After browsing the internet for as long as I have, I've come to wonder whether or not my feelings are my own. Do I actually want the things I think I do, or have the algorithms and echo chambers come to define my desires. Am I just coasting off of other people's emotions and letting their words define mine?
I want happiness, but how do I tell if I'm trying to find mine or just chasing after other people's wants.
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Supersonic Death Screams - An interview with Atrax Morgue
ESOTERRA # 9 magazine (USA), 2001
What first attracted you to Noise?
I started to be interested in experimental music in 1990, when I was 20. I was simply bored by the standard music and I needed to explore more that goes "beyond" music. The first noise band I listened to was Whitehouse and, at first, I didn't like them. Now, Whitehouse is one of my favorite bands, as well as Nurse with Wound, The Sodality, Sigillum S, Genocide Organ Organum, early Current 93, and Coil. I also knew about Cold Meat Industry, buying some of Roger Karmanik's first releases, like Memorandum's Aux Morts LP and Maschinenzimmer's 412 LP. I was hit very hard by the sounds of these bands, very obscure and harsh, and also by the quality of the packaging. At that time, I thought Cold Meat Industry was the label that completely satisfied my tastes. I wrote a congratulation letter to Karmanik and, since then, I have always had a good relationship with CMI. Brighter Death Now has influenced me very much, cause it's the very pure expression of darkness, pain, and death sounds. So in 1992, I recorded my first demo as Atrax Morgue, In Search of Death. I just tried to express my obsessions and desires through harsh electronic sounds and vocals.
Why are you fascinated with death, murder, and serial killers?
I'm very obsessed with death and I think that's very clear in all of my works. My ideals and philosophy reflects that "we are constantly in a lackness"; we die and are re-born every moment. Death comes in a moment, in a moment that only faith knows. Death is the moment, the moment is death. Each breath we die, and next breath we are reborn. Each orgasm we die, and so we are reborn. Each sleep is like to die, and the awakening is to be reborn. I'm feeling always in a process, between life and death. I don't feel the passing time. The past doesn't exist; it's only an echo of noise in my mind. The future is destroyed because I live for the moment and I never see any future in front of me. My life condition is like a reflex of energy. A corpse falling into energy's power. Regarding reincarnation, yes, I believe in it, I feel the echoes of my past lives sometimes. I am interested in the pathologic and the extreme, because I think that through the extreme experience everyone can touch deepness himself. Murder is considered the most repulsive act, but it's part of nature, and nature makes the balance between good and evil, day and night. If there's light, there must be the darkness. If there's a birth, there must be a death. Serial Killers are only one of the many manifestations of evil. It's about our modern age and I think it's an interesting phenomenon. In most cases, serial killers show an attitude to sex-death fantasies, and it's just this dangerous mixture of sex and death, to become an obsession, the drive to kill. Kill to satisfy an obsession. I understand these guys. And I haven't shame to talk about it. I myself see death as a beautiful woman. Isn't that an attraction to be destroyed by the object of desire? Those who see beauty as death have seen their killing reflection in a mirror. I haven't any favorite serial killer or murderer. These creatures are only sad testimonials of the human condition.
Have you ever murdered anyone?
If I had killed someone, I'll never talk about it to you, don't you think? With my mind I have murdered thousand of humans, and I'm sure that every person has had fantasies of murder at least one time in their lives. It is normal, I think. When I love, I give total love. When I hate, I give total hate. I have fantasies of murder when I see a beautiful woman. It's the same circle of connections between beauty and death. I have not experienced necrophilia but I find it very fascinating. In 1997, I made a short movie regarding this subject. It is called Cockskull Fantasy and it featured about fifteen minutes of masturbation with a plastic skull. The interesting thing about necrophilia is that you can love expecting nothing in return, just pure love. I think it's the highest expression of love, because it goes beyond, in any case. Like pornography, subjects are transformed into objects, in which register a cold, pathologic calligraphy.
Why do you feel so alienated?
Alienation is just a rule for me. I have learned to survive with my alienation. But alienated by what? By people? By myself? I hate people, cause I hate myself. I despise people, cause I despise myself. I see the horror through others because I am the horror. It's all a reflection, a deformed mirror. I love people. I really love them. They are so kind, so loving. I love you all. I love myself. I am in love with myself. I am pure contradiction. The point between black and white. I believe in nothing, nothingness. I believe in the next moment. Now, passed. The next… I believe in my corpse, that is my own God. The only thing is to overcome myself, always, and make myself into a masterpiece again and again.
Have you collaborated with any other Noise bands?
Yes, I did a collaboration with the Italian experimental Noise band Lunus, under the name Necrofilia. We did just a tape, nothing more. I also had a project with a friend of mine called Progetto Morte, in which I did the electronics and my friend the spoken words. We released two tapes. As Atrax Morgue, I have not collaborated with anyone. It is a strictly personal project. Atrax Morgue is only me, and I'm alone.
Tell me about your Murders fanzine.
I released three issues of Murders in 1990. This self-printed magazine was the first step I did and the creation of Slaughter Productions. It was written in Italian and it featured articles about serial killers, necrophilia, extreme sex, and pathology. It also featured a review section about extreme Industrial music.
What equipment do you use?
I use an analog synthesizer, a microphone connected with a multi-effect, tape decks and a mixer. Just that. As you can see it's really cheap equipment, but I think the most important thing you must use doing music is your mind.
How do your family and friends feel about your music?
I don't have any sort of relationship with my family regarding my work and I don't care to explain what I do with my "music". I have good relationships with some friends, but this is always beyond my music. Atrax Morgue is simply a reflection of myself. My friends are very respectful with me about what I do.
Are you heterosexual or homosexual?
I am sexless. I'm feeling between male and female. I am beyond sex. I am enchanted by female beauty because it's possessed with a sort of perverse power and attraction. My love for female beauty is so high that sometimes I feel like changing into a woman just to become my own object of desire. It's the other side of my nature. The metamorphosis is another little death, because I left the old skin, to become a new born creature.
What kind of reaction did you get when you first started performing in Italy?
Not a very good reaction. I performed three times in Italy and the audience was bored and they had not a bit of an idea of what I was doing.
What is Italian society like?
I don't know. I'm feeling not Italian and don't give a fuck about Italy. You can change any place in the world but you can't change your mind and your interior life. I've always felt outside of society, living in my closed, aseptic world. A world I've created specially for myself. I love to travel, but I'm always feeling the same sensation any place I go-- like a visitor from an outer space.
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ngl, i know books that depict sexism and stuff and show women overcoming it can be super empowering and it is indeed important to have books with that. younger me would have LOVED all of them so much. but the older i get, just... the more exhausting it is? it isn’t cathartic to read about anymore, it’s just depressing and frustrating and sad. because the older i get, the more i turn to books as a form of escapism - so i don’t want to read about sexism and stuff because i deal with that every day. i want to read books where sexism just..... doesn’t exist. where people of all genders are equal, no questions asked.
the same goes for sexuality too. like, i don’t want to read about characters getting kicked out of their families for being queer when that’s one of my top fears. i do not want to read about queerphobia at all. i want to read about queer people just... living life. loving who they love. no problem.
race is different, because i don’t experience racism, and i want to learn about what that’s like and everything. gender too, because i’m cis, so i don’t know what it’s like to be nonbinary or trans or genderfluid or what have you. though these can be challenging too bc intersectionality, so sexism and queerphobia are present in a lot of books, and those are the two things where i’m just like, i experience them, maybe not in the same way as the characters, but still, i don’t want to read about them.
i just wish there were more books where like... these real world problems didn’t exist? if you can have a fantasy world with dragons and magic and all this, you can have a fantasy world without sexism or queerphobia or racism or what have you. yes, books that depict real world issues are important and have their place and all that. but so too are books that don’t have them. i can’t tell you how refreshing it is in the rare instance where i find a book or a show and the fact that a character is a woman or is queer is never ever a problem and they’re just automatically accepted. it is so HARD to find any media like that. but when you do, it’s SO nice. More escapism, please.
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