The Oblivion Brotherhood

The Oblivion Brotherhood emerged in the spring of 2001 to support lyricist & spoken word performance artist, Chris Mosdell, in the creation of "Splatterhead & The Oblivion Brotherhood". Conceptualized around the award-winning lyrics collection, "Splatterhead: The Songlines of Chris Mosdell" [2001 Emerson's Eye Press], the trio combined a spoken word performance from selected entries of the book, enmeshed with a DJ-mixed electronic accompaniment by E23, and VJ mixing by devslashnull. This "tongue-drum delirium" accompanied by the "optimum optic shrapnel" of devslashnull "mixed, mauled and mangled by DJ E23 (of RadioValve.com)" culminated in a series of six performances. debuting at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Boulder, Colorado), and fulminating its thunderous finale at CBGB's in New York City's East Village. The partnership built upon remix work devslashnull & E23 had done for Mosdell's collaborative project with Graham Hancock for Tokyo's "Fingerprints of the Gods" multimedia installation. Yielding two unreleased tracks comprising the "Footprints of the Dogs" remixes, the international brotherhood was born, first with the Splatterhead show, and followed with a concept to set Mosdell's lyrics and vocal performance to an original electronic music score. The result was "Shake the World," which appeared on devslashnull's label, CommTom, for the politically-inspired compilation "Polyphonic Voices of Digital Dissent". Although further work was planned, it was nearly two decades until the E23 & Chris Mosdell collaboration, "Consumed By Ecstatic Cargoes", gave rise to new remix work by The Oblivion Brotherhood for the track "On Stun Dope". devslashnull & E23 continued to collaborate under the OVNI moniker as well as other aliases, at times again aligning the brotherhood with Mosdell.