A variation of the Pump-Powered Permawave which had Jessica King operating the PPP while Elden M, Jackson Wallis, and Lorenzo Abattoir provided additional sounds. GX Jupitter-Larsen did the live mix of all these. Officially, the 405th performance by The Haters.
Still photos by Aaron Dilloway.
A more complete listing of performances can be found at: http://performances.jupitter-larsen.com/
GX Jupitter-Larsen's favorite heckler was one he encountered in San Jose on June 25 1999. An anonymous young man emerged from the audience wearing a hand-drawn t-shirt depicting, among other things, a caricature of GX. He proceed to march up and down, yelling into a funnel all the reasons he hated The Haters. After a few minutes he just walked out of the gallery without any further clarification to the matter. Well done sir...!!! Whoever you are...
Another variation of the “Dirwyn” performance. This one performed by GX Jupitter-Larsen in New York on June 11, 2001. Listen to an extended excerpt HERE.
On June 5 2004 in Los Angeles, an amplified tin funnel was rubbing off against a sandpaper dress being worn by Jessica King. GX Jupitter-Larsen pressed the funnel harder and harder against the dress, pushing Jessica down. Bent out of shape, when Jessica finally fell to the floor, the 14 minute performance was over.
On April 15 1991 in San Francisco dirt was flying! While one member of The Haters used an amplified shovel to dig dirt from a wheelbarrow to a large shallow box, another member used an unamplified shovel to dig dirt from the same box back to the wheelbarrow. Collaterally, two other members tore paper. Throwing the pieces over the two that were digging. Off to one side, a fifth member did a live mix of the amplified shovel with pre-recorded sounds of fire, glass smashing, auto crashes, and explosions. During this ten minute performance, the audience quickly became inspired to an enraptured silliness. Running amok while covering most of the club in a thin layer of dirt and torn bits of paper.
On April 12 1986, the original ATA space, on 7th Street in San Francisco's South of Market area, was dressed up as your typical living room. Four members of The Haters took turns damaging phonograph records and then playing them on your typical home stereo set. After having been played for a bit, each record would then be hurled into the audience. After awhile, people started throwing the records back at the performers. The flying vinyl lasted 25 minutes. Listen to a brief excerpt HERE
On April 11, way back in 1987, in Den Bosch in The Netherlands, four members of The Haters sat with their backs to the gallery audience, watching blank static on an analog TV set. When one watches an analog TV broadcast, one is really watching the distance that the broadcast had to travel in order to reach the set. But with the unorchestrated static of an empty analog TV channel there is no effect of distance. This blank static has such a physical presence that it functions as a hole in the very condition that is the nature of distance itself.
On March 30 1997 in Austin, an amplified funnel attached to a wheelchair that three performers were holding up was allowed to drag and erode on an amplified turntable of sandpaper.
In San Francisco on March 29 1995, four members of The Haters slowly pushed live microphones into power grinders, while a fifth processed the resulting sounds into a monumental racket.
On March 27, 1992, four members of The Haters each used a clici-clic to pop holes through numerous sheets of tinfoil & paper. For 20 minutes, the sound of the crushing was amplified into an ear-piercing blob of noise galore. Projected onto a large screen just behind the performers, a 1961 black & white film of assorted hooded wrestlers involved in various matches.
In Austin, on March 9 1991, GX Jupitter-Larsen performed by counting, one by one, the number of soil particles in the dirt covered floor of a gallery elevator. During the 4 hours of this untitled live-insulation, a total of 30,142 soil particles were counted (later estimated to be 10% of the total amount there).
On Feb 22 2003 a question was asked in Phoenix. Just what is the psychical weight of sound? The answer to this question probably has little to do with measurement. In “Audiothecary”, amplified balance scales are used as a performance-based utility for finding the weight of sound. The scales’ beam with both of its two pans at either end were all wired to function as one large microphone. Any slight touch, even breathing on them, would produce a very substantial noise.
On Feb 21 2003, GX Jupitter-Larsen appeared as a heel manager during the inaugural matches of the Oaktown Wrestling Association. Wearing a Gorgeous George wig, GX then did what any wrestling manager would have done after escorting the top contender, War Chief, to the ring for his Hardcore match with Ice Box. He yelled out words of encouragement to his man, slapped his hands on the mat, tried to distract the referee whenever possible and clashed with the face manager around the ring. He did whatever it took to make the screaming crowd scream just that little bit more.
On Feb 7 1996 in San Francisco, GX Jupitter-Larsen & The Haters used amplified staple-guns to break and shatter a stack of LPs. The longer the stapling went on, the shorter the stack got. Staples and cracked bits of vinyl were spraying all about; hitting many in the audience. This was the first ever “Mind The Gap” performance.
