-- Our task is not to draw a sharp mental line between past and future but to complete the thought of the past. - Marx to Ruge, September 1843 THEORY/FICTION: Steven Shaviro, "Defining Speculation: Speculative Fiction, Speculative Philosophy, and Speculative Finance" Jennifer Wenzel, "Evicted from the Future" Jan Miernowski, Yves Citton, Ullrich Langer, … Continue reading Stratum 6
Category: Sound & Vision
The Cosmopolitical Gesture
+++ "The Cosmopolitical Gesture: Adab, The Demanding Memory " Ed Keller [2017-19]: video remixes, with soundscapes improvised live on solo electric guitar --- For ALIENOCENE, we present three film/sound excerpts: --- Intro: https://vimeo.com/379559386/f7ea03a5bd Timewar: https://vimeo.com/379559824/99f67a800a Outro: https://vimeo.com/379559589/f59c6ce683 --- Two complete audio recordings of Adab, The Demanding Memory - one a live performance, and one a rehearsal recording - can … Continue reading The Cosmopolitical Gesture
Outerworld, #1
∞ "Outerworld, #1" - Adita Keller, 2019 Adita Keller was born in West-Germany in 1968. She lived and studied in France, Germany and Israël. She is a poet and a musician. For around ten years, she has been a member of the art collective Dreaming Jewels. See also “As I Said To A Group Last … Continue reading Outerworld, #1
Stratum 5
-- -- If we imagine ourselves as planetary accidents rather than global agents, planetary creatures rather than global entities, alterity remains underived from us. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Imperative to Re-imagine the Planet” --- THEORY/FICTION: Claire Colebrook, "Unthinkable Extinction: Cinematic Time and the Panorama of History" Susanna Lindberg, "Unthinking the Underworld" Christian Keeve, "Cosmic Assemblages and … Continue reading Stratum 5
Combustion
--- "From The Combustion Cycle" (pdf) - Will Alexander (19XX-20XX) --- This excerpt is from the first poem of The Combustion Cycle. It contains 3 poems the first of which is "Concerning The Henbane Bird" uttered by the voice of a Peruvian Hillstar (the 2nd largest Hummingbird on Earth), the 2nd poem of the trilogy … Continue reading Combustion
The Choir of Darkwater
∞ "The Choir of Darkwater" - Cat Hope, 2019. Performed by Decibel new music ensemble, with the Low Tone Orchestra. Cat Hope is an Australian composer, musician, sound artist and researcher. Cat’s composition and performance practices engage elements of low frequency sound, drone, noise, graphic notation and improvisation and her works have been performed at … Continue reading The Choir of Darkwater
Music for Street Rumor
--- From Music for Street Rumor by Count G - 2019 ∞ "Abandoned (this side of the keyhole)" Field recordings always seem to find a way into Count G’s compositions. Often, with reverence for the accidental – the fact that any encounter with sound in one’s daily life may be in itself a musical element to be … Continue reading Music for Street Rumor
New Recording 7
--- Anna Vitale, "New Recording 7" (2019) Anna Vitale is the author of Our Rimbaud Mask and Detroit Detroit. Recent writing has appeared in Ear | Wave | Event and Counter. You can find a conversation between Anna and Judah Rubin at A Perfect Vacuum. She lives in Tivoli, NY.
Being, Plant [Vol.1]
--- ∞ "Being, Plant [Vol.1]" - Greg D. Cohen and Phillip John Usher, 2019 • G. D. Cohen is an artist, Associate Programmer at Los Angeles Filmforum, and Lecturer in Latin American Cinema and Visual Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work in video, photography, and multi-media installation has been exhibited nationally … Continue reading Being, Plant [Vol.1]
Justle
--- ∞ "Justle" (pdf) - Brian Evenson, 2019 --- Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press 2016) and the novella The Warren (Tor.com 2016). He has also recently published Windeye (Coffee House Press 2012) and Immobility (Tor 2012), both of which were finalists for a Shirley Jackson … Continue reading Justle
