August 6, 1945

Guinea-Pig Fleet — Fire Raids: Tokyo Like “Hiroshima Tattoo,” the two-disc “Fire Raids” set is one of the old recordings that I have returned to with equal parts fondness and regret. Originally released in 2002 and composed in a bit of a frenzy, after a crash course in the horrors of US incendiary bombing raids in Japan, these tracks were really inspired by the awful logistics of the fire raids: the precise spacing of the planes, the distance from first to last bomber, the grids used to produce maximum destruction in the targeted cities, etc. The accounts of the “Meetinghouse” […]

Another Guinea-Pig Fleet video, from the Fire Raids: Toyama disc: Guinea-Pig Fleet – VLR

A little something from one of the other parts of my life: When I’m not researching and teaching, I work as a live sound tech and karaoke jockey at a local bar. I also do some electronic music, some of which is at least partially related to the stuff readers here are more familiar with: radical history, etc. Guinea-Pig Fleet is a more or less “ambient” project—but one that serves as a periodical cleansing of the brain when my research on modern warfare, technological risk and the like gets to that overwhelming point. The video below is a very abstract […]