For those not on the empyre list, starting today we're participating in a weeklong discussion on "Sound Art, Curating, Technology," which is itself part of a month long discussion titled…
Sounding the Counterfactual: Hyperstition and Audial Futurities Stream organizers: David Cecchetto, Marc Couroux, eldritch Priest London Conference in Critical Thought, June 27-8, Goldsmiths, University of London. That sound and affect…
This is the paper I gave at the ACLA in New York on the GREAT Alien Capital panel, Xenochronic Rhythmanalysis: Paradromic Musical Practices in Colloidal Capitalism; it is also available…
The Null Cipher Cycle (2005/2013) Engram Knots The Snark One day Pablo lost his imagination. You wouldn’t think this was a problem, but can you imagine losing the very thing…
Upstream Color (2013) is Shane Carruth’s second film. It’s really weird and dolorous. His first film, Primer (2004), is also really weird, but differently—less gloom, more time-travel. These are a…
Thanks to the magic(k)al efforts of phonomagi Lendl Barcelos and Katrina Burch, and the organizational acumen of Josephine Oezmen, I was able to give a repeat performance of my Xenochronic…
I was lucky enough to take in Renée Lear's Renée Taking a Sip of Water (Human and Video in Motion) at Trinity Square Video (Toronto) today, and felt compelled to…
In December 1995, I found an unsigned note tacked to the student board in the music building of McGill University in Montreal. The note was most probably destroyed in a…
Video of a paper presented at the Tuning Speculation conference in Nov. 2013, organized by Marc Couroux and eldritch Priest. Four aural-neiric speculations with a very fat head The impulse…
http://vimeo.com/81781872 A Plague on Both Your Ears — eldritch Priest Almost everyone knows what it's like to have a song "stuck their head," or more likely, what it's like to have the…
