web02.fireside.fm Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:30:57 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Avant Garde” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/avant%20garde Wed, 14 Dec 2022 11:00:00 -0500 Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." en-us episodic Art and philosophy at the limits of the thinkable Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." yes weird, art, philosophy Phil Ford and J. F. Martel admin@weirdstudies.com Episode 137: Brute Force: on Sunn O)))'s 'Life Metal' https://www.weirdstudies.com/137 42ef95f0-eea6-4bc8-89b5-0e896ec0baca Wed, 14 Dec 2022 11:00:00 -0500 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 137 Brute Force: on Sunn O)))'s 'Life Metal' full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel JF and Phil discuss Sunn O)))'s eighth album, released in 2019 1:14:50 yes What Evil Dead 2 is to the Baroque, Sunn O))) is to Brutalism. Or more like: if the likening of Evil Dead 2 to the Baroque felt like a stretch in episode 136, the brutalist bona fides of Sunn O)))'s drone metal are incontestable. In this episode, their 2019 masterpiece Life Metal frames a conversation touching on 20th-century avant garde music, the tactility of sound, the metaphysics of the Kickass Riff, Aztec aesthetics, the virtues of impermanence, and of course, the sublime beauty of brutalist buildings. Listen to volume 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and volume 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2) of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel (https://www.pymartel.com) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) REFERENCES Sunn O))), [Life Metal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeMetal)_ Theatre of Eternal Music (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_Eternal_Music), musical group Daniel Albright, Panaesthetics (https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300186628/panaesthetics/) Brian Eno, [Imaginary Landscapes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImaginaryLandscapes)_ John Wray, “Heady Metal” (https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/magazine/28artmetal.html) Nyarlathotep (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarlathotep), Lovecraft character Byung-Hul Chan, The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781509545100) Fred Wilcox (dir.), Forbidden Planet (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223/) H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781515424451) Godfrey Reggio (dir.), Koyaanisquatsi (imdb.com/title/tt0085809/) sunn O))), life metal, analysis, meaning, brutalism, metaphysics, aztec, philosophy What Evil Dead 2 is to the Baroque, Sunn O))) is to Brutalism. Or more like: if the likening of Evil Dead 2 to the Baroque felt like a stretch in episode 136, the brutalist bona fides of Sunn O)))'s drone metal are incontestable. In this episode, their 2019 masterpiece Life Metal frames a conversation touching on 20th-century avant garde music, the tactility of sound, the metaphysics of the Kickass Riff, Aztec aesthetics, the virtues of impermanence, and of course, the sublime beauty of brutalist buildings.

Listen to volume 1 and volume 2 of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel
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REFERENCES

Sunn O))), Life Metal
Theatre of Eternal Music, musical group
Daniel Albright, Panaesthetics
Brian Eno, Imaginary Landscapes
John Wray, “Heady Metal”
Nyarlathotep, Lovecraft character
Byung-Hul Chan, The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism
Fred Wilcox (dir.), Forbidden Planet
H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
Godfrey Reggio (dir.), [Koyaanisquatsi](imdb.com/title/tt0085809/)

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Listen to volume 1 and volume 2 of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel
Support us on Patreon
Find us on Discord
Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau!
Get your Weird Studies merchandise (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.)
Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop

REFERENCES

Sunn O))), Life Metal
Theatre of Eternal Music, musical group
Daniel Albright, Panaesthetics
Brian Eno, Imaginary Landscapes
John Wray, “Heady Metal”
Nyarlathotep, Lovecraft character
Byung-Hul Chan, The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism
Fred Wilcox (dir.), Forbidden Planet
H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
Godfrey Reggio (dir.), [Koyaanisquatsi](imdb.com/title/tt0085809/)

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