RE-Genesis P. Orridge

A Chiastic Radiophonic Laboratory

Radiophonic Spheres

B is for Baby: Raymond Scott & Nocturnal Emissions

Iconochasm

 Iconochasm: Our system of society has long been the plaything of languages viral load — the vary fabric softener by which we brainwash meaning — is biased and indoctrinated with iconic frills and lace that we simply take for granted as ornamental re-definement; therefore we must challenge the definite, finite, and infinite of what icons may or may not stand for. We must define it, signify, and sign the necessary release form and resign them as needed. Otherwise these symbols will be held in lockdown, quarantined in the asylum and subject to barbaric brain mutilations. This flux  of electro-schlock therapy is essential for re-imaging the world. Lamennials need to take back the world from boom time the boomers, deaf on account of hearing that bomb, increasingly suffering from tardive dyskenesia and related mail(dis)order marketing campaigns.

Iconochasm sees crossing the abyss into the undifferentiated light of pre-prismed existence as a necessary step towards realigning the landmarks. No prior exposure to the courses of the Landmark Forum is necessary, and those may be foregoad by those who show the appropriate gaps in their thinking.

For as the many good books tell us so, it is by having gaps and chasms between the icons that we can see them as they truly are. 

LICHT: An Electronic Ambient Journey Through Stockhausen's Cycle of Seven Operas

 

Silent! Listen! A complete audio course of ambient initiation in just under seven hours of music is now available for adventurous listeners. Listen! Silent!

This is a mix of the more ambient and electronic aspects of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s cycle of seven operas, LICHT. LICHT is, among many other things, a practical application of the principles of the Glass Bead Game. Herman Hesse was one of the great influences on the thinking and spirituality of Stockhausen, and he used the Glass Bead Game as a reference point for many of his compositions. As such, LICHT, being in many ways, a modular opera (with the scenes being able to broken down into stand alone compositions, or recombined in various ways to produce other settings for the music) it makes sense also that the individual parts of various versions from the whole opera can be mixed or played in a recombinative manner. The entire cycle lasts twenty nine hours and their are many different arrangements, so this is only one possibility among a multitude!

Listening to this mix of excerpts in one sitting is designed to produce an illuminating effect. Each of the days of the week is represented in turn, thus it is also a journey through the seven planets of classical astrology. This mix of LICHT selections goes from Sunday through Saturday, beginning with Sunday’s Farewell for Five Synthesizers and ending with Kathinka’s Gesang for Flote and Musick Electronische.

The complete track list is as follows:
Sonntags Abschied for Five Synthesizers
Montags Gruss
Oktophonie (Electronic Layer from 2nd Scene of Dienstag aus LICHT)
Mittwochs Gruss
Mittwochs Abschied
Donnerstags Abschied (for Five Trumpets)
Freitags Gruss & Freitags Abschied (WELTRAUM)
Kathinka's Gesang for Flote and Musick Electronische 

Kathinka’s Gesang (also known as Lucifer’s Requiem) is a fitting end for the cycle and for the initiation as it is a series of musical exercises designed to help the soul reach the eternal light after departure in death. Stockhausen wrote this piece to be played for the departed for a consecutive 49 days after death.

“But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn’t reach their soul anymore.” -Stockhausen

“We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.”-Stockhausen

The Underground is the Undermind

 Dr. Jacques Cocteau also made an appearance  just about a moonth ago on Ken Katkin's Trash Flow Radio on May 30, 2020 to plumb the depths of the musical subconscious.

You can download the program, Underground Undermind here and view the set list of his exploration here. Among the many gems he played, the first hour featured several choice cuts from The Magic Carpathians, including from their new album Khemia. In the second hour he featured the psychedelic head-cleaner "Go Back to Sirius" by VagusNerve. The last hour of the three hour show included two tracks from two different albums by Moebius/Story/Leidecker, an excellent kraut infused blend of channel chopped audio. Pan Sonic, Laurie Spiegel, and many many others make appearances.