Sounds from underground/File N°052

some of atmospheric sounds reach us from Melbourne. <<Human Pesticide>> is an Australian project that propose us a surrealistic trip into some of this lands we'd like to explore especially now when the autumn. we can fall in love with these track easily.


0. name of the band 
Human Pesticide
1. where are you from? 
We both live in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Brennan is in the city and Katherine is in Brunswick West
2. what kind of instruments/equipment you use? 
Amp, microphone feedback, pedals, screaming …..

3. what do you think about the music context nowadays and how you place yourself in? do you feel a part of any scene? 
We honestly don’t think about the broader context of the music industry when we make stuff. In our minds I think we are so fake we don’t belong in any context, we just are waiting for it to come to us. In terms of this project we feel a bit scene-less, we generally play within Melbourne’s queer and trans music scene (which is thriving in Melbourne right now). We have performed at a Comfort Cassettes tape launch as well as at Pansy Gallery for our first ever exhibition ‘the demise of human pesticide.’ Our friend Terminal Infant is always hitting us up for shows.
4. which is your method of composition?
Hang out and make sounds, mimic sounds from the noise scene and paste them together into song, laugh, crash Archies for BonSoy lattes, write emo/ goth/ dark poems on scrap paper or in iPhone notes. Take selfies, figure out different ways to make creepy sounds with Garageband and sampled anime sound FX, watch youtube interviews with Dawn Crosby of Fear Of God for inspiration, Stress out about a show that night, blast out an EP in one afternoon, plan the cover art, listen to Odwalla88, Strawberry Switchblade, No Wave music compilations, Sonic Youth, Dance of the Dolls EP - Moral, dream of Joy Division canvas tote bags, go for a walk through the city or Fitzroy when we were based in Gertrude Studios.
5. how is your recording approach? do you use some particular record technique? 
Our approach is strictly Low-fi. Line 6 delay pedal, $4 mics from the reject shop connected a Bass amp and the WAV files play off our computer with all sorts of FX… but the rest is secret!
6. do you play live? how public react to your music? 
We do play live. People say it’s very loud?
7. Genesis P-Orridge said "Our records were documents of attitudes and experiences and observations by us and other determinedly individual outsiders. Fashion was an enemy, style irrelevant.". What do your records represent to you? 
I suppose when one is working within the realm of improvisation like Throbbing Gristle had, style would seem irrelevant however we would argue a style would emerge out of sheer necessity to complete the song and thus style may be irrelevant but it is always there, it’s part of the whole package.