--- "Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void/ It is shining." - The Beatles, Tomorrow Never Knows --- THEORY/FICTION: David Wills, "States of Slate" Emery Jenson, "Integrated Circuits – Aberrant Forms: Scrolling TikTok with Jacques Lacan" Carlos A. Segovia, "I m p r o m p t u: The Alien – Heraclitus’s Cut" Sophie … Continue reading Stratum 10
Category: Sound & Vision
The Lunar System Sound Collage
-- https://alienocene.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/hanna-david-alienocene-new.wav --- ∞ "The Lunar System Sound Collage" – Hanna Mattes & David Rothenberg (2021) The Lunar System Sound Collage is a sound and poetry collaboration between musician and philosopher David Rothenberg and myself, visual and performance artist Hanna Mattes. After having worked on several sound pieces remotely for a year – him in … Continue reading The Lunar System Sound Collage
Vol Sombre
--- --- ∞ "Vol Sombre" - Kassel Jaeger, 2021 The term "vol sombre" (dark flight) corresponds to the phase where a meteorite, after having crossed the atmosphere, reaches its terminal speed, slows down, and does not shine any longer. The sound piece evokes this moment of free fall, comparatively slow compared to the cosmic speeds … Continue reading Vol Sombre
Strata
-- https://alienocene.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/mattias-for-alienocene.wav --- ∞ "Strata (Piece for Alienocene)" - Mattias Gustafsson (2021) --- Mattias Gustafsson (born 1978) is a sound artist from Mjölby, Sweden that has been releasing music as Altar Of Flies and his given name since 2006. He mostly works with magnetic tape and various instruments & electronics. His music is influenced by … Continue reading Strata
Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa
--- ∞ "Extraction: the Raft of the Medusa" - Salomé Lamas (2019-2020) Alienocene is proud to feature a film by Salomé Lamas, a prolific filmmaker who gives images and their blind spot the political content that allows them to touch the very heart of our present, where the ghosts of the past speak with the … Continue reading Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa
In Memoriam: In Enquiry (excerpts)
-- ∞ "Excerpts from In Memoriam: In Enquiry" (2021) - David Weiss, 2021 David Weiss is the Assistant Director at Chax Press & serves on the board of POG, a community poetry & arts organization, both located in Tucson Arizona. His book length poem In Memoriam: In Enquiry is forthcoming from Chax Press in early … Continue reading In Memoriam: In Enquiry (excerpts)
Stratum 9
--- "Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears." - Pauline Oliveros --- THEORY/FICTION: Benjamin Klug, "Kin of the Cosmos"Doron Darnov, "Review of Navigating the Planetary (H. Amanshauser and K. Bradley, eds.)"Kaitlin Moore, "A blank canvas, a painter's brush: Geoengineering and the Eschaton in Supergiant Games’s Transistor … Continue reading Stratum 9
Deep Blue
--- Deep Blue A film by Sebastian Wiedemann Springs and Apneas between Worlds to resist and re-exist the Pandemic. * There is a tradition of cinema that was born with Jean Painleve and asks to continue by other means. Immersing yourself in order to perceive. To make the invisible visible. Faced with the pregnant image … Continue reading Deep Blue
From Magnetic Adventures
--- ∞ "From Magnetic Adventures" (pdf) - Joseph Donahue, 2021 Joseph Donahue's most recent volumes of poetry are Wind Maps I-VII (Talisman 2018), and The Disappearance of Fate, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019). He is the co-translator of First Mountain, by Zhang Er. With Edward Foster he edited The World in Time and Space:Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry, 1970-2000 (Talisman, … Continue reading From Magnetic Adventures
‘…alternately Stone in you, and Star…’
--- '...alternately Stone in you, and Star...' Ed Keller, 2021: https://thermalhowl.bandcamp.com/album/alternately-stone-in-you-and-star --- 'The individual is the seat of a continual process of decantation-decantation from the vessel containing fluid of future time, sluggish, pale and monochrome-to the vessel containing the fluid of past time, agitated and multicolored by the phenomena of its hours.' Beckett ‘From such … Continue reading ‘…alternately Stone in you, and Star…’
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