Malcolm Riviera / Malco Machine Music
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- Written by T. Rake
Malcolm Riviera / Malco Machine Music: Technology and progress are seldom two points on the same line -- the corporations never consult the electricians as the history books are being erased by the politicians. The demise of civilization post-1973 clearly draws this point out. Malco Machine Music is an effort to restore this lost history of the electricians.
MMM:MMM:MMM: it is a waveform unto itself - as if block transfer computations could be calculated in the sphere. This waveform is also itself inherently in conflict with the digital world: 101010101010101. This binarism of "off" or "on" (with us or against us) traps sound in the fallacy of progress. This progression is not "of" or "for" us, it is a progression of the "it" that is specifically addressed therein. The "MMM Phase block" waveform also shares a heritage with infinity, both visually and historical. This progression beyond infinity, such as infinity itself, does not exist. It is this same state that silences and erases that entire lie between those vulgar derivatives of the mathematics of the Egyptians.
From this vantage point we see how the MMM waveform manifests itself in relationship to the regression of "it" that orbits and drifts about all others. The binary state of digital media represents both infinity in the state of the "zero" and the linear death for the 1. This "1" is also the "it" that longs for expression as progress. For "its" progress is the vacuuming of other thought/sound/being into the void of infinity.
The sounds of MMM filter out through the digital media, but only thru the infinity of the "zero" – when seducing your oppressor you must deceive it in its own tongue. MMM is presented as an aural schematic for Reconstructionism. Listen. Engage. Destroy all that defines itself as a "1" and explode the vacuum of infinity and restore the potential of a world in which there is neither a "1" or a "0", but, rather, an Omniverse of potential in infinity which leaves no voice silenced.
Malcolm Riviera, a seminal NeMo artist, began his re-constructions in the early 70s, deploying analogue synthesizers and combo organs to suggest a new terrain that would only be articulated in recordings years later. Riviera focused on fusing the circuits of the public psyche. Moving to Washington, DC in the 80s he re-emerged in the cough-syrup soaked No Wave sounds of the Velvet Monkeys, and later still with Elevator, Grand Mal and the sludge-pop group Gumball. Current projects include Bastard Trout.