he genuinely seems sober. i think he might actually just be a ridiculously intelligent person. most people that are that fanatical and appear scatterbrained about their passion tend to be some of the smartest people you'll ever meet.
Did you read his letters? www.adhoc.fm/post/re-dear-john-maus-how-are-you/ The guy's insanely intelligent. He talks about everything from the mathematical composition of sound in music to evolutionary psychology in Chimp culture where a part of the brain becomes stagnant if isolated from social interaction within it's species. I actually gleaned quite a few insights just from reading his responses to fan's simple questions.
@Joseph Roach that wouldn't be the only thing you're wrong about seeing as how the guy literally has a PHD in political science. His IQ is definitely north of 130. He's probably somewhere on the spectrum which is why he goes off on so many tangents and writes without much thought for concision.
@Joseph Roach lol listen if you don't think social sciences like political science or psychology are legitimate that's on you I guess Ben Franklin wasn't that smart either. Also "Some monkey banging a wrench on sheet metal (“engineering”) " Yeah with remarks like that I think it's safe to say that your IQ isn't making any jumps beyond the bell curve.
he is sympathetic because he is not edgeless .he talks in the the way he thinks and he talks about things that many other people don't understand. it's not easy to write about john maus because he is so much. john maus has studied philosophy, which says much about him.
+Thomes Maisling (Thomaise) hahahahahahahahahahahaha that's what I thought when I saw it a few years ago. im just a little man, hes a big man. uh, uh, uh, I shoulda been ragged claws scuttling along the floor. the man, hes enlarged my mind. this is how the world ends not with a bang, with a whimper.
Took a couple interviews to piece together exactly what he means, but it really is fucking brilliant. Him and Ariel really approach music from a super theoretical/ structural perspective and hijack pop structures with the their own creative voice. Really cool philosophy.
And I grew up in the 90s in Italy, in that small town school of less than a thousand students, there were two main groups : the indie / alternatives... People randomly into almost good or very lame stuff like Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Marylin Mason, Korn and Offspring/Rancid. The other group was the rockers... There were metalheads along with people into Queen lmao but mostly, the huge plague were Dream Theater and similar screaming adult males that I couldn't stand. After my first year being the metal outcast because I was into death and black metal, I discovered Joy Division and became the alternatives outcast... I was the only one wearing all black and boots and heard jokes about being The Goth on a daily basis.
John Maus The Drone Interview Transcript (with redacted murmurs and such) Looking for novel harmonies, sequences of chords that haven’t been represented in any situation for thousands of years. I mean, we can do this in silly pop music, this language that’s perhaps dismissed by some people as merely reducible to the mechanisms of capital or whatever. Things can happen with this language that can’t happen in these other “experimental languages.” I really believe this. *The Crucifix plays* We don’t want consensus, we want radical, radical disensus. Why don’t we make so-called “experimental music” in the more strict sense? In the sense of Cage and his circle, or even in the sense of Schoenberg up to Xenakis and Stockhausen and stuff. It’s because I take seriously this claim that Giles Deleuze wrote, it’s perhaps our task as artists to make an intensive use of a major language. I always smell a bit of stink, of bad faith to these people that are involved in the contemporary art world and this kind of thing today because it seems to me that mobilizes some kind of economy of distinction or sophistication and it’s not so much about some kind of living language. *Do Your Best plays* I definitely consider myself part of that whole philosophical tradition that regards the status quo as unacceptable and unjust. I had a professor in music school, they said I was a “musical thrills junkie.” He goes, “Oh, you’re just one of those musical thrills junkies, you’re just looking for just that moment, just that one moment.” The whole 90’s, man. Me and my friends, I’ve talked about this, we just want to stomp that out. That was an error. It was a mistake. Those clowns who didn’t seem to care about music at all. It was about them with their guitars making noise, but not in any way as radical as great rock and roll bands do or as radical as the noise composers did. It was just a goofy mistake that we’d like to obliterate from consciousness. Somebody asked me recently what I thought of Ariel’s recent big success and I said, “He hasn’t been embraced yet! He can be put right alongside those clowns. They haven’t really understood what he’s done.” *Round and Round plays* I remember I went out to school in LA when I was 18. I’m hanging out with Ariel and stuff and he’d grow up listening to Faust and Amon Duul and Cabaret Voltaire and all this stuff. I just knew Nirvana or something. We would be doing our home taping all week and then on the weekend we would get together and just play our stuff for each other. There’s nothing more inspirational than pushing each other on and challenging each other. And speaking of utopia, that would be kind of my utopia. The world as just that, like us playing our tapes for each other so to speak, whatever our tapes are. Our movies, our poems, our equations, our war machines so long as they’re just for fun, like, “Let’s make a missile just to shoot it at that wall or something.” *Time to Die plays* And what I’ve been doing so far is this whole kind of wager or suspicion or belief that the most radical thing we can do with pop, with rock, with punk, whatever you want to call it, is to try to make it as poppy as possible. It’s a longer, complicated thing. And I just hit the wall with that and now I’m not sure that’s the way to go. All these records that are universally accepted as part of this tradition go all sorts of places other than just that kind of place that I’ve been trying to go in, and I think it’s been stupid of me not to reach out more towards exploring some of those things.
At first, I was tempted to view this as 'silly', as a joke on Maus's seeming incoherence in this interview. The top comment, "Easy on the coke there John", etc. But the things he has to say are actually not ridiculous, and his music really DOES reflect a lot of what he has to say, and I think I like him more after having seen this. Though if I were to make one joke, it would be that, having seen his live "performance", I do think that he does believe in "playing tapes for each other." ; )
I really want to like him, he's obviously intelligent and well read, got big ideas about Utopia etc. What puts me off is his constant referral to reactionary thinkers like Deleuze, his admiration of Eurocentric composers Cage and Stockhausen. His thinking is based on bourgeois standards of cultural legitimacy (read his attack on music of the 90's), I another interview he said "the possibilities of the guitar have been exhausted" which reproduces the Eurocentric postion of Stockhausen.
How about the fact that this intelligent lo-fi pop music is becoming (or has already become) too popular and part of the culture of consumption? How can this distorted pop music exist to be continuously 'radical' Mr Maus?
this guy is on to something.1990`s almost destroyed my genre of music.Metal.I like your music bro, you got heart.That`s hard to find, in any era.You put Tears for Fears to shame.Keep up the great work!
@thedeadcellist But I must disagree completely. Isn't the point of music to make you feel something in the most intense way possible? So why should someone be concerned with only using the vernacular? John Maus is an absolute genius, but I'd like more than almost anything to see him have a conversation about that subject with one of the experimental musicians he doesn't understand like Aaron Dilloway or Daniel Lopatin.
@calumjlindsay The commercial industry became far more narrow in the 90's and also the 00's, in comparison the 80's seems like a decade of underground turned into comercial success, then for some reason being successful became something to avoid and most great music gets made in obscurity today, and bad music gets made in public.
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I like to think they didn’t ask him any questions and he just walked in talking
leaving a trail of murmur as he exits the room
enough i see where this is going
he genuinely seems sober. i think he might actually just be a ridiculously intelligent person. most people that are that fanatical and appear scatterbrained about their passion tend to be some of the smartest people you'll ever meet.
He has a PhD in some field. I forgot tho
Did you read his letters? www.adhoc.fm/post/re-dear-john-maus-how-are-you/
The guy's insanely intelligent. He talks about everything from the mathematical composition of sound in music to evolutionary psychology in Chimp culture where a part of the brain becomes stagnant if isolated from social interaction within it's species. I actually gleaned quite a few insights just from reading his responses to fan's simple questions.
This dude took way to much acid. But he really spits facts. He is no doubt intelligence
@Joseph Roach that wouldn't be the only thing you're wrong about seeing as how the guy literally has a PHD in political science. His IQ is definitely north of 130.
He's probably somewhere on the spectrum which is why he goes off on so many tangents and writes without much thought for concision.
@Joseph Roach lol listen if you don't think social sciences like political science or psychology are legitimate that's on you I guess Ben Franklin wasn't that smart either.
Also "Some monkey banging a wrench on sheet metal (“engineering”)
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Yeah with remarks like that I think it's safe to say that your IQ isn't making any jumps beyond the bell curve.
he is the most beautiful man
what i really like about John Maus is that he seems to be truly dedicated to his work - this is what makes a great artists.
So many thoughts bouncing around in his head you can tell cuz hes struggling to get words out. Traits of a genius
is dis ironic????
traits of an incredible astute autistic. this man is an absolute prodigy.
Fellow stutterer
he is sympathetic because he is not edgeless .he talks in the the way he thinks and he talks about things that many other people don't understand. it's not easy to write about john maus because he is so much. john maus has studied philosophy, which says much about him.
For some reason he reminds me of Dennis hoppers photo journalist character in Apocalypse Now.
+Thomes Maisling (Thomaise) hahahahahahahahahahahaha that's what I thought when I saw it a few years ago. im just a little man, hes a big man. uh, uh, uh, I shoulda been ragged claws scuttling along the floor. the man, hes enlarged my mind. this is how the world ends not with a bang, with a whimper.
best comment ever
dude exactly
His mind works way faster than his mouth. I wonder what's in that great mind of his
Fear about robots.
seems like a super passionate guy, good interview
im like actually obsessed with this man
This is a beautiful person
rest in peace joe, just lost my brother unexpectedly and i can understand where john has been, much love to you john and your beautiful brother.
Lol everyone's a therapist. Y'all are weird thinking you can diagnosis anyone from an interview. Dude seems cool to me...
i cant concentrate he's so beautiful
Who does not love John! The best.
Took a couple interviews to piece together exactly what he means, but it really is fucking brilliant. Him and Ariel really approach music from a super theoretical/ structural perspective and hijack pop structures with the their own creative voice. Really cool philosophy.
ah, he's so cute
Most excited man alive.
He's like a musical Slavoj Zizek.
VoxBox ... and so on...
overnightpartsfromjapan I was just thinking about how this guy should write philosophy.
actually his PhD dissertation 'Communication and control' is pretty interesting
overnightpartsfromjapan I WAS GONNA SAY THAT
Dead on
i know for a fact that i love this man.. yes john
omg he's so brilliant
He is brilliant.
This guy is the real deal. He ain't no pretender.
He doesn't need drugs, he's always high on life.
He looks like he came right off stage, he's probably still got adrenalin rush.
John maus is too good for this world
hah this dude is AWESOME! YES
this music is way too precious
this guy knows where it's at
i'm inspired
I love this guy.
John reaches into my inner soul.
Living language of Maus 🖤💫
"90s were a mistake" fuck yeah John, I believe in you.
And I grew up in the 90s in Italy, in that small town school of less than a thousand students, there were two main groups : the indie / alternatives... People randomly into almost good or very lame stuff like Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Marylin Mason, Korn and Offspring/Rancid. The other group was the rockers... There were metalheads along with people into Queen lmao but mostly, the huge plague were Dream Theater and similar screaming adult males that I couldn't stand. After my first year being the metal outcast because I was into death and black metal, I discovered Joy Division and became the alternatives outcast... I was the only one wearing all black and boots and heard jokes about being The Goth on a daily basis.
John Maus The Drone Interview Transcript
(with redacted murmurs and such)
Looking for novel harmonies, sequences of chords that haven’t been represented in any situation for thousands of years. I mean, we can do this in silly pop music, this language that’s perhaps dismissed by some people as merely reducible to the mechanisms of capital or whatever. Things can happen with this language that can’t happen in these other “experimental languages.” I really believe this.
*The Crucifix plays*
We don’t want consensus, we want radical, radical disensus. Why don’t we make so-called “experimental music” in the more strict sense? In the sense of Cage and his circle, or even in the sense of Schoenberg up to Xenakis and Stockhausen and stuff. It’s because I take seriously this claim that Giles Deleuze wrote, it’s perhaps our task as artists to make an intensive use of a major language. I always smell a bit of stink, of bad faith to these people that are involved in the contemporary art world and this kind of thing today because it seems to me that mobilizes some kind of economy of distinction or sophistication and it’s not so much about some kind of living language.
*Do Your Best plays*
I definitely consider myself part of that whole philosophical tradition that regards the status quo as unacceptable and unjust. I had a professor in music school, they said I was a “musical thrills junkie.” He goes, “Oh, you’re just one of those musical thrills junkies, you’re just looking for just that moment, just that one moment.”
The whole 90’s, man. Me and my friends, I’ve talked about this, we just want to stomp that out. That was an error. It was a mistake. Those clowns who didn’t seem to care about music at all. It was about them with their guitars making noise, but not in any way as radical as great rock and roll bands do or as radical as the noise composers did. It was just a goofy mistake that we’d like to obliterate from consciousness. Somebody asked me recently what I thought of Ariel’s recent big success and I said, “He hasn’t been embraced yet! He can be put right alongside those clowns. They haven’t really understood what he’s done.”
*Round and Round plays*
I remember I went out to school in LA when I was 18. I’m hanging out with Ariel and stuff and he’d grow up listening to Faust and Amon Duul and Cabaret Voltaire and all this stuff. I just knew Nirvana or something.
We would be doing our home taping all week and then on the weekend we would get together and just play our stuff for each other. There’s nothing more inspirational than pushing each other on and challenging each other. And speaking of utopia, that would be kind of my utopia. The world as just that, like us playing our tapes for each other so to speak, whatever our tapes are. Our movies, our poems, our equations, our war machines so long as they’re just for fun, like, “Let’s make a missile just to shoot it at that wall or something.”
*Time to Die plays*
And what I’ve been doing so far is this whole kind of wager or suspicion or belief that the most radical thing we can do with pop, with rock, with punk, whatever you want to call it, is to try to make it as poppy as possible. It’s a longer, complicated thing. And I just hit the wall with that and now I’m not sure that’s the way to go. All these records that are universally accepted as part of this tradition go all sorts of places other than just that kind of place that I’ve been trying to go in, and I think it’s been stupid of me not to reach out more towards exploring some of those things.
Thank you
"... I take seriously this claim that, Gilles Deleuze write, it's perhaps our task..."
@@jaemorgan5974 You're welcome!
He reminds me of a character from a Jack Karouac novel
More like John Meth. Dude is fuckin stoked on his music. Gotta love the passion.
The Charls Carroll of music
John maus is on a whole different level of existence
more like the Rodney Mullen of music, for multiple reasons.
I like Charls but find this comparison silly
He talks like a nuttier Charls
Hahahaha
I love johns interviews. They’re better than most peoples music. 💚💛🤍🖤🧡💚💗💓💞💟
I know he has a wife, but he's so cute it hurts
he is single now
his wife left him :(
@@Pishtaco22 he can stay in my cellar fr
Omar Diaz she left him?! How do you know ;(
Grass Cake he said in a recent reddit q&a
@@GrassCake good news is they’re back together now and now he’s openly a fascist tradcath
This guy is reminds me of my little sister
Who cares if he doesn’t sound sober or not he’s speaking facts
At first, I was tempted to view this as 'silly', as a joke on Maus's seeming incoherence in this interview. The top comment, "Easy on the coke there John", etc. But the things he has to say are actually not ridiculous, and his music really DOES reflect a lot of what he has to say, and I think I like him more after having seen this.
Though if I were to make one joke, it would be that, having seen his live "performance", I do think that he does believe in "playing tapes for each other." ; )
i love him
I'm in love.
I love him...again...
il est très beau !
celia ayneto oui, absolument 😍
"John Maus. - Do Your best"
nice jeff goldblum impression here
The young version of Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now
He’s as gorgeous as he is insane
People were saying things to the effect of "he must be on drugs". Seems to me they had a hard time understanding what he was trying to say.
I like this dude.
He has a PHD in Philosophy. He's not on coke he's always like this.
and also studied renaissance period music and medieval music.
Political science...very different
Song at 2:14 is called do your best
He is just a musical thrills junky very high on musical thrills...I can relate...that's exactly the state I am after a great gig XD
god he is hot
wow, I agree with him about contemporary music
5:30 what's the song's name?
nearly 10.000 views incredible
I really want to like him, he's obviously intelligent and well read, got big ideas about Utopia etc. What puts me off is his constant referral to reactionary thinkers like Deleuze, his admiration of Eurocentric composers Cage and Stockhausen. His thinking is based on bourgeois standards of cultural legitimacy (read his attack on music of the 90's), I another interview he said "the possibilities of the guitar have been exhausted" which reproduces the Eurocentric postion of Stockhausen.
where can i read his attack on the 90s music
is deleuze really reactionary, i doubt
How about the fact that this intelligent lo-fi pop music is becoming (or has already become) too popular and part of the culture of consumption? How can this distorted pop music exist to be continuously 'radical' Mr Maus?
Light Language ✨
Genius
He is The Truth
frank zappa of darkwave/synthpop
Hey Moon was written by Molly Nilsson. Nevertheless John Maus is a wonderful artist.
3:01-3:45
@AJODCS thanks// yeah i guess cuz it goes well with thew vibe of the music
what a cutie!
He is so hip
this guy is on to something.1990`s almost destroyed my genre of music.Metal.I like your music bro, you got heart.That`s hard to find, in any era.You put Tears for Fears to shame.Keep up the great work!
does anyone know what the first song is you hear in this clip? the one where you see him on stage?
What song starts playing around 1:50?
Anthony Moreno do your best
Я ЛЮБЛЮ ТЕБЯ
does this dude still tour? I looked and looked and I didn't find much so I assume NO, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask :)
Kellie Lutz he's performing at DesertDaze this year
perfect
you people who think this dude has something to say need to read 'T.A.Z.' by hakim bey. and have a dictionary handy, I know I needed one.
That dude who wants pedophile-friendly T.A.Z.? Yeah, he really has something to say.
Watching him talk gives me anxiety
He is manic, probably what makes him genius
You Rock!!
What does panda bear think? I’m curious.
@thedeadcellist But I must disagree completely. Isn't the point of music to make you feel something in the most intense way possible? So why should someone be concerned with only using the vernacular? John Maus is an absolute genius, but I'd like more than almost anything to see him have a conversation about that subject with one of the experimental musicians he doesn't understand like Aaron Dilloway or Daniel Lopatin.
@Ginlah He does it?
@calumjlindsay The commercial industry became far more narrow in the 90's and also the 00's, in comparison the 80's seems like a decade of underground turned into comercial success, then for some reason being successful became something to avoid and most great music gets made in obscurity today, and bad music gets made in public.
@thekook33 Well, it does somewhat. Regardless of the vibes, I really enjoy his music. :)
What song is the first clip?
trackID @ 0:45
which song is that at 2:02?
You don't have to destroy the 90's just the parts that were sold to us...
the slavoj zizek of indie pop
could someone please tell me the first song that starts playing at the live show?
pussy is not a matter of fact
@thekook33 I think so. o: Wow, out of all the people that they could've shot in the crowd, they chose him. 'O'
OMG 'Amon Duul (II)' yikes
What's the song at 2:14?
He's my tribe......
4:30 listening to what?
Saro Vallejo Faust, Amon Düül and Cabaret Voltaire
2:24 young jim morrison?
was JUST going to say that
@Oggranak Fanaticism doesn't invalidate position, and like you said, his is remarkably rational.
nice