DEEP SCRATCH

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  • DJ FLAI vs udio – HIP SLOP

    DJ FLAI vs udio – HIP SLOP

    Many of the great artists I admire said little about their work, leaving it to speak for itself. Generative AI provides a lens and amplifier to let what started as thoughts, evolve into sound waves and moving images. This is a part of the once fictional narrative of Deep Scratch (A Tribetable Novel). I’ve gone full pelt into the AI landscape and here present some of the highlights, as Hip Slop, a mux type.

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    Hip Slop is AI collaborative text to sound to video collage, as a beat tape, what was engineered to sound like a vinyl mixtape from 1999 or there abouts, the hey day of turntablism, old school boom bap, static, blunted beats, muted jazz, and weird lyrics. Note that all lyrics and turntable speak are original Steve Fly Agaric compositions, besides the few hallucinatory excursions into LLM garble-gumage. These audio selection were produced over the last 18 months, some AI remixed versions of old tracks, some only play out for a few bars, others are left alone.

    Many of these tracks are released via bandcamp in the Deep Scratch vs Udio series, here selected, mixed and blended using Djay (for I-Pad). No real turntables were harmed in the recording of this mix. No real singers, musicians, or real engineers were consulted, insulted or catapulted into orbit during this recording. This DJ Flai mix is a part of the Deep Scratch Universe. The Novel and accompanying works Deep Scratch Remix, and, Between The Groove, help add context. A DJ Mantis, DJ Tardigrade and DJ Fly become world champions in a human universe, but at what expense to the rest of humanity, history, time and spirit? Remind yourself this is science fiction, everything you see and hear is machine learning and neural nets, sewn together by the current author into sound things and moving light things, and any resemblance to real living things is purely coincidental. As a DJ and drummer, musician and writer my work entails building stronger ideas and methods and putting them into practice, performance IRL.

    I hope you strive for that too. In the meantime, as somebody who perpetually hears music and sees somewhat psychedelic visions, I shored a few from some deep dives, for your enjoyment, analysis and meditation. If the goal of the Deep Scratch project was musical time-travel, this mix demonstrates success in some sense. Outlines and new directions for The tale of the tribe. A snapshot from an alternate universe where turntables turn fables, narrative decodes, writes, reads. I hope this finds you well. All love. –Steve Fly

    deepscratch.net

    stevefly.bandcamp

    patreon.com/stevefly

  • SAVE DUDLEY HIPPODROME

    Art Intervention #1 “War Pigs”

    A greased pig in a thong. Yes, you heard me. I propose a nice fat pig, fitted with a stylish but small, almost a micro….thong. Together with the words ‘WAR PIGS’ stencilled onto each side of the little bristly critter. Next, I propose we get a small van and the said pig, grease it up, and trot him/or her, into Dudley Council offices.

    To explain myself, this pig represents a number of things. A) David Cameron, who as we all know, is partial to a little porky pig in a poke. B) Black Country Scratchings, famous around the world, something you can make a right pigs ear out of, yet still capitalise on. C) Dichotomy of Capitalism! Pigs and greed, pigs and police, pigs and ignorance, pigs and double standards of animal ‘lovers’ nom nom nom D) Black Sabbath, and the classic song ‘War Pigs’, another commentary on the political love affair with warfare, the military industrial complex.

    Save Dudley Hippodrome: Art Intervention #2 “Maggot Hatcher”

    A maggot disco. Hear me now. A 3D printed deluxe model of a 5 star hotel. Perhaps based on the schematics of the Copthorne Hotel. With at least three separate floors, and stairways leading up and down to maggot disco heaven. Next, add a piece of pork to the 3D printed hotel (see Art Intervention #1). Add endoscopes for each floor, and disco lights, and of course some disco music. Encase the Maggot Disco Hotel in perspex and put on display in Dudley Town centre. The Maggot Hatcher Disco will be broadcasting on-line 24/7, so you can tune in at http://www.maggothatcher.org
    Why? Why not, who else will create the world’s first Maggot Disco. Who else cares for the well being of maggots? grow a heart you barbarians. The maggots represent a number of things to me A) Helpless, overlooked creatures, at the mercy of fisherman B) The conservative ideology, with a nod to the M.P for Stourbridge and environs. C) Art, the natural evolution of life, from meat to maggot to fly. D) fly agaric.

    Save Dudley Hippodrome: Art Intervention #3 “Dudley Fox Hunt”

    Who in Dudley would not want to join a Fox hunt around the town centre? But instead of horses I propose ponies, as a nod to the great Vermin Supreme. Ride a painted Pony up castle street and into the Town centre, chasing a Staffordshire bull terrier made up to look like a fox (if you can’t find a real fox)
    But why steve? well, a Fox hunt means these different things to me A) The underdog, the quick brown fox jumping over the lazy Tory fox hunter. B) The combination of a treasure hunt, but instead of an Easter egg it’s a Fox you hunt, but, there’s nothing to eat (shrugs) C) Fox scratchings! Yes, why not expand upon the boring simple Pork Scratching, and be brave, introduce Foxies, a new conservative flavour. Fancy dressing up like a fox? want to make a short film? Inbox me. A no badger inquiries please. See Badger Cult.

    Save Dudley Hippodrome: Art Intervention #4 “Hippodrone Wallfair”

    Let’s create Dudley’s first community mural project on the Hippodrome building. Invite muralists and painters from in and around the borough, and outside the borough, to collaborate, reflect the voice of the community artists, feelings about the state-of-the-arts in Dudley.

    Why? who would not agree the current site of the Hippodrome is a eyesore? and so the quickest answer is to paint it? Although I don’t have the physical painting ability myself, I have hundreds of good ideas about content for the mural, for example A) Dudley Zoo animal break out, Elephants crashing through Witherspoon’s and Tesco, large cats roaming the bus shelters, Monkey’s all over the council offices. B) Catapult Castle: images of Dudley castle being demolished by an assortment of objects, catapulted in spectacular fashion, concrete mixers, busses, trucks, hurling through the air toward the castle. C) Dudley in 2023: drones over the Hippodrome. D) Images of Art Interventions, 1,2, 3 and 4.

    –Dudley, March, 2018.

  • Acrillic/Agaric/DJ Fly? Who’s the mother-blogger here?

    What is Acrillic all about? What is this mother-blogger oll about?

    Acrillic is a contraction of Acrillic Figa which is almost an anagram of Fly Agaric (adding an extra letter “I” and a letter “C”). Fly Agaric is one of the names given to the world famous red and white spotted mushroom (Amanita Muscaria) and roughly translates as Fly Killer. I “fly acrillic” hijacked the name “Fly Agaric” to be my DJ avatar around 1995 E.V and i invented the name acrillic around 2001 E.V to be my pen-hand avatar. But i often publish written material as Fly Agaric (usually when accompanied with music) and have used corruption’s of both these names upon many internet message boards.

    The exact date when “The Number 23” joined forces with Fly Agaric to make “Fly Agaric 23” remains a mystery to me, but im guessing somewhere around 1995-6. I decided to use this number too since my birthday digits: 15/04/76, and my full year of birth digits: 1976, both equal 23; using my simple additional math logic. You can add each individual number together and see for yourselfif you like. In 2006 E.V i became aware of other individuals and groups of people who had also “Hijacked” Fly Agaric’ the word-label of (The organic Toadstool itself) to be their production brand name or band name, whatever…and both the noun and adjective “FLY” is a very popular word-meme virus used in marketing these days.

    By creating the avatar identities Fly Agaric 23 and Acrillic i have found help distinguishing myself, Steven Pratt, from the other people and electronic identities who also happen to use a certain species of mushroom for their avatar name. A myspace search will turn up many fly agaric cabals and so the 23 suffix’ has helped identify myself, i suffice to say, synergetically in this big brand name WEBNET soup. On with the games.

    DJ fly agaric 23.

    Maybelogic
    Garaj Mahal
    The Maybes’

    Steven James Pratt