A short film Mary used to show during substitute-teacher assignments at The Center for Elementary Science Educations was released on iTunes, and she is celebrating by making paper origami geodesic domes in her lab. She invites you to take a look and to celebrate in your own way, however that may be.

The Link to the video is here. Thanks!

Some International Corporation shows coming up: Saturday June 20 at the Ella St Social Club (Former Towne Lounge) in Portland and Sunday June 21 at the Olympia Experimental Music Festival at The Northern. Also from 1-3 PM at the Capitol Theater Journey In Caldecott Short film and Mary St John Short Film will be shown as part of a series for the Festival called Microcosmic Abyss.  Sorry we have a lot to announce in the next few weeks; we hope we do not annoy you. Thank you Brandon and Domenica and Chris.

Ella St Social ClubOlympia Experimental Music Festival

Mary was excited to be on a Future Sound of London mix, but is decidedly confounded by the fact that it is being sold for $6. 

The International Corporation DVD with all 4 albums on mp3 and all the films is available at Amoeba Records in Berkeley(map here) and in San Francisco(map here).

It’s the best way to experience what we do, and it's likely the most surreal, transcendental and painless way you can walk out of Amoeba with 4 albums. Locations and details below:

About Amoeba Music:

The Amoeba building at Telegraph and Haste, ground zero for the Free Speech and Anti-war movements, housed the famous Forum Coffee House in the 1960's, one of the original Cafes in Berkeley where poetry and politics became associated with coffee house culture, and the One World Family Cookery in the 1970's, an early "health food" restaurant and venue where Sun Ra once did a week-long residency. The side of our building is the site of the famous "Peoples Park" mural, illustrating the history of the struggle between the "state" and the "people" for control of a 3 1/2 acre park just a half block away in which, among other incidents, a protester was shot and killed.  These iconoclastic spirits live on at Amoeba, and continue to inspire the multifarious musical experimentation that the East Bay is known for.  Our staff and shoppers are constantly striking out in as many different directions as possible, creating new sounds and new styles and rediscovering old ones.  We're proud to be part of this unique and endlessly inventive family tree. http://www.amoeba.com/....




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Berkeley Location (Map)Amoeba Records2455 Telegraph Ave.Berkeley, CA 94704510.549.1125

San Francisco Location (Map)Amoeba Records1855 Haight St.San Francisco, CA 94117415.831.1200

Sound Projector Issue 17 is out. As always packed with reviews and crits that will keep you reading and getting into more music for months. Mary St John had a very nice review and had a copy delivered to her lab in an air tight contamination free mylar bag. She was very touched and grateful, and elicited a polite and very heartfelt wave of her hand from behind 30 feet of protective glass.

From Sound Projector:
"A gorgeous record of 14 melodic tunes, played with a charm and slightly off-beat mannered style by St John using electronic keyboards and electronic organs, occasionally with a little beat box to send each piece skipping along on its jaunty path. Fans of certain strains of 1970s German electronic music - perhaps we should suggest the chords and melodies of harmonia rather than the severe experimentation of Kluster or early Kraftwerk - should enjoy this record enormously. Suggestions are made, through titles and artwork, of some interesting fantasy environment which repositions technology and nature in a more harmonious relationship, and suggests future models for sustainability. One image among the CD artworks headed 'Psychometric Chart / Normal Temperatures', locates an enormous cityscape and factory sprawl inside a Geodesic dome, its positioning calibrated by very exacting grid overlays, while two gigantic flowers dominate the foreground. i very much approve of this, something I take to be a nature-friendly update on the ideas of Xenakis and Buckminster Fuller.

Every moment of the lovely music, while sometimes darkened with the vague alienation of that strange Atomic Age combination of optimism and apprehension, shows that St. John is a compassionate and caring human being, and keen to outline her plans (albeit in a very oblique and allusive fashion) for a better living environment. "Permanent Autonomous Bases on the Moon" (track 9) is one possibility. "Solar Illumination and Sensor Viewing Condition" (track 14) is another, although even I am not quite clear how that last one would be translated into blueprints for a house somepme could actually live inside. No matter. In St. John's brave new world, "The Flowers are Edible and Delicious", there is a "Vegetation Management Plan", and the artiste herself (on the front cover) lives serenely inside a miniature vivarium surrounded by plenty and verdancy while three friendly small exotic birds cluster around her.

This is another release on the strange International Corporation label, who package everything inside luxurious printed envelopes with press release, business card, and other inserted material doing their best to persuade you that they are a giant multinational organisation poised on complete domination of their chosen markets. In their fantasy world, Mary St John is one of their funded scientists involved in futuristic environmental research. All this is an amusing hoax, of course, but its a strong label identity and their family of releases is made stronger with each record as good as this one."

Hi everyone, we made a very few of these DVDs for the  upcoming performances but we're making them available here as well. We're  really excited, because not only does it have a new set of recordings of the  Lickets as a trio, (recorded just last week!), it's the result of a lot of  work, a lot of life, a lot of luck and not a little serendipity. If you can't  make it to the performances coming up it will give you a good idea of what you  may have missed, and if you're coming out it's a good preview.  It's been an amazing three months, and a crazy  three years, which is how much work is on this disc.
   
  The disc has the new live EP, Journey In Caldecott and Fake Universe Man, in  addition to Mary St John: Soil Surface Background, plus a couple of bonus  tracks. The disc has 3 films: the Journey in Caldecott short film, Mary St  John: Soil Surface Background, and the International Corporation films. All  together we think it's the best way to get our work, both visual and sound, like  a modern Flower to a Garden, and we're really excited for you to experience it.  Click here for details of the dvd. Thanks so much and we wish everyone all the  happiness in the world today(…and every other day), and hope to see you soon!

Mary was very excited to be on the Sound Projector. Mary reads the Sound Projector often, and couldn't say anything about the magazine and radio show any better than these quotes from their page: 

"There are hardly any mags that I keep for longer than a week. But I've still got all TSP issues on my shelves."