



if only i'd come across this guy when i was 12......
Please don’t use these words when speaking to me...
Lush
Scrumptious
Gobble
Yummy
Delish – abbrv. of delicious which I should point out I don’t mind
Oakey Dokey
Bubbly
Tantalizing
Titillating
Supreme
Gorge – abbrv of gorgeous
boss
chief } these 3 when used to acknowledge someone...
squire
numpty
blitzin
fab
cuddle
snug
moist
More to follow……
I went to Bulgaria once
When I was six
I only remember a few things
One was getting told off by a german lady
I think she was german
Maybe she wasn’t
Maybe she was Austrian
But then again
I don’t think I was any good at distinguishing accents
At the age of six
I was good at running around
pretending i was indiana jones
asking questions
and being six
but no good at accents
Anyway
In my mind now
She seemed german
and at the time
she seemed real old
it was in the line for the buffet
the word and idea of a buffet seems very old now
like the german lady
who I was in front of in the Q
On my own
My parents let me serve myself
i was a big boy
Everything was going swimmingly
Until
We got to the honey jar
the blasted honey jar
it mesmerised me
remember
i was six
Without thinking I picked up the spoon covered in honey
And gave it one big lick
remember
I was six
It tasted good
I was content
Until
all of a sudden
I got a clip round the back of the head
What the?!?!
‘You are disgusting, what are you doing’
Don’t know how she knew I was English
Spoon back in jar
Bad idea
She roared
again
I turned to face her
Took one look
at her leathery features
And Bavarian scowl
And legged it
Never did tell my parents
They might have given me a clip as well
My other memories aren’t as vivid
They just include
Loads of kinder eggs
And ball pools
and pretzels
and learning to swim underwater
And a girl called silvia from sofia
That’s it
That's Bulgaria
Nice place

Yoshi Sodeoka likes noise. He likes the kind of incoherent, nonsensical noise you could imagine piercing through Anton Newcombes skull every time he watches DiG! He is a purveyor of aural pollution and combines it, to haunting effect, with photography and collage when creating low-fi videos that conjure up a spirit world both alluring and impossible to interpret. “I like working with music that's non-structural since that fits my visual style and process which is very non-structural. I like random things that are hard to understand. It's challenging to me.”
With that in mind it’s hard to imagine the Brooklyn based artist having any trouble looking for inspiration when it comes to music. His record collection consists of exquisitely named bands such as Napalm Death and Discharge and helped influence Psychedelic Death Vomit, a video that takes you on a DMT trip through a Spectrum ZX and Noise, a collection of ethereal, ghostly prints that look like interference from a television channel you probably shouldn’t have tuned into. “The asthetic of Noise is pretty appealing to me and comes from my taste in music. As a teenager I was into noisy punk rock like Chaos UK and Disorder. Really noisy weird punk rock music I can’t really separate myself from because I grew up with it. Throughout all my work I’m trying to fill the gap and do something that’s never been done before, I want to create a media that feels like noise music, that feels like metal.”
Brought up in Cold War Japan Sodeoka loved shortwave radio, UHF television and pretty much any gadget his electrician father could get his hands on. This early fascination with electronic devices combined with a relocation to New York and 90s-honed love of Junk TV, underground Internet culture, and sub-cultures in general, all play a role in the psychedelic video collages we see today. Sound and image are sampled and put into a new context through applying old techniques to new media. “Every visual source I need to make my art is on the internet these days. Then I filter through those materials with both digital and analog equipments. I’m interested in making a bridge between something old and new. I like seeing a good fusion of retro and modern in my work.”