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Posted on December 7, 2020December 7, 2020 by tundranaut

Are You Ready for the Great Reset? “The world’s nations are drowning in debt and economies and private enterprise is crumbling under COVID-19 as populations scramble toward left and right populism in attempted response. Those who hold institutional and economic power from Big Tech to Big Business and Big Politics are increasingly calling for what will…

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Posted on July 3, 2020July 17, 2020 by tundranaut

A GUIDE to IANNIS XENAKIS’S MUSIC: “When you hear Xenakis’s music – any piece of what we recognise as his mature work, starting with 1954’s Metastasis, onwards – you’re confronted with an aesthetic that seems unprecedented according to any of the frames of reference that musical works usually relate to. You won’t hear vestiges of things…

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Pandemic Inventory

Posted on May 8, 2020May 9, 2020 by tundranaut

Seems like a lot of people are taking inventory of their pandemic experiences, so I will too.  (As someone on Twitter recently joked, citing Garrison Keillor: Nothing happened to me, and now I’m going to tell you about it.) Like millions of others, I spend a lot of time alone these days. Don’t my lonely…

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Everything Outside Looks Like Fiction

Posted on March 17, 2020April 25, 2020 by tundranaut
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Xenochrony

Posted on July 10, 2019August 1, 2019 by tundranaut

“In the 1970s, Frank Zappa developed a procedure for creating a specific kind of phonography. By altering the speed of previously recorded material and overdubbing unrelated tracks, Zappa was able to synthesize ensemble performances from scrap material… “He referred to the technique as xenochrony…Zappa translates the term as ‘strange synchronizations,’ referring to the incidental—and aesthetically…

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“…lost objects are found…if we hypothesize dimensions hidden from ordinary experience…”

Posted on April 22, 2019March 15, 2020 by tundranaut

“…reality is not only stranger than we suppose, it may be stranger than we can suppose…”

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Sacred Power Centers, Wisconsin Version

Posted on March 16, 2019March 16, 2019 by tundranaut

Thread. AMERICAN GODS gets this detail right: south-central Wisconsin has some seriously weird sacred power juju pic.twitter.com/SpdjjPfVLF — T U N D R A N A U T (@tundranaut) March 11, 2019 pic.twitter.com/7IZq6O20er — T U N D R A N A U T (@tundranaut) March 11, 2019

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INTERVIEW: Daniel Kalder (Anti-Tourism)

Posted on February 5, 2018April 21, 2022 by tundranaut

ANTI-TOURISM Q: Which foreign land that you’ve visited so far was the most impenetrable in your travels — the one that had the most barriers to entry e.g. physical distance, bureaucracy, cost, etc. ? A: Turkmenistan. I visited during the imperial-hallucinatory phase of the Turkmenbashi dictatorship. It took me over a year to get in,…

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