Dark Days

I somehow managed to fit my curiousity about No Wave music scene into one of my final papers for last quarter. While figuring out the basic of the music scene, I draw this map:


















Although it was the craziness and chaoticity of these music attracted me at the first point. I start to really like this guy-- Robin Crutchfield. He is the keyboard of D.N.A., who left the band couple years later. I only mentioned him a bit in the paper when I argued that No Wave is full of self-contradiction:

"The conflict happened between Arto Lindsay and Robin Crutchfield when they were both in DNA. Lindsay represented as the chaotic element in the band and Crutchfield believed in making the music static and repetitive. Finally Crutchfield found the balance was off to Lindsay’s side and decided to leave the band. Although their approaches to the music performance appeared contradictory to each other, both approaches were a part of the NW music. This reflects how NW music was able to absorb dialectical elements in one scene."  

Still... stragely interesting.

http://www.robincrutchfield.com/home.html