DEEP SCRATCH

Tag: Music Writing

  • BETWEEN THE GROOVE

    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…?

    What?

    BTG


    DS ONE – NEEDLE DROPS

  • HORNITHOLOGY FOR JOHN SINCLAIR

    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 you

    for 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 craft

    obli 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)

  • arty fishy

    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).

  • All E-Books And Paperbacks

    All E-Books And Paperbacks

    Follow this link for a selection of both Paperbacks and E-books (Kindle) over at Amazon Books. If you’d like signed copies or deals, plus exclusive music and blog posts, please head over to my Patreon account and join the ride.

    Stay safe.
    –Steve Fly

    Deep Scratch – Paperback

  • RAW DJVJ

    Robert Anton Wilson and the DJVJ Revolution.

    “enter the mix”–Ninjajamm.




    Sounds Fly: Music Writing

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/9OHmjhJ

    Friday, March 19, 2010. (edited 01/03/2017)

     

    Steven James Pratt

  • Occupy by Dr Marshmallow Cubicle

    Sounds Fly: Music Writing

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/9OHmjhJ

    http://www.rawillumination.net/2016/04/new-steve-fly-pratt-music-release-has.html

    Did a little shopping this morning — just bought a  digital copy of the new album Occupy by Dr Marshmallow Cubicle.

    The band’s drummer and one of its main songwriters is my friend Steve “Fly” Pratt who has a big group of RAW related websites and blogs, among them the extraordinary RAW360 site, which you really should go take a look at today, if you are not familiar with it.

    The album was released on April 23 on Iron Man Records. Fly is based in Amsterdam and has been playing with the band for quite awhile now.

    Fly says “The Track titled ‘The Law Of Acceleration’ features fly reading words by Robert Anton Wilson, from Cosmic Trigger I.”

    I listened to the track and noticed I enjoyed the drums. I asked Steve who his favorite drummers are. “Max Roach, Billy Martin, Alan Hertz, Owen Hart Jr., Mike Clark, Stevie Wonder, JoJo Mayer, Zakir Hussain,” he replied.

    Occupy is available from iTunes and the Amazon digital music store and probably lots of other places, too. More on the album here.  There are lots of YouTube videos of the band. 

    Posted by at 6:32 AM 
    Steven James Pratt

  • Chaoid Systems by Keith Hopewell.

    KEITH K. HOPEWELL – CHAOID SYSTEMS – LP
    (containing CD & 8 page booklet with exclusive artwork and text)

    Sounds Fly: Music Writing

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/9OHmjhJ

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  • …on music and poetry and poetry and music on…

    …on music and poetry and poetry and music on…

    by Steve Fly

    “Omniverse / Is / The totality / Of / All the universes / And you / Are welcome / To / Be citizens / Of / The Omniverse–Sun Ra, Omniverse.

     

    “Rhythm…is the first formal esthetic relation of any part to part in any esthetic whole or of an esthetic whole to its part or parts or of any part to the esthetic whole of which it is a part.–James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

    To this drummer/blogger, music and poetry share common parenting in the human universe. For example the 8 fingers and 2 thumbs, 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 eyes, 2 ears, 1 mouth and lungs of the majority of humans on earth create a basis and foundation for the human arts. The infinite potential of human hardware, the body, linked up with the infinite potential of the human software, mind, exhibited together in the spacetime flux of sound and symbol can heal the human condition and help the individual get a taste for freedom, and a little regiment.

    Sounds Fly: Music Writing

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/9OHmjhJ

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  • Astral Projective Verse: Olson, Ophiel and Sun Ra

     

    Astral Projective Verse

    By Steve Fly Agaric 23

    For Eric Wagner and John Sinclair. Thanks for inspiring these wild speculations which are really notes that shall be reshuffled into a more coherent whole at some future point.

    Sounds Fly: Music Writing

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/9OHmjhJ

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  • SRS is for SUN RA SYSTEM

    So, i just continued my research and writing about Sun Ra. Found some new sources and resources, and found myself asking more questions…
    More mid-week, enjoy.

    Love
    fly…

    Sounds Fly: Music Writing

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/9OHmjhJ

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