I don't remember, perhaps it was self-mockingly. Or perhaps because it's a synonym of blunt. Our reasons are not clear or precise and are lacking sharpness.

We used to play live with bands, mostly in Atlanta 92-94. We wish we had done it more, it was fun at the time. Nowadays we don't even live in the same country as each other which would make playing live difficult. We'd need different equipment too.

Back when Napster was at its peak, it was the perfect tool for discovering new music, and developing one's music appreciation through a stream of consciousness hyperlinking method. Find an artist you like, search for other fans of that artist, check out what else they have on their harddrives, and so on. If everyone had an hour or two a day to commit to such a system, within a few years we might rectify the damage that corporate control of the media has inflicted on our music appreciation. No wonder they shut it down.

Who knows? If it'd mean I could quit my day job and work on music full time without starving, maybe. A smaller respectable label, definitely, even if I had to keep my day job.

92-93 - compose and perform cartoon-inspired music
with a band, played gigs in Atlanta under the name Green Eggs and Ham (Gabriel
- guitar, Aaron – bass + others)

Inspired at the time by Mr. Bungle, John Zorn (Naked City), Raymond
Scott, and Carl Stalling.

 

93-94 - all sorts of experimentation with improv,
avant garde collage noise, tribal flute-drum things,keyboard sequencing, some
compositions in jazz/klezmer, played gigs under the names The Big Sleep and No
Soap Radio (G - keyboards, A - clarinet)

Inspired at the time by klezmer, The Residents, Zorn,
Knitting Factory stuff, WREK (GA Tech radio in Atlanta), Spike Jones, gangster
movies from Cagney to present, the Subgenius Hour of Slack, lots of “world”
music.

 

95-97 - even further off the wall experimentation
with tape manipulation, sound sculpting, industrial music, first collages on
computer, and some utterly ridiculous avant garde blues, we perform live
industrial under the name Pure Digital Silence (G - guitar, A - ukulele)

Inspired at the time by Negativland, Faust, NIN, Skinny
Puppy/Download, Ween, Boredoms, Coil, David Shea, William S. Burroughs,
Subgenius texts, Mark Leyner, cyberpunk stuff.

 

98-99 - finally get some equipment worth using, form
Obtuse, using a lot of synths and MIDI at first inspired by Orbital, the Orb,
Autechre, moved towards Amon Tobin, Coldcut, DJ Shadow, FSOL

 

00-present - practically ditched all the synths and
MIDI for composing and producing entirely in the computer with sample
manipulation. We seem to have finally
found the niche we want to work within. It’s been 3 whole years and we haven’t changed our genre dramatically
yet.

We're into trip hop, drum n bass, collage, hip hop, jazz, soundtracks to old horror films and spaghetti westerns, lounge music, cartoon music, 20th century classical, klezmer, traditional music from Turkey, Morocco, Armenia, India, Japan, Egypt, Bulgaria, etc.

PC's with software.