Ageing with Electronic Dance Music Culture: An Interview with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Where to begin with the storied achievements of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge? S/he's one of the founders of industrial music via the band Throbbing Gristle, and h/er other band, Psychic TV, made the Guinness Book of World Records for the most albums released in a single year, usurping Michael Jackson. Genesis organized underground arts collective Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth and spread its occult themes with a 500-page tome (P-Orridge and Abrahamsson 2010). Then there's applying William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin's cut-up techniques in their extreme pandrogyne project, a melding of bodies with P-Orridge’s late partner Lady Jaye, involving hundreds of thousands of dollars of plastic surgery. Genesis has been the subject of multiple documentaries, including The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (Losier 2011), Bight of the Twin, and the crowdfunded A Message From the Temple.
Published in the Dancecult journal