An Array of Utopian Flowers
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The Truth About Hydrogen: Green Fuel or Greenwash?
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Burning Cedar: Revitalizing Indigenous Foodways & Sovereign Wellness
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ZeroHouz: Ditching Fossil Fuels for a Zero Emissions Home
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Healing the World’s Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web
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The Literary Labyrinth of Stephen T. Vessels
Posted on November 27, 2022 | No Comments
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
Tales of the Fifth Dimension – The Fifth Fedora
Transformative tales that thrive in the world of Lost Souls, Fallen Angels, Shapeshifters, Extra-Planetary Dragons, and Lucky Charms. From an assortment of writers, now available from Borda Books and WilderUtopia Books is The Fifth Fedora: An Anthology of Weird Noir & Stranger Tales, curated by Jack Eidt and Silver Webb. BUY THE BOOK – CLICK HERE
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
experimental music Archive
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LA’s ‘Hopscotch’ – Experimental Opera of the Freeways
Posted on December 28, 2016 | 1 CommentThe streets of Los Angeles played host last year to an audacious experiment in mobile opera called 'Hopscotch.' The recording will be released on January 13, and a concert will take place on Friday, January 20 (7:30 pm) at the University of Southern California’s Newman Recital Hall. -
Sound of the Earth in Microtones: Harry Partch
Posted on July 18, 2015 | 2 CommentsHarry Partch, leader of the Geo-Fauvist (wild-earth) composers, and 20th Century pioneer in working systematically with microtonal scales, also built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions. Watch the documentary The Outsider, The Story of Harry Partch. -
Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Emotions Broke Noisy Ground
Posted on March 7, 2015 | 2 CommentsThe first band ever to be called "industrial," Throbbing Gristle's confrontational live performances and use of disturbing imagery, mixed with pre-recorded tape samples and special effects, created a distorted sound performance, quite ground-breaking in its time. Spinoff bands Psychic TV and Chris and Cosey continued to shock and beautify into the 1980s. -
Music of the Tree Rings: Sound of a Wild Forest
Posted on May 4, 2014 | 3 CommentsAustrian media artist Bartholomäus Traubeck has custom-built a record player that is able to "play" cross-sectional slices of tree trunks. The result is his art piece "Years," an audio recording of tree rings being read by a computer and turned into music, much like a record player's needle reads the grooves on an LP. -
New Orleans: Shantytown Soundings at The Music Box
Posted on November 28, 2012 | No CommentsDithyrambalina will look like a house, but sound like a musical instrument. A growing group of local and national sound artists are experimenting with interactive instruments that can be built into its walls and floorboards allowing visitors and musicians to bring the house to life through their touch. In 2011 they debuted prototypes in a temporary installation called THE MUSIC BOX, A Shantytown Sound Laboratory, and now look to build the first five structures. -
Harry Partch: Genesis of a Musical Outsider
Posted on June 17, 2012 | 5 CommentsComposer, dishwasher, hobo, fruit picker, sailor, microtonal theorist, instrument builder, writer, visual artist, philosopher, musicologist, iconoclast teacher Harry Partch was one of the first 20th Century composers to work with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit (43-tone) just intonation. -
Sound Motel: Experimental Musings in Los Angeles
Posted on January 31, 2012 | 1 CommentEagle Rock's Welcome Inn transformed into a micro-concert grand finale for Los Angeles's Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival on Sunday, January 29th. The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound produced this free, six-hour event.