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PromEvil – part 4 “Dance the Night Away!”

Joseph Matheny — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:45:05 +0000

See who lives, who dies, and who finds romance at the Polk High prom, in this, the final installment…

Also including a sneak preview of our new series, Bingo the Birthday Clown (debuting 11/3)

Enjoy, and please stick around at the end to hear about our special bonus offer! And our MANY thanks to those who have already donated!!!

Music Links:
Sinkhole
Incompetech.com

PromEvil – part 3 “What a doll!”

Joseph Matheny — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:11:11 +0000

Trapped in Polk High with some kind of murderer, Hal, Lyn, Gee (and all the rest) must fight for survival!!

Find out who’s doing the killing!

Enjoy, and please stick around at the end to hear about our special bonus offer!

Music Links:
Sinkhole
Incompetech.com

In case you missed it:

PromEvil 1: http://media.libsyn.com/media/nineteennocturne/19Noc_PromEvil1_podcast.mp3
PromEvil 2: http://media.libsyn.com/media/nineteennocturne/19Noc_PromEvil2_podcast.mp3

R.I.P. Mac Tonnies

Joseph Matheny — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:10:03 +0000

Former sTaRe contributor and early sTaRe Network participant, Mac Tonnies has passed away. Mac was found dead in his apartment on Thursday. He was a Fortean researcher that you could actually stand to be around. He will be missed.

Links and picture from: http://www.ballardian.com/rip-mac-tonnies

Here’s an interview that Jason did with Mac for Alterati- They Came from … Earth? An Interview With Mac Tonnies

Mac’s blog, Posthuman Blues
Mac’s Twitter stream
Mac’s last interview on Coast to Coast

19 Nocturne Boulevard – PromEvil – part 2

Joseph Matheny — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:58:41 +0000

Part 2: “Ins and Outs”

Will Hal and Lyn ever run into each other? Will Todd find his true love?Will Barb ever shut up?…. Enjoy, and please stick around at the end to hear about our special bonus offer!

Music Links:

Sinkhole

Incompetech.com

The GSpot:Chris Arkenberg

Joseph Matheny — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:05:53 +0000

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Chris Arkenberg about everything from the future to music and technology.All music provided by N8UR (Chris Arkenberg)

Babylon System
Nude Dressed
SmiteDemDub

BIO: Chris Arkenberg is a strategic researcher and futurist watching for patterns at the intersection of human culture and technology. He’s currently working as a visiting researcher at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, Ca., where he’s researching the emergent field of Brain Computer Interface for the Institute’s 2009 Technology Horizons program. He did undergrad in psychobiology at UCSC, then worked a 2yr stint at Gateways metaphysical bookstore, followed by a 10-year stretch working 3D & management for Adobe Systems, Inc.

On the side, he’s an electronic music producer under the moniker N8UR, while also enjoying and engaging his local community in Santa Cruz, Ca. His blog is URBEINGRECORDED .

19 Nocturne Boulevard – PromEvil, part 1 of 4

Joseph Matheny — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:59:32 +0000

[Part 1 of 4] 19 Nocturne Boulevard and Wheeality Productions presents our very first “audio movie”!

PromEvil takes you to that most horrifying of places – HIGH SCHOOL. On prom night, naturally. And something horrible is about to come out of the woodshop, and we don’t mean Hal in his school mascot costume….

Enjoy, and please stick around at the end to hear about our special bonus offer!

We Live In Public

Joseph Matheny — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:06:39 +0000

Rather prophetic statements by Josh Harris, love him or hate him, but the Internet has largely become yet another steaming pile of former potential, digested, converted and shat out by the human condition. Documentary movie website.

Colton Harris-Moore

Joseph Matheny — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:23:40 +0000

09-09-09 (2:38 pm PST) Was just notified by one of the owners of the the Facebook page that it has just been restored after being suspended most of the day by Facebook without proper explanation.

Colton Harris-Moore took this self-portrait, found on a stolen digital camera and provided Tuesday by the Island County Sheriff’s Office, in July 2009. Harris-Moore, 18, is suspected in about 50 burglary cases since he slipped away from a halfway house in April 2008.

The saga is beginning to feel like something out of the movie “Catch Me If You Can,” as Harris-Moore keeps finding new ways to embarrass police by slipping through their grasp.

The 18-year-old typically breaks into businesses or unoccupied vacation homes, lies down on the couch and then dashes into the woods if confronted. He earned himself the nickname of “the barefoot burglar” by committing some of his crimes without wearing shoes.

But authorities say the case has taken on a dangerous new dimension now that Harris-Moore is apparently joyriding in small aircraft.

Read the full story here.

Added 09-09: Anyone know why the Facebook group below, with 5,000+ members at last look last night has vanished this morning? *First hint that it was a Facebook smackdown
Confirmed, it was a Facebook smackdown.

Colton Harris-Moore Facebook fans

The Pirate Bay Relocates to a Nuclear Bunker

Joseph Matheny — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:25:56 +0000

The Pirate Bay is going on a road trip through Europe, one they hope to end today in a former NATO bunker. After a move from Sweden to the Ukraine, The Pirate Bay has now arrived at CyberBunker, an ISP that can provide them with a facility that can resist a nuclear attack as well as electromagnetic pulse bombs. STORY

Immanence of Myth introduction on RS

Joseph Matheny — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:17:00 +0000

“James Curcio is currently collecting submissions for an anthology entitled The Immanence of Myth (click the following link for submission guidelines). In the article below (a version of the anthology’s introduction), he lays out the ideas that will frame the anthology — particularly concerning the evolving role of mythology in our post-industrial, highly technologized, capitalist [...]

The Gspot: John Harrigan

Joseph Matheny — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:31:30 +0000

In anticipation of the upcoming performance of The Abattoir Pages, Joseph Matheny in conversation with John Harrigan about anything and everything that comes to their mind.

All music provided by Veil of Thorns
Songs, in order:

And the Beast of the Vision Still Roams in Dream
Intellectual Institutional Object
Thought Pollution Evolution

In Your Ear: Reviewing Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story

Guerrilla Zoo and FoolishPeople present The Abattoir Pages, a terrifying immersive Halloween experience, hosted in a vast, secret subterranean landscape that was once one of London’s largest abattoirs.

The Abattoir Pages combines immersive performance, art installation, haunting and treasure hunt-style activity to form a labyrinth of mystery and horror, exposing the earliest Gaelic and Pagan rites. Once inside, audience members will be free to explore the abandoned underground chambers, join the secret party or may be caught in the middle of the most terrifying of puzzles.

This Hallowe’en, the infamous horror author Helen Mayer will hold court at a debauched secret party. She will share the perverse and warped research conducted inside the old abandoned abattoir, which was the genesis of her greatest work. In this dark playground, the very nature of human terror has been tested, abused and fed into the living story ‘The Forest’.

The author invites you to solve the puzzle and unlock the terrifying history within the old and powerful pages hidden throughout the slaughterhouse. Each holds a key to learning the truth of an ancient tale, which will ensure your survival.

Tonight, a debt will be repaid to blood dishonoured. An eternal nightmare rises up from the depths of the dark boreal forest, in the shadow of the mountain. It comes to feed on new meat inside an old abattoir.

http://www.apocryphon.org/

The Gspot: Esozone

Joseph Matheny — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:35:08 +0000

Joseph Matheny in coversation with Klint and Jillian from Esozone, talking about the new “open source and unconference model” being used this year.

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After EsoZone Portland 2009, we will release the “EsoZone Protocol,” a set of guidelines similar to an open source software license that will enable organizers to host an EsoZone in their own city as long as they are free and follow the “unconference” model.

Portland’s weirdest event just got weirder

This year EsoZone – an annual Portland conference dedicated to the occult, fringe science, and other offbeat topics – is forgoing a pre-planned schedule in favor of letting attendees create their own agenda.

On October 9th, participants will arrive at Watershed PDX and collaboratively create the schedule. The event will be free and open to the public, and anyone will be able to propose a session, lead a workshop, or suggest a group activity. The approach is called “unconferencing,” a technique pioneered by tech-industry events.

Portland has played host to a number of unconferences in the past few years, including BarCamp, WordCamp, and CyborgCamp.

Event organizers Klint Finley and Jillian Ordes-Finley were inspired to transform EsoZone into an unconference after attending CyborgCamp in December of 2008.

“I was amazed at how quickly the schedule was put together at CyborgCamp, and how smoothly the event ran. We’d agonized over the EsoZone schedule for months and were still changing things at the last minute. I was really impressed by how the whole unconference model worked,” Finley says.

The pair hope this new approach will help EsoZone better reach is goal: fostering connections between its eclectic and oftentimes outsider audience. Finley says “This should be a better platform for getting people to interact each other, and making sure the event centers around the subject matter the attendees really want to discuss.”

EsoZone will use the same scheduling system used by CyborgCamp and BarCamp. Participants will propose sessions on 8.5 x 11 pieces of sticky paper and place them on a large schedule grid on the wall. The sessions can then be rearranged as necessary as attendees negotiate times and spaces for each session. New sessions can be added to empty slots at any time during the event.

In order to give people an idea of what to expect, the organizers are encouraging likely participants to propose subjects on their online forum in advance of the event. However, nothing will be decided until the actual event.

EsoZone will also be exhibiting esoteric art by a variety of artists. “Watershed is such a cavernous space, we have room for a staggering amount of artwork,” Ordes-Finley says. Although artists will be allowed to hang art the day of the event, they are encouraged to check in ahead of time if they have questions or could have any logistical issues.

More information, and contact details, are available at esozone.com

Happy Friday

Joseph Matheny — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:18:23 +0000

19 Nocturne Boulevard – DraculaDotCom

Joseph Matheny — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:49:07 +0000

DraculaDotCom

An irreverent re-imagining of the classic Stoker tale, as relayed in emails and other electronic media.

Music by Jamick (available in English through Jamendo)

Opening theme by Kevin MacLeod

Cover art by Brett Coulstock

Remember, watch for regular 19 Nocturne Boulevard on Alterati starting in October.

The GSpot: HipGnosis- Eric Young

Joseph Matheny — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:55:06 +0000

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Eric Young of HipGnosis, talking about life as an independent musician and more. Also, an episode of In Your Ear, Reviewing The Leviathan Chronicles – an Audio Adventure (http://www.leviathanchronicles.com/rss/podcasts.xml or http://www.theleviathanchronicles.com/ for high bandwidth – lots of animation, etc. Includes cast of characters, episode summaries, blog and all that kind of stuff). Also, a blurb from FoolishPeople about The Abattoir Pages.

Music in this episode provided by HipGnosis : Glitch 303 Rendered, Underground Loom High to Fly, DOC

Links:

Coming up next week: A special GSpot edition, talking to the organizers of Esozone!

BIO: Eric Young, born November 13, 1976, in Jacksonville, Illinois, USA.
Encouraged to have a wide variety of musical taste from a young age, Eric Young began collecting
influences and records from age 6, after hearing Kraftwerk and a lot of early hip hop. Growing up in
the Midwestern United States, Eric had plenty of time to focus on musical studies.
Beginning trumpet at age 9, Eric continued with private lessons in composition and performance and
participated in both school and extracurricular bands throughout elementary, middle, and high school.
Graduating in 1995, he gave up playing trumpet to focus on learning to play tribal hand drums and
singing. During this time, Eric was introduced to the electronic music scene and illegal raves in St.
Louis.

Eric attended college at Mac Murray College in Jacksonville, IL, studying comparative religion and
philosophy, with a focus on pre-christian pagan traditions and philosophies of the far east, in particular
the mystic and mystery religions. That line of study has continued after leaving college, into the present
day, as well as an interest in higher consciousness, energy work, and alternative healing methods.
After relocating to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in 1998, he began DJing bleepy acid house and IDM at
house parties and local clubs, eventually going on to host and DJ two separate radio shows on stations
90.1 WEFT and 104.5 WRFU. After several more years of independent study into subjects such as
brain change technology ( binaural tones, cymatics, and psychoacoustics) and still composing music, it
was a natural step to move on to production and studio engineering. That became Eric’s primary focus
from that point.

Since 2001, Eric Young has produced and released 9 albums through independent channels, featuring
other talented artists collaborating on many of the projects, most recently his instrumental release
“Scientific Illuminism (Is For Sissies)” on Lab Beat, in the UK. In addition to that, he is DJing,
producing, mixing, and mastering for artists and labels worldwide. He is currently living in Des
Moines, Iowa, and working on 3 new releases as well as putting out progressive, quality DJ mixes
regularly.

In July 2009, HipGnosis began hosting a 2-hour weekly show on http://glitch.fm . “Between Zero and
One” airs Wednesday nights 10 pm – 12 am CST, streamed live, with archives and setlists at
http://thereisnotwo.tk . More information on HipGnosis and links to his complete discography can be
found at http://hipgnosis.us .

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