Tag: Amsterdam
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Tardifable Waterbear Productions
Amsterdam, 2012. DJ-poet Plush, reeling from attacks that shattered his face and his career, forms TRB with Max and Percy. Inspired by Robert Anton Wilson, they fuse turntablism, magick, and literature into the chaotic TribeTable Method, accidentally plugging into Wilson’s unfinished “Tale of the Tribe” and a brewing historical conspiracy centered on the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
As they juggle invoked entities (“The Sixty”), time-traveling tardigrades, and messages channeled through experimental beats, they attract the attention of a ruthless cabal manipulating reality through AI, populism, and bizarre rituals involving peanut butter. From Amsterdam coffeeshops and secret bases beneath the Malvern Hills to the decks of a reality-bending DJ battle, TRB must decode the “Hologrammic Prose” of the universe, hijack the narrative, and fight the “Prick Populist” threat before the singularity hits endgame.Deep Scratch is Vanta Black science fiction comedy.
It’s Burroughs cut-ups slammed into Pynchon paranoia, fueled by hip-hop aesthetics and occult theory. Expect prophetic visions, weaponized memes, sentient technology, talking books, exploding jellyfish, and the desperate search for the perfect beat in a deep fake universe. The tables are turning. Which side are you on, are you on, hello, check check…?
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BTG DEEP SCRATCH TIMELINE
Deep Scratch Universe: Chronological Echoes
Deep History & Mythic Seeds
- Ancient Finger (4M years old?), Denisovan Cave connection.
- Mayan Cosmology: Long Count, Popul Vuh prophecy (
Stupidity Disease?), Dresden Codex (miscalculated?). - Giordano Bruno: 30 Seals, Decentralized Intelligence (
"The Sixty"/ C-60 link). - Enochian System (Dee/Kelley): Undeciphered tables, “hidden light.”
- Intellectual Lineage: Vico (Ricorsi), Fenollosa (Ideograms), Korzybski/Sapir-Whorf (Neuro-Relativity), Hermeticism.
- Prehistoric Events: Comet Phaeton crash (Bavaria, 500 BCE).
Early 20th Century Echoes
- Tesla’s visions, suppressed tech/weapons potential.
- Joyce & Yeats meet (1904), Joyce writes
Finnegans Wake(pub. 1939), Yeats explores Gyres. - Pound writes Cantos.
- Formation of key figures’ ideas: McLuhan, Fuller, Shannon, Wiener, Turing, Von Neumann.
- Malvern Hill Gang established? (Crowley, Lewis, Hess, John Trump link?).
1936: The Nexus Point
- Berlin Olympics hosted by Hitler; artistic/intellectual intervention plot hinted.
- Message Relay: Now Yowlk group -> Bert Wino (Beijing) -> Berlin (Intercepted by Spengleton?).
- Rapalltown Group (Chase, Bates, Pod) active.
- Spain holds counter “People’s Olympic Games.”
- Joyce possibly intervenes (vision?).
- Foundation for Mid-Century Conspiracy Web laid
Mid-Century Conspiracy Web (Conceptual)
A tangled network involving: Dulles Bros, Turing, Shannon, Wiener, Gehlen, Von Neumann, A-Bomb, MK Ultra, Operation Mockingbird/Chaos, Cambridge Spies, Cold War tech/paranoia, Counter-culture emergence (Beats, Acid Rock, RAW), Media Theory (McLuhan), Systems Thinking (Fuller), JFK Assassination links (Dulles, Cord Meyer?), Project Blue Book…
Plush’s Origins / TRB Genesis
- Plush’s youthful awakening (Psychedelics, Ideograms).
- Failed music career, violent attacks (pre-2012).
- Early writing attempts (
Our Histories Back2009,Sixty2011). - ~2008: TRB’s countdown to 21/12/2012 begins.
- Plush develops early TribeTable Method concepts in Amsterdam.
~2012: The Main Event (Amsterdam)
TRB Activation:
- Plush, Max, Percy form TRB, inspired by RAW, aiming to map “Tale of the Tribe.”
- Intense collaborative sessions: Developing Tribetable Tarot, Konnakol rhythms, scratch techniques, astrological mapping.
- Plush experiences visions (tardigrades, finger), paranoia (Briq threat).
External Forces & Strange Events:
- Jake & Joe become involved (experiments, paranoia).
- Richard & Marge plot activates (Sixty Window), perform “Peanut Method” ritual.
- Accidental satellite explosion.
- Richard/Marge kill Fang at studio (Chapter 14 climax).
- Assange court case result due Dec 21st (linked to singularity/Mayan prophecy).
- Voyager/tardigrade disc arrives from space (Nov 27th?).
- Plush receives court summons for
Scratch History(espionage, treason…).
World State:
Populism rising, media monopolies, climate anxiety, over-tourism/gentrification (Amsterdam), “stupefying elixir” / static tripping populace.
Future Echoes & Alternate Streams
- DJ Battle in San Francisco (Flash-forward?).
- Tardigrade mission to Venus (Ongoing?).
- Benevolent AI/Poltergeist record plant producing Voyager discs (Parallel?).
- Hovertables launched (2023 Showcase).
- Time-traveling tardigrades from 2323 influence Plush.
- Planet Klaka / Mantis / Jellyfish sequence (Story-within-story?).
- Post-singularity “genesis bomb” creates “comfortable numb” populace (Potential future?).
- LA 2028 Olympics speculation…
Meta-Time / Remix Layer
- Author’s editing process (
Sixty->Deep Scratch). - *Deep Scratch Remix* project (Preface dated 23/3/23).
- “PrattGPT” (Steve Fly/ChatGPT collaboration) explores AI ethics/use.
- Moscow surveillance subplot introduced in Remix.
- AI music generation (Udio/Flai Mixes) vs non-AI music (*Remix* album).
- Tanmoy!
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BETWEEN THE GROOVE
ON THE CUTS…
Amsterdam, 2012. DJ-poet Plush, reeling from attacks that shattered his career, forms TRB with Max and Percy. Inspired by Robert Anton Wilson, they fuse turntablism, magick, and literature into the chaotic TribeTable Method, accidentally plugging into Wilson’s unfinished “Tale of the Tribe” and a brewing historical conspiracy centered on the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
As they juggle invoked entities (“The Sixty”), time-traveling tardigrades, and messages channeled through experimental beats, they attract the attention of a ruthless cabal manipulating reality through AI, populism, and bizarre rituals involving peanut butter. From Amsterdam coffeeshops and secret bases beneath the Malvern Hills to the decks of a reality-bending DJ battle, TRB must decode the “Hologrammic Prose” of the universe, hijack the narrative, and fight the “Prick Populist” threat before the singularity hits endgame.Deep Scratch is Vanta Black science fiction comedy.
It’s Burroughs cut-ups slammed into Pynchon paranoia, fueled by hip-hop aesthetics and occult theory. Expect prophetic visions, weaponized memes, sentient technology, talking books, exploding jellyfish, and the desperate search for the perfect beat in a deep fake universe. The tables are turning. Which side are you on, are you on, hello, check check…?
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HORNITHOLOGY FOR JOHN SINCLAIR
Hornithology
(For John Sinclair set to Ornithology by Charlie Parker)1
i’m thinking of you standing on the corner
joint in my hand, in my head plays a band
i thought i’d write a head for youfor all that you did it’s the least I can do
for all what you wrote on the blues is true
and so I’m asking what can we do?as long as you stay in my head
i’ll be feeling well and read
(we cut our own path and on we tread
but don’t forget to go to bed)2
we’ll always have your music and your writing
to brighten our day, and show a new way
i really miss your singing and laugh
but inside my heart I have your autograph
outer space bop and anti-gravity craftobli be bop blamster dam
dizzy bird and monk and rap
muddy sonny ra and fats(ginsberg burroughs kerouac
hope your happy in you nap)3
i wonder how it is up in the jukebox
up there in the mix with mingus hendrix
and all the rockin’ jams that you love
all the swinging cats an’ the poets you dug
dancing like a teenager to wolf and bud
i hear you speaking in my dreams
a yusef miles and coltrane breeze
roll up a scroll an’ cheers our teas
(a drop of honey lemon squeeze
in the land of ooh blah dee)–Steve Fly
Amsterdam, 2nd April 2025.
For John Sinclair (R.I.P) -
Shakespeare ensemble
Midsummer Nights Dream (MND)
Saturday afternoons from 11:30 – 16:30 we rehearse starting January 18th until April 19th & 20th when we have two matinee try-outs at OT 301 (Overtoom 301) at 2 pm and April 22nd & 23rd (Shakespeare’s Birthday) we have two showings at Mike’s Badhuis. Fairies, Mechanicals, and Lovers are doing fine and looking forward.
[Link to Music album by Fly] -
Using AI for Countercultural Art and Global Transformation with Steve Fly
Steve Fly: The latest iteration of my quarter-century (and counting) of research into Robert Anton Wilson’s Tale of the Tribe is a collaboration using some AI tools. Tale of The Tribe is a mountain range whose size and scope requires training to traverse, hill-climbing toward coherence. So far I’ve produced over 65 stanzas with corresponding audio. The first iteration is structured on 60 stanzas to represent the 60 vertices of the Buckminsterfullerene. This is prompted from a line in Ezra Pound’s Cantos “buckie has gone in for structure.” The structure of the poem/album is a tribute to Buckminster Fuller, whom RAW admired and studied with, and it snugly sits as one of the 13 primary inspirations in the way RAW conceived/perceived the universe.
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MMXXV new year message
Happy New Yeah I’ll Write Then…
Dedicated to those who didn’t make it through the brutal 2024, and those who may feel forgotten, left behind or overlooked. The world is a better place with you in it, innit, just don’t get any big ideas, like saving the planet, okay. Phew, it’s a lot, innit, and only increasing as each year rolls by, the older you get the more you have to process, and balance the exponential reality check-book. Selective memory and the swiftly forgotten as a survival measure. You are that which remains, I am that which remains, so here we remain the remains of the day.
Here some past present future tensions stretched and shrunk to fit the purpose. Stuff I think about, in review, inner and outer, subjective and attempted objective, half full and half empty looking glass. Hopes and fears, everybody does it. Short term nostalgia trip and honest scribble for any readers who got this far.
What was real in 2024? I ask of myself and the outsiders. What is true or true enough to get some group of believers or other, on board with the bare cult minimum of effort. New loops lie ahead on history’s rollercoaster, only just finished and designed by a drunken lunatic, and we’re zooming upside down and around, some well strapped in, some with hands in the air, some standing as we go over the top and around the bend.
The challenge to keep one’s head, while seemingly others lose theirs to some ideology or other, some big dada or saviour, some scam, yet it’s all many have. A rude and crass “i told you so” or “you’re very wrong” does not help, the result is the same. Creeping insanity, don’t call it genocide, the feeling that you’re the only one who thinks this or that way, locked off, isolated in a world of self doubt and a lack of confidence, well shit, pick up that pen, that brush, that instrument, that rhyme, get it down and out. Now.
Write, draw, play, speak, now’s the time. It’s for your own good, don’t expect fame or fortunes, go for sanity and therapy. Order, chaos, complexity, disorder, in various ratios, plus harmony, sense, knowledge, understanding, try to figure it out for yourself first. Test it. Take it easy, the world is not all your problem. Start small, be thankful for what you’ve got, try to make it make sense. Be the altruism and benevolence you wish to see in the world. Yes, these are positive reinforcement messages from my toilet wall.
And try to remember, after covid, 80% of incumbent candidates, those currently in office, lost in 2024 elections, worldwide. Change, in a political sense, swept across the chess board like a powerful haunting super fart, turning over unprepared governments like bowling pins, upsetting apple carts and causing distress to many rational thinking people. Populism, powered by collective post-covid, post-truth psychosis, rears its ugly head, in the spirit of vulture capitalism, or disaster capitalism, these ravenous birds of prey snatch away the hungry, disenfranchised, vulnerable and angry into their clutches. Bejewelled birds of prey, covered in priceless diamond rings, rubies and emeralds, the richest birds paid up by the richest apex predator: Musk. 2024 is his year, the year of the Musk man, emotionally derelict, money talks and bullshit walks all over what tatters of the constitution remain after the feeding frenzy by sharks and hyenas, lawyers and crooked supreme justices over decades. And the climate and the climate. Wars and war, arms and arms. Don”t call it genocide, follow the rules of war, arms sales but fly no flags. Arms race, race race. Too many still profit from disaster, from disaster too many turn away. Union strong, truth and honesty strong, small is beautiful, stronger together in 2025. Deeee escalate. What of the tribe and the tale of 2024, the tech fash bros and lurch toward theocracy, a second coming closer, a fake saviour, devil in tanned disguise, as Elvis said.
Yet, here we are. So, what’s next you lot? What text, image, sound, video, real, fake, co-created or hallucinated? What what what. Our new duty, or one of em’, is to cohere, to pull it all together into digestible chunks of a bloody big healthy cake, a slice of bitter sweet 2024, on the flipper side there’s Crypto Fash Hyper Crime Family Strokes, or some such new U.S sitcom. United States drama mind creep, season two of the worst unreality TV show ever. Trump, the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist in chief. What now my cuddlies, what now? Well, let the suicide squad enter a hate induced coma.
Continue as you were, poet, artist, philosopher, wit, romantic. Forget about the chicken hawk show, conceive of a kind of Buddhist reality construct, where all human beings are like equally coming Buddhas, full compassion for all sentient beings, including them, they, the Trumpers and worse. It’s inside us all somewhere, maybe misplaced or misidentified, the love is there. One way forward, truly, but not so popular in a rage and rant world, is forgiveness, albeit, coated in L.S.D. Love harder and deeper, more broadly. Keep a grip of yourself. Hold onto others tight. Thou shall not kill or swindle others out of their neurons. More self help slogans for your uncle’s garage wall.
2025 will be a year of pulling away from social media and unpublishing some work, closing accounts and encouraging others to do the same. The time and energy saved will, with luck, funnel into alternate avenues to reach people based on analogue media. Art, craft, performance, workshops, hanging out.
The AI is not to be feared or rejected, we must organize and use every means at our disposal to build that better world of abundance for all, attained without lies, violence and threats. Continue the work and don’t expect any recognition or thanks because such expectations may cause you to want to quit. Never give up. Work on kindness and sharing, tolerance and spreading love, there’s enough people already working on the opposites to these virtues.
Sincerely wishing you all a piece of peace pie, success, health, healing, learning, giggles and clarity in 2025.
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arty fishy
Arty Fish Innovation
a new renaissance
turing complete beat
a core ontology
with hyper seeds
who the judge and what topic
rivers 111 geometrik symbols
a river with two banks
info flow state
we the fish people
currents and eddies
gyres and entanglements
nets and bait
hooks and bass line
arty fish innovation land mind
pices battered
caught and fried with sauces
fishkapiscuss
and discuss
cod loves you with pauses
this core ontology so fishy
swimming photons
quarks and seagulls
the eel gell man
arty fishy knowledge bass
mingus flea coltrane circle
ontology knowledge bass line
soul struggles as salmon
jump upstreams
download stream dream of breem
perceptually coupled to
aqua environment
arty fish in water
hydro dynamics
wiggle and wave to shannons cave
self organizing
godfish brains core ontology
octopus general arty squirt
ink symbolic departure
whale school break boats
speak aloud babble
arty fish kitch
swimmulation im moorsive
sieve steve
swum and bass line hook
arty fish ontology evolved
like sharks
dynamic efficient dudley
computational hunting
anglo rhythms
claude sonnets shannon waves
chat with a lama
dzogchen arty fish
dream fish tulku
ghost in the washing machine
texture arty fisht scale weights
measures flow fluid logic lakes
vortex turtle in the maelstrom
emerald shells glint of jewel
ascii refraction surface to air mint
arty fish innovation rights
where to trawl data fish and chips
aye gee I
ontology core knowledge bass
versatility of domains land sky water
moon chess
specialized insects
models of use
find a proof of the riemann hypothesis
do correct algebra derivations
explain to a third grade primary
school of merlin
shannon waves in joyce’s voices
brewed under arclight by the pound
ladddled from welles
from muck loos and freako
fly generally not speaking
writing coordination
wise arty fish wise
dancing to market on ice
smart lobster bosses click
muted screams of food chain
on topic, my theme biopic
jump the fence, skip games and math
walk the path, drafty draft
map the maps
–Steve Fly (off the top of the dumb)
Amsterdam, 24th December 2024.
Lyrics and prompts fed into Udio to create an audio setting for the words. Themselves around and about a core ontology knowledge base for a.i. a.k.a Arty Fishy Intelligence (off the dumb).
DEEP SCRATCH 