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BY JOHN GRAHAM Man or Astro-Man? Clone Tour Alpha, Operation Re-Information, Bishop of Battle Satyricon, 125 NW 6th Ave., 243-2380 10 pm Sunday, Sept. 20 $8
Ultramundane (adj)--Being beyond the world or limits of our solar system yet aggressively boring. Spoon (n)--A parabolic instrument used to deflect evil brain waves. TECF (n)--The Evil Conspiracy Forces. Runna da millus (n)--A non-mutated form of human being that permeates the earth. Characteristics: very average. APPARATUS O.R.I. is: Dr. Marcus P. Spanglestein, Dr. Everett T. Spectt and Agent Triplex. Dr. Dale Braino is on sabbatical. The operating trio will perform with just three Macintosh laptop computers running Spanglestein's own innovatively efficient sound- and sample-manipulating program, BackToBasics. PURPOSE To determine the scientific methods and theorems of Pittsburgh technology-and-music syndicate Operation Re-Information (formerly known as Revo). HYPOTHESIS Research will illustrate the mind-boggling power of re-information--technological detritus that has been salvaged and given new form and meaning--when controlled by highly trained experts. DATA Willamette Week: You have stated your quest to achieve the "ultramundane" through transformation of the mundane. Wouldn't your ultimate goal of re-information be best suited through the pursuit of the supramundane, that is, transcendence of the mundane altogether? Operation Re-Information: No, O.R.I. would never want to overlook the information treasures often buried in the mundane. In fact, rather than forsake the mundane through the supramundane technology you describe, O.R.I.'s ultimate goal is to achieve a state of stupimundane. By using the power of stupid, O.R.I. inflicts a state of both confusion and diffusion on its members. Confusion obscures the relationship between the plain text and the reinformed text. Diffusion dissipates the redundancy of the plain text by spreading out over the reinformed text. Are sporks officially recognized by O.R.I. as a potent combination of spoon and fork technology, or are they merely a heinous attempt by TECF agents to lessen the power of each? Sporks are an interesting attempt to combine the inherent benefits of both the information-deflecting spoons and the information-retrieving forks. However, a spork is underqualified to fulfill either duty. The parabolic reflector of a spork has fork-like slits which allow a leakage of unwanted information to penetrate when used as a spoon. Used as a fork, it falls short of its information-retrieval purpose. We here at ORI-Lab prefer to use the Forspooife. Noting the cross-pollination of members from O.R.I., Man or Astro-man? and Servotron, do you foresee more such projects in the future? Robotic parts and otherworldly origins have their perks, but in today's market, survival of the fittest is defined by business savvy, and nobody knows their business like O.R.I. Operation Re-Information plans to take over both the Servotron and the Man or Astro-Man? markets. Pretty soon you should be hearing about the new O.R.I. projects Revotron and Man or Amino Acid? Revotron is a select group of automotive-welding robots wired up to trigger samples from computer keyboards. Man or Amino Acid? is a wonderful group of extraterrestrial amino acids that we hope to eventually teach to play together as a full-fledged rock band. CONCLUSION Is rock--that runna da millus sonic form utilizing devices that require reverberating, non-technical accessories (such as "guitar strings")--dead? Would you strive to ensure its deceased status? How? Of course rock is not dead. Operation Re-Information has been called "The most rockin' computer-information-processing team since the z80."
originally published September 16, 1998
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