May 21, 2010: This is a Google Translate interpretation of Kulturterrorismus‘ review of Dawning Luminosity:

Into three “acts” VioSac celebrates “Dawning Luminosity” a world full of sadness and determination that is reminiscent only in terms of sound (analog instrumentation) to previous works and otherwise a return or further disclosed to deep drones, which certainly new listeners layers opens up, if this performance is no “flash in the pan is.

VioSac revealed with “Dawning Luminosity” an almost catchy release, the ambient & drone fetishists necessarily have to call their own, however VioSac followers of earlier days could be a little disappointed. Although the absolute change my recommendation, based on the high (almost overwhelming) expression of the plays, which invite to a beautiful mind movie that, under the motto “Understand, and be free!” Runs out!

May 19, 2010: A nice little review of Dawning Luminosity was published today in the Vital Weekly newsletter. Quoted here:

VIOLENCE AND THE SACRED PERFORMING AS VIOSAC – DAWING LUMINOSITY (CD by VioSac)
Back in Vital Weekly 656 we were re-introduced to Violence And The Sacred performing as Viosac, the new name of what was once known as just Violence And The Sacred. Still I have no idea why they hold on to the addition ‘Performing As Viosac’, and not just simply return to the old name. ‘Rusty Pile’ wasn’t a convincing come-back album I thought. Perhaps a bit too much of an unedited jam-session. The CD after that ‘You Are PLanning To Enjoy The Apocalypse’ wasn’t received here. The new work ‘Dawing Luminosity’ is however a great work. Viosac move into a more ambient territory here, which not necessarily adds much to the world of ambient and drones, but the quality is great. Its one piece in three parts and I’m told its all analogue synthesizers and analogue processing. Very slow moves around here, this an almost perfect piece of surround sound, ambient in the very most true sense of the word. An excellent disc of some heavenly music. As said, it doesn’t add much, if anything at all, to what we already know about this kind of music, but its very rare that it unfolds into such a beauty. (FdW)

The original context will be here in a day or two. It is also here, near the middle of the page.

August 29, 2009: Once again a review from kulturterrorismus, this time of You are planning to enjoy the apocalypse. I am impressed with their enthusiasm … translation below, non-human-generated, hence pretty much useless, but it does convey some meaning, I believe. Apologies to the author. I really must learn some more languages.

Though I work with computers, easily 12 hours a day, more or less, I strongly believe they will never be able to successfully parody human thinking.

“After the impressive return “Rusty Pile” (2008), which appear after 16th years in the sinking, VioSac with “You are planning to enjoy the apocalypse” offer its second work that gets threatening Apocalypse mood into domestic living rooms.

These emotionally loaded sound scenery persons, whom prefer the free-thinking variant of the music, which far away all “underground normality” moves, must themselves on “You are planning to enjoy the apocalypse” of VioSac “pure pull” to experience around the feeling of the total personality – my absolute recommendation if one would like to drop himself of the remainder of the scenery!”

August 27, 2009: I noticed today that a review of Rusty Pile was published in the German online industrial-noise-style webzine kulturterrorismus. Sadly I don’t know German, but the review sounds positive from the Internet-generated-non-human translation below. John Whyte is speaking to a German-English-fluent-friend to have a translation done. (Today must be joining-words-together-day.) Fatigue is setting in.

Thanks to the kind folks at kulturterrorismus … and apologies for this translation.

“What must an art project such as VioSac (Violence and the Sacred performing ace VioSac) move after 16th years in the sinking in addition to produce new album with “Rusty Pile”? A question for what the answers keep a lookout follows how: “No Label! No motivation! etc. etc.,! why the return put on in own achievement “Rusty Pile” the more amazes, represents the one futuristic maximum performance.

Freaks, that the special seek appreciate how, should convince himself this gelungene such as futuristic return “Rusty Pile” of VioSac out of Noise, Industrial & field reception do not escape let, which through compactness, independence & Abgedrehtheit – my absolute recommendation!”

January 11, 2009: We are making significant progress on some refinements to the 2nd new Viosac CD, You Are Planning to Enjoy the Apocalypse (YAPTETA).  A good draft of YAPTETA was completed back in September, but the Rusty Pile release and promotion has consumed most of my efforts since then. Now that one CD has been released,  I can, somehow, hear the music a bit better through a listener’s ears and this helps me produce things that I think at least I would want to listen to. As a result, one piece has been shortened, one completely reworked, and one remixed.  Today I’m working on a new piece which if successful might be included and called Ovis Christus. If not successful it will, of course disappear.

The YAPTETA artwork is complete, except for a few words and, thanks to John Whyte, is very beautiful.

Rusty Pile has been receiving some airplay.  CBC’s The Signal has played three tracks, a few have shown up on CKLN in Toronto (A Missing Sense/Electric Storm), as well as some US stations in New Mexico and Michigan.  Interestingly the two tracks of Shakespeare sonnets have been almost always the ones chosen. These two tracks almost didn’t make it onto the disc as I found them a bit too self-consciously arty (for wont of a better word), I guess because of the words.  Odd, perhaps, that I would think of Shakespeare as being “arty” and not a bunch of electronic blips and pops. Of course, when push comes to shove, I don’t have a problem with being perceived as arty or pretentious.  Without pretense, what do we have?  Usually those words are used in the ongoing war against thought and intelligence, so I feel that need to be used carefully. I will always remember being hated at school.