Initialise (Gordon Hamilton)

ORDER OUR LATEST ALBUM: http://bit.ly/12B7YlZ http://www.theaustralianvoices.com http://www.facebook.com/theaustralianvoices http://twitter.com/TheAustVoices Commission an Australian composer: http://bit.ly/XyNtCK From the composer, Gordon Hamilton: The post-modern Internet Hipster, rather than merely saying the words of a common expression, clarifies his or her exact meaning by spelling them out, one initial letter at a time. It would be completely passé to say 'Oh my God/gosh,' instead of 'OMG'. As it would be to actually laugh, rather than saying 'LOL.' 'Initialise' is a torrent of Three-Letter Initialisms (conveniently abbreviated as 'T.L.I.s'), grouped into three different categories: 1. those that sound good together ('S&M, ATM, MnM'); 2. those that tell a story (CPR DOA RIP); and 3. those which contradict each other ('KKK AOK' - and please, click 'discard' on your emails of complaint - we know that the KKK definitely is not AOK!) In some cases maybe no one can tell whether or not they agree or contradict ('GFC KFC' and 'KGB GOP'). The music is just like the words: repetitive, obsessive and abbreviated. In the bits that sound like they are sung over and over to different words, really that's it - a single bar is repeated three or five or six times with three or five or six different lots of lyrics ('lyrics' might be an overstatement). If we can't be bothered writing/saying the whole expression, why bother writing out the damned notes? Starring: THE AUSTRALIAN VOICES (TAV) Composer/Artistic Director: GORDON HAMILTON Director/DOP: MIKI CLARKE Producer: SCOTT GRIFFIN Audio Engineer: Gareth David Actors: Craig Gaffney, Thalia Forbes-Mitchell THE FULL TEXT ---------------------------- CEO CIA XOX XXX 666 KKK AOK UFO BFF BBC A to B brb gtg GPS SOS SMS S&M ATM M&M ETA LAX TBA NBC NYC PVC PVA JFK LBJ LSD NBA VHS UHF UHT URL LOL LED LCD IOC IMF 2IC Y2K SOB IOU POQ QEII ICQ www.nsa.gov/faq.htm HTC HBO H20 FYI Fu2! FBI CPU USB BMX XPT .txt TNT 'A' to 'Zed' Zee? DVD .mov BLT Om Nom Nom CD-Rom SSATBB Pty. Ltd. P&C 3PO R2D2 edu.au .pdf PhD ALP LNP WTF!? 3GS IOS PPS SFX OSX 10.1 121 123 ABC Do Re Mi R'n'B IRA Gestapo KGB GOP WMD Tap Tap Tap USA PATRIOT Act LMFAO NATO RADAR SONAR SCUBA ASAP AWOL FIFA NASCAR JPEG MPEG QANTAS POTUS Vroom vroom vroom MPH BMW BYO DUI 911 CPR DOA RIP GFC KFC MSG TLC MTV OCD VIP HIV TBC OMG MP4 9 to 5 MI6 007