Arvo is interviewed on the venerable site Chain D.L.K. Feel free to click on the link for the whole thing.
Of the millions and millions of xeroxed, hand-stitched, bound in
aluminum documents existent, there is the disembodied sense of a human
hand, tweaking the mixers to sculpt the air, to try and tame the raging
machines. You can see where they have pasted the covers, or the tape run
backwards. Listening to Arvo Zylo‘s
music, you get the sense that he loves handmade things. His fingers are
in every element of the production. He promotes his own material. He
makes the records and record sleeves himself. he sends off mutant
transmissions into the aether with his Delirious Insomniac Freeform Radio
program, where he spews his own underground noise, and helps spread the
gospel of other sewer-dwelling mutants. Listening to and looking at his
creations, they are uniquely personal and utterly sincere. He seems
like a person with a curious mind, who wants to see how things will
sound. He has a refreshing, old school industrial vibe to his
sensibilities, working with influential noise artists like Boyd Rice and
GX-Jupiter Larsen from The Haters. You can practically visualize the
sparking machines, the tinny radios belching static. His experience and
craftsmanship, as well as a history in the visual arts, allow him to
properly place artifacts in the sound field, yet he never stops moving
forward and trying new things, and he’s not afraid to fail.
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