z rozhovoru s johnom balanceom

FT: Your recent live performances at the Royal Festival Hall were powerful, both physically and psychically, how do you go about creating something like that?

JB: We try to put magick in the music, and we do a lot of preparation for that, from finding the right frequencies on the modular synthesizers to using the right incense, or the right colours on the screen. We usually take stuff from Crowley's book of magical correspondences 777, and mix it with intuition and research.
It's certainly powerful, but we definitely don't aim to injure! In Thailand we came across this drug rehabilitation unit that was also for psychiatric patients. They would use loud noises to exorcise the spirits, and basically they'd be amplifying buzz saw on either side of your head with big speakers and banging gongs and completely freaking people out, but they were doing it to banish spirits. So the last gig, Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil we were attempting to do something like that. We're building it up and want to do bigger versions of it, to shake the bad stuff out. Look at what's happening now with everybody's mobile phones - peoples' brains must be completely scrambled. This is what we're trying to do in concert, to blank this out, through the use of white light, white noise and video projections. Hopefully we can provide some sort of safe area where all that is not going on, to allow people to be themselves in that particular time / space. Outside you just can't avoid it anymore, what with visual pollution from advertising, noise pollution, both audible and inaudible, microwaves. That's one of the things we're trying to negate.