Cubist Castle concept or storyline?

[soniclovenoize]

Does anyone know what the story, plot or concept of Cubist Castle is? Who is Jacqueline? did she tunr the key? Why does Bill Doss feel like a vegetable?

Thanks.

[channelfan]

well it's "music from the unrealized film script", so the script/story/plot/concept is not necissarily known by anyone, however perhaps the idea is to allow the musiic to realize a vision/concept in each listener's mind. like, it's a soundtrack to a film that only comes into being within the consciousness of any given listener.

[nervesandgel]

Originally posted by soniclovenoize
Does anyone know what the story, plot or concept of Cubist Castle is? Who is Jacqueline? did she tunr the key? Why does Bill Doss feel like a vegetable?

Thanks.

i always listen to the john peel session of i'm not feeling human whenever i'm hungover. it fits well in that awful state.

[DrinkTeaEatBooks]

I heard somewhere, though I cannot verify the source due to memory loss, that it was indeed intended for some unreleased film (not that the film was ever intended even to be filmed, you understand).
Alledgedly, it centres around two women, Jacqueline and Olivia, and an earthquake, the 'California Demise'. That's all I heard from the source, which I think might be All Music Guide (I'll check it out in a bit).
However, you can pick up little clues. For example, would 'Memories of Jacqueline, 1906' have anything to do with the San Fransisco earthquake of the same year (the 'California Demise' ) by any chance?
And the lines:
'planet disaster, no time for shelter
but remember the best of times, jacqueline 1906'
point to this, and also possibly the fact that Jacqueline died in this here earthquake.
I think that, if I'm going to stick to that idea, then the Green Typewriter suite represents the 'California Demise' aurally, in its chaotic nature, and directly after this, the opening verse of Spring Succeeds is:
'i spring up from the ground
i stretch myself up
and have a look around
this whole world
carry me like the wind
cause i'm a seed to thrown'

I can't make head nor tail of the rest of it, but that's what I can make out that fits that theory. To me it makes sense, and that's what's important.

I've also thought that the album is actually the aural representation of an acid trip - with the slow buildup, the complete headfuck of Green Typewriters (preceded a couple of tracks earlier by 'Can You Come Down With Us?', a veritable invitation if you ask me), and then, of course, at it's end, 'when you're ready to come back down, I'll be waiting here, I promise I'll wait forever' - possibly the friendliest welcoming I have ever heard, which takes you into a gentle-ish comedown, after the aforementioned springing of 'Spring Succeeds'. That also makes sense to me, so I'm happy.

I've just got back from a brief stay in Prague, and I have insomnia. Thankyou so much, soniclovenoize - you occupied my time so well!

[Edited on 16-7-2004 by DrinkTeaEatBooks]

[yes crème yes yes yummy]

that's really interesting, DrinkTeaEatBooks. i had no idea. :)

[yes crème yes yes yummy]

from allmusic:

Not the Beatles, but an incredible facsimile: On their sprawling 27-song debut opus Music From the Unrealized Film Script "Dusk at Cubist Castle," the Olivia Tremor Control manage to summon not only the sound of the White Album-era Fab Four, but also the unfettered creativity. The soundtrack to an as-yet unmade film about a pair of women named Olivia and Jacqueline and a massive earthquake dubbed the California Demise, the album incorporates a slew of influences and textures (including Beach Boys-flavored pop, psychedelia, Krautrock, noise, and folk-rock) and synthesizes them into a distinct homebrew of shimmering harmonies, guitar drones, backwards tape loops and inventive effects. As an added bonus, the first few thousand copies come with a bonus CD of ambient "dream sequences" -- titled Explanation II -- which, when played simultaneously with the first disc, realizes true quadraphonic sound. Amazing.

[soniclovenoize]

Originally posted by DrinkTeaEatBooks
I heard somewhere, though I cannot verify the source due to memory loss, that it was indeed intended for some unreleased film (not that the film was ever intended even to be filmed, you understand).
Alledgedly, it centres around two women, Jacqueline and Olivia, and an earthquake, the 'California Demise'. That's all I heard from the source, which I think might be All Music Guide (I'll check it out in a bit).
However, you can pick up little clues. For example, would 'Memories of Jacqueline, 1906' have anything to do with the San Fransisco earthquake of the same year (the 'California Demise' ) by any chance?
And the lines:
'planet disaster, no time for shelter
but remember the best of times, jacqueline 1906'
point to this, and also possibly the fact that Jacqueline died in this here earthquake.
I think that, if I'm going to stick to that idea, then the Green Typewriter suite represents the 'California Demise' aurally, in its chaotic nature, and directly after this, the opening verse of Spring Succeeds is:
'i spring up from the ground
i stretch myself up
and have a look around
this whole world
carry me like the wind
cause i'm a seed to thrown'

I can't make head nor tail of the rest of it, but that's what I can make out that fits that theory. To me it makes sense, and that's what's important.

I've also thought that the album is actually the aural representation of an acid trip - with the slow buildup, the complete headfuck of Green Typewriters (preceded a couple of tracks earlier by 'Can You Come Down With Us?', a veritable invitation if you ask me), and then, of course, at it's end, 'when you're ready to come back down, I'll be waiting here, I promise I'll wait forever' - possibly the friendliest welcoming I have ever heard, which takes you into a gentle-ish comedown, after the aforementioned springing of 'Spring Succeeds'. That also makes sense to me, so I'm happy.

I've just got back from a brief stay in Prague, and I have insomnia. Thankyou so much, soniclovenoize - you occupied my time so well!

[Edited on 16-7-2004 by DrinkTeaEatBooks]

Wow, that's interesting... I suppose that would explain what a "Cubist Castle" is int he first place... a crumbling tower, a palace in ruins?