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“Does destruction of sacred images imply anything for the erosion of the role of the imperial icons?
Because divinity being destroyed is not a representation of a spiritual form disappearing, but a consequence of historian interpretation, scientists are doing exactly what everyone would do when tripping in ego-fixation, creating a transformation which is itself subversive and self-deconditioning.
The church of the Virgin has been rebuilt and lavishly refurbished, due to major insights regarding the biblical-theological backdrop: ecstasy combined with erotic and sexually-charge images drives the entire practice, which could be described as a meticulous process of reconnection.
Discussion about religious changes within the framework of monotheism opens an enclosure where it is fundamental to craft a discourse inside a radical environmental movement, aspiring to what can only be characterized as a move from nostalgia to wish-fulfillment.
The flux of the universe pertains to a higher epistemic realm, where a dark figure of iconoclastic power has acted against religious material cultures, that have subsequently left no trace.
The return and interpretation of a spiritual and academic heritage is visualized as a series of animal figures, set up by the gods of fashion, modernism, renaissance and renewal… urban topography becomes conscious and imprisons mental coordinates behind a desk.
Gestures direct viewers to names and key sentiments of the inscribed prayers, where they find a
rich ethnographic dataset of embodied and multi-sensuous performances: they breathe to reshape light inside and outside, in a gravitational bending of electromagnetic waves by massive bodies, subject of contemporary and future disasters becoming super dense and acting as a lens.” Paolo L. Bandera


Paolo L. Bandera (a.k.a. NG5361) has been propagating unconventional sounds and deviated cultural streams for decades with SIGILLUM S, together with Eraldo Bernocchi and other various acolytes.
On top of this, he has been generating noise textures in solo configuration as SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS, besides supporting and participating in many mutant projects by friends (THE SODALITY, IUGULA-THOR, ENSEMBLE SACRE GARCONS, SIDRA and more).
SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS devastates post-industrial sounds with a hyper - intellectual twist, in an apocalyptic context with morbidly visionary features: it’s a space where the most antagonist and abrasive currents get crazy, while pursuing a limitless synergy between underground acoustics and nightmarish visuals…under this moniker tens of works have been released through the years, in parallel with live performances in a lot of geographies.
Most recently, Paolo has started releasing some works under his own name, in order to differentiate more conceptually severe and abstract electronic productions from the SRS harsh volume.
Collaborations with other similarly alien projects are an important driver, including those with Aube, Mark Solotroff, Bad Sector, I Burn, The Fortieth Day, Gerstein, MSBR, Terence Hannum, Neil Jendon, The Land Of The Snow, Uncodified, Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte, LCB, Satanismo Calibro 9, Lorenzo Abbatoir, Avamposto Malato e many others.
Paolo has also written for various magazines (on music and other topics ), as well as having curated the two Italian editions of the Industrial Culture Handbook and having collaborated to RUMORI SACRI, a reference book on the Italian post-industrial music underground.

Global Network Of Aural Disorientation curated by Raffaele Pezzella

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