An xxjfg archive for posts featuring Jonathan Kusuma.
In one of mankind’s archetypal tales, the protagonist runs off a cliff and away from the pressures of age, conformity and submission. If the protagonist is alone, she precipitates into the void, shackled by those chains that cannot be escaped, viz. gravity, and towards oblivion, under the vicarious gaze of those who daren’t, those who…
What vinyl platters could wake 20JFG prematurely from its cryogenic slumber in 2010? What repetitive beats could make its unconscious and partially thawed corpse shuffle towards the nearest dancefloor? What warm-hearted heaters could possibly defrost that heart of stone and illuminate that mind of disillusionment? What songs offered comfort when we were sat down and told that our plan to…
It is perhaps inadvisable to creep up behind the organ player whose fingers hammer the keys with such demonic ferocity. Yet the chiptune-baroque reverberating from the cold stone walls proves eerily irresistible. Creep you must as the trance like repetition of this ascension-music obscures the limits of the player’s awareness. His vision could be carried…
In the unceasing, flickering LED glare of packets transmitted and received; handshakes made; protocols observed – we retreat like some amateur Gnostic through the floor of the world. The deep web of hyperlinked opinions and comment threads and feeds and feeds…passes overhead. Amongst the blankness – our stark disengagement – we find a tribe of…