-- -- 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
Category: Sound & Vision
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 and … 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
Stratum 4
-- -- Sometimes a sound represents a whole era / Sometimes a sound represents a whole people. Nicole Mitchell, "A Sound" --- THEORY/FICTION: Phillip John Usher, "On the Exterranean" Esther Leslie, "Messianic Rays in the Atomic Age: Walter Benjamin in the Presence of Radioactivity" Jessica Lehman, "Beneath the Paving Stones, the Wake" Aaryn Smith, "Mapping the … Continue reading Stratum 4
If Whenever
--- "If Whenever (Alienocene Version)" - Franck C. Yeznikian, 2019 Franck Christoph Yeznikian was born on 22 May 1969 in Besançon (France). After beginning in post-punk music as a drummer, he explored other musical universes, especially acousmatic music, which he studied with Denis Dufour and Jean-Marc Duchenne at the conservatory of music in Lyon. Shortly thereafter he had the … Continue reading If Whenever
INLAND LAKE
--- “Photographs of notebooks, manuscripts ... My first notebook, a small one, with a black leather cover, was offered to me by my friend photographer Bruno Roche in 1988. I then opted for the registry type of notebook, large size (21/29,7cm, between 100 and 200 pages), and I started, little by little, a journal that … Continue reading INLAND LAKE
