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Boring historical and biographical information:
Captain Ahab consists of one man, The Benevolent General Hershnov, aka Jonathan Snipes. Hershnov is a senior in High School. He enjoys theatre, music, and writing about himself in third person. He started writing music his freshman year, and produced some really ghastly tunes. Now that he knows what he's doing a little better, he's given himself a name (Captain Ahab) and has started forcing his sounds down the throats of internet users. The name Captain Ahab originated (of course) from Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick, which Hershnov has never read. Really, the name was just chosen to piss off Moby, of whom Captain Ahab is a big fan. Ahab first came into public (by public, I mean internet-nerd) view in late June of 1999, when his first song "Swine Lung" was posted on mp3.com. In actuality, "Swine Lung" was not Captain Ahab's first song, but only the first posted to mp3.com. Ahab's first song was called "A Midsummer Night's Hangover," and you can only pray that you are never forced to hear it. Captain Ahab has not only written loads of bad techno music, but also some bad classical music. His first such project was the underscore for Peter Malcolm's play, The Carnival in the summer of 1998. Hershnov (as he was not yet called Captain Ahab) wrote a mere ten minutes of music that it also might be better if no-one ever heard. The next summer, for some odd reason, the newly named Captain Ahab found himself scoring two more plays. Two Stories (also by Peter Malcolm) and ARTWorks (by Hershnov's alter ego, Jonathan Snipes). This music was far more successful, but still (as is to be expected) terrible. Two Stories was a period piece, so the Captain was forced to expand his horizons into renaissance music, while ARTWorks was more contemporary, and called for electronic pseudo-techno. Ahab says that he does not present his music for people to enjoy, but rather so people will realize why Aphex Twin, Moby, Orbital, Banco De Gaia, Squarepusher, and Roni Size are so popular: They don't sound like Captain Ahab.
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