MORONOISE: NIHILISTIC, MORONOIC, PSEUDOINTELLECTUAL

BWHTNH: Moronoise adalah sebuah projek eksperimental yang diasaskan oleh Moronhead. Interviu kali ini menjawab persoalan-persoalan mengenai projek Moronoise, post-punk poet hingga perspektif. Melaluinya, anda  menemukan jawapan yang akan mengganggu mimpi basah anda kerana Moronhead, Hafiz Chai akan bercerita dari nihilistics, bersalaman dengan Friedrich Nietzsche hingga avant-garde, Kuching dan Ipoh.

TEKS OLEH: MORONHEAD, HAFIZ CHAI

According to English Oxford Dictionaries, nihilism is the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless. Twist sedikit, Moronoise mengambil kotak art dan letakkan nihilisme dalamnya. Tiada yang sacred dalam art. Art is nothing, “Sastera is nothing, terajang terpelanting” (Jayzuan, 2016).

Sebetulnya kreasi Moronoise bukanlah sebagai sebuah band, tetapi lebih kepada multi-discipline-anti-art-movement. No rule, no bullshit, jalan, impromptu. Nietzsche defines the concept of nihilism with a situation of meaninglessness, in which “everything is permitted”. Kami (baca: Moronhead) cuma mahu spark nihilism culture di Kuching dan kawasan sekitarnya. Kau tak perlu jadi established poet untuk kedepan dan recite poem, kau tak perlu jadi professional musician untuk pickup instrument dan main depan crowd. Just do it. Nothing is absolut (bukan vodka).

Most of Moronoise’s performance, in fact, all of them stems in part from Nietzsche’s perspectivism; “There are interpretations through which we understand the world and give it meaning”. Dari interpret keratan akhbar kepada noise performance, interpret asimilasi etnik Sarawak kepada installation art, sampai ke interpret puisi Rahmat Haron kepada theatrical chaos.

‘Post Punk Poetry’ adalah lepak session skala kecil curated by Moronoise untuk Buku Jalanan Unimas—tayang dokumentari ‘A Brief History of Post Punk’, diskusi ringkas, coda dengan recitation of dark themed poems with dark wave instrumentals. Why post punk? Pretty much everything ada dalam post punk—DIY culture, new wave, punk energy, yet sophisticated and have art school sensibility. 

Coming from diverse genre underground band; be it shoegaze, post punk, two- tone ska, rock n roll, indeed sub-culture music is our forte. Tetapi main influences Moronoise philosophical wise adalah New York no wave, avant garde, Dadaism anti-art establishment dan Ipoh! Selain (nasi) Ganja, Ipoh ada avant garde guru; Dr. Kamal Sabran dengan Space Gambus Experiment, Tuan Haji Dada; Mohd Jayzuan dengan Projek Rabak yang banyak lahirkan odd artists macam Jack Malik, Meor Hailree et al.

Snippet of Sayau-Core

Moronoise masih dalam fasa oral stage kalau ikut Freudian psychosexual development. Since belum cukup setahun penubuhan, Moronoise masih ghairah grasping and suckling all the breastmilk of knowledge. Tengoklah bila dah baligh sikit, bila nihilism, avant garde culture and anti-art movement dah arus perdana di Kuching, bolehlah “man-man” bergerak ke anti-anti-art macam Stuckists.

link:Moronoise live at Saradise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch5yE5lu-PQ