We’ve been through a lot of ups and sideways with this site. Luckily we’ve had no real downs with the exception of one. We’ve been pursued by the torrent police, accused by conspiranoia geeks of all sorts of shenanigans and high weirdness, gone through two format changes, added and subtracted several shows, hit some home runs, triples, doubles and singles. Too many baseball analogies? Sorry, had to think of baseball, think of baseball…oh yeah. We were even accused of being a porn site by Google. WTF?

Times have changed and changed drastically. We no longer feel that the old Alterati style is relevant to this very pivotal time in human history. Times are weird, so it’s time for the weird to turn pro.

Alterati.com will be archived and merged into Incunabula/Greylodge by the end of this month. Alterati.com/blog URL will still go to a locked archive of this site, while Alterati.com will resolve to Incunabula.org/Greylodge.org. This means that all stories and podcasts will remain available indefinitely and the URLs for them will remain the same. A few new podcasts and a few of the current ones will be carried by the main site at Incunabula/Greylodge going forward.

We’re merging sites for editorial reasons. Focusing on one site will allow us to spend more time digging up alternative news chunks, music, lit, art, et al. for your enjoyment, education and  hopefully to  stimulate you into some sort of action.

We’ve had a blast serving up nuggets of alternative goodness and will be continuing to do so on the new Inc/GL site into the foreseeable future.

From all of us, to all of you, thanks for all the link love, traffic, and wonderful letters  full of tips and kudos.

Good grief! I had a four-day weekend and it took all four of them to produce today’s show, never mind the hours spent arranging and preparing for the interviews featured on today’s show! That’s the problem with the star-studded-ultra-mega-cool editions of solipsistic NATION, they’re totally worth it but that still doesn’t make producing the show any less backbreaking. Okay, I’m working on a computer—it doesn’t make producing the show any less carpal tunnel inducing. And, hey, have you heard? Sitting can kill you!

Sorry, A little woozy. I’m still spent from producing today’s show. But I crushed it. Let me tell you how.

Like the dark electronic sounds of Tympanik Audio? Guess what? It’s their five year anniversary and to celebrate they’ve released their Accretion compilation album featuring everyone from their roster of artists—from Access to Araska to Zeller! Paul Nielsen is founder of Tympanik Audio and he was my guest on solipsistic NATION when we showcased his label back in 2009. Tympanik Audio continues to deliver the best in IDM, industrial, shoegaze, etc so I asked Paul to join us on today’s show to catch up with each other and look into the future.

You know who else is celebrating their five year anniversary? The Centrifuge! Same deal. Wassim is the cofounder of The Centrifuge and we showcased his label back in 2011. They’ve just released Turbulent Topographies, the second volume of a three-part compilation celebrating five years of The Centrifuge. Extended an invitation. He accepted. Hear us talk. Better yet, listen to some beautiful music. And then go download the album because it’s free!

King Deluxe is also celebrating their two year anniversary with the release of their King Deluxe Presents: Year Two compilation album. They celebrate their anniversary by giving you free music. Nice! I celebrated King Deluxe’s first year on solipsistic NATION so I thought we’d do it again by chatting with PK, the label’s founder, and see what he’s been up to. Not a fan of phones, apparently.

Now we shift from labels to musicians.

I got a hold of Johan Ess‘s Vltrahex album a few weeks ago. While I’ve always been a fan there was something about Vltrahex. It was more then just Johan’s mind blowing music, it was something else. Vltrahex sound familiar? That’s because it’s a nod to Generation Hex and Ultraculture, and book and a movement—both of which are about magic and community in the 21st century. How many more reasons did I need to get Johan on the show?

[tlr] is one of my net friends. He also records and performs under the name NVR-NDR and blogs at Magicore along with his partners in crime: Johan Ess, tooth_eye, A Beautiful Lotus and Joshua Decker. He’s also released his latest album, Homunculus. [tlr]‘s music is usually pretty exuberant but Homunculus took a darker turn. I still dug it but I wanted to check in with him and find out how this album came to be. Were there hidden, darker depth’s to [tlr]?

About a month ago Lukasz Polowczyk emailed out of the blue to turn me on to Julian Sartorius‘s Beat Diary album. Julian recorded one beat, every day, for a year. No loops, no effects. Just Julian, his surroundings, his drum kit and a fieldrecorder allowing overdubs. The concept was cool but that didn’t matter of the music wasn’t worth listening to. Julian’s our final guest on today’s show so the answer is obviously yes, his music is definitely worth listening to. Playful, inventive and thoughtful.

That’s the show. Come back again next week and we’ll do it all over again. But completely different. Next week I do do something I thought I would never do: I’ll be playing the best songs and best albums of 2012.

How am I doing? Tell me what you think at solipsisticnation@gmail.com or Tweet me @solipsistic.

See you next week!

Photo Credit: ©schillaci70

1. ESA “The Shape Of Hate To Come”
2. Opposite Exhale “Stare Into The Sun”
3. Interview with Paul Nielsen, founder of Tympanik Audio
4. Access To Arasaka “Fragments Of A Hologram Rose”
5. Integral “Empty”
6. Lodsb “Cyan”
7. Zan Lyons “Devil’s Advocate”
8. Interview with Wassim, cofounder of The Centrifuge
9. Vaetxh “Resonant Bridge”
10. Alphabets Heaven “Darma (Kwala’s Headshotboyz Reremix)”
11. Muta “Movie Hour”
12. Interview with PK, founder of King Deluxe
13. Johan Ess “Spastick Witchcraft (featuring Gianna Love)”
14. Johan Ess “Gematria”
15. Interview with Johan Ess
16. [tlr] “Crystalline Space Entity”
17. [tlr] “Gzngztrzm”
18. Interview with [tlr]
19. [tlr] “Jungular”
20. Julian Sartorius “October 2011″
21. Julian Sartorius “May 2011″
22. Interview with Julian Sartorius
23. Julian Sartorius “September 2011″
24. Julian Sartorius “December 2011″
25. Julian Sartorius “January 2011″
26. Julian Sartorius “May 2011″
27. Julian Sartorius “November 2011″
28. Julian Sartorius “March 2011″

This week: We re-round-up 2012 because we lost the episode to the apocalypse, The great cat conspiracy, The man who was never right, Wales’s occult invasion, Religion messes you up…wait, this is news?, and of course…Frenchskis.

Personnel –   Joe Nolan, Raymond Wiley, Kim Monaghan, and Ken Eakins

• I dont think a cat can tape things to itself – link
• Piers Morgan vs Alex Jones Link
• I can predict stuff wrong but no-one ever asks me – link
• Is Wales the “witch capital” of the UK? Link
• Evidence for what we’ve always known – link
• Frenchskis – link

Interludes:

Secret Chiefs 3

Herve Villechaize

Today on solipsistic NATION we’re going to listen to select tracks from CRL Studios and talk with the label’s founder, James Church. You may be more familiar with him as Lucid Static.

If you’re new to solipsistic NATION you might be under the impression from last week’s and today’s show that all I play is IDM and industrial, and you’d be wrong. I play the best from all genres of electronic music.

It just so happens that a few months ago I had Fariz Suliman from Dope Records on the show. He raved about CRL Studios. Up to that point I had know about Lucidstatic but I had never made the connection that he also ran a label, and once I started listening to tracks from CRL Studios I knew I had to have him on solipsistic NATION to showcase his label. The music is just that great!

It’s just coincidence I scheduled Dope Records recording artist, Tokee, and today’s show featuring CRL Studios, back to back.

Today’s mix was lovingly crafted by Chris Lacroix, AKA, DJ Siborg.

Funny thing about the mix. Behind the scenes I listen to a lot of music in order to present to you the very best in electronic music. I do a lot of this on the go so I’m constantly pulling out my iPhone and rating and noting songs that I might play in future editions of solipsistic NATION. Whenever I played DJ Siborg’s mix I’d get lost in the music and get so excited about what I was listening to that I’d pull out my phone to rate the track I’m listening to and realize “Oh, right, right, this is a mix, not an individual track.” That’s how I knew this was a great mix and I’m thrilled to share it with you!

Before I get out of Dodge, I want to apologize if I sounded kind of like a douche bag on last week’s show for talking about how quickly solipsistic NATION is growing. I’m just just excited. I always thought there was a larger audience for the show and it’s gratifying to see how many people are downloading solipsistic NATION.

Oh, and, uh, we’re at 342,116 downloads for January so far. Just in case you were wondering.

Look, I realize that Pete Tong or Tiësto probably get over 342,000 downloads a week for their podcasts. But I’m not them and I do a very different kind of show and 342,000 downloads is a big number for me. Bigger than I ever expected. So let’s keep this thing going, tell a friend, tell a stranger about the show.

I’ll make it worth your while. Join us again next for next week’s mega-ultra-awesome show featuring Mark Johnson from Zite, a beautiful news aggregator that’s become essential in producing this show! We’ll also talk with Julian Sartorius about his Beat Diary project! We’ll chat with _TLR_ and Johann Ess about their new albums they just released! We’ll also celebrate King Deluxe‘s two year anniversary and The Centrifuge and Tympanik Audio‘s five year anniversaries!

Whew. I think I just burned through my exclamation point quota for 2013.

See you next week!

1. Cloud Roots “Nome (4 am)”
2. Interview with James Church, founder of CRL Studios
3. Glue On Smile “G_os”
4. Sleepless “The End”
5. Mono Penguin “Reaching Heaven”
6. Adonikam “Perpetual Symmetry”
7. Cryogenic Echelon “You’re Still Lonely (ft Sabine Snaps, Studio-X, and Martin Veress)”
8. Human Error “Puppetshow”
9. Interview with James Church, founder of CRL Studios
10. Lithia “Tarnish (Interface Remix)”
11. Angel Of Violence “Mr. Sleep”
12. Viscera Drip “Suspiria”
13. Scrap/Grinder “To Make A Ring”
14. Virtual Terrorist “Gridwalkers (ft Psykkle)”
15. Tokee “Black Joy”
16. Interview with James Church, founder of CRL Studios

Playlist:

▲ı▼ı▲ – Dance Ov Thee Space Witches
ENER Y DECI – DONDE DONDE
Mater Suspiria Vision – The Trip Garden of El Diablo
SLEEP CHAMBER – The Nun (Fetish Convent)
Nikhil Singh – CLUB DED
Densetsu Stream – We Both Are Cursed
LAKE R▲DIO – Shortwave
Bruxa – Human Minds
Poison Tongue – The Lizard Lord
Veil Of Thorns – Gli Occhi Gialli Della Notte

On today’s show we’re going to hear a recording of Tokee performing live in Moscow. It’s bracing stuff and I just know you’re gonna love it!

I’m actually new to Tokee’s music. I found out about him when I read a blog post about Dope Records. I thought the label’s name sounded cool and downloaded a few tracks from their website expecting to hear some hip hop jams. Instead what I got was everything from IDM to dubstep to metal. Tokee is actually one of the founders of Dope Records and his music encompasses all those styles of music and more. I was so impressed and invited Fariz Suleiman, the other founder of Dope Records, to showcase his label on solipsistic NATION back in November.

I kept in touch with Fariz and extended an invitation to the roster of artists on his label to feature their live sets on future shows. I was delighted when Fariz sent me a recording of Tokee performing in Moscow to me earlier this week. I quickly got a hold of Tokee and arranged an interview. Quick note: Tokee used his iPad to speak to me over Skype during the interview and it doesn’t sound half bad. Most of the time I’m talking with my guests over their phones or desktops or laptops. This may be a first. Affordable tech continues to create opportunities.

Anyway, you’re in good hands with Tokee. He’s going to rock your free world, straight from Moscow!

Join us again next week when we’ll talk with James Church, and play select tracks from his label, CRL Studios. Speaking of CRL Studios, Tokee released his Feeling Alive album on CRL.

Dope Records, Tokee, CRL Studios… see how it all comes together?

See you then!

Sasha Lee gives an introduction to movement meditation through some more exploratory circle walking. This one is done in the sand, which provides more challenge in terms of maintaining balance but can also help you get a good sense of the “mud-stepping” process, of pushing down and off.

Video Youtube.

This video is silent so I would like to provide a little more commentary here. There is a great deal of literature that you can find on bagua circle walking, as well as video on youtube. I have dealt with a number of different sefus and have noticed that in every case they have a system which they are insistent is right. It is almost like the fundamentalism of certain Christians. Part of the training process of much traditional Chinese martial arts involves breaking down the student and then reforming them, literally, in the form of the training. In the FORM. I would like to introduce any would-be fellow student to the philosophy of YiQuan as I understand it, which is mind-driven (Yi) but it is not based around any particular or singular form. You must build off and around the rudiments – these rudiments can all be found in the 5 elements that I have already shared, in rudimentary form – with you all. I would like you to practice with them for at least 1- to 4 hours a day for several weeks before we can truly progress beyond the point that we are at now in this experiment.

Let me return for a  moment to what you see in this video. I am orienting myself quickly in regard to the center point of the circle and then using the outer foot as a guidance, so that by walking forward I am really walking in a circle. It is the outward leg that is doing this, but angling slightly inward with each step. This is in a way like the orbit of a planet, which falls forever forward in a straight line yet never falls to the ground. I am also introducing a rudimentary version of the figure 8 in this demonstration, where you can quickly switch orientation and suddenly have a new focal point. You could in theory create not just one figure 8 but 2, and within each figure 8 present the different hand positions for a total of 4 with each cycle.

However, these systems can quickly become overly formalized and complex, and it is easily proven so by the fact that each school have their own animals and hand positions, all other schools are of course wrong, and so on. There are 3 hand positions that I think you must learn, and these are what I’ve called the ox, where you are holding a single ball beneath you (or you could think of two smaller balls within each palm) and this posture emphasizes the mud-step. You will feel, I believe, that as you bring your hands into this position and begin to circle walk, that you are noticing how you are pushing on the ground with the back leg, and pulling with the front leg, that the guiding (outward) leg is helping to define the circle as I explained, and that as you practice this particular stance for several months, you will notice a connection between the mud-stepping movement and a rounding of your scapula (shoulderblades) and the downward facing palms.

At this point you will start to feel an urge for the energy to naturally rise, and you can now bring in some of what you have practiced with water element as you bring your leading hand toward the focal point of the circle, with a slight twist that turns the vitals of that arm (tendons, veins, etc) back toward you and away from your opponent. At the same time your other arm will create a second circle of energy and focus by grounding and guarding. This arm is oriented toward the elbow of the other hand. You will notice with practice that the elbows are a secret “guardian” of the body, that if you control someone’s elbow you control their upper body, much as if you control their knee you control their leg. And through these outer gates, one can access the inner gate, much as by twisting the arm and elbow you can easily twist someone’s spine.

I ask you to try to follow along with what I present in these videos while at the same time beginning to experiment on your own with what your intuition leads you to explore. Do not over emphasize or repeat a single movement guided purely by intuition too much without either checking with another practicioner or with me — simply because you can either hurt yourself or just as bad, build in a habit that can take twice as long to unlearn if it is not a beneficial movement.

I am just a fellow student, and will have much to present in an upcoming episode about AUTHORITY — but for the time being please practice what has been presented in these 7 episodes, and do not hesitate to contact me direct if you are serious about this practice and would like to ask questions or even have further instruction than bi-weekly videos can provide.

Thank you.

-Sascha Lee

You can also see all 6 episodes of the prior series together in one video here.

Internal Arts is a series dealing with the creative process in its various guises: from meditative techniques to anecdotal material from independent artists.

Whether you are a writer, musician, visual or film artist, or just want to learn a little about the ins- and outs- of the creative process from those who struggle to make a living at it, this show is for you. We will also often explore meditative and movement practices that might not necessarily seem connected with creativity or the arts at first glance. These are quite possibly more important than all the discussions we will be having about independent arts and media production, as they get us out of the ‘the chair,’ out of our heads, and back into our bodies. It is in and through our bodies, and nowhere else, that the true creative process begins.  We are not brains in bottles. It’s our hope that you will find these practices and conversations an indispensable part of your own practice.

See Mythos Media for some of the work created by the producers of this show. 

2012 has been a fantastic year for solipsistic NATION!

In 2012 began streaming on taintradio. At first glance it seems like an off fit—taintradio is primarily a jazz station, but that also include jazz on the fringes like Naked City and Last Exit. If you kind of squint your eyes you can see how solipsistic NATION might fit into taintradio’s overall format. Whatever, I don’t care. I’m just thrilled and honored to be included on taintradio’s roster. Check out my interview with Bob Rogers, the founder of taintradio, here.

Rob Birch from the legendary Stereo MCs was a guest on solipsistic NATION in 2012 and rocked the show with select tracks from some of the Stereo MCs best shows! I’m such a huge fan of Stereo MCs that it was a relief that I didn’t turn into an absolute drooling fanboy and say things like “You know that song you did? ‘Connected?’ Yeah, that was cool!” Fortunately for me, Rob was a gracious guest. So now I can check having the Stereo MCs on my list of solipsistic NATION milestones. You can listen to that show here.

While I’m in fan boy node, I also got to chat with notorious noisesmith Boyd Rice of Non. Boyd was one of those guys that really changed my perceptions of what noise and music could be. Through his music he also taught and encouraged me to embrace harsh frequencies and use them to occasionally fuck with my listeners. Hey, I was your typical angry punk at the time, so sue me. I’ve mellowed out since then and it seems like Boyd has too because he was absolutely charming. Check that show out here.

Look, a lot of cool stuff happened in 2012. I got to help support Headphone Commute‘s …And Darkness Came compilation album, which is HC’s effort to help those affected worst by Hurricane Sandy. The lads from the Magicore blog came on the show with another awesome mix! I got to showcase labels like Metal Postcard Records and Robot Elephant Records, taking solipsistic NATION further out into charted territories!

But what truly blew my mind in 2012 is how much solipsistic NATION has blown up. As I write this solipsistic NATION has gotten 302,597 downloads from the month of December alone. That’s an all-time best for solipsistic NATION in a string of months of already fantastic downloads. Who knows how big solipsistic NATION will get in 2012? I’m not kidding myself, those are pretty modest numbers but they are far more than I ever expected the show to get. And it also confirms what I knew would happen with I first relaunched solipsistic NATION as a podcast—solipsistic NATION is not for everyone. It’s for people who don’t get caught up on genres, who simply want to hear the best that electronic music offers. Given the number of us who live online then if only a fraction of a percent of that population tuned in, that number would be huge. I knew that then, I just didn’t expect to look it in the face in 2012.

There are a lot of new listeners to solipsistic NATION this month and if that’s you, welcome aboard. You’re probably wondering what this show is all about so let me get you up to speed.

The first weekend of each month I feature a live performance by an electronic musician. This month our guest was Michael Maricle, and that show got over one 144,624 downloads, so that may be how you found out about solipsistic NATION. The second weekend of each month, as I mentioned earlier, I showcase a record label that’s putting out such amazing releases that it’s my duty as host of this show to turn you on those labels.The rest of the month on solipsistic NATION is chock full of interviews and music and from time to tine, a guest DJ comes to town.

On today’s show we’ll bring in the new year with our guest DJs Juan Diego Borda and Andres “Popa” Erazo. Together they are Palenke Soultribe!

Palenke Soultribe is a loose-knit collective of musicians based out of Los Angeles. I’ve been a fan of their music since the release of their Tropic N Heaven album back in 2007. Such a fan that I was kicking myself earlier this year for not having them on the show yet. I sent them an invitation to cone on the show to play live. They declined because they are hard at work on their forthcoming album but they were generous to put together an awesome mix to close out 2012 and bring in 2013! Toss this mix onto the stereo at the next party you go to tonight!

On that high note, I want to thank all the bands and musicians, labels and festival organizers, filmmakers and documentarians, photographers and artists who make solipsistic NATION. And of course I want to thank you for listening. I’m stunned at how many there are of you. Tell a friend about the show, let’s see how big solipsistic NATION can get in 2013.

See you next year!

1. Palenke Soultribe “The Sierra Brothers (Wilcox Remix)”
2. Interview with Juan Diego Borda and Andres “Popa” Erazo of Palenke Soultribe
3. La Makina del Caribe “Levemente Obsceno”
4. Munchi “Sandungueo”
5. ETC!ETC! “Temblando”
6. Palenke Soultribe Remix “Bonkers”
7. Frikstailers “Cumbia Kamisama”
8. ETC!ETC! “Fresh”
9. Palenke Soultribe “Oh Mama! (Kaddyn Palmed Remix)”
10. Palenke Soultribe “Oh Mama! (DJHD Remix)”
11. Shanti Roots “Cumbia Nightlife”
12. Gregor Salto/The Flexican “Maldita Cumbia”
13. Andy Von Paramus “La Cumbia (Dutchworx Rmx)”
14. Sidney Samson “Riverside (Palenke Soultribe Remix)”
15. Palenke Soultribe “La Tierra No es Mia”
16. Palenke Soultribe “El Cocuyo”
17. Hatiras, Nom De Strip “Roman Bromanski”
18. Palenke Soultribe “Africa is the Mother of the Beat (feat.Scrip)”

Sasha Lee gives an introduction to movement meditation through some exploratory circle walking, and talks about silk reeling.

You can also see all 6 episodes of this series together in one video here.

Internal Arts is a series dealing with the creative process in its various guises: from meditative techniques to anecdotal material from independent artists.

Whether you are a writer, musician, visual or film artist, or just want to learn a little about the ins- and outs- of the creative process from those who struggle to make a living at it, this show is for you. We will also often explore meditative and movement practices that might not necessarily seem connected with creativity or the arts at first glance. These are quite possibly more important than all the discussions we will be having about independent arts and media production, as they get us out of the ‘the chair,’ out of our heads, and back into our bodies. It is in and through our bodies, and nowhere else, that the true creative process begins.  We are not brains in bottles. It’s our hope that you will find these practices and conversations an indispensable part of your own practice.

See Mythos Media for some of the work created by the producers of this show. 

Each edition of solipsistic NATION is evergreen because they rarely make any mention of current events. There’s no talk about the latest tragedy, the latest scandal or the latest war because solipsistic NATION is place for at least an hour every week where you can get away from all of that, where it just about the music. When you listen to solipsistic NATION you join a temporary nation of solipsists. Don’t worry, all those worldly matters will still be waiting for you when the show ends.

But on today’s show were going to listen to select tracks from Headphone Commute’s …And Darkness Came compilation album, an album that would not exist if not for Hurricane Sandy. I can’t simply not talk about it.

…And Darkness Came features 87 tracks of beautiful music, all for e mere $10! But …And Darkness Came is more than just beautiful music. It also benefits all of those affected by Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, which has devastated portions of the Caribbean, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States in late October 2012. 100% of all the proceeds generated from the sale of this album will be donated towards two charitable organizations: Doctors Without Borders and The Humane Society. The artists on the release have been hand-picked to showcase the world’s top talent in ambient, modern classical, and experimental music and features many unreleased pieces composed exclusively for the cause.

HC from the Headphone Commute music blog invited me to put together a mix of my own featuring tracks from …And Darkness Came. Unfortunately, I was waylaid by a cold last weekend and couldn’t get that show out. In fact, I’m still under the weather but fortunately HC put together a mix of his own, which we’ll listen to today. You can also listen to the mix without my blathering here.

If you’re a long time listener of the show then you already know I’m a big fan of HC. If you’re new to the show, then today’s edition of solipsistic NATION serves as a great example of the kind of music HC blogs about: it’s beautiful, yes, but it’s also luxurious, breath taking, intimate but at the same time, larger than life.

You can purchase …And Darkness Came at headphonecommute.bandcamp.com or go to headphonecommute.com for more information. If I know HC, he’s hard at work putting together his list for the best music of 2012 so you’ll want to subscribe to his blog just for that. It usually takes him the entire month of January to get through it all.

Join us again next week when we’ll wind down 2012 with a special mix from the Palanke Soultribe.

See you then!

1. Gen Ken Montgomery “Sandy Drain”
2. The Frozen Vaults “A Year Without Summer”
3. Clem Leek “A Modern Hymn For NYC”
4. Good Weather For An Airstrike “Fred’s Song”
5. riverrun “Maallinen Kuu”
6. Roel Funcken “Trideo Vaperz”
7. Pinkcourtesyphone “pixels came and broke your heart”
8. Julien Neto “Los Cien Enamorados”
9. Jóhann Jóhannsson “Melodia (iv) (Live at Ancienne Belgique)”
10. Nils Frahm “Sol”
11. Ólafur Arnalds “Tomorrow’s Song”
12. Dustin O’Halloran “Fragile N.2″
13. Clint Mansell “Merry Christmas (It’s The End Of The World)”
14. Somatic Responses “Fear Chasing Hope (Zombie Subway HC Edit)”
15. SaffronKeira “Endless Agony of Being Sick (Edit)”
16. Valgeir Sigurðsson “Big Reveal”
17. Dakota Suite & Quentin Sirjacq “Now I Am Lost”
18. Ben Lukas Boysen “16°”

Sasha Lee gives an introduction to movement meditation through a closing meditation. Tune in next time for some circle walking.

Internal Arts is a series dealing with the creative process in its various guises: from meditative techniques to anecdotal material from independent artists.

Whether you are a writer, musician, visual or film artist, or just want to learn a little about the ins- and outs- of the creative process from those who struggle to make a living at it, this show is for you. We will also often explore meditative and movement practices that might not necessarily seem connected with creativity or the arts at first glance. These are quite possibly more important than all the discussions we will be having about independent arts and media production, as they get us out of the ‘the chair,’ out of our heads, and back into our bodies. It is in and through our bodies, and nowhere else, that the true creative process begins.  We are not brains in bottles. It’s our hope that you will find these practices and conversations an indispensable part of your own practice.

See Mythos Media for some of the work created by the producers of this show. 

Sasha Lee gives an introduction to movement meditation through some freeform (yiquan) application. Tune in next time for a closing meditation.

Internal Arts deals with the creative process in its various guises: from meditative techniques to anecdotal material from independent artists.

Whether you are a writer, musician, visual or film artist, or just want to learn a little about the ins- and outs- of the creative process from those who struggle to make a living at it, this show is for you. We will also often explore meditative and movement practices that might not necessarily seem connected with creativity or the arts at first glance. These are quite possibly more important than all the discussions we will be having about independent arts and media production, as they get us out of the ‘the chair,’ out of our heads, and back into our bodies. It is in and through our bodies, and nowhere else, that the true creative process begins.  We are not brains in bottles. It’s our hope that you will find these practices and conversations an indispensable part of your own practice.

The Elephant Man – Another View
Dead In The Bed – Norma Loy
Temple Of Wax Hate – Vidna Obmana
To Walk, To Run – Dome
“…Fuck Up…” – Alternative TV with Genesis P-Orridge
666 – Stigma Diabolicum
Photomaton – Richard H. Kirk
L’Homme A La Moto – Norma Loy
Atal Matal Toutoule – Vox Populi!
Good Bye – Pionier Seriös
Hauptbahnhof – P.D.
VCL XI – Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Eintagsfliegen – Mona Mur & Die Mieter
Metropolis – Lyuhász Lyácint Bt.
Half a God – Ike Yard
El Lujo De Ser Olvidados – Avant-Dernieres Penses

XFF2012 PROMO from EXTREME FUTURIST FESTIVAL on Vimeo.

Are you a Futurist? Are you assured that we are going to burn ourselves out as a species in the next century? Are you an artist set on using these tools we have while we have the time, or an optimist set to create an army of Nanobots (or Nanobats, if you live in Gotham) that will cure cancer?

There is room for all these perspectives and more at this years Extreme Futurist Festival (XFF for short) being held in Los Angeles. And December 21 and 22 2012! What a time for it. End of the world, man!

This even will feature:

•  Speakers (Randal A. Koene, Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Dr. Ben Goertzel, …)
• Music (Lydia Lunch, Negativland, …)
• Art (Kevin Mack, Shayna Yates, James Curcio, …)
• Films (H+ the Digital Series, Surf Now Apocalypse Later, Tragos, …)
• Vendors (Grindhouse Wetwares, Re/Search Publications, Mythos Media including the recent Words of Traitors and Rachel Haywire’s Acidexia, …)
• …and, you guessed it, a great deal more.

Not one to miss no matter your outlook. Find out more on the website, and show up if you can. You don’t need to be a “believer” to show. Just pick up a ticket, bring equal parts skepticism and wonder, and the rest will be history.

See you there.

Michael W. Dean and Neema Vedadi talk about where the 60s hippies went wrong in trying to create their own LibPar (libertarian paradise), and how you can avoid those same mistakes in your attempts. They discuss the failure of the State, the documentary film Commune, where the word Conservative comes from (and why it’s kinda square to call yourself one!), why Michael doesn’t want to hear your audio gear suggestions unless you have listened to the cast AND can give him a link where you can do better, stereo/mono thing issues with podcasting, the SPLC is an NGO, what the hell do people mean by “I love my country but I hate my government?”, did the survival movement come out of the hippie back-to-the-land movement?, a libertarian’s view of the military, cable subscribers are about to get a sneaky fee, and whether it’s ethical to buy land at tax auctions.

1985 hippie photo of Michael W. Dean above was taken by Michael Salkind, backstage at a Dead Kennedys / Butthole Surfers show. Note Michael’s self-made ANTI-GUN BUTTON (!) on his shirt. Not liking guns is part of where the hippies went wrong, as we discuss in this episode. Michael now carries guns.