in 2016, People Like Us commissioned me to make a piece with the theme OPTIMIZED! this is what i made.

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FROM THE ORIGINAL BROADCAST NOTES:

"June 9, 2016: Optimized! Day 4

Miracle Nutrition with Hearty White, Jason Willett & MC Schmidt, Buttress O’Kneel, Osymyso, Nick the Bard, John Kilduff with Let’s Paint TV from Monty Hall, Dina Kelberman + evening Monty Hall show!

1.00pm Buttress O’Kneel - Optimise or Die!

Buttress O’Kneel is a plunderphonic culture-vandal from Australia who has been mixing, mashing and morphing found-sound since 1998. Honestly, she’s really too old for this shit, but it’s sort of too late to stop now. Her Frankensteinian sound-mangling activities have been written about in several academic texts, so she must be doing something right, or worthwhile, or something, surely. Please, let it all mean something. Please.

Will you optimise? Or will you die? Or both? For her “OPTIMIZED!” piece, Buttress O’Kneel explores the concept of the evolutionary optimisation of the humyn organism: whether it be motivational, spiritual, technological, multi-dimensional, or just growing a freakin’ beak. Our culture seems to obsess over this kind of thing constantly: being better, faster, more capable, sleeker, smarter, upgrading until we die. And then what? These issues are explored with the irritating machine-gun editing and meticulous lack of overall cohesion that Ms O’Kneel is famous for."

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superspecial thanks to People Like Us for commissioning the work, and always being such a massive support. <3