dear interested parties,

17 poke idopia. 17 poke narcadia. some pace elegiac, or dumdediddle; some eloin; some ordinate. some somnambulise - corporeal foucault, vegetable brecht et al, for instance - at fahrenheit 452; some are newshounds, albeit of Crowleyanity, etherealising grey volitia, until, at last, goliath leaves the avengers and lydon leaves led zeppelin. some prefer maps from memory - lovecraft at gethsemani, a point and click adventure etc. some gather around the sickbed, pear-shaped and devolving. 

A number of incidentals, if you will ...

A Quiet Monday & Abdul 'Ben' Camel say '...Open Translation document / The year is 2013 / There is in truth no 2012 - a numerical fiction / Of which dialecticians fight for on a stage of organic circuitry / Bill of lading, contents as follows; - Collection of silts from four-wave corners of the Milky Way (the one with life) - Rasputin's secret razor (East Mongolian origin) - One highly animated figurine; a Blind (Almost) cosmonaut, - His vehicle; a branded allegory - unwrapped by a Van de Graaff generator / He is renown / he is spectacle / he is form / he is history / His function - 'unknowns' as a process, audibles fading rapidly into the past, / Fading materially into visual transmission (sight being the last reception of science) / Regard such as least reliable - maintain equilibrium without effort / Accept motion as stability / Trust abstraction as concrete / End transitions...'
Colin John Conass says '...Si ce n'est pas aujourd'hui, il sera facile d'attendre que la mer redescende. Fouiller le sable pour y découvrir un sourire. Prendre la mer par la taille et chercher ses lèvres. Le sel absorbera cette tendresse absente...'
Anthony Donovan & Jaan Patterson say: '...(life without being fantasized about is what I seek. but has yet to materialise, as I have dreamed for. mean while i am no longer in a relationship, is cosensual, ok. i was in exploitation, a helpless one. my body is otherwise perfect, if you like augmented! several alterations not necessary, if you can accept on me. i can be your friend if i you like. love, ss.) Evidently, due to an untitled usury - age-old, malformed and discontent (or the blur, the paper-fold, the diatribulation) - I have to start with a capital letter. Effort ... and all in sunlight, too. Bother to read me; bother to in-read me. I am not boo hoo, through subtle, with my sexuality destroyed at a stroke. Who will I survive this time? My actual name starts with a capital letter. I don't need your consigns and self-making. Upon my ego, I wear my boots. (That concept, that construement, that spectral conversion.) Your non-acceptance, your way of thinking, is not so much beyond them, as mommy tells. The art of seduction seems to be missing. What shame awaits? How nice it would be / music: Anthony Donovan & Jaan Patterson / text: murmurists / movie: undRess Béton...'
Fonik say: '...The origins of Fonik date back to 1999 when both members worked in the Psychiatric Challenge Collective finally splitting to form the duo in 2005. Working essentially with free improvisation / experimental noise (using prepared guitars and electronics) Fonik have an uncompromising approach, blurring the boundary between music, noise and art. Performances are generally the ‘core two’ but occasionally an impromptu trio or quartet happens depending on situation / availability of the ‘occasional contributors’ listed below. The duo’s background is varied coming from jazz, avant garde, post rock, industrial and new music. Material recorded is occasionally reworked with various sound editing techniques bringing a completely new angle to the sound. It’s kind of a combination of traditional improvisation techniques combined with diy technology. Reworks can be done in real-time, this becoming an improvisation in itself, with parameters being tweaked as and when required. Otherwise traditional tape editing / musique concrete techniques are employed but using digital software. Recently Fonik have presented the films ‘Nosferatu’, ‘ Metropolis’, and ‘Das Kabinet’ providing a live improvised soundtracks (Manchester’s’ Green Room completely sold out). They are currently working on a re-edit of ‘Metropolis’ for 2009. Nosferatu with accompanying soundtracks is available on DVD from Electronic Musik. Foniks’ work is available on Electronic Musik, Casual Seizures, Earth Monkey Productions and Knife in the Toaster. Fonik have also made occasional appearances as part of Manchester musicians collective ‘Gnod’.  Gnod’s line-up shrinks and swells as the music rotates & expands to reach new frontiers and quite possibly other worlds. www.myspace.com/gnodgnod Fonik have been seen playing and sharing the bill with with (amongst others) Sun Ra Arkestra, Evan Parker, MoHa!, Damo Suzuki, Frakture Big Band, Bark!, Lol Coxhill, Acid Mothers Temple, Primordial Undermind, John Russell, The Good Anna, Spoils & Relics, Orion Arm, Blood Moon, Paul Bradley, Mayming, Naevus, Lee Patterson, Cheap Machines, Stables, Serfs, The A Band, Johnny Scarr, Ghost of an Octopus, Beach Fuzz, Peterloo Massacre, Hunter Gracchuss, Thee Moths, Graham Clark, The Long Tail, Paul, Gimp Nipples, Parting the Wild Horses Mane, Ford Maddox Brown, Baltic Fleet, Sonver, Petals,  Designer Babies, Duet for Theremin & Lapsteel,  Chora, Danny Saul, They Destroyed His Image,  Rhodri Davies, Eddie Prevost, Mark Wastell, Paul Rutherford, Phil Marks, Paul,  Philip Jeck, Keith Rowe, Colin Potter, Roy Harper, Tim Hodgkinson, Roger Turner, Solar Fire, Swung Dash, Smear Campaign, Astral Social Club, Stuckometer, Illuminati, Disco Operating System, Fibreman, The Telescopes, Horse Hair, Noise Club, Barbarians, Lanterns, The Tajalli Vortex, Cooper Jones, FTSE 100, Ashtray Navigations, Konk Pack, Gnod, Action Beat, Agripon, Poltergroom, Sannyasin, Good Noise Bad Noise, Cardboard Lung, Clutter, Janek Schaeffer, Mole, Phil Morton, Phil Lucking and Dan Weaver. Ian runs the Electronic Musik CDr label which has an equally uncompromising approach in choice of releases.  www.myspace.com/electronicmusiklabel You can download (free !!) a Fonik live set at http://www.archive.org/details/Fonik2006-10-28..mp3 Fonik are: Harry Gallimore – electronics / Ian Simpson – prepared lapsteel /  electronics / Occasional contributors Pascal Nichols – percussion (Parting the Wild Horses Mane on Both sides) / Dave Jackson – sax / reeds (Solar Fire Trio) / Tim Lyons – trumpet / electronics (The Sandells) Website www.myspace.com/fonikfonik E - Mail explode100@hotmail.com Current Releases Both Ends Burning (2005) Northern Solar Noise (2006) New Instrumental Usage (2006) Fonik (2006) Split with Ford Maddox Brown (2007) on Casual Seizures Scatter Graph (July 2007) Sounding First (January 2009) 3” ep Sounding Second (January 2009) 3” ep Resonator (July 2008) on Earth Monkey Label Nosferatu (2008) DVD with 3 selective soundtracks Fuel (2008) on Knife in the Toaster Records (with Pascal Nichols of Parting the Wild Horses) Beekeeper (2009) Electronic Musik All cdr’s are £3.00 plus postage (£1.50 in the UK) All 3” cdr’s are £2.00 plus postage (£1.50 in the UK) All are available from www.myspace.com/electronicmusiklabel  What’s been said …. Unrelenting Warrington-based champions of experimental music in the UK's most unlikely location. Faust minus the muso elements. Scraps of radio, alien tones, BBC radiophonic (pun intended?) workshop sensibility. - Golden Lab Records 2007
The diversity of instrumentation lends intself to variety, excitement, surprise, and overall interest- and entertainment-value. Improv suits small groups, in my view. But it takes more than limited numbers of personnel, of course. To a man, your attention to detail and your listening to one another, the lack of ego, makes for a real shared dynamic.  – Murmurists 2006 Creeping precise drones that bubble and crackle through your mind space like shrinking inside a switched off television with a 9volt battery taped to your tongue, on an abandoned beach somewhere in the cosmos, and realising your CB Radio is destroyed and the voices you've been hearing are starting to turn.  Outstanding bleak drones from these Warrington men. - Casual Seizures 2007 Fonik - home-made synth & guitar improvisations to make you hide behind the sofa. Warrington's finest electronic improvisers coming to exterminate your ears "like Stockhausen's worst nightmare" – Dave Jackson (Solar Fire Trio) 2007 The project from the guys who brought you Psychiatric Challenge and every event in Warrington that ever incorporated experimental music. Dark electronics mingle with a tortured guitar in blissful mayhem. Fonik have collaborated with everyone from modern composers such as AMM drummer Eddie Prevost to noise-brats such as Stuckometer drummer Pascal Nichols (who's not a brat, he's actually a dude) -  Rowf Rowf Rowf 2007 Quite unique what you do with your sound … interesting – Le Missile 2007 (Here & Now) Lock up your ring modulators, Warrington's finest radiophonic improvisers are back for more sonic attack – Freeform 2007 After hearing their performance I felt scoured – Cardboard Lung 2007 Absorb their musical score into available orifices – Velvet Nightmares Magazine 2007 An ambient accompaniment of whirrs, clicks and hums of processed sound 8/10 – Owen Hewson 2007 Everyone in Eat lights digs your sound – Eat Lights, Become Lights 2007 It’s nice to hear something like this...it makes me want to play when I listen to it..- JJ 2007
Utterly weird, freaked out and just a little unnerving!! Outside of the box is an understatement!! Perfect! Those two ep’s are seriously nerve jangling – Bad Acid 2008 Free noise drone junkies – Bad Uncle 2008 Near-impenetrability, obstreperous twists and turns, brash radio or TV interjections, and the old analogue synthesiser textures. It's a sort of concise and episodic version of the old German group Kluster or 1960's AMM – Alan Haselden 2008 Thanks for a great set and making the event special – Burst Couch 2008 Having played alongside many luminaries, inc. Nurse with wound collaborator Colin Potter, Acid Mothers Temple, Evan Parker, Parting The Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides and supporting Sun Ra's Arkestra this November, this December Fonik will be bringing their psychedelic terrorism to Birmingham – Black forest Radio 2008 We had lots of great feedback about you guys, everyone was really impressed – The Noise Upstairs 2008 Great set you did at The Kings,  I think you opened a few eyes. You’re always welcome – Ken Norbury (Kings Arms , Salford) 2009...'
Iku Turso say: '...A crackling lullaby; little ted throws his voice and loyally accompanies you to somniferous locations. He speaks with the help of three of his friends, they accompany his musings musically and bask in his modulated mellifluous tones. Although far too modest to stake a claim artistically, little ted's friends are not. They play both acoustically and electronically and cover a range of instrumentation: drums, keyboards, mixers, computers, modified electronics, electronically treated drums and samples. Their enesemblage was both greatly enjoyable and educational, afterwards following little ted's advice they all had a little sleepy :) iku turso are: a. beentjes - piezo mic, snore-box, pedals, feedback, larynx, pseudo-ceremonial keyboard and clicks / d. cunliffe - drum battalion and a bakers dozen / j. derbyshire - laptop canoodling, nord, spectacles / recorded - 14.08.09, st.helens, uk / overdubs - 28.10.09, mud-pat farm, uk / mixed by - j. derbyshire...'
Kalistongue says: '... an habitual condition / identical replicas / brake fade / undifferentiated tissue /
a beautiful blue substance / a table, a tape recorder and four chairs / escalation and mass production / retroactive utopia / a blast of trumpets...'
Lezet says: '...A sickening sight. Abundance. Heels gleaming...'
Murmurists, Pixyblink & Bryan Lewis Saunders say: '...Psycho Ecclesiasticus (a mystery shape) / Psycho Jerome (four facing) / Credits: Words and film by Anthony Donovan / Sound by Anthony Donovan and Pixyblink / Voices: Pixyblink & Bryan Lewis Saunders / Actors: Annie, Ed Coyle & Anthony Donovan 
Noise Research says: '...Noise Research is the project of UK Sound Artist / Musician Ian Simpson. Noise Research has material released on the Electronic Musik (UK), Rift Recordings (UK), Earth Monkey Productions (UK) & Bivouac (China) labels. Cdr's currently available are The Liftshaft EP ( 3" CDr ) Split with Barbarians ( 3" CDr ) Noise Research I Noise research II Noise Research III (also known as Experiment III) Rifts compilation (2 tracks) on Rift recordings Noise Research Four (on Earth Monkey Productions) Evoluon (On A.M.P.) Classwar Karaoke Survey series. Ian has been involved in the experimental / improvised music scene for many years and has performed with / alongside (amongst others). Serfs Evan Parker Graham Dunning Acid Mothers Temple Sun Ra Arkestra Eddie Prevost Faust Bark! Pram John Russell Paul Rutherford Telescopes The A band Solar Fire trio / Duo Mark Wastell Rhodri Davis Keith Rowe Colin Potter Pascal Nichols Konk Pack The Good Anna Alexander Von Schlippenbach Mick Beck Phil Marks Lol Coxhill He has adopted an uncompromising approach in both playing and performance which has led to his involvement as a performer with ‘The Frakture Big Band’ (Liverpool), ‘Gnod’ (Manchester) & ‘Fonik’ (Warrington).  He also actively organises and promotes performances in the Northwest of England including the Pyramid Experimental Music Festival and Manchester based Electronic Organica Nights. A recent comment about Noise Research Four - Such an outstanding album it really is a class piece of work – Jeff Grainger (Dandelion Radio, 2008). About Rifts – A soundtrack to while away the time to as Western civilisation inevitably continues its steadily increasing rate of decay (Heathen Harvest, 2009) Websites www.myspace.com/noiseresearch www.myspace.com/fonikfonik www.myspace.com/electronicmusiklabel...'
One Minute Wanda says: '...seemless / here there is no theme no purpose i am fearless and i am the best  here there is no one to answer to there's no redress everything is seemless everything it seems less nonetheless here there is no theme there is no purpose  i am fearless and i am the best here there is no one to answer to there's no redress everything is seemless everything it seems less nonetheless your levels are all over the place / With many thanks to My Invisible Friend / Because at least You know who You are - don't You?...'
PAS say: '...The track “Remembering the Sounds of October” was mastered from an audio installation at Goodbye Blue Monday for the Experi-MENTAL Festival 2009 in Brooklyn, NY, USA.  Below is the description of the installation. PAS (Post Abortion Stress) presents: Remembering the Sounds of October Audio Installation by: Robert L. Pepper and Amber F. Brien / Michael Durek Crooks & Nannies - (Anna Homler, Michael Delia, Al (If, Bwana) Margolis, sounds; Katherine Liberovskaya, live video) 2009 Video accompaniment by PAS (Post Abortion Stress). Several cd players play a unique aif. file in loop mode. The cd players placement enable variation in mixes depending upon the location of the listener. When seated at various locations in the room the mix is truly different every time. The loops run at different lengths randomizing the times they appear in the whole field of sound, which also enables a variety in mix. The concept is a metaphor for the millions of soundwaves randomly created everyday by cellphones and broadcasting. If someone could tune into a certain few at a time they would each provide a unique soundscape.  Soundscapes are all around us. They just need some organization and filtering. Please tune into ours. The files all were created in the month of October 20o9. The audio files provided by Crooks and Nannies were recordings from their live performance at Experimental Intermedia in October 2009. For more information go to: http://www.myspace.com/postabortionstress Email: robertlawrence@nagafilm.com...'
Ruela Pinho & Bablith Band say: '...Thou hast bedecked the sky with the robe of glittering jewels more shining than diamonds. The myriads of stars that illuminate thy sky are the glittering
eyes of thy numberless angels. The sparkling stars display thy resplendent glory with Maonghah, the Queen of Night, Ahura Mazda / The names 'Maonghah' and Mah derive from an Indo-European root that is also the origin of the English language word "moon." The Zoroastrian divinity has however no Vedic equivalent. Maonghah retains the name Mah in the 9th-12th century texts of Zoroastrian tradition, and continues with that name into New Persian. In Histories 7.3.7, Herodotus states that the moon was the tutelary divinity of the Iranian expatriates residing in Asia Minor. The Amesha Spenta (the Immortal) of the Moon, was “Posessed of Water”. On making this track I was working an album drinking from a mix of oriental and north african influences. The album was first to be named Magickal Maa, both in homage to Mah (moon, Mahur = Moonlight) and to the egyptian Maat. Gabriel (the archangel of the moon) was also the archangel speaking with Muhammad. While on the process of working this album I was asked by a woman of the most haunting beauty and deepest soul (a very moonlike person) to describe her in a song, and the way I felt her to be inside of me. This was the product, as she loves the tempest as much as me. The lyre (or its imitation) reproduces a Jewish wedding song, and the track is a travel through the roads of life, under the influence of the celestial rains blurring the world and its edges with their silent anguish and serenity / Ruela & Babalith 2009...'
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Sound Inhaler says: '...Sound Inhaler: context / Context is a short film. It uses original footage and found images.The imagery is relevant to the whole sound inhaler aural experience not specifically to the music accompanying the film. You can read any meaning into the film that you wish and please do, but the meaning is clear to me. However in watching the film I have made other connections between film and music that I hadn’t envisaged. A good thing I think, but occasionally disturbing. This is also a good thing come to think of it.Contact sound inhaler.soundinhaler@yahoo.co.uk www.myspace.com/soundinhaler...'
Undress Beton says: '...flying cucumbers / the psychotic truth became his pants / i was worried about these things happened lately, noticed though things were late lie / when becoming the morning fever of trust that possibilities were the happening fact / - it felt sour / arisen from breathless sleep, I understood recently, I differed from the shame on air as others had mentioned to me too / i felt a bit tired from breaking my neck on bars at speed from temper beats as they were ages old, I was supposed on date / when those creatures I was terrifying had undressed to (wait in fact, as we said: ‘we can’t always say black’) over suburb the city into the no ledge of history wearing her silk handkerchief for dinner with minutes, splashing / metaphoric sparking triangles handed him some time to spend, such as science looks and empiric thoughts were none them couldn’t tell, but read as follows: (continuation through the book which needs to be read! a release from Caballé Voltage, André Pissoir)...'
Zoologic says: '...Cat Dreams / When I was younger, I wished I was more like a cat. I thought my cat understood me. It would show me this by blinking its eyes. I'd stare into the cat's eyes for hours and the cat would blink back at me in a very understanding way. (recorded nov 2009, mud-pat farm, uk.)...'