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Water

A cold and wet feeling, darkness and thickness and motion, purifier rituals to cleanse, symbol of purification. Phlegm, liquid, apparent timorous types with a capacity to overwhelm and engulf. Waterborne diseases and the absence of sanitary domestic water are one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Less than 1% of the world's fresh water (or about 0.007% of all water on earth) is readily accessible for direct human use. From the western point of the compass comes winter and cold, darkness, night and the colour black

The cup runneth over, Undines gain souls through union with men, who find control of breathing is lost. The flight of the eagle starts from the upper right point of the pentagram.

 

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About kkoagulaa

A convergence of creative paths crossed in the final days of Manes, pointing to the inevitability of the birth of kkoagulaa. The projects inception is an answer to the restrictions placed upon bands of any genre. When it comes to stretching out beyond genre considerations, kkoagulaa represents what happens when the walls between modes of expression are forgotten. Central visionary ccernn, began with gathering the kkoagulaa kkollektivv of likeminded creative people: eemersonn (Choronzon, Veil of Thorns) and vvindd (Atrox). The next layer to be added around the kkollektivv is the kkontributorr kkaball consisting of hatlen, hoemsnes (The 3rd and the Mortal), trstn (Chton).

The mission of kkoagulaa is to work in an expanded range of media and even to step outside conventions of what constitutes avant-garde art and music. The art of kkoagulaa is the embodiment of art called into question, and the answer. Brought into focus through a heaping of phases of history, kkoagulaa is the deconstruction of art and a distillation of the soul found at the creative center. As the canon of rock music and prevailing sub-genres crushes the possibility of revelation, and certainly any pretense of revolution, the ubiquitous elements of the medium are examined.

Emerging from a history of leading and defining genres and movements like Avant-Garde Metal, Post-Blackmetal, Psychedelic Industrial Blackmetal and Post-Rock, kkoagulaa has truly moved beyond genre, genre hybrids and the now common game of the mix-and-match patchnwork approach so often called progressive or avant-garde.

More kkoagulaa:

kkoagulaa Journal

last.fm

myspace

nrk/urørt

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Terra:Extremitas- Sonica Storm

Born in Sweden, Victoria Karlsson graduated from Central Saint Martin with a BA (Hons) in Arts & Design in 2005. Victoria has worked as a Sound Designer for several live art events, including FoolishPeople's performance of Dead Language at the ICA and Desecration, a performance over 5 levels in the Galleries of Justice, Nottingham while also pursuing her own work. Although constantly exploring different approaches to sound art and design, Victoria finds working with live performance / art extremely challenging and rewarding. She met FoolishPeople when she collaborated with them on their first Meta Event 'Terra Incognita' in March 2007 and has since become a valued member and one of their main performers.

Sonica Storm will be creating and designing WraithLand within Terra: Extremitas.

About Vicky's work:

"Working somewhere between music and sound art, I'm interested in the emotional properties of everyday sounds, music and noise, and also in what happens when things are taken out of context, to be put into one another, or to stand on their own."

myspace.com/SonicaStorm

Terra:Extremitas- P. Emerson Williams

For years, P. Emerson Williams has explored and defined industrial blackmetal, and post-metal, touched on pre-jazz, retro-punk-black-speedy-jazz-thrash to the edges of contemporary noise music, and that just within the limits of any one track of the xeno music project Choronzon. Further experimentation with ritualistic trance states can be found to varying degrees in his work with Veil of Thorns, and collaborations with Manes, subQtaneous and now with the art collective kkoagulaa. In the last few years, P. Emerson has been working with more and more musicians, writers and artists on works including illustration, voice acting and soundtrack music for James Curcio's novel Fallen Nation and its attendant audio book. He has been showing art at music festivals and performing at art galleries. It has been rumored in parapolitical circles that he is the voice of the audio book versions of El-Centro and the Incunabula Papers, but he's not talking. We can say for sure that he has been contributing some decidedly odd work to Alterati.com.

P. Emerson Williams has been retrofitting his mind with self-coded patches for as long as he can remember. What this means in practical terms is that he uses his art as part myth making, part mediation and part deprogramming. His method for making music involves self indiced trance states and rituals to peel away layers of ego and persona and avoid habits of technical skill. His visual method is to sit still, shut up and get out. He'll let his subconscious take hold of the brush or pencil, and will not direct it until he understands what is being conjured and only then will he help pull the elements of the images into higher relief. His tools are mostly old world: pencil, ink, brush, oils and watercolors. He'll use the computer if someone asks nicely, though, and for his sporadic video projects. Mr. Williams is currently illustrating «Stalker Variations» a collaborative vivisection of romance and obsession with author Jason Stackhouse, multi media re-constructuralism with kkoagulaa and an as yet secret project.

"Art exists for you to shape it, hijack it and remake, remix, reiterate and even reject it. It is for you to inspire thought, critical thinking, re-consideration. Society, culture and all actions in space-time are examples of art, and by extension acts of magic and the continued creation of the Universe. This is why art has been confined within its gilded cage, for it is too dangerous to remain at large. I'm very excited to be contributing to Terra:Extremitas. What we have here is a tying together of scattered and hidden fragments from which it has been difficult to apprehend the greater narrative and act upon it. But through this collage, this act of going from solve to coagula, we can begin to understand the holographic nature of matter and thought."

veilofthorns.com

Terra:Extremitas- Teresa Donohoe

'Teresa Donohoe' is a collaboration project. Formed almost 10 years ago in Taipei (1998), the experimental electronic project has been subtly exploring electronic music and performing in Taiwan ever since.

Her creative diversity has created plentiful opportunities for artistic expression throughout Taiwan’s arts and music scene—everything from shows in prominent venues for independent music and arts to movie soundtracks. Teresa has shown herself to be a very capable live performance artist, playing for years at music and art festivals all over the island. This includes three of Taiwan’s largest music festivals—Formoz, Spring Scream, and Ho Hai Yan Rock Festival—along with many others.

Teresa has also appeared on four compilation albums in Taiwan. One released by the Ho Hai Yan music festival, and two others released by two of Taiwan’s most influential independent music distributors: White Wabbit and Silent Agreement.

She has also collaborated with Taiwanese filmmakers and appears on the following films: Three Times (directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien), Reflection (directed by Yao Hung-Yi), The Bean (directed by Wang Mei-Jung & Luo Chiao-Mei).

Having established connections throughout almost every avenue of artistic expression in Taiwan, Teresa has managed to stay true to its musical foundation and is looking deeper into further areas of artistic expression.
Since her move to England, she has continued to collaborate with a selection of hand picked British artists to further diversify the project.

myspace.com/teresadonohoe

Terra:Extremitas- Michiel Mensingh

Michiel Mensingh (Amsterdam, 1975) studied composition with Hans Timmermans and Barbara Woof during his study Musictechnology at the HKU Utrecht School of the Arts, faculty of Art, Media & Technology in Hilversum, the Netherlands. As a student he did a work placement with composer Guus Janssen, and in 2001 he graduated with a Master of Arts degree. That same year he won the Matthijs Vermeulen Incentive Prize from the Amsterdam ‘Fonds voor de Kunst’‚ for 'Wicked', which was inspired by drum ‘n’ bass music and written for recorder quartet QNG. This work has since enjoyed numerous performances in Europe and abroad. In 2006 ‘Wicked’ was selected for the ISCM-CASH Young Composer Award. That same year Mensingh’s electronic composition ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’, composed in collaboration with pianist Tomoko Mukaiyama, was nominated for the prestigious International Gaudeamus Prize and was played during the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2006. Up untill now three of Mensingh’s classical works were released on CD.

Mensingh has composed for several settings, varying from single musicians to large ensembles, with or without electronics. His music is performed in various renowned concert halls like the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam or Carnegie Hall in New York. Compostions of Mensingh were on the programme in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, the USA, Latin America, Australia, Singapore and Japan.

About Michiel's work:
Mensingh’s musical style can best be described as ‘eclectic’. His music is often about music. Specific (style) characteristics of certain musical genres, especially the rhythm of pop- and dance music (like funk, techno-house or drum ‘n’ bass), are an important source of inspiration for the musical material or it’s treatment, -or sometimes even the subject- of his classical compositions. This in combination with the further contemporary character of his work causes his music to often venture on the borderline between popular –and contemporary classical music. This borderline has proved to be a great source of inspiration to him since composing his first pop influenced classical composition, the prize winning work ‘Wicked’.

Besides his career as a composer of contemporary classical music, Mensingh also composes, produces and/or arranges film music, music for television-commercials, radio-commercials, pop music, jingles and music for dance-performances. As the bass player of the recently split up Amsterdam based rockband ‘Levetation’, he played in the semi- finals of two important Dutch band competitions. In addition Mensingh released several pop-orientated CD-singles over the years.

Michiel's piece:
'A Glitch in the Matrix' is an electronical composition, made by request of and in collaboration with pianist/artist Tomoko Mukaiyama (www.tomoko.nl). It premiered in the summer of 2005 in Japan during Mukaiyama's new show 'her/her', a collage of (fragments of) diverse pianoworks from 400 years of music history. Apart from referring to the 'noise'-musicstyle 'clicks and cuts', also called 'glitch', the title is a concept taken from the movie The Matrix and stands for "a reality-glitch", rising from the fact that "our" reality is actually fabricated. The idea of a ‘distorted' reality, full of "mistakes", was an important source of inspiration in making this aggressive "techno-collage".

MichielMensingh.nl

Terra:Extremitas- SKRATTE

**SKRATTE is the chosen pseudonym of an anonymous subversive magician and d.j./producer of the underground scene in Bristol, England. His/her sounds may be heard at squat parties in Stokes Croft, at an assortment of alternative parties, as the soundtrack to experimental art films, in play room dungeons at fetish events, and as part of modern 'magical' ritual performances.

About SKRATTE's work:

"As with the music of the ancients, who did not deny the Mysteries, or with spiritual traditions such as Voudon, or what survives of the European witch cult, my music is an attempt to construct a bridge to the world of the unseen. In the pagan temples, men drew nearer to their deities with music and ritual- and it was out of this that the first theatres developed. Religious feelings for the gods was united with the most sacred of human feelings, that of reverance for the ancestors; the representatives of humanity in the unseen worlds. In revering the ancestors we become thereby children of the Mysteries, in whom the seen and unseen unite in mystical illumination.

About Terra: Extremitas:

"To work with the FoolishPeople seems an entirely natural and highly auspicious progression of everything that the music of SKRATTE is about. The piece I have constructed for TERRA EXTREMITAS, as with the majority of my music, is intended to be heard during altered states of consciousness; an audio meditation to 'open the way, that we may pass through.'

myspace.com/urbanwitchcraft

Terra:Extremitas- Ikipr

"I am a Magus working through Qabbalistic and transdisciplinary means to create music which corresponds to systems of magick, divination, gemtaria, etc. By using the harmonic/melodic correspondences found in esoteric orders, I map symbolic and archetypal forces and the way they interact via music. I accomplish this by channeling the specific forces needing to be invoked through my conciousness' bio-computer, as I improv to write the song...like a meditation/ritual of sorts to give each track the proper feel, whilst still working within this rigid model for "sacred music" - The songs being similiar to a ritualistic setting in which EVERYTHING has to be of a nature akin to the forces wishing to be invoked, in this way I assure that the audio is given proper form enabling it to act as a vessel for these concepts given life on the archetypal plane through the listeners subjective experience....This is then employed alongside such things as planetary tuning, brainwaves entrancement, cutups, quantum splinters for invocations of digitally captured events and people, planetary orbits as tempos, radionic tones, image to sound methods, embedding pre-existing hypersigils in sound and more obscure methodology I cannot iterate...on a similiar note randomness is employed in the musical setting as a way to not only play off of divine synchronicity but also a means to influence the general outcome through meditating - trying to effect and bring under control the EMI field of the machines involved through non-local quantum interfacing with my etheric body and thusly allow this to build and change the sound in various manners."

More information about the techniques Ikipr utilizes can be found in the:

Theory Section of Aleph9.com

and Liber Tek

aleph9.com

myspace.com/ikipr

ikipr.blogspot.com

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Silver Keys - Ikipr

The 19th of May saw the release of 'Silver Keys' by Ikipr - a Yesodian artifact manifest in meatspace, containing technomantic spell book via Audio. It is a series of interactive magickal/psychotronic devices for the listener to delve into and utilize as needed or desired.

The Aleph 9 label describes the overall purposes of the series of rituals as follows:

A)Develop means of omni-travel and awareness - subtle though they may be.

B)Establish the Future, Now. This includes recovery of future machines displaced through anachronistic magick into the current data points of non-linear time.

Silver Keys is a stunning full frontal audio assault on the walls that hold back the future we all deserve. You can download Silver Keys but I recommend the physical manifestation.

Ikipr discusses Silver Keys and his work with Wes Unruh in The Gspot 34 over at Alterati.