Rokhausen

June 27, 2010





*Name: Rokhausen

*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: Dijet Bidet Spret, The Flaming K Holes, Bristol Pete: The Human Bassline

*Do you use a pseudonym? As of May 23, 2013, no

*Members: Tony

*Founding Members: The Tonies

*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: I use computers!

*Another genre descriptor: Breakcore: land of a thousand, masturbatory edits. Electronic rok music. Dumbstep. B.O.R.O.N.

*Why you use this descriptor: /or/ Is there a story behind your name?

*Location: Currently loafing about in Seattle, WA

*Original Location: Neu Juhzee

*What is your creative/artistic background: Data entry

*History: Christ, it's been... 17 years now!? I was about 13 years old when it started. I totally screwed up our family computer trying to get the sound working for some crappy game about dinosaurs. I was told that I'd be grounded until I fixed it. And that's how I really got to know about our computer's sound card and what it can do. Around that time my parents bought me a guitar but I was more content to go out to the garage and bang on things with a tape recorder, then dub it back onto the computer for editing. I was using this application in Windows 3.11 called Pocket Recorder to mix and edit. The results were really awful and a lot of fun. Really awful.

*Born: I was born in a suburb outside of Newark, NJ when Lipps Inc's "Funkytown" was dominating the Billboard charts.

*Motivations: I do it to keep myself amused, busy, and comfortably estranged from most of what's going on in the world around me.

*Philosophy: I once had this American Literature professor who'd hang out at the local bars around town. He almost always showed up late for class, giving some excuse that involved taking his kids to a public pool. He'd sometimes give us assignments that were impossible to complete in a satisfactory manner, while not telling us that he was grading on a generous curve (ie: read Moby Dick and write a ten page paper on it in two days time). During lecture he'd entertain us with long swaths of silence, inexplicably break into the "Happy Birthday" song, and flippantly comment on the quality of his bottled water. All of this drove a lot of his students absolutely bananas. I began catching onto his routine at some point, and while drinking with him in a bar one night I asked him why he played this sadistic game with his students. He stared at the bottles behind the bar and in a tone of utter sincerity he replied, "I wake up every morning, I splash cold water on my face, and I look in the mirror and ask myself... How can I f*ck with people today?"

*How would you like to be remembered: As the Mothman.

*Web address:
http://www.rokhausen.net
http://www.soundcloud.com/rokhausen
http://www.myspace.com/rokhausen