Internal: AUDiNT (Phonoccultural Studies)
PRE-PREFATORY NOTE: The memorandum was first published in the UN TUNE magazine accompanying the 2015 CTM Festival (Berlin). PREFATORY NOTE: The explosion of activity around the release of the Senate...
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Flagged Suspicious (2015)
Video: Dal Bo Sound: Cecchetto (click image to view video in new tab)
View ArticleXENAUDIAL serial
HT to Xenaudial for unfolding its speculative psychoacoustical narrative. We will be following it closely. The latest chapter, below. – Fr. xenopraxis :::: Soon after the solo experiments mentioned...
View ArticleOrchids
Eldritch Priest’s film about an ice-glazed Russian Sage and a patina of sine tones, distortion, and random harmony.
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Clown Torture
This is the last sentence of the story that I said I would tell you, but it’s out of place. This is the next sentence of that story, tho since it follows the last sentence it should be the first...
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Tuning Speculation (NYC) ‘Maginary Magnitudes and Sonic Refractions
FRIDAY, 1 APRIL 1 2016 9:00 AM — 18:00 PM New York University Performance Studies Studio 721 BROADWAY 6th Floor, room 612 This one-day symposium approaches such things as sound writing, auditory...
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XENO
(xenophoran) xeno-, comb. form. Before a vowel xen-, repr. Greek ξενο-, ξεν-, combining form of ξένος a guest, stranger, foreigner, adj. foreign, strange; used in various scientific and other terms...
View ArticleHalloween Tooth-Shaving in the Pre-Dawn of the Trumposcene
Halloween Tooth-Shaving in the Pre-Dawn of the Trumposcene[1] On the last night of October 2016, having already considered shaving my teeth, I found myself at a Halloween party in Washington, DC,...
View ArticleTHE RESTRICTED AND THE GENERAL
Deep Throat was slouched against a pillar at the north end of the underground parking lot we used to meet in. It had been over 40 years, but the vagaries of chronoportation made it seem like just...
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Alternating Veracity
Reason, n., an imaginary process onto which the responsibility for thinking is off-loaded. — René Daumal, A Night of Serious Drinking. 1.0—My two cents—though it’s worth recognizing that in Canada the...
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ex post facto ex ante
Ah, coffee. The espresso maker hisses at me and I’m glad to interrupt my reverie. A friend once remarked that coffee could be the foundation of an ontology. He never followed up. Neither did I. But...
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Not Bill but Joan
Bill, armed A few months ago, I traveled to the Performing Arts Forum in St. Erme France. I have been thinking about guns ever since. I went to talk about sex. The other speaker’s talk was on sects. It...
View ArticleTHE PROSODIAC (or, A PRO’S O.D.)
DARPA, Defense Sciences Office, is seeking individuals with advanced musical training and expertise with audio software environments for a wide-range of research initiatives tasked with the development...
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TSpec VI (Nov. 2018, Bloomington)
CALL FOR PAPERS Due July 1, 2018 Auscultations | Occultations, Listening to the Occult Keynote Speakers: Jayna Brown (Pratt) and Joyelle McSweeney (Notre Dame) November 2 – 4 2018 The Back Door, 207...
View ArticlePERSONALITIES WITHOUT PEOPLE. Guest Post by Katherine Behar!
Editorial note: The Occulture is delighted, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, to publish Katherine Behar’s extremely lucid diagnosis of the dividualizing mechanisms increasingly...
View ArticleTS5: Katherine Behar’s Personalities Without People
A preview of the complete set of TS5 talks, coming in the next few weeks on this channel! – xenopraxis
View ArticleTUNING SPECULATION 6: JULY 1 DEADLINE!
Occulturists, present and future, The extended Tuning Speculation deadline for occultural papers is July 1, rapidly approaching! Details here. Looking forward to wild and witchy concoctions! –...
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XENO
(xenophoran) xeno-, comb. form. Before a vowel xen-, repr. Greek ξενο-, ξεν-, combining form of ξένος a guest, stranger, foreigner, adj. foreign, strange; used in various scientific and other terms...
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