Journal of the First Outernational
--- ∞ "Give Us Something From The Dynasty of Vision" - Lewis Freedman, 2020 Text, voice: Lewis Freedman Sounds: Cindy Terrafere Lewis Freedman is a writer of unsized transgressions. Texts bound and circulating under this name include Am Perhaps Yet (Oxeye), Residual Synonyms for the Name of God (Ugly Duckling), and Hold the Blue Orb, Baby (Well Greased). Another … Continue reading FROM THE DYNASTY OF VISION
-- 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
+++ "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" - 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
-- -- 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
--- "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" - 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
--- 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
--- 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]" - 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]
