DEEP SCRATCH

Author: flyagaric23

  • Politicians, Peptides, and Stupidity (and the tale of the tribe)

    Politicians, Peptides, and Stupidity: An Evening with Robert Anton Wilson

    “Dr. Robert Anton Wilson was the author (along with Robert Shea) of the popular Illuminatus! trilogy, which won the Prometheus Hall of Fame award for science fiction in 1986. His other books have found great acclaim as well, many of them achieving “cult classic” status. Wilson has been described at various times throughout his life as a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and agnostic mystic.

    In this video from the Libertarian Party’s Presidential Nominating Convention in 1987, Wilson treats the audience to a humorous and irreverent talk about everything from the state of world politics to a discussion on metaphysics, chemistry, and the nature of reality.–http://www.libertarianism.org/media/video-collection/politicians-peptides-stupidity-evening-robert-anton-wilson

  • Art and money, how?

    Art and Money?

    How is it, who issues it
    creative and yet counterfeit
    for nothing

    a second look
    double take
    the time space
    inversion with

    value?
    empty things in time space
    filled with space time
    what do you call it
    money or art?
    artney/moart?

    which technical abilities
    aesthetic reflections
    information content and
    originality

    in economics
    the painted euro
    fabricated pound
    sculptured dollar
    projected bit

    coin from paper to
    data and back to the newest
    paper cash

    canvas
    mini illustrated notes
    of limited beauty
    money as counterfeit art
    art as counterfeit

    money
    draw you notes now
    to Elmyr and twenty Bob
    what’s unique and rare art

    what value system is held
    in s/place my numbers
    5, 10, 20, 50, 100
    limited proportions
    artistic value

    distortions
    Art & money raise
    question:
    what is money,
    who issues it
    how?

    Steve ‘Fly’ Pratt
    (Amsterdam)

    Steven James Pratt

  • Police Horse Blues

    Police Horse Blues by Steve Fly

    I woke up one morning

    with a horse in my bed

    after a hard nights work

    this is what she said:

    –

    I don’t wanna work for those police no more

    Oh no, i just don’t wanna do it

    I wanna roam in the lush fileds and grass

    not bust up unions for Norman Tebbit

    –

    So i brushed up my horse

    and took her round’ the course

    she ran like the wind

    and then she said at the end

    –

    I don’t wanna work for the Police no more

    they just treat me like a pig

    i don’t belong in the city at all anymore baby

    like a bear don’t belong in a wig

    _

    Then the cops came and got her

    carted her off with their trotter

    now she’s back on the beat

    stompin’ heads with shoes on her feet

    –

    Oh lord, that horse don’t wanna work for the police no more

    that horse just wants to run free

    if it was up to me honey

    I’d free dogs from the clutches too,

    let em’ all be.

    –Steve fly
    Amsterdam. Wednesday 15th May.

    Inspired by seeing two police horses foaming at mouth while on my way home from work today. Poor bastards, i thought. 

    Steven James Pratt

  • Photo Pano Picture Mixture

    Photo-pano picture mixture
    audio sonic soundtrack
    fixture
    listen with eyes and seer the future
    non-local and 360 rotational
    adventure furniture
    A new movie and unique
    song
    as the scene spins and
    the film moves along

    omnidirectionally

    Hand made arts in new dimension
    panorama spaces – the now
    apprehension
    lend some attention
    look listen touch travel
    suspension

     

    Bridge to a new synthesis
    of media
    Chews your experience

    fly through the novel painting

    leap frog from
    the edge
    cutting all corners  off everything
    churn on

    –Steve Fly.
    Vondel Park, Amsterdam. May 4th, 2013. 2-3 PM.

    Steven James Pratt

  • Conspiracy Conspiracy Conspiracy: 3 ways of looking-atom

    Conspiracy Conspiracy Conspiracy: 3 ways of looking at THEM.

    Among the many trillions of petabytes of information that Robert Anton Wilson processed in his lifetime, may we dwell for a moment on his internationally recognized role as ‘the dean’ of conspiracy theory. The DEAN! (and self confessed model-agnostic)

    Next, consider his repeated banging and thumping on the theme of ‘the fallibility of the human nervous system’. He seduced his readers with his art, to THINK, in a kind of ‘field’ approach of–plurality and multiplicity–opposed to a narrow, single-sighted, atom-beam view. (or the useful synthesis from exploring both of these different ways of seeing)

    Im 99.8% sure that a huge part of Dr Wilson’s teachings detail how to transcend the Alex Jones style ‘territorial chest beating’ also found in the FOX news style ‘well suited lies’. His methods and his operating manual-style guide-maps, work like magical tools to help transform idiocy and ignorance throughout the world into humour and surrealist poetry, while secretly introducing his readers to the 20th’ and 21st’ centuries’ greatest hits (e.g. quantum mechanics, cybernetics, LSD and ‘hologrammic historical fiction’, and, as i wrote earlier maintaining his position as the DEAN of conspiracy theory) 

    I have always been a pretty out in the open RAW fan, again here I want to stress today, bluntly that if you have not picked up on RAW and his ideas yet, you had better start soon or else…you’ll be run over on the information superhighway. IMHO you cannot get such a balanced and encyclopedic guide to culture ANYWHERE else (from the perspective of just one individual with an exceptional globalist view).

    RAW writes with an urgency and passion that drives his special model agnosticism into a kind of activism. Within his entire lifeswork its rare to find Dr Wilson ‘chest beating’ or writing ‘well dressed lies’ unless he tells you before or after that he has tricked the reader with a put-on or self confessed bias. His awareness of awareness and healthy self-criticism increase his appeal in the days of ‘cock sureness’ and ‘unwavering certainty’ on the left, the right, and wherever there is chaos and injustice.

    READ HIM.

    –Steve ‘fly’ Pratt
    Amsterdam.
    6-7.30 P.M, Wednesday 24th April. 2013.
         

    Steven James Pratt

  • RAW360 (dot) net

    www.raw360.net

  • Ninja Jamm is here!

    Ninja Jamm is here: Enter the mix http://ninjajamm.com/

     http://ninjajamm.com/

     “In marketing terminology, a killer application (commonly shortened to killer app) is any computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology, such as computer hardware, gaming console, software, a programming language, software platform, or an operating system.—Wikipedia, killer app.

    Let Us Play—Coldcut

    “Ninja Jamm is a free music app that lets anyone instantly remix Ninja tunes using touch control, state of the art effects and killer music from Ninja artists.”—Ninjatune.

    Summer 2012 sees a new ear-ra in sound mixing, DJ performance and mashability’. IMHO the art and crafts of the disc jockey started with the hand-to-eye-to-ear skill set when the first vinyl manipulators started their experiments in the mid 1970’s, through to the new touch sensitive ‘tablets’ that respond to touching, tickles and scratch motions in a notable return to physical hand movements that trigger audio and visual media.

    Yet for a moment there I thought that the CD-DJ phenomena flourished, and reduced the touch of a vinyl record platter to buttons and sliders with awkward looking LCD displays. I had a personal love of vinyl, and traditional vinyl turntablism and up until (May 18th 2012) i held firm to my beliefs by only spinning vinyl records for nearly 20 years.

    The new interactive touch surfaces combined with real time, latency free, control bring some excitement in hands on DJ’ing back into a new sense of what DJ artistry consists of, technically. I feel its important to remember that  the equipment remains only a part of the art. The content, the music, the samples and the tasteful synthesis (mixing) help define comprehensive and information rich DJ’s from predictable ones.

    Enter Ninjatune as a case in point. The rare example of sampling and software innovation running simultaneously, and keeping a consistently underground and forward thinking philosophy, today probably best summed up as an Open Source and Mash-up sensibility. Personally, when I discovered Ninjatune and their music back in 1993, I gushed at the mixture of sample based instrumental Hip Hop and experimental electronica.

    The new Ninja Jamm APP makes sense in the age of mash up culture, remix-mania and digital culture gone feral. Ninja have a 22 year history that stands testament to their visionary and somewhat prophetic outlook on music culture, DJ’s, VJ’s and electronic music.  Now in the summer of 2012 I believe their shareable, mashable philosophy fits perfectly with  the new global APP village orgy.

    “Instant remixing functions in push-button form let any music lover dive right in, yet Ninja Jamm is deep enough to engage DJs, musicians and producers. This one is fun.”—Ninjatune.

     
    Ninja Jamm by Fly Agaric 23.(Amsterdam, September 2012.)

    “Killer Apps”–Juice Aleem. (New Flesh For Old)

    Ninja Jamm Ninja Jamm
    It’ll unhinge you man, unhinge you man

    Sneakin out the window and down the drain pipe
    on a Saturday night, tonight’s light is ripe, rip reeeep, rip, write ripe.

    Like a cat or a panther I creep near the curb
    My mind is kept calm as it swims in the herb

    Ahead I spy the Ninja Shop right next to the dock
    So I pull out my microphone from my hemp sock

    I said, “Yo, what’s up, I’m here to get me some APPS
    Shinobi at the counter looked at me and said “perhaps’

    Perhaps you have some killer apps to help set riddim traps
    Turn LP’s into maps, escape the beat through cat flaps?

    Take a look around, tap-tap, listen understand,
    Bring what you found and leave it here in a mound,
    I’ll mix it up in an APP and Zap Zap, a tech-cloud sound.
    I stand dumbfound.

    I walked around the store and picked up some stuff,
    Weapons, clothing, instruments and a gold Ninja tooth.

    Throwing stars and pentagons, knives and darts
    All made with the greatest skill and crafts of the arts

    Hemp rope and ladders and invisible dust
    Swords, chords and passwords to a remix by Krust

    Flags bags and stealth drone kite banners
    And Ninja shop staff with big heart and kind manners

    Telescopes microscopes and spectrocilloscopes
    Hidden microphones, speakers and unstable isotopes

    A Shapeshifting manual of style on blue tile
    Bungee ropes unravelling for mile after mile

    I walked to the counter and gave Shinobi a smile
    “Put all this into an APP from the top of the pile.

    So I booted up my Ninja APP and went for a walk
    Soon I started to talk, then I wrote in chalk:

      Ninja fingers and 2 gold Buddha thumbs

    Touch the Scruff of the head nod

    Multi-channel suite with
    Two Fingers sounds hyper-Tobin

    Snug as The Bug inna’ Slugabed,
    Poison dart in heart of the beats

    exquisite 23 course serving of DJ Food/
    Cold-cutting the cheese

    Brain thaw and brain feeder for the Coldcuts
    Atomic Moog, RE:volution and sound mirrors

    NJ Beats back in a Bogus Order
    Dextrous like the Bonobo

    Lush audio visual synthesis:
    The Cinemeatic Orchestra

    Cutting hard candy and acid squelch
    DJ Kentaro rotation

    A labyrinth of rhythms unlocked
    from Daedelus feather soft

    Innovative trans-genre tempo flux
    of the Funki Porcini

    Phat chunky Herbaliser grooves
    for the mother board.

    Slicing knife blade voices of Skalpal
    Jazzy chops, picked and Chris Bowden

    Flight path and charter for Airborn audio.
    Lingua dicing dancefloors

    A polished solid audio spark Plug
    To power the Wagon Christ

    Vibe medicine and beat pharmacopeia
    for Qemists and Juice Aleem

    Parts and pieces for the ferocious
    cutting teeth of King Cannibal

    Fender Bending gloves for scratching claws
    of the pause of Kid Koala

    Blending harmony and beauty with gravity
    and touch: the Irresistible force

    XY ‘floating points’ FX
    Hand cushion for Antibalas
    percussion

    Steve ‘fly agaric 23’ Pratt
    www.raw360.net

    Steven James Pratt

  • shape spacestation mission schedules by shunning election machine pressures


    Do not despair,
    there are words to put your hair on end
    tip top tailored trips to smooth out
    and curl the end of the world into a Bob.

    Recorsi, the eternal returnsche
    cosmo-constantly
    bring a bitter light

    stretch the imagination to its limit.
    to make the tale true enough
    comeback, the field of

    thought
    emerging again, amplified once more
    make it new

    shape spacestation
    mission schedules by
    shunning election machine
    pressures

    www.raw360.net

    Steven James Pratt

  • Ezra Pound and the tale of the tribe in 2013.

    Ezra Pound and the tale of the tribe in 2013.

    Today, Easter Sunday 31st March 2013, I am here at home in Amsterdam, switching between facebook, blogger, youtube and Wikipedia, and my copy of Pound’s Cantos. And I cannot resist pulling out some examples of Pounds relevance, coloured by the texts analysis by Pound/Joyce scholar Dr Robert Anton Wilson.

    First off there is the poetry, the straight up imagist prose that is juxtaposing natures forms with man’s sensory experiences, bashing the mind with species and etymology through metaphor. Just on the surface, when revisiting Canto’s CXVII & CXVIII without pretending to be able to decode the strange new scripts intermingling on the page, there is an aesthetic appeal, an instant wonder and sense of the unique, nothing else in literature exits anything like this, to this day. And so I imagine the wonders and messages hidden away, what I don’t know is always in my face, highlighting what I can read and make inferences about, like little villages of recognizable action and meaning surrounded by a huge forest of mystery and unknown symbol systems.

    Due my acknowledgement of what I don’t know about the Cantos, it proves difficult to state a case about the text, and about what Pound means by any particular fragment or ideogram. However, there is a long line of scholarship and decoding of the texts, along with extensive biographical commentary on Ezra Pound to help the lone rambler stumbling into the forest. Like Joyce’s equally dense work Finnegans Wake, Pounds Cantos…works its hidden magic most effectively with an accompaniment of skeleton keys, supportive texts and internet search engines, or if you are fortunate a good teacher.

    Robert Anton Wilson regarded Ezra Pound very highly, although like many other Pound scholars made clear that he did not ascribe to Ezra’s opinions during the 30’s and 40’s which took on a fascist and racist tendency. RAW does not throw the baby out with the bathwater and almost begs us to reconsider Pound and all his contributions and his extensive wonderful works that aim to better humanity, our individual critical minds and refine a globalist taste for common horse-sense in general. RAW’s love and deep understanding of the Cantos is expressed in a series of Cantos commentaries published at rawfans.org, and which inspired this writing today. I recommend them highly, and especially with the Cantos in hand, reading in between the lines and discovering the labyrinth of rich languages running together with the English bits.

    Commentary on The Cantos of Ezra Pound, c. 2001-2002
    Canto I, II & XX, III, IV, VIII,  IX,  X,
    XI,  XII,  XIII,  XIV,  XV,  XVII,  XVIII, XIX,
    XXI,  XXXI, XXXII,  XCVIII

    http://rawilsonfans.com/writings/

    “There are six rites for festival
           and 7 instructions
    that all converge as the root tun       pen
    the root veneration (from Mohamed no popery)
    To discriminate things
            shih  solid
    mu  a pattern
    fa  laws
    kung  public
    szu  private
    great and small
           (That Odysseus’ old ma missed his conversation)
    To see the light pour,
         that is, toward sinceritas”—Ez, Canto XCIX

  • Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language

    Sounds to me like a book title useful to describe some ideas about Bucky Fuller and James Joyce too. x fly

    ” Since “individual freedom” and “individual greatness” mean nothing to you, while “national freedom” and “national greatness” stimulate your vocal cords in very much the same way as bones bring the water to a dog’s mouth, the sound of these words makes you cheer. None of these little men pays the price that Giordano Bruno, Jesus, Karl Marx, or Lincoln had to pay for genuine freedom. They don’t love you, little man, they despise you because you despise yourself. — Wilhelm Reich, Listen Little Man. http://www.listenlittleman.com/ http://books.google.nl/books?id=3AwiNeYULfwC&lpg=PR7&ots=mTOwm6o1wo&dq=giordano%20bruno%20cyberspace&lr&pg=PR10&output=embed