Ben Chasny’s Six Organs of Admittance project has never settled into an easy, definable zone. But 2024 sees the Six Organs sonic universe expanding kaleidoscopically, even by his prodigious standards. For this return visit to Transmissions, Chasny discusses his trio of 2024 releases, working with ambient dub master Shackleton and noise experimenter Twig Harper, his experiences playing with David Tibet’s apocalyptic avant-garde collective Current 93, and cultivating online community through the Six Organs Patreon. Plus: Mark Neeley on Pure Animation for Now People, a collaboration with Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo.
Category: Mark Neeley
Cactus Lee :: Texas Music Forever
Austin’s Cactus Lee and Cincinnati-based animator Mark Neeley saddle up and ride worn-out cowboy movie archetypes into new territory in the video for “Locked Up In Lockhart,” a single off of Cactus Lee’s recently released Texas Music Forever.
Mark Neeley/Yohei Shikano :: Fragments
The human mind is an intriguing place, especially in the way we enforce patterns and structure on to the world around us. This includes the way we conflate events, even if they don’t technically connect. This idea is at the heart of a short animation by artist Mark Neeley called “Fragments” …