector Gadget on Acid-type-beat - Legibility of noise to larger audience
- Midi instrumentation METBEAT2 (DEMO)
• Pharell, Conlon Nancarrow • Hip-hop, ‘Prepared Piano’, Noise • Midi instrumentation • Getting paid to make music series DREAM ON BY AEROSMITH (CASARES QUAY MIX)
• Invention of Morel, Subjective Idealism, The Quay Brothers • Splicing • Dusty, lofi THE STUPIDEST STORY EVER TOLD
• Industrial, Noise, Footwork • RP Boo played through a big muff • 1st instance of distorting ‘weird’ MIDI instruments PARTY LIKE ITS SOMEBODY’S BIRTHDAY
• Made with Eric and Vince • A return to an older form • MIDI instrumentation 123AUTONOMY (DEMO)
• Exploration of impulse • Meta • Guitar, Bass, MIDI drums, Vocals WHAT COMES NEXT?
• More music • A lot more music • More collaboration- Save The Bees EP • New band? • More singing • Finding work/ways to monetize myself • Film/Video game scoring? • Music videos • Live shows • An artist collective • Finding a place to live