Apollo 23

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2023.

Drawing 420.

Destroying the "people are interested in people" scam

 People and art are one and the same. We can not be separated. Why the hell would you even attempt that? Apparently some people have decided to do that because they don't give a shit about art.

Whenever I hear stupid things like "people are interested in people" or "people are more important than art", I immediately realise how narrow-minded all this deceitful nonsense is. You can't just say the word people and leave it there. Who are they? What are they doing and what are they truly interested in?

Art is one of the few things that show us what is underneath the surface. Underneath all the bullshit. Is that something you don't like? You're a fan of bullshit? The stinkier the better?

Saying the word community is not enough either. What kind of community are we talking about? What is actually happening? We don't need more shallow pretending. Fake positivity is extremely important and useful to oppressive societies.

Is that the kind of future you're interested in?

Erebos Symphonia - new album out June 1, 2023

 

Messenger of Abyssic Colours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ConxfbuCVHk

26th album by Rinta-Perälä. Out June 1, 2023.

Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, September 9 - November 2, 2022.

Fighting commercialism

 

My whole life I've been told to be like everyone else. I've been made fun of because of my curiosity and imagination. Usually the people who do this are the most boring people on the planet, but anyone can make these mistakes.

Making a mistake is an action. We live in a world where anyone can say anything. A world where the most ignorant buffoons can call themselves experienced. This is the most full of crap period in time.

"Be like everyone else" is something you don't have to say out loud. You just have to create an atmosphere where you have no choice but to be like everyone else. Then you start imagining what "everyone" supposedly wants, what they are looking for.

Paintings, drawings, books, films, music. There's no "one audience" for these things. It's an illusion. People can brainwash themselves into thinking that they're part of some homogenous audience, but it will never work in reality.

Why would you be excited about AI art when it produces soulless wallpaper from stolen ideas? Why would you expect real creativity when there's no room for it?

I cannot tell you how much I hate the idea that everything has to be a franchise. Are people really that desperate and eager to give up? I don't say franchise anymore, I say french fries. It's like consuming french fries until you burst. It's about consumption.

I've been questioning the mindless marketing machinery for decades. Am I not a "real person" because of that? You're not going to break me no matter how much you try.

Art questions May 2023

 

Q: You mentioned some short stories you were writing four years ago. Have you finished any of them?

A: I haven't finished the first story I started writing, but I basically know the whole structure. It has to be written in Finnish first. I don't have that kind of confidence writing in English.

I've been reading old Japanese ghost stories and a Guy de Maupassant collection. Only reading is reading. The only audio books I have is The Book of Revelation and some poetry read by Robert Graves and T.S. Eliot. When you listen to an audio book, you don't have the same mechanism at work.

When I read short stories, I only know the title before I start reading. The internal mechanism in my mind makes me more of a participant. I cover the last lines with my hand so that I don't see them too early.

The different ways a short story can end are so fascinating.

Raatelu - Carnassial

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2023.

Drawing 419.

Vengeful Semblance - Anatomoire

https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/album/anatomoire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk0Ydrqtir0

1. Enigmortem
2. Psyhymnory
3. Oculuminal
4. Catastheseeing
5. Fantasmasofagia
6. Deliriodysmorphia
7. Infernascent
8. Pilgriminalis

Anatomoire is the 10th Vengeful Semblance album and the 25th composed by Rinta-Perälä. It was mainly created by rewriting unrelated material from 1999 and 2000.

Music, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, July - August 2022.

Vengeful Semblance is against the neo-nazification of Finnish black metal.