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James Curcio on his work for Terra.

"This is a sneak peek at the soundtrack that will be used in a performance at Terra Extremitas, put on by the Foolish People. The script and soundtrack are based on some of the eschatological themes in Fallen Nation, and will serve as a bridge between that and a future project with the Foolish People, and many other creatives you may or may not have heard of…"

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

Terra:Extremitas- Jonas Ranson

Originating from Essex, Jonas Ranson currently lives and works in Hackney, East London. Jonas is a Fine Art Graduate of Falmouth College of Arts [1997 – 2000] and subsequent Printmaking Post Graduate of the Royal College of Art [2001-03].

Having spent the intervening years as Fine Art Screen Print technician for K2 Screen based in Clerkenwell London, Jonas has recently been studying at University of Greenwich on the Professional Graduate Certificate in Education Programme. This has included a years teaching placement at the London College of Communications where he has been teaching on the Foundation Graphic Design Course and CMP in Illustration.

About his work:

"I am drawn to the marginal and hence subversive nature of supernatural themes, the ideas and symbolism of the occult and it’s association with the more disreputable forms of popular entertainment. Taken from disparate yet analogous influences, works attempt to coalesce in an allusion to invented cultural interpretations of good and evil, heaven and hell, salvation and damnation.

Earlier themes have had a palpable reference to the sudo science of Physiognomics. Physiognomics proceeds by analogies, that is, it attempts to identify the features of the face, those traces and marks which reveal the essence, individuating the different characteristics, passions, pathologies, vices and virtues.

More recently, and with particular reference to the Terra: Extremitas Project, current works are derived from a series of observations and meticulous drawing of primitive architectural sources. Hand drawn then manipulated and assembled with digital software, the final works take the form of dystopian structures, a kind of panopticon, architectural systems of observation and control. The practical utopia, compiled from successful architectural examples and abstracted inferences of appropriate urban proportions, is an exemplar of these dystopias."

About Terra: Extremitas:

"Works for the project are concerned with approximations of distopia. The nightmare holiday village that promises a return to the lost natural way of life, humanity goes back to its source, like prison, like a workhouse. Society as ruthless egalitarian. These spatially isolated places represent discontinuous times. Planners seeking the healthy city choose to sterilize by abstraction, and then render the environment anonymous by replication, replacing the dying cells of the diseased city body with clones from an ideal monoculture. No one can steer a living thing, it moves forward one step at a time. No living enterprise moves forward by 'planning'. Working in narrative collaborations with project director John Harrigan, I have developed a series of animated sequences, ‘animated paintings’ if you will, which seek to create mercurial and sublimated compositions, a heteroclite a world in all its declensions. I could not have dreamed this heteroclite world for life is false to formula."

JonasRanson.com

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Fifty Percent Grey

Short film by Ruairi Robinson the proposed director of the new live action version of the seminal masterpiece Akira, which is set to be produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.

Here

The Chamber of Pop Culture and The Killing For Company present :

HERE by Jim Hollands ( UK, 70 mins )

Screening August 9th 2007
Doors 7.30pm
Screening 8.45pm

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the murder of UK playwright Joe Orton by a hammer to the head from his lover Kenneth Halliwell, The Horse Hospital is proud to present a world preview screening of Jim Hollands' latest video work, 'Here'.

'Here' is a 70 minute remix of a rarely seen existing work written by Joe Orton, called The Erpingham Camp. It was originally screened on TV in 1966. It has been experimentally remixed in sound, image and words, with subtitles, and is partly in anaglyphic ( red/cyan ) 3D. Large parts of the work operate under flicker frequencies of 8-13hz, and as such are viewable by epileptics or those prone to seizure at their own risk, and is best watched whilst under an influence. Hammers are optional.

Jim Hollands is an established filmmaker, sound artist and programmer who was the resident curator of a major avant-garde centre in London, The Horse Hospital, for the five years. Following this screening the work is part of a residency at http://nod.roxy.cz/ Prague, from 24-29th August.

For further details please see

http://jimhollands.blogspot.com

or contact

jim@chantdownbabylon.com / popculture@thehorsehospital.com

Jim only has 150 3D glasses - they're really fucking expensive! -  so places are limited. Please phone 0207 833 3644 for bookings.

The Horse Hospital
Colonnade
Bloomsbury
London
WC1N 1HX

01-18-08 -

Link: Apple - Trailers - 01-18-08 - Large.

The infamous trailer arrives.