Word: esp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basically rationalists, believing that the physical world and the images concocted by our subconscious mind are distinct and separate realities. Over the past hundred or so years, from the table-rapping seances of the 1880s to the playing of Mozart to plants in the 1960s to the spoon-bending ESP tricks of the '70s, we've come to consider that most paranormal interactions between these realms are either hoaxes or explainable by known physical factors. And yet we continue to play mind games with the physical world: whispering "Come on, baby" to the '84 Datsun grinding away on a frosty...
Fruit flies and biplanes. Pap smears and CAT scans. Radar and lasers. Insulin, penicillin, LSD and ESP. Artificial hearts. Artificial intelligence. A few of the advances that powered this extraordinary century...
...DJs/producers /rupture and esp are not new to Harvard. Jace Clayton (/rupture) and Mike Esposito (esp) started the Toneburst Collective while they were undergraduates here. The loose-knit collective spans multiple genres and media, uniting jungle, ambient, and hip-hop DJs and producers like DJ Flack, Embryo and Electro Organic Sound System with video- and installation-artists like Synergy Promixions. They organize numerous events in the New England area which are more like carnivals than raves or concerts, combining abstract beats, video experimentation and performance art in unorthodox spaces. A production last year, Junk, was staged in a church...
...Advocate's support of artists like /rupture and esp suggests that the organization is taking a more active role in providing space for and promoting local art. Teknotag, like the Advocate's GNR8R show last February and its recent photography exhibit, Sampler, in Adams House, offered a rare glimpse into the experimental artistic underground that is too often invisible at Harvard...
...Regrettably, Cambridge police did not appreciate the importance of this show. At approximately 12:30 a.m., two cops shut it down, citing the city's 11 p.m. noise ordinance. The room cleared, and /rupture and esp turned off and packed up their musical weaponry. The sonic assault may have been silenced, but it was not defeated. This revolution has only just begun...