FEATURES CMJ Music MARATHON 6 LIQUID SOUL 9 BLACK MARKET BABIES TOUR DIARY 10 BRIAN EVENSON 12 CAT POWER 13 PEDRO THE LION 14 FANTASTIC PLASTIC MACHINE 16 COLUMNS DEMO DERBY 4 GRUMPY OLD DOG 5 VIDEOPHILTER 17 KINETOSCOPE 17 SEVEN INCH 18 STAPLEGUN SHOWDOWN 18 REAL LIVE ACTION 19 UNDER REVIEW 20 CHARTS 23 ON THE DIAL 24 DECEMBER/JANUARY DATEBOOK 26 editrix: miko hoffman art director: ken paul ad rep: kevin pendergraft COMICS production manager: tristan winch BOTCHED AMPALLANG 4 graphic design/layout: GOOD TASTY COMIC 23 THE PENDULUM IS CLOSED kenny, atomos, robert horsman, janet van deist FROM DEC 19 TO JAN 3 production: ann COVER goncalves, christa min, randal m, janet, careyann schaefer, Ms. CHAN MARSHALL, AKA CAT POWER, IS REAL tim stuart, kirsten STOP BY FOR LUNCH, SHY, REAL SWEET, AND DOES SHE EVER HAVE SOUL. weisenburger ANN GONCALVES CAPTURES MISS KITTY IN A photography & DINNER, DESSERT, OR illustrations: julie colero, MOMENT OF CONTEMPLATION BACKSTAGE AT THE jason da silva, ted dave, ann STARFISH ROOM. 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He decided art needed a good party, so he declared January 17 art's birthday and called for it to be an international holiday of feasting and celebration and making presents for art. Eventually, there could be two days of internation­ al celebration, then three, four and so on until a million years from now, every day is art's birthday. This year marks the 1,000,037th birthday of art. In celebration, CiTR has teamed up with the Western Front to celebrate art's birthday in style, with 24 Hours of Radio Art. "Radio art?" you wonder. And just what might that dubious category include? The soothing sounds of white noise and feedback loops? Someone gargling for half an hour? It has been done and may be done again. But radio art is not merely an onanistic exercise designed to alienate listeners. It is a distinct artform that is fluid and immediate; you get one chance to hear it with no possibility to rewind. Radio art has no physicality, it happens in the space of the imagination: "I hear voices, but there's nobody there." And in that space, all sounds are possible. Most radio art operates less like theatre and more like cinema: a montage of sounds collaged and lay­ ered together. Sounds fade in and out, then cut suddenly to a new theme. But there might also be plays, readings, ambient mutterings, and blatant messages. Whole geographies of sound may come to life, or life may be reduced to minimalist tinklings. A performer might go loud, live and vicious on the mic, or they might sidle up to your ear and talk sweet. Radio by design and radio by chance. Non-sequitors abound. We are assaulted by sound every day — from the humming of your fridge to insidious muzak — so everything is raw material. But what makes this different is that audio art will not try to sell you anything. Radio art is free and public. So when you tune in to CiTR 101.9 fM on Sunday, January 17, 1999, you will hear a host of local and international artists surfing the radio waves for 24 hours. Jam sessions using Internet audio streaming feeds will let us send the sounds around the globe. It's a day to retune your ears and listen up while you're making your own present for art.* DISCORDER IS ONLINE CHECK OUT BACK ISSUES SEND US SOME MAIL to honour with degrees or "1 congratulate the Senate I November 4, 1998 the Uni- scholarships." at the University of Victoria. I versify of Victoria Senate re­ Since 1958, Shell Interna­ Only Shell Oil and the Nige­ jected a $2,000 Shell Canada tional has taken $30 billion rian dictatorship deny their en­ Recruitment scholarship. The worth of oil out of Oigoni, lo­ vironmental devastation and vote, a 25-17 victory, by the cated in the delta of the Niger human rights abuses in senate came on the eve of the River. Massive environmental Ogoni," said Sid Tan, co-chair­ third anniversary on the hang­ problems in poverty-stricken man of the Sierra Club Lower www.ams.ubcca/media/citr/discord/discord.htm ing of Ken Saro-Wiwa and Ogoni communities have de­ Mainland Group. "The UVic eight other Ogoni minority stroyed wildlife and plant life, senate has made a decision rights activists by the Nigerian poisoned the air and water, that indicates another genera­ military dictatorship. Shell Ni­ and left many residents half- tion is going to know that Shell geria is complicit because it dead and prone to respiratory is hell." The Ogoni Solidarity SUBSCRIBE TO DiSCORDER supplied money and guns to Network can be reached in & RECEIVE A CiTR PROMO PACK! Nigerian state security forces. Goldman Environmental Prize Vancouver by calling Shell Canada is 78% owned recipient Ken Saro-Wiwa and 604.91 5.9600 or by e-mail at and controlled by its interna­ eight other activists were <[email protected]>. tional parent, Royal Dutch/ hanged Novem­ NAME : Shell Group, which controls ber 10, 1995 for Shell Nigeria. This is the first criticizing the Ni- __^ time in memory that a scholar­ ADDRESS| ship has been turned down at ship and Shell ^ CV^ UVic for political reasons. Oil. Nine days \VT) CITY _PROV_ POSTAL "The debate was brief and later, the US Si- ^~-^S I'm most grateful that the Sen­ erra Club voted W3^ EMAIL _ ate opted to do the right and rejected this blood money from consumer boycott Shell," said John Fraser, Uvic until the corpora­ Science student senator who tion pays com­ introduced the motion to reject pensation to the 1 YEAR: $15 CDN $US15 US $24 ELSEWHERE the Shell Canada scholarship. Ogoni people DiSCORDER, 233-6138 SUB BLVD, VANCOUVER, BC V6T 1Z1 "We must consider the human and cleans up its LJ rights record of those we wish •" Dec W9M 99 Grumpy UNIVERSAL Old Dog lager swilling, smoMng. cursing, tattooed sex goddesses mistresses ot tr>e middle ages scene BY BLAINE K hadn't been to Sonar since I audience, he kept using the it out. Opened my eyes a little saw Bob Mould (it was the phrase "break it down." Stand­ bit. _*_ M ES ffl ffi 3J SJ EI@ ___i LE S I Town Pump then) do a short ing there, trying to make sense So if DJ Spooky took some set at Music West a couple of of what I was hearing, those Jean Chretien speeches, cut years ago. The night DJ Spooky words finally clicked. them down so that instead of "That Subliminal Kid" was play­ "Break it down" meant an entire speech there was a SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26 ing, I was confronted, not with deconstruction.