ESCAPE-ISM + Mark Spark & The Sharks

ESCAPE-ISM is the Found-Sound-Dream-Drama starring Ian Svenonius & Sandi Denton.

ESCAPE-ISM —the “act of musical vandalism”— famous for their development of new prototypes for stomping & smashing, are reforming the scales, chords, & notes (e.g. A, B, F#, etc) that comprise musical literacy to achieve the group’s primary aim: the repurposing of music as we know it. Though many musicians of note have operated their instruments with „alternative tunings,“ up until now no one has dared to obliterate tuning absolutely or abolish the traditional letter-notes for the destruction of bourgeois society.

According to ESCAPE-ISM, this will have a very profound effect: “Music will no longer be cordoned off from the rest of experience as a commodified, specialty freak show, but instead be a pastime which can be practiced and enjoyed –not only by non-musicians and amateurs– but also by plant life, wild animals, and even inanimate objects, such as rocks.

“The violent overthrow of musical conventions will lead to the reintegration of humanity into the natural order, the reordering of life itself into a cosmic congruity. This means the convention of time itself will be ended.” Like so-called nature itself, the ESCAPE-ISM group is also on a “loop.”