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  • Steve Fly Newsletter (Patreon)

    Steve Fly Newsletter (Patreon)

    Hi, sending warmest regards and sweetest wishes to you, wherever you are…out there in the rapidly transforming world. I’ve stepped up production and output in my gesture of unique entertainment during this next sheltering in place phase, lockdown-two or whatever you call it. Meditation two, the second challenge?  

    I’m moved by considerate people who choose extra caution, thinking of others because it makes sense, not waiting to be instructed to act under threat of fine or mandatory laws. I see care and sincere concern bursting out from most people, coming together, contrary to the narrative from the 24/7 media bombardment, division, mistrust, confusion. There’s beautiful, heartwarming humility everywhere, if we can cut through the digital fog of culture wars and break the spell of despair.  

    I curated a Youtube Playlist in March) Videos To Help During The Coronavirus, I’m carefully adding what I feel is worthy. Plus, pruning Youtube Playlists with thousands of hours of material, take a look HERE.

    I’m still editing that damned novel, amassing appendices and multimedia footnotes, struggling to lift it all and make it cohere when heading into second lockdown challenge. I trust the light hearted side of prose can overshadow the murky side, it feels like a tightrope walk wearing tights on my head. I want to be sure, really sure, that I write what I mean and mean what I write. I’m a little perplexed about how to proceed (print and produce the book as a physical artefact) recently I’ve considered a USB stick to also hold video, audio and images. The plot thickens.

    I wrote a small blog entry last week about Artists and their relationship to National Security, HERE. Earlier this month I wrote about coronavirus challenges and possible solutions.

    This month I’ve recorded a new series of DJ mixes available here and experiments with JAMM PRO (NinjaJamm APP) screen videos and live video from my bedroom/studio.

    Douglas Rushkoff and Grant Morrison on Team Human, take very merry trip together I recommend listening to. Prop Anon interviewed Grant for Mondo 2000 e-zine, waxing lyrical on Robert Anton Wilson, Brave New World…HERE.

    John Higgs recently published his Newsletter #23 that bulges with delights and insights, with links to his latest work and gems about RAW and the current conspiracy climate emergency.

    Nic Aldeton of Complexity media recently uploaded a new version of the panel discussion between Adam Curtis and Alan Moore (2017) moderated by Michelle Olley, I was present at the event and was lucky to hang with Adam and Alan.

    They Came To Starburg is my Halloween horror/comedy (Audio Book) released in 2014. You can stream the Spooken Word here. Happy Halloween.

    Here’s some words I excreted last week:

    hiber-nation
    huddle close avoid spikes
    like hedgehogs

    solidaritea
    and toast with common coffee
    grounds for peace treaty

    autumn is slowing up
    heart and mind torn by brexit
    sad separation

    covid autumn
    moon and stars mask
    uncertain cloud

    take a long walk
    awake to the simple things
    you’re never alone

    we love the long night
    isolation strengthens us
    in heads we thrive

    leaves and rain falling
    magpie and raven ascend
    find the others

    is a rose a rose
    in cruel summer lockdown
    water your garden

    sycamore
    fig-mulberry poem hides
    under maple leaf

    Thanks to you for helping keep the wheels turning. I sincerely wish you are staying productive and keeping safe from harm.    

    –Steve Fly   

    deepscratch.net
    patreon.com/stevefly

  • DJ Steve Fly Jamm Pro Remix LM / Max Pelsey

    DJ Steve Fly Jamm Pro Remix LM / Max Pelsey

    The Main Jamm Interface contains a set of Global Controls which are present on all screens, including the Screen Selectors at the bottom. The Screen Selectors select between the main Screens and Modules which offer different functions of which the Play Screen is the most important.

    This manual is an addition to the comprehensive InApp Help available for any screen from the top right Help icon. Use this Help first which has a description of every control in the app. The manual is more in the nature of overviews of the different modules and functions.–https://jammpro.net/manual/

    https://jammpro.net/manual/
    [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/908532556″

  • JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 871 – LET’S TALK ABOUT LOVE

    Episode 871 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam’s Detroit headquarters at 55 Peterboro St. where I’m continuing my recovery from open heart surgery and featuring an hour of new music from guitarist Lurrie Bell’s album Let’s Talk About Love—including Let’s Talk About Love,” “Chicago Is Loaded with the Blue,” “Earthquake and Hurricane,” “Cold Chills,” “Feeling Good,” “Directly From My Heart To Yours,” “Turn To Me,” “Missing You,” “Why Am I Treated So Bad,” “Winehead Woman,” “You Ought To Be Ashamed,” and “My Dog Can’t Bark”—interspersed with conversational segments with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine.

    The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

    LET’S TALK ABOUT LOVE

    JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 871

    Cass Corridor, Detroit, July 7, 2020 [20453]

    Yusef Lateef: Happyology

    Lurrie Bell: Let’s Talk About Love

    Lurrie Bell Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens

    Lurrie Bell: Chicago Is Loaded with the Blues

    Lurrie Bell Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens

    Lurrie Bell: Earthquake and Hurricane

    Lurrie Bell Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens

    Lurrie Bell: Cold Chills

    Lurrie Bell Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens

    Lurrie Bell: Feeling Good

    Lurrie Bell Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens

    Lurrie Bell: Directly From My Heart To Yours

    Lurrie Bell Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens

    Lurrie Bell: Turn To Me

    Lurrie Bell Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens

    Lurrie Bell: Missing You

    Lurrie Bell Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens

    Lurrie Bell: Why Am I Treated So Bad

    Lurrie Bell: Winehead Woman

    Lurrie Bell: You Ought To Be Ashamed

    Lurrie Bell: My Dog Can’t Bark

    Charlie Parker: They Can’t Take That Away From Me

    A JOINT PRODUCTION

    Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam

    Program produced, edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair

    Executive Producer: Steve Pratt

    © 2020 The John Sinclair Foundation

  • Big Chief

    Big Chief: Getting High With John Sinclair And The Fly by Steven James Pratt et al.
    Big Chief: Getting High With John Sinclair And The Fly
    by Steven James Pratt et al.
    Link: http://a.co/amKzCJD

  • A new beginning (a new website)

    Finally, after more than 20 years, i registered a domain and paid for a wordpress package.

    Now, and in the coming weeks and months i’ll seriously update and add-to this site, and attempt to link up all my other works, and collaborations from around the web.

    Thanks for checking in. Please leave a note or any suggestions for inclusion. Write on.

    –Steve Fly

     

    Steve Fly and John Sinclair
    Steve Fly and John Sinclair at Red Light Radio.

  • Interview with Daisy Campbell and Michelle Olley on Resonance FM

    Johny Brown interviews Daisy Campbell about Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus! and her new play, ‘Cosmic Trigger,’ which is currently running at the Cockpit Theatre.

    LINK

    Steven James Pratt

  • Rockers, artists pay tribute to James Joyce with massive project

    “What I found out,” says Pyle, “was that there were all these niches and subcultures — dead heads, punk rockers, out-there artists, avant-garde classical musicians, Robert Anton Wilson fans — and within their subcultures ‘Finnegans Wake’ has a lot of importance. … What I think happened was we were able to bring together a bunch of niches, people who were interesting and also supportive — that cult thing, when you’re really into something, you’re really into something. We brought together those people as both audience and contributors.”
    http://www.telegram.com/entertainmentlife/20170510/rockers-artists-pay-tribute-to-james-joyce-with-massive-project

  • Cosmic Trigger audio book

    The story behind RAW’s Cosmic Trigger Audio Book

    posted by Rasa
    Ever since I heard Ken Campbell reading Part One of Illuminatus! in the 2007 Deepleaf Audio production, I had the idea in my head that I’d love to hear an audio book of Cosmic Trigger, and Prometheus Rising, and, well, most of Bob’s books. It took some years for Christina to sort out her dad’s legal affairs enough that we could create Hilaritas Press, start republishing mosbunall of Bob’s books, and then begin thinking of creative ways to further Bob’s works and ideas. In early 2014, Daisy Campbell began to pull together the resources and diverse energies needed to pull the Cosmic Trigger and create her stage adaptation. The RAW Trust was in full support, and already thinking of how the production could one day be staged in Santa Cruz. While Daisy realized her inspired interpretation of Cosmic Trigger, we were creating HIlaritas Press and publishing Cosmic Trigger as our first RAW title.
    Oliver Senton, narrator for the audio book, played Robert Anton Wilson in Daisy Campbell’s “Cosmic Trigger – The Play”
    Watching video clips of the production led me to write an email to Daisy in March of 2016, asking her thoughts on making Cosmic Trigger into an audio book. Her response was enthusiastic, and she immediately said, “The best possible man for the audio job would be Oliver Senton who played Bob in the play.”
    Oliver was equally enthusiastic. Before he went into the recording studio to begin the project, he wrote to Christina,
    “I have a strong faith that your father’s works are going to grow and grow in popularity and appreciation in the coming years, and that this re-framing of them you’re currently undertaking can only accentuate that. Rereading Cosmic Trigger Part I recently has only reminded me of how much brilliant thought and “feeling good” there is there. Truly, his was a mighty heart.”
    Christina and I were ecstatic – we had an amazing book and a great actor to narrate – now we only had to make the thing. Easier imagined than done, but the RAW community has a lot of talent. I asked Steve “fly agaric 23” Pratt if he might be able to lend a hand. Oliver knew Steve as the drummer in Daisy’s stage production of Cosmic Trigger. I knew Steve, from back in early 2012 when he approached the Trust about his RAW360 virtual reality project. Steve lives in Amsterdam, doing a wide array of creative projects, and working a lot in the last years with poet/activist John Sinclair. I put Steve in touch with Oliver, and since I was more than 5000 miles away, and Oliver and Steve only had the English Channel to deal with, I took a back seat. That was a great decision. I’m taking the same tack in writing this blog post and letting Steve and Oliver take over . . .
    Steve writes . . .
    “Pull It!”
    Finally the final secret of the Illuminati is out in the air, the Cosmic Trigger audio book project comes 40 years after the book was penned by RAW, and with luck will inspire new generations to come.
    The project reflects a labour-of-love on behalf of all involved, from the studio recording itself, through the fine tooth-comb editing, and preparations for the audio book launch. To repeat a popular phrase in Cosmic Trigger circles, ‘heroic’ – defines the project perfectly.
    RAW often suggested (in his Finnegans Wake writings) that reading a text aloud can unlock what were once dormant meanings in the text. Along lines sketched out by Marshall McLuhan, RAW also propagated signals inferring that the medium defines the message, and listening to speech impacts differently on the brain-body system than reading text silently in your head. The ear world and the eye world and the interacting processes of all the senses together, produce a holistic experience in time. This audio book can literally open up new dimensions, inner and outer.
    Oliver Sentons’ reading stamina and continued ability to keep the listener engrossed in the comprehensive text is a delight to behold. Rasa and Christina have given hundreds of hours and incurred considerable expenses in producing this audio book. I dearly hope you help share and spread the word far and wide, and consider buying this one of a kind, 8 hour Robert Anton Wilson audio trip. With your help and support we can start work on the audio book for Cosmic Trigger Volume II: Down to Earth.
    Special thanks to Mark Sampson, Simon Reeves, Oliver Senton, Tom and Della Pratt, Scott Groves and to Hagbard Celine for the ill artwork, all RAW heads worldwide, and those who are about to hear the book. Hoo fasa.
    “Pull it!”
    – Steve “fly agaric 23” Pratt, April 23, 2017
    And from Oliver . . .
    Birmingham, the city in England, has always held a half-formed shape in my memory: my sister went to university there thirty years ago, and since then I’ve only passed through briefly, just changing trains or spending a night or two in standardised hotels. Where better to dive deep into the stream of R.A.Wilson’s thoughts and words; to attempt to capture his elusive, charming, ever-morphing wit.
    Steve Fly and Mark Sampson installed me safely inside the rock bunker which is Framework Studios, with fruit and water, and shortly we were off, engineer Simon and me, with just a mike and constellations of ideas. I’ve been carrying some of those words in my head for a while (I play RAW in Daisy Campbell’s theatre adaptation of the books), but tackling the whole thing was a whole new challenge.
    How do you recite a graph? How do you describe an illustration? Above all, how do you capture for so many paragraphs that deep, rolling, barely modulating tone that Wilson had, which carried his bright intelligence so clearly to so many?
    After a while, a long while, talking as somebody else for so long, it’s impossible to tell how ‘accurate’ you are (whatever that may mean); it becomes more like a meditation than a performance – you disappear down the channel between your brain and the studio’s digital memory and hope for the best when you see the light at the other end.
    My thanks to the gentlemen for looking after me (and to Steve’s mum and dad for giving me a bed); my respect and gratitude to the man who provided the RAW material. Whatever you think as you listen: believe nothing.
    – Oliver Senton, April 23, 2017

    Listen to an excerpt . . .

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    excerpt: Multiple Realities chapter

    Written by Robert Anton Wilson
    Narrated by Oliver Senton
    Recorded and mastered by Simon Reeves at Framework Studios (September, 2016)
    Edited by Simon Reeves and Steve “fly agaric 23” Pratt
    Cover art by amoeba
    Co-producers: Mark Sampson (Iron Man Records) & Steve “fly agaric 23” Pratt
    Executive Producers: Richard Rasa & Christina Pearson
    Special thanks to Mark Sampson for transport and logistics, and to Tom and Della at Broadmeadow for help with lodgings.
     
    Steven James Pratt

  • A note to Bob

    Dear Bob,

    the world seems so messy without you, and we all miss your social commentary and King Kong like presence on the underground. Raw heads still turn to you for the clearest perspective on any particular issue, be it concerning intelligent signals from outer space, the perils of totalitarian government, any conspiracy you can think of, no matter how wild or crazy (as nothing could be stranger than the truth) We miss your humor and willingness to confront the boogie man in every corner of the cultural living room, where others fear to tread.

    new readers are discovering your books daily, both fiction and non-fiction (oh whats the difference these days?) i dream of picking apart the bride of Illuminatus with a 10’000 strong, open on-line community, and to witness the films and games and weird works dedicated to you light up your face. Shit, it’s easy to forget how well you’re ideas are preserved due to your due diligence when writing. You might chuckle to see us all pushing onwards into the dark woods with the world on our shoulders, taking on the TSOG with art and magic. May you rest in peace, and continue to extrude your ubiquitous entanglement with those who wish to tune in. Please visit at any time.

    –Steve Fly

  • Cosmic Trigger NinjaJamm – Demo’s

    These 3 Cosmic Trigger themed, Ninjajamm packs are an example of what NinjaJamm can do, or what you can do with NinjaJamm. After carefully cutting up the samples, anybody with enough time on their hands, and will, can use the NinjaJamm framework to produce a unique tune pack. You can download the app free for both IOS and Android devices, here: www.ninjajamm.net

    Special thanks to Tom Grashion for help programming the packs, and to Matt B, Alex, and Aneek at Ninjajamm.

    –Steve Fly

    Kick Out The Jamms – NinjaJamm Demo #1

     Fly Raw – Ninjajamm Demo #1

    Fly Walk –

    NinjaJamm Demo #01

    Kick Out The Jamms – Ninjajamm Demo #2

    Steven James Pratt