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Daniel O'Sullivan Biography

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Daniel O'Sullivan, born on December 1, 1980, is an individual whose profession category is unknown. His life experience and contributions are currently limited in available information.

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“We met [with Massimo Pupillo] many years ago in the halcyon days of the underground avant-prog math-rock scene when I was playing in Guapo.”

Years Rocks Mets Scene Years Ago Math Halcyon Days

Author:Daniel O'Sullivan

“I remember Massimo [Pupillo] sending me an email from Tibet saying he was up in a cave somewhere, being very still. We found we had lots of shared affinities that we'd never really talked about before.”

Stills Remember Found Caves Email Affinity Tibet

Author:Daniel O'Sullivan

“I think it's fair to say we're both in the business of self-obliteration through music.”

Thinking Self Fairs

Author:Daniel O'Sullivan

“As soon as you think you have a firm idea you allow it to dissolve and you let go of it, particularly when it comes to a stylistic or aesthetic identity. In fact, you only really find out what it is when you deconstruct it; so, yeah, that's a sort of collage sensibility of having a lot of voicings coming from all over the place and not necessarily trying to shape them or try to commodify them. It keeps you in the living language... an opportunity to not be governed so much by intellect.”

Thinking Trying Ideas Facts Opportunity Language Identity Shapes Letting Go Yeah Intellect Firm Aesthetic Sensibility Collages

Author:Daniel O'Sullivan

“I don't feel like the real, transcendental sound experiences I've had in my life have anything to do with intellect.”

Feels Real Sound Intellect Transcendental

Author:Daniel O'Sullivan

“It is the shared experience - [although] you're the conduit of the sound, the recipient is also in some way the author of the work, because if they weren't the author of the work they wouldn't be able to recognise it as an experience, you could argue. The more distance you can put between yourself and having any kind of objective the more likely it is to appear.”

Ifs Way Kind Able Sound Distance Arguing Objectives Recognise Shared Experiences

Author:Daniel O'Sullivan

“The superabundance is an ecological myth that we will never run out of resources, that the Earth, that Gaia, is in this perpetual state of renewal. And the "contagious magic" is the blind belief that this is the case, and the reason we're careering towards ecological disaster.”

States Reason Running Earth Belief Cases Magic Resources Blind Myth Disaster Perpetual Renewal Ecological Contagious Gaia Blind Belief

Author:Daniel O'Sullivan

“If you really were aware of the Earth in a singular context, putting it into the perspective of the galaxy, for example, then you would see that it is not infallible, that it is just part of a much bigger system that is part of a much bigger system and onward.”

Ifs Earth Example Perspective Bigger Galaxy Infallible

Author:Daniel O'Sullivan

“It has a double meaning - the superabundance also means the space around, the incomparable massiveness of things, and how there's not much of a discrepancy between the tiniest microbe and the supercluster: the small and the infinite are inseparable.”

Mean Space Infinite Inseparable Incomparable Microbes Discrepancies Double Meaning Discrepancies Between

Author:Daniel O'Sullivan

“The superabundance alludes to the myth that is ensuring our demise but it's also the space around and possibly the void that we enter into, beyond that delusion.”

Space Myth Delusion Void Demise

Author:Daniel O'Sullivan

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Born: December 1, 1980
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Quotes: 10

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