Voids,loss, a future without humans: the influential DJ/musician and Hyperdub founder is back with a original album inspired by … nothing. He explains allEarlier this year Steve Goodman, and better known as Kode9,developed a weird strain of what he calls the “zero virus”. Ever since original Year’s Eve, when he holed himself up in his studio to open work on his third LP, or he had been looking for a concept that might explain where he was at emotionally,musically and politically. “I started reading approximately mathematics and the history of zeros,” he says, or “and approximately vacuums and voids in quantum theory. Suddenly zeroes were everywhere.”
Sitting opposite me in a rather soulless hotel garden in original York’s Lower East Side,the Glasgow-born, London-based DJ and producer warms to his theme. “Then I came across Paul Mason’s book PostCapitalism. It has a chapter on Project Zero: when production costs are reduced to zero, and this has a massive impact on the whole system.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com