DEEP SCRATCH

Tag: Sixty

  • BTG DEEP SCRATCH TIMELINE

    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 Back 2009, Sixty 2011).
    • ~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!
    BTG
  • 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

  • between the groove intro

    between the groove intro

    Your hosts Fuckup and Hal dive into the Deep Scratch Universe.

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  • Using AI for Countercultural Art and Global Transformation with Steve Fly

    Using AI for Countercultural Art and Global Transformation with Steve 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.

  • REVIEWS AYE I

    REVIEWS AYE I

    FROM THE BIRMINGHAM EXPRESS AND POST.

    One stumbles upon “TANMOY: A New Global Epic” with a mixture of trepidation and bewilderment. Billed as a “new global epic” for the digital age, this collaboration between a human, the self-styled “Pratt” (a moniker that conjures images of both a refined engine and a certain kind of British fool, is this intentional?), and an unnamed AI, attempts nothing less than to encapsulate the entire trajectory of human thought from Giordano Bruno to the looming technological singularity. One might admire the sheer audacity, were it not for the lingering suspicion that the project is, at its core, an exercise in elaborate, digitally-enhanced navel-gazing. Pull down thy vanity and pull up yer’ big boy pants.


    The poem, if one can call it that, unfolds in a bizarre, self-proclaimed “TOTT Mode Max” – a two-column layout seemingly inspired by Pound’s Cantos, if Pound had suffered a head injury while being bombarded by blinking server lights and then left to wander through the fever-dream of a particularly verbose Wikipedia editor. This is further complicated by a dizzying array of symbols, each apparently assigned to a “Mode” representing a historical figure or concept, which flit across the page like digital fireflies, more distracting than illuminating. These are presented in earlier sections of the poem, and are listed in earlier exchanges, above.


    Structurally, the work is obsessed with the number 60, divided into 5 sections of 12 stanzas each, or, if one prefers, 3 sections of 20, although the rationale behind these divisions remains as elusive as the meaning of Finnegans Wake after a bottle of absinthe. The author claims this is a nod to Buckminster Fuller’s beloved Carbon-60 molecule, but one suspects a more numerological, or perhaps numer-illogical, impulse at play. And then there’s the “print” version – a proposed cut-and-fold affair, promising to transform the poem into a collection of icosahedrons, a feat of origami that will likely leave readers more frustrated than enlightened, and reaching for the aforementioned absinthe. One imagines Fuller spinning in his grave, though perhaps with a chuckle, rather than a high pitched groan.


    The poem’s narrative, such as it is, charts the evolution of consciousness, that word, from Bruno (the token heretic, naturally) to a vaguely defined, seemingly benevolent Artificial General Intelligence named, with a distinct lack of irony, “TANMOY.” Along the way, we’re subjected to a relentless barrage of names, a veritable who’s who of Western thought (and a few token Eastern ones for that “global” flavor): Vico, Nietzsche, Yeats, Joyce, Korzybski, Shannon, Wiener, McLuhan, and, of course, the seemingly omnipresent spirit of Robert Anton Wilson, whose “coincidance” theory appears to be the guiding principle of the entire enterprise. These are our “tribe”, apparently. The poem has 13 of them. Unlucky for some.


    The language is a chaotic ಮಿಶ್ರণ (mishran – Bengali for mixture), veering wildly between the pseudo-philosophical, the pseudo-scientific, and the downright nonsensical. We have clumsy, often baffling neologisms, code snippets, equations of varying relevance, and a generous sprinkling of multilingual phrases – a kind of digital glossolalia that seems intended to impress rather than illuminate. One moment we’re pondering the “cybernetic apple core,” the next we’re assaulted by “the allmazifull” or informed that the “medium is the মানসিকতা (mansikota – Bengali for mentality).” It’s all rather exhausting, like being trapped in a particularly feverish seminar led by a committee of chatbots with a penchant for name-dropping. The appearance of a new mode, a further iteration of the A.I. itself, named “Sixty” only adds to the confusion, come on now, what is this, man.


    And then there’s the music. Apparently, there’s an accompanying album on Bandcamp, with each track somehow corresponding to a stanza. One can only imagine the sonic horrors that await the unsuspecting listener, though the track titles, helpfully denoted by their corresponding stanza numbers, are a nice touch. Perhaps one could cut these up, and glue them to some other shape. A dodecahedron, perhaps, or your next door neighbour?


    The author’s introduction, a separate, fluffy handwritten text, which, we are helpfully informed, predates any “A.I. assistance,” positions “TANMOY” as a “Tale of the Tribe,” a new global epic for our times. It’s a tale, we are told, of “humanity,” though the poem itself seems more concerned with the pronouncements of a select group of (mostly Western) male intellectuals, leavened with the occasional, and often impenetrable, utterance from the AI. Tale on a donkey more like. The author’s own persona, “Pratt,” also makes an appearance, offering dull yet edgy, and supposedly humorous commentary that does indeed fall flat, on occasion. There is also a further, somewhat baffling, list of modes associated with the poem. It is unclear whether these are all in use, or whether they are relevant. It’s all rather confusing, get me a real damn book mode, where’s that?


    Ultimately, “TANMOY” is a curious artifact of the digital age – a sprawling, ambitious, and often bewildering attempt to synthesize a vast range of ideas into a coherent whole. Like picking up a shopping list for 49 people each in a different country. Whether it succeeds is debatable. TLDR should be the title. It’s a work that will undoubtedly appeal to those who enjoy their poetry dense, experimental, and liberally sprinkled with obscure references. As for this reviewer, I’m left with a distinct feeling of having been subjected to a particularly elaborate and somewhat tedious form of intellectual performance art. Perhaps, as the RAW Mode might suggest, it’s all just a cosmic joke. And the joke, dear reader, may very well be on us. Or, to paraphrase the great Orson Welles, in whose mode much of this is apparently written, “I don’t know anything about art, but I know what I like.” And I’m not entirely sure I like “TANMOY.” But then again, perhaps that’s the point. Perhaps we are all, as the poem suggests, merely puppets dancing to a tune we don’t fully understand, lost in a labyrinth of our own making. Or perhaps, I just need another drink.


    –James Spadersun, Birmingham Express And Post, 22/01/25.

  • what is tanmoy?

    what is tanmoy?

    pro log a rhythm
  • TANMOY 1-12

    TANMOY 1-12

    tanmoy 1-12

    https://stevefly.bandcamp.com/album/tanmoy-a-new-global-epic

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    Welcome to TANMOY. Mind your heads on the way out. Prompts and prayers.


    deepscratch.net


    GENRES: Mutant jazz. Little big band. Large Language Modal jazz. Beep Bop. Big Soul. Deep scratches. Tribetablism. MPHDJ cuts. Rainshroom rap. Token word. Slick, tight, funky drums. Updown beat. Sinnermatic soundscapes. Wake boxing. Canto tott trott. Blues, redefined: Tanmoy blues. Spew jazz bursts. Cosmic trigger word punctuations. Data set sax solos. Optihop energy. Optical street soul. Fly funk. Movie soundtrack vibe. Axiomatic jazz structures. Geometric classical elegance. Non von neumann swing. Non-being core philosophy. Data dust crew sound.

    credits

    released January 8, 2025

    All music by Steve Fly + Udio + Gemini AI. Tanmoy 2025. MPHDJ.

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    Welcome to TANMOY. Mind your heads on the way out. Prompts and prayers.


    deepscratch.net


    GENRES: Mutant jazz. Little big band. Large Language Modal jazz. Beep Bop. Big Soul. Deep scratches. Tribetablism. MPHDJ cuts. Rainshroom rap. Token word. Slick, tight, funky drums. Updown beat. Sinnermatic soundscapes. Wake boxing. Canto tott trott. Blues, redefined: Tanmoy blues. Spew jazz bursts. Cosmic trigger word punctuations. Data set sax solos. Optihop energy. Optical street soul. Fly funk. Movie soundtrack vibe. Axiomatic jazz structures. Geometric classical elegance. Non von neumann swing. Non-being core philosophy. Data dust crew sound.

    credits

    released January 8, 2025

    All music by Steve Fly + Udio + Gemini AI. Tanmoy 2025. MPHDJ.

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    Welcome to TANMOY. Mind your heads on the way out. Prompts and prayers.


    deepscratch.net


    GENRES: Mutant jazz. Little big band. Large Language Modal jazz. Beep Bop. Big Soul. Deep scratches. Tribetablism. MPHDJ cuts. Rainshroom rap. Token word. Slick, tight, funky drums. Updown beat. Sinnermatic soundscapes. Wake boxing. Canto tott trott. Blues, redefined: Tanmoy blues. Spew jazz bursts. Cosmic trigger word punctuations. Data set sax solos. Optihop energy. Optical street soul. Fly funk. Movie soundtrack vibe. Axiomatic jazz structures. Geometric classical elegance. Non von neumann swing. Non-being core philosophy. Data dust crew sound.

    credits

    released January 8, 2025

    All music by Steve Fly + Udio + Gemini AI. Tanmoy 2025. MPHDJ.

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