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Current Mood: quixotic
Current Location: Sirius
Current Music: Tierkreis

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seeds from sirius

SEEDS FROM SIRIUS

I had high hopes that I would update this space with new material on a regular basis. Instead I have continued to focus on the essays, short to long form, that can find on my website: http://www.sothismedias.com
I have also been busy with a monthly webzine / newsletter Seeds from Sirius where some of my shorter & exclusive writing is contained. The newsletter has also been the place I have been posting about the various forms of radioactivity I'm involved in (shortwave / community FM / ham radio, etc.)

Seeds from Sirius, A Monthly Newsletter/Webzine:

The Sothis Medias newsletter, Seeds from Sirius, is your chance to be entertained and informed while staying abreast of the new developments being cooked up inside the library and laboratory at our research center. This format allows us to approach you with concepts that do not necessarily fit within the scope of our other Media outlets. With these dreamed, found, salvaged and retrofitted briefings, we hope to give readers recondite access to what we have been researching, listening too, reading and thinking. Some material will be provided by our Celestial Intelligence Agents out in the field. Each transmission will include the astral seed-form-patterns of what we have been building. We hope these seeds will inspire new ideas and provide an overall benefit to your day, bringing the stellar light of Sirius into your inbox with each epistolary missive. We encourage you to stay tuned-in to the work of Sothis Medias by subscribing to Seeds from Sirius today.

You can sign up here: http://www.sothismedias.com/seeds-from-sirius.html
Or direct message me here on Dreamwidth and I will add your email address to the list.

Current Mood: groggy
Current Location: Library
Current Music: Chumbawamba -WYSIWYG

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johnny appleseed

Freaks, Dreamers, Eccentrics and American Originals: A Very Partial List

This very partial, off the top of my head list, of Freaks, Dreamers, Eccentrics and American Originals was inspired by the post from JMG on Johnny Appleseed's America, and Violet Cabra's post of 100 Will Training exercise's Do It Cuz You Can. To help those who might need a place to start looking for American Visionaries and Eccentrics I compiled a list of 100 people I admire or like in some way as a spur to research even more on these characters. Your Mileage May Vary and I encourage everyone also to come up with their own list (which could be a good will training exercise too!)

1. Peace Pilgrim ( born Mildred Lisette Norman)
2. Frank Zappa
3. Mighty Atom (Joseph L. Greenstein)
4. Sun Ra (Herman Blount)
5. Harry Smith
6. Alan Lomax
7. L. Frank Baum
8. Edgar Allan Poe
9. Rudy Rucker
10. Ian Mackaye
11. Steve Albini
12. Henry Rollins
13. Wolfman Jack
14. Nikola Tesla
15. Charlie Chaplin
16. Dave Chappelle
17. George Carlin
18.Timothy Leary
19. William S. Burroughs
20. John Cage
21. Jack Kerouac
22. Allen Ginsberg
23. Gary Snyder
24. Wendell Berry
25. Robert Anton Wilson
26. Philip K. Dick
27. Harlan Ellison
28, Tom Waits
29. David Lynch
30. H.P. Lovecraft
31. Pauline Oliveros
32. Lee de Forest
33.Pee Wee Herman
34. Claude Shannon
35. Bobby Fischer
36. Israel Regardie
37. Manly P. Hall
38. The Shaggs
39. Lux Interior
40. Poison Ivy
41. Eric Slone
42. Robert Johnson
43. Dr. Seuss
44. Ernest Holmes
45. Daniel Beard
46. John Uri Lloyd
47. Augustus Knapp
48. P.T. Barnum
49. Vachel Lindsay
50. Car Sandburg
51. Ruth Lyons
52. Bob Braun
53. Charles Ives
54. La Monte Young
55. Terry Riley
56. Dr. Demento
57. Weir Al Yankovic
68. Lenny Bruce
69. Red Skeleton
70. Thomas Merton
71, Nema
72. Owen Knight
73. Lou Martine
74. Denny Sargent
75. Z'ev (Industrial musician and mystic)
76. Survival Research Laboratories
77. Bob Heil
78. Q. Reed Ghazala
79. Andy Kauffman
80. Mickey Spillane
81. Edgar Rice Burroughs
82. Ursula K. Leguin
83. Laurie Spiegel
84. Ramon Sender
85.Emminem
86. Wu Tang Clan
87. Amelia Earhart
88. Howard Hughes
89. George Antheil
90.Vine Deloria Jr.
91. Don Joyce
92. David Wills
93. Mark Hosler
94. Lafcadio Hearn
95. Jon Leidecker
96. John Boyd
97. Gordon Mumma
98. Robert Ashley
99. John Zorn
100. Alvin Lucier
101. David Behrman
102. Tiny Tim

August Ambient Hours: Lughnassadh Edition

Three Hours of Ambient Music from Trash Flow Radio, August 1, 2020

Hour 1

1. The River (excerpt for opening) - William Basinski

2. Hindmost Flood - Mount Shrine - Shortwave Ruins

3. Berkhoff Deflater - Metadronus & Ager Sonus - Shortwaves

4. Moth Open Math - Scanner- Colofon & Compendium

5. Wireless Fantasy - Vladimir Ussachevsky

6. Return to their Branches - Madtone & Jazzmin

7. Particle Showers - William Basinski

Hour 2

8. Birth of Decay - The Stargazers Assistant (from this pretty sweet House of Mythology comp)

9. Mistletan: Live Winter Solstice 2019 - Zoviet France

10. Sky Passage - Nigel Ayers - Painted by Spirits

11. Energy Plan -Download- Microscopic

12. VX Gas Attack - Skinny Puppy - Vivisect

Hour 3 (dedicated to the music of Adi Newton)

13. Psr.833-45 16.65 Mg HtZ - Psychophysicist

14. TAGC (The Anti-Group_ -The Inhabitants of Nemirion -from Tesserae comp that came with Abraxas #2

15. Soon -Psychological Operations

16. TAGC - Invader

17. TAGC -White Sands

18. outro over A Weathered Petroglyph by Kraig Grady

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Under

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trash flow radio

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.

Current Mood: awake
Current Location: Somewhere between the Sun to Saturn

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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

Current Mood: bitchy
Current Location: A Sculpture Park
Current Music: Sun Ra

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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.

Current Location: The World is my Womb
Current Music: Kids Songs

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B is for Baby: Raymond Scott & Nocturnal Emissions

Current Location: Between Mercury and Venus
Current Music: Music of the Spheres

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Radiophonic Spheres

Current Location: In the Schisma
Current Music: Autechre

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A Chiastic Radiophonic Laboratory

Current Location: Somewhere in the Bardos

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RE-Genesis P. Orridge

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Location: Walnut Hills
Current Music: Hallucinatory Psychedelia

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Free Radio Strider

Greetings Music Fans,

I have a recording of the Songs from Strides, aka Free Radio Strider episode of Trash Flow Radio. It is something of a Frankenstein, but all the songs are intact.

This episode features mostly music sent to me from my friend Stephen C. Strider. It also features a tribute to Genesis P. Orridge in the second hour.

As I mentioned to Andy while texting during the show I was having some technical issues. One of those tech issues was with the CD recorder. So unfortunately I did not get the majority of the show recorded, only the Gen tribute and what followed. I am very sorry about that. The CD recorder at WAIF was busted, so I tried to move into studio B, but something else there was wonky, so then I moved back to Studio A. Later I thought I would try the CD recorder again (after multiple attempts already) and it miraculously clicked into gear, hence being able to capture the last part of the show.

That being said, and very sad to have lost all my talking between songs and especially the conversation between Andy and I on the show, I did recreate the first part of the show by re-recording my intro, and then making just a very long set of all the songs I played, splicing that onto the front of the part I recorded. You can download or stream the file from here.

https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZ5QHxkZJDa68x1Pvn0Orizn6mUXOYqm5xTV

There are also attached pictures of the set list.

Consider this volume 1 of Songs from Strides. There will be more! Another episode will be made in the future.

Justin

Current Mood: weird
Current Location: Atlantis

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We Also Have Sound Houses

Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Location: West Deutsche Radiofunken
Current Music: Hooked on Radiophonics

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Radio Retronomicon: That Classic '50s and '60s Sound

Here is a Trash Flow Radio episode for all of you who like the Retro Future. DJ Jugular Jones was in the studio's at WAIF Cincinnati 88.3 for a three hour special showcasing the best music of the '50's and '60's you've never heard. You can download or stream the file here. If you've been aching for the simple radio pleasures of times gone past, than join Jugular Jones for a trip back in time to hear that "classic 50's sound". Thanks for listening to these forgotten hits & magnetic meories. This set also featured an episode of DJ Frederick's Radio Thrift Shop, Bargain Basement Bin edition, split into two 15 minute segment.

Set list:

1. Chromaphone Band - Dudley Simpson- from Doctor Who soundtracks
2. Gesang der Jungline (Song of Youths) - Karlheinz Stockhausen
3. Voix Angelique - F. C. Judd -from Electronics without Tears
4. Etude aux Objets (Objets Assembler) - Pierre Schaeffer
5. Daisy Bell - IBM Mainframe
6. Poeme Electronique -Edgar Varese
7. Little Miss Echo - Raymond Scott -from Music for Baby
8. Silver Apples of the Moon I - Morton Subotnick
9. Radar Blues -Harry Revel, Dr. Samuel Hoffman & Les Baxter - Perfume Set to Music
10. The Wizard's Laboratory - Delia Derbyshire
11. Seven Organism Study - Charlegmagne Palestine - from Mid-Air (early electronic works)
12. DJ Frederick's Radio Thrift Shop, Bargain Basement Bin, Part 1
13. Cindy Electronium - Raymond Scott
14. Synchronism No. 5 - Mario Davidosky
15. Collage #1 (Blue Suede) -James Tenney
16. Song of the Second Moon - Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan
17. Music for Tape Recorder - Vladimir Ussachevsky
18. I Write the Songs - Bob Braun
19. Postlude from Music for a Sacred Service - Bulent Arel
20. Mysterioso - F. C. Judd- from Electronics Without Tears
21. Etude -Karlheinz Stockhausen
22. Take Off Electronomusic -John Pfeiffer
23. MFSK-16 Digital Text Transmission
24. Out of Into - Daria Semegen and Bulent Arel
25. Boat House Woman - Holger Czukay
26. DJ Frederick's Radio Thrift Shop, Bargain Basement Bin, Part 2
27. ?- Tom Dissevelt and Kid Batalan
28. Rocket's in Ursa Major - Daphne Oram
29. Pulse Persephone - Daphne Oram
30. Magnetic Field - Joe Meek
31. Space Adventure Part 2. - Martin Slavin
32. Doctor Who Theme - Delia Derbyshire

Special thanks goes to Ken Katkin for letting me fill in on Trash Flow Radio, DJ Frederick for the use of Radio Thrift Shop, and to Dan KE8AWT for pointing me in the direction of Tom Dissevelt and John Pfeiffer.

If you like this kind of thing and like reading about the history of music and technology than check out my Radiophonic Laboratory series of articles: http://www.sothismedias.com/the-radiophonic-laboratory.html

Free Radio Skybird

Free Radio Skybird Update

DJ Frederick has a special plan for shortwave domination. The Free Radio Skybird schedule for the end of March through May is out now, with the next episode airing on Sunday March 29th. If you just can't wait to tune in you can listen to the full stereo recording of the show now on DJ Frederick's Soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/djfrederick/free-radio-skybird-march-29-2020

Besides DJ Frederick's choice cuts of anything and everything from prog era rock, library music, and basement bargain bin scores and dumpster dived deviance from anything normal, there will be segments from One Deck Pete reading the Skybird Mailbag, and his "Radio Fanatics of the World Unite" mix that has tunes from Nadezha Orlova, Duce Haus and Yemanjo and the Monarch Duo. There will also be two new segments of the Radiophonic Laboratory each month in April and May. In this end of March episode I feature music from Tod Machover, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and David Rosenboom from my home studio aboard the VALIS satellite.

All broadcasts are via 6070 Khz shortwave transmitting from Germany at 1100 UTC. That is 7 AM for all you early risers here in the Eastern time zone of the US. For those in the UK and Europe where the broadcast has the most coverage it is actually a nice mid-morning slot of time. If you haven’t got a shortwave radio it can also be heard on the SDR link on Channel 292’s site here:

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6070am

It's going to be wicked!

March 29 - new broadcast
April 5 - repeat
April 13 (Monday instead of the usual Sunday) - new broadcast
April 19 - repeat
April 26 - new broadcast
May 3 - repeat
May 10 - new broadcast
May 17 - repeat
May 24 - new broadcast
May 31 - repeat.

Current Mood: thirsty
Current Location: Somewhere over Kazakhstan
Current Music: Satellite songs

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Radiophonic Laboratory: VALIS Pirate Satellite Edition

Current Location: 60 km above ground
Current Music: Free Radio Skybird

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Free Radio Skybird: February 16 & 23

It's been since the beginning of January when DJ Frederick’s Free Radio Skybird was last heard surfing the shortwaves. But don’t worry, another session is coming up, and soon it will be time to hang five again. The next transmission is scheduled to occur on Sunday 16th February at 1400 UTC on 6070 kHz via Channel 292. The show will be rebroadcast on Sunday 23rd February at 1100 UTC on 7440 kHz. If you haven’t got a shortwave radio (why the heck not?) it can also be heard on the SDR link on Channel 292’s site here.

The programme will feature One Deck Pete presenting the Skybird Mailbag. There’ll also be an airing of Pete’s “Less is more” mix that has new tunes from Mai, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian & Seventh Soul and Blanco. Mixes from Pete's previous shows are available at his audio podcast page here. Also featured will be my own Radiophonic Laboratory tuning in this time to the world of the satellites.

The programme will be available on DJ Frederick’s Soundcloud page a day or so before transmission date if you want to hear it in true stereo but we here prefer the show with added noises from the ionosphere. Tune in and turn on! #shortwavesnotdead #madtone #freeradioskybird

Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: A Love Supreme

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John Coltrane and the Music of the Spheres

Just some links here others might find of interest... and a video relating a chart John Coltrane made with the Music of the Spheres. I'm posting these here as also a kind of bookmark for myself to come back too but thought others would dig it too.

Watch on YouTube

http://www.openculture.com/2017/04/the-tone-circle-john-coltrane-drew-to-illustrate-the-theory-behind-his-most-famous-compositions-1967.html

https://roelhollander.eu/en/blog-saxophone/Coltrane-Geometry/

https://roelhollander.eu/en/blog-saxophone/Coltrane-Tone-Circle/