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Importantly, these cursus monuments are clearly aligned with burial monuments in the landscape, as well as the rising and setting sun during major solar events such as the solstice.
According to Dr. O’Driscoll, “This may have symbolized the ascent of the dead into the heavens and their perceived rebirth, with the cursus physically setting out the final route of the dead, where they left the land of the living and joined the ancestors beyond the visible horizon.”
Well, the time is never found, quoth Ms Cameron; it can only be made. But it is also the case that habits must be broken or (re)built one at a time…
When you are sitting there looking at an individual tweet, watching youtube video, or looking at an Instagram post, ask yourself: “What About This Excites Me?“.
The question I’m finding, serves as good jumping off point to becoming more conscious of about the engagement with the media I’m consuming. This question helps me immediately identify whether my engagement is driven by genuine interest or merely habitual scrolling.
The epic may go to the origins: the archetypes of thought, emotion and spiritual desire, and dissolve them in the present. The sensuous, contemporary life, seen from the perspectives of both past and future: film. Like music, the cinema is experienced as a continuous, live process of energies. It is conceived and best remembered in a flash, a composite whole.—Kumar Shahani, Film as a Contemporary Art
Laura Cannell is a musician based in Suffolk, East Anglia, England. Her work combines experimental, folk, early and medieval music, as well as a number of unique and rare techniques.
Her website is https://lauracannell.com/ where you can find out about recordings and gigs, or you can visit her Brawl Records bandcamp site to check out music and buy recordings.
The music in this episode is from Laura’s recent ‘Lore’ series, available through the bandcamp site.
Host Justin Hopper has an Uncanny Landscapes substack. The Substack is free, and includes the podcast + more. JH can be found via LinkTree or on Instagram.
One of the fig plants is leafing up nicely. Don’t know if they’ll fruit this year, but at least they’re alive.
The sun is finally out today, so I’m hoping to carve out a couple of hours to attend to plants before the rain and gales come back.
The spam bots seem to have figured out how to defeat double-opt-in when subscribing to the newsletter. I’ve spent time over the last few days deleting them out of the subscriber base by hand. This means I’m constantly checking, constantly looking at the stats, looking at the open rate and waiting for spam reports to appear. I have therefore made the executive decision to say Fuck It and ignore the stats from now on. Making a shortcut that takes me straight to the new-post window and past the dashboard. I’ll look in once a month, and if crucial figures have fallen hard, I’ll take a torch to the list using some kind of automation.
Can’t help but wonder if someone’s yoked Gmail to a LLM and figured out how to get past Captcha gates and automated the opt-in responses.
OPERATIONS: Newsletter went out yesterday. I have two story documents and one dev document in front of me that I really want to get into – an artist and I are talking about doing a big project together and the references we’re throwing around are wonderfully crazy.
COMMS: Inbox 59.
LISTENING:
READING: re-reading some Artaud for work reasons (UK) (US+)
LAST WATCHED: There was a new episode of MOONSHINERS: MASTER DISTILLER. Go ahead, judge me.
Among the many weirdnesses of my brain: if I’m having trouble getting to sleep, I can usually watch some of a film or listen to music in my head. If I’ve watched a film a few times, my memory can project large passages of it for me as I lay there with eyes closed, and I have a small library of music I can play back. It gets strange on the edge of sleep: the other night, I listened to an instrumental version of Arcade Fire’s “Tunnels,” – I always found the lyrics and Win Butler’s voice faintly annoying, but I love that delicate, curlicued repeating refrain, and the end section, where the music peaks and splashes away at the crest as the band ride out. So the next day I went to YouTube and found an actual instrumental version that exists. It’s missing a few things from mine – I retained the distant cooing at the end from the original, in my version.
It’s an interesting place to be: to invent music in hypnagogia and find it on the internet in the morning.
David Lynch Looking to Make Animated Film ‘Snootworld,’ Pitch Rejected by Netflix
David Lynch has come out of hiding and is telling Deadline that he’s hoping to find backers for an animated project titled “Snootworld,” even if Netflix recently “rejected” his “fairytale” pitch.
Apparently, in recent months, Lynch has been “quietly” trying to find backers to finance the project which he’s co-scripted alongside Caroline Thompson (“Edward Scissorhands”).
April 28, 2024 at 11:03PM
www.dw.com – German far-right coup plot trial to begin
The first of three trials linked to a far-right coup plot begins in Germany on Monday, with the defendants accused of preparing to commit high treason and belonging to a terrorist organization.
All the suspects, part of the so-called “Reichsbürger” movement, were allegedly plotting to overthrow the German government. The Reichsbürger, or “citizens of the Reich,” reject Germany’s post-war state, claiming it was installed and controlled by the Allied powers who won World War II.
April 28, 2024 at 07:44PM
I read about St GIGA in David Toop’s OCEAN OF SOUND: “Devised in 1990 by Hiroshi Yokoi, a pioneer of twenty-four-hour FM radio transmission in Japan, St GIGA was the first Japanese satellite station.”
In accordance with Yokoi’s conception, St.GIGA’s broadcasts initially followed no externally fixed (or artificial) timetable. Rather, they were based upon the cyclical motif of a 24-hour “tide table“[4] where broadcast themes were approximately matched to the current tidal cycle according to the rule of twelfths throughout the 24-hour broadcasting period. Under this innovative schedule, the station broadcast a variety of primarily ambient music programs including Music Tide (音楽潮流, Ongaku Chōryū), various jazz programs, and Tide Table (タイド・テーブル, Taido . Teburu) (featuring live sound-broadcasts of the ocean shore). The beginnings and ends of programs were not clearly demarcated and instead utilized the unprecedented “Tide of Sound” (音の潮流, Oto no Chōryū) method where songs of one genre would gradually flow into and intersperse with the songs from the prior genre until the new genre became predominant. The intent, according to Yokoi was to allow the listener to relax in a wave of sound “like a baby sleeps in the womb.”[4]
On Archive.org, I found a single sixteen-hour block of St GIGA broadcast.
I know where my copy of OCCAM 1 is. I’m sure I have OCCAM 2 in the office somewhere. I really have to sort the room out and get more shelving in. Anyway. This is good and I am pleased. I can shove them all in the five-slot CD player and have an entire working day’s thinking sounds.