Volenti Non Fit Injuria were a project by Jaimie Leonarder, which released one ninety minute album, on his own Dire.kt Tapes cassette label in 1982. "Intrommissio Sine Ejaculatione" is a textural, sometimes quiet work filled with subtle half-heard voices, harsh industrial noise, frenetic cut-ups, and dirge-like drones. The instruments used in recording the album were a Roland SH-5, Mini Moog, Sycussion SY-1, a ring modulator, and tape delay in the form of endless loops. The loops were strung across ten tape recorders Jaimie purchased for five dollars each from the Sydney University Language Lab. These tape recorders would also form the basis of a live-to-air radio project with fellow 2MBS-FM presenters John Blades, Richard Fielding, and Ron Brown, under the name The Loop Quartet. Later this idea was refined into the long-running sound collage group, The Loop Orchestra.
"Intrommissio Sine Ejaculatione" was released during a particularly vibrant time in music, when a worldwide network of independent musicians were exchanging ideas, mainly on cassettes through the mail. Dire.kt Tapes was one of these labels, and garnered favorable reviews in such publications as "Cassette Gazette". Jaimie recorded other tapes for Direk.t under the names Lumbarjackbondforhell, Vormittagsspuk, Volapuk, and he also compiled "The Institute of Tonal Generation" (Live Violation Series). This three C90 cassette box documented a festival of experimental music and art performance organized by Jaimie, and was held at Art Unit in November 1982. It was billed as, "Three Nights of Pain and One Day of Confusion", and featured such artists as Boxmusik, Consumer Gloom, War Meat and the Dictator, Bleak, Man Made Haze, Vormittagsspuk, and New Toys for Piggy Boys.
Jaimie was also an integral member of the Midnight to Dawn Collective, a group of radio presenters and musicians, who played adventurous new sounds on Sydney community radio station 2MBS-FM, often using the studio equipment itself as an instrument. Through his programs, "A Strictly Chemical Point of View", and "Sound Deprivation," Jaimie explored the furthest reaches of avant-garde, Industrial, experimental, and kitsch music. By the mid-eighties, Jaimie had formed the Mu Mesons, as an musical outlet for a collective of people who had been largely marginalized by society. For two decades, the Mesons delighted and bewildered audiences with riotous performances, filled with offbeat humor and raw emotion. Throughout the 1990’s, Jaimie and his wife Aspasia, performing under the names Jay Katz and Miss Death, had a popular DJ night, called "The Sounds of Seduction," as well as hosting film screenings at their own Mu Mesons Archives. The archives are an ever growing collection of 16mm films, video, cassettes, vinyl, books, and other ephemera, covering pop culture, cult film, horror, science fiction, the paranormal, and the esoteric. These activities culminated in the 2004 documentary titled "Love And Anarchy: The Wild Wild World of Jaimie Leonarder," directed by Brendan Young, and featured interviews with many luminaries of underground music and cinema.
The Mu Meson Archive is still very active with the interview podcast series, "The Naked World," and a rare film program, "Cult Sinema Obscura," plus "The Sounds of Seduction DJ Mixes," and many other musical, and film projects. Please visit
www.patreon.com/mumesons for more information.
released September 1, 2021
Download Includes: Front and Back Cover, Inserts, Original Sleeves and Credits.
Original Release: 1982 on Direk.t Tapes
GUMBY instrumentation by John Jacobs.
Additional instrumentation on Requiem by Marco Fante.
Engineered by: Lisa King at No Big Wheel Studios, 2021
Sleeve Design by: Penelope Courtney
Special thanks to: Jaimie and Aspasia Leonarder, the Mu Mesons Archive, Phil Turnbull, Patrick Gibson, Jeff Calder, and Andy Lonsdale
www.patreon.com/mumesons
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