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ENERGIZE

Somewhere over the rainbow's edge we've exaggerated our connectors in the hear and now and pulled this contact point together. We've browsed the white noise of the dataweb and scanned the clouds of ambient chaos for moments that we hope you find provocative. Our antennas, ever-more deviated from norms of media behavior, have found that mutual focus - new potentials of aural experience in everyday living.

Like Zen-sitive gleamings on the water, some ideas here will resonate intuitively, some are slippery, and others threaten tradition. Our purpose is to not solicit agreement, but to create situations where meaningful reflection is the only escape and critical thinking the only alternative. In the spirit of Franz Kafka, we say "If what you're reading doesn't wake you up with a blow to the head, what are you reading it for?"

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INNERVIEW

"As a child, I was inspired by instrumental music; it fueled my imagination and carried my mind to distant and magical places. In realizing this potential, I conceived the possibility for music to inspire spiritual journeys and to access the listener's inner spaces as well. The same magic that drew me into music as a child, draws me still more deeply now to create sublime atmospheres that are not bound by language, but liberated by infinite spirit".

~Giles Reaves, http://www.spaceformusic.com/gilesreaves.html

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If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

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AFFAIRS

> looming...

Totally Huge New Music Festival, 5:1-8, Perth, Australia
Wild juxtaposition of styles, venues and people collide in concerts, lectures, electronics, instrumental ensembles, jazz, performance art, installations, and parties. Performers include Axis 21, Evan Kennea, Jonathan Mustard, King Crimson, Nova Ensemble, Merzbow, Sarah Collins and Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Iain Robbie, Ross Bolleter, Schvendes Ensemble, and Magic Trousers. E: tura@totallyhuge.iinet.net.au

> promising...

RealNetworks Conference, 5:5-7, San Francisco Marriott
The recognized leader in streaming media has expanded its offerings this year, with keynote addresses by Rob Glaser, chairman and CEO of RealNetworks, and Lou Dobbs, executive vice president of CNN, and president and chief executive of CNNfn. Plus more than 40 sessions featuring both strategic and technical content, 80 exhibits and demonstrations, and a funk-filled evening at the Warfield Theatre with George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars @ http://www.real.com/compan y/pressroom/pr/99/confvalue.html

> impending...

European Media Art Festival, 5:5-9, Osnabrueck, Germany
The festival brings together filmmakers, multimedia and performance artists, theorists, journalists and the interested public for a look at components such as 'Spaces Under Pressure - Bodies in Excess', a focus on the reciprocity resulting from interaction between urban structures and the human psyche @ http://www.emaf.de/

> imminent...

Edgewise 99, 5:5-6, Puck Building, New York, NYC
This provocative and practical two-day conference brings together master designers, programmers and entrepreneurs eager to share their wisdom and war stories-and to kibitz about the vast array of novel design techniques, tools and business models that are defining the digital marketplace @ http://www.edgewise.com

> auspicious...

Cyberart 99, 5:9, The Great Hall, Cooper Union, NYC
ASCI presents the newest of digital art media in an all-day event bringing together some of the world's most creative digital minds in a unified effort to invent concrete and viable "new models" of support. Jaron Lanier gives a benefit multimedia performance, Saturday, 5:8, 8pm @ http://www.asci.org/cyberart99/

> further...

JIM99, 5:17-19, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Paris, France
Journées d´Informatique Musicale is an annual rendezvous for music aficionados who use the computer as a means of expression or as a tool for composition @ http://www.ai.un iv-paris8.fr/~jim99/anglais/index.html

> advancing...

Open Ears Fest of Music and Sound, 5:19-24, Kitchener, Canada
Open your ears and listen with your mind to a multitude of concerts in eclectic venues plus: indoor and outdoor electroacoustics, soundwalks, workshops, the Sonic Playroom, Twilight Sound Series, fireworks with live music, Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Viva Voci, Mirror Image, the Canadian premiere of Philip Glass' 'Tibetans in Exile: A Madrigal Opera', guest composers Pauline Oliveros, Hildegard Westerkamp and Tim Brady, and world premieres by Barbara Croall, Christos Hatzis, and Richard Windeyer @ http://www.kwsymphony.on.ca/openears

> summer planning...

SONAR 99: 6:17-19, Barcelona, Spain
The 6th year of this International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art addresses its original aims with renewed spirit, encouraging relations, promotion and synergy between the professionals, artists and consumers that make up the growing electronic market and the world of multimedia creation. Live shows include Speedy J, Ryoji Ikeda, Tarwater, David Toop, and Orbital. DJ's include Kruder & Dorfmeister, Joe Clausell, Marco Carola, Grooverider, Laurent Garnier, Optical, Baby Ford, and Skratch Commando @ http://www.sonar.es

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CHRONICLE

Get a sweeping overview of the history of electronic music @ http://www.indiana.edu/~emu sic/elechist.htm

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FUTURETHINC.

New professions will emerge based on society's growing desire for spiritual and creative fulfillment. Examples: Strategic dreamers will help corporations understand their customers spiritual goals; idea-generation studio operators will offer relaxing places for people to daydream; and sensory designers will use colors, scents, sounds, and textures to create environments that stimulate particular emotions.

Source: 'The Dream Society,' by Rolf Jensen in The Futurist:
magazine of the World Future Society @ http://www.wfs.org/

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PASSWORD

"Percussive Maintenance" : The fine art of whacking the crap
out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

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FREEZONE

Music the Power of 3: Make It Portable, Make It Golden
By Tim Sanders

Imagine a world of fewer rock stars and more Artists. Music as we know it will change as its motivation shifts from the major label philosophy to a spirit of digital renaissance @ http://www.mp3.com/news/160.html

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EARIDESCENCE

German composer Stephane Schwab's 'Visonic Project' works with the 'MetaSynth', a transcendent music software system that applies shapes and colors to signify sound, inflection and duration. Painting with tones, Schwab spawns sonica traces with visual fingerprints, sounds with resounds. Imagine earable impressions of your favorite painting, grooving to aural renditions of the Mona Lisa, dancing to a vibrating version of a Dali surrealscape.

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Ultimately we are the instrument. All sound mechanisms are just tools
for reminding us of what resounds deep within ourselves whether we
are aware of it or not.

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COLLECTIBLES - consummate audible contingencies

> Audiobook

Sherry Edwards - 'Psychotifics: The Hidden World of Sound'
(Sounds True)

Edwards - university researcher and expert on psychic phenomena - reveals recent research on how sounds and frequencies affect thinking and emotions. Her evidence shows that humans emit unique nonverbal tones that vary with emotion and may be subliminal indicators of our thoughts and moods. Research suggests that meditation may actually involve listening to the full spectrum sounds emitted by our bodies. These hidden frequencies could prove to be important in holistic therapy @ http://www.soundstrue.com/zmain.tmpl

> Classicle

Vanessa-Mae - 'The Four Seasons & The Devil´s Trill Sonata' (Angel)

One of the most controversial musicians in the world of classical music, Singapore born, London-dwelling violinist Vanessa-Mae brings new life to Antonio Vivaldi's classic, invigorating it with sonorous ornamentation and flourishes. Through her passionate "techno-acoustic fusion", the 19-year old prodigy continues to prove that music is for playing and enjoying beyond any narrow-minded limits of style. This set also includes Giuseppe Tartini's 'Devil's Trill', 'Reflection' and 'The Devil's Trill Sonata' @ http:/ /www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000I7JM/aauricleelofaucu

Discography: http://ds.dial.pipex.com/fntn /mae/disco.htm
HotLinks: http://www.flagboy. demon.co.uk/vanessa-mae/links.html
and http://vanessa-mae.org/

> Ambiants

Cursor Club - 'Crown Invisible Remixes' (Cursor Club)<> These seven variations on melodic electronica bear a fond relation to the Art of Noise's cinematic 'Moments in Love'. Multiple exposures uplift without intruding, forming a sonic leisurescape that reinforces the image and atmosphere of any domestic scene to the point where it seems to disclose its most cerebral and sensual meaning. Call 818.762.4428

> Ambiage

Richard Burmer - 'Treasure of Saints' (Miramar)

A master of refined, uplifting synthesounds, Burmer offers new sonic tapestries that flow in aching beauty. 'Treasures' fixes the ear on the end that endures. The lens has been adjusted just inside the point of fertile tension, where energy is vibrant yet relaxing; haunting, yet comforting; festive, yet with a moody edge. Only the common-place is banished from these fascinating montage-a-scopes, each a vista shining with widescreen dynamics. For reflective environments that pulsate in gorgeous soft-focus, this CD can invoke and deepen the resonance of all your home thinking adventures @ http:/ /www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003IPF/aauricleelofaucu

Further Burmer: http://www.aimcmc.com/miramar/ 166/166.html

> Electronica

Bullitnuts - 'A Different Ball Game' (Pork)

Ohmbiant groovemakers spinning a trillion ideas about sound, Bullitnuts are all about extricated ears losing gravity-bound perspective into the energy of ecstasy flow. Insert and quaff the receptor of this sonic signal space from the folded order of complexity. Instruments of suspense and intense immediacy form provocative memebeats like wellbient soft-wear for the mind. Looping spurts of affluent hyperbleeps and mutant sound climates vibe like general anesthetics pontooned in mordant beakers of ear coolant @ http://www.pork.co.uk/htm l/non_flash_index.html

> Danse

Various - Matrix Records 'Expressions' (Dust2Dust)

Express your self/ves with this swaggerin' aggregation of dance-floor setters that reaches a house-bound disco-funk breakpoint and beyondo. You're gonna groove with mad delicious scoops by Masterbuilders, Rhythmsentric, Caucasian Boy, and Tranquil Elephantizer. Each spin innovating the present, initiating the future, changing the imaginative perception of cultural stereo-type-scapes @ http://www.dust2dust.demon.co.uk

> Global

Various - 'Copa Mundial Muzique' (Guidance)

Here's an ambrosial assortment of specimen-collecting rhythmatists working in Afro-Caribbean and Latin sounds to celebrate World Cup '98. Get hot hot hot on Alton Miller's 'Progressions', Reel Houze's 'The Chance', Kerri Chandler's Ladbroke Grove', Human Arts' 'Big Sur Highway', Kevin Yosts' 'One Starry Night', and A Man Called Adam's 'Que Tal America'. Mucho magnifico @ http:/ /www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000009N89/aauricleelofaucu

> Jazzedelic

Various - 'Mephisto, San Francisco Plasma Funk Vol. 1'(OM)

A salient set of 12 never-before heard audio overtures from San Francisco's underground label legend, Mephisto. Groovy, gritty, jazzed-out funky beats and frangible breaks by Orpheos, BMF, Q-Burns Abstract Message give a good ride on the cool tempo spectrum, managing to drop both the spirit and the science, and finding not the slightest contradiction in this generous embrace @ http ://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000I8RH/l/aauricleelofaucu

> Op-Rock

Love and Rockets - 'Lift' (BMG/Red Ant)

With stimulated codes of aural logic, L&R reprogram to an integral altitude of inner-space disco-rdance. Shoveling poly-genre´d substance from bottomless vitality, their sexy sonic science project tests the caliber of sinful synths and cybernetic pulsation with fervid results. Opening tight channels to scour the senses with edgy texture and deftly crafted mannerisms, they merge luridly evocative grooves with hushed tongues in tone tales of contentious hedonism and theatrical decadence @ http:/ /www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000DFDM/aauricleelofaucu

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EVER WONDER?

Could a flash of lightning turn my CD player on?
http://www. last-word.com/lastword/answers/lwa264machines.html

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Ecology is the study of the relationship between living organisms and their environment. Aural ecology is therefore the study of sounds/music in relationship to life and society.

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NICHEMAP - "Archaospheres" : chaotic archaic atmospheres

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IDEAVERSE

Jordan Ayan's 10 Creative Strategies

1. Connect with people
2. Design an enriching environment
3. Get out of your box through travel
4. Be sparked by play and humor
5. Expand your mind through reading
6. Take up the arts
7. Plug into technology
8. PowerThink your challenges
9. Release your alterconscious
10. Connect with your creative soul

From: 'Aha! 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit
and Find Your Great Ideas' @ http://www.create-it.com

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SEARCH

Ever-creative guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, and magician, Bill Nelson has created a new label, Populuxe, which has set up distribution arrangements with Robert Fripp's Discipline Global Mobile (DGM) operation. A reissue program is yielding the majority of his solo material available worldwide in revised editions, with new material interspersed with the reissues. Get the big picture, plus info on his new album 'Atom Shop' at his growing Permanent Flame web world @ http://www.billnelson.com/start.htm

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TEKSHOP

The MIT Media Lab is working on ways to use the human body as a distributed computer. According to this model, you will someday be able to download money from an ATM machine onto a ring on your finger, and pay for a new CD with a handshake.

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SONICA

e Q endeavors to transcend the technological and historical tick of our own era, and open up the space for exploration of the "unresolved issues of accelerating decrepitude, in-built redundancy and techno-waste" through the medium of sound @ http://www.radioqualia.va.com.au/

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RESOURCE

Established in 1981, The PAN Network is the oldest and largest online music network serving professionals in all aspects of the biz. Whether you're a session player or producer, songwriter or studio owner, performer or booking agent, publisher or record label, PAN is an ace cyberspace for networking and real-world services @ http://www.pan.com

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In the beginning, we all began as special beings at the center of the world. We began with the big bang, a sound that created the sonic galaxy. Now we find our tribe of audio ecstasists on an orb, a spherical object floating in silence. We call this promised-land nature or EARth.

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AUDIOPHILIA

Listening to music on headphones is different, and acoustically less satisfying, than listening to speakers. The reason for this has to do with a human's ability to locate sounds in space. This ability is described by the science of psychoacoustics, and specifically by the set of formulas called "Head Related Transfer Functions" (HRTF). Enter HeadRoom, the one-stop spot for all things headphone, who employ as little circuitry as possible in an attempt to fix the localization problem without mucking up the signal. Although the audio image remains inside your head, it now has a sense of continuity from left to right. The correct time delays are heard by the ears, and your brain is able to process the audio information in a normal manner @ http://www.headphone.com/psychoac.h tm

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EAROTICA - musical freediving

Artist: At Jazz
Cast: M. Iverson, A Brooks
Origin: UK
Work: 'That Something'
Syndicate: Diversion
Genus: Ambiant/Jazzedelic/Danse
Highlights: 'Everything', 'Against All Odds', 'Wind and Sea'
Ambience: Funky magic noise inspired by Japanese manga art
Emotion: Detached jubilance
Cachet: Jet-set mobility with all the trimmings
Design: Innovated hypersonic photography
Amenities: Removable band-pass filters, water-soaked slipmats
Depth: No looking back
Word Picture: Sizzling hypnodelic mindfunk
Trance Ability: 7
Dance Ability: 8
Analysis: Eleven phat flavors over a diverse spectrum, from first class chillbient to moody trip-hop to hip-shaking house, converge into one pleasing round of jazzual sound.

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FACTOID

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of tea.

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MILLENNIA

Bali 2000, 12:30:99-1:1:00, Yang Yang Beach, Bali

Wayan Krupak and company promise a mini Asian Woodstock/Burning Man/Renaissance Medieval Fair topped off by a Rock and Trance Dance Techno Trip Hop Homeless House Beach Rave. For 3 days of awesome focus on all that's spiritual, lyrical, cynical and mythical, see http://www.bali2000.com

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MANIFESTO

The Musical Hyperculture escorts us into a millennia fraught with jeopardy yet laden with freedom. Its most striking feature is its novelty, but there are a few precedents to steer us. In the 1920's, intimidated by the industrial Hypercommodity, the Bauhaus endeavored to deliver a generation of minds together - under a flat roof and behind a transparent curtain wall - with a faculty comprised of "masters of form" and "masters of technique." The aim was to produce a new-fashioned designer who had infused both sides of this chasm, and could thus transcend it.

What we need today is an Earhaus, an Aural Bauhaus geared to the culture periled not by industrial overproduction but by postindustrial Hypermusic. Masters of Art must come together with Masters of Science to produce a new generation of ear people equal to the tasks of the 21st century - not just audio stylists or sonic mercenaries, but aurally literate missioners poised to transform the virulent wasteland of the present into a sustainable ecology of acoustic design.

It is difficult to hear what the process of the Earhaus will sound like, to conceptualize the musical equivalent of tubular steel furniture and sans-serif typefaces of the '20's. But that is no apology for continuing business as usual. We are adrift in a sea of bad data and the waves are rising. We must send out as many rafts as possible in hopes that some of them will reach the shore.

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G-EAR - Pack it up and go @ http://www.boblbee.com

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TOOLS

Loopers Delight is a cultural and informational resource for musicians creating with audio loops of every sort. Loop based music essentially involves the repetition of audio samples, or loops. From that basic premise looping moves off in numerous directions, encompassing a wide range of techniques for building, manipulating, and using loops. The technique crosses many musical boundaries and appears in a wide range of musical styles and genres @ http://www.annihilist.com/loop/l oop.html

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INSITE

SciFi.com's 'Seeing Ear Theatre' offers up a well-stocked archive of netcasted audio dramas including Bruce Sterling's 'Distraction', Samuel R. Delany's 'The Einstein Intersection' and Douglas Rushkoff's 'The Ecstasy Club' @ http://www.scifi.com/set/readings/

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DATUM

According to the March 26 Computergram, the number of people legitimately buying and downloading music over the web tripled over the past year to 1.1% of sales (about the same sales that result from those TV CD offers).

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SCI

Astrophysicist and musician Dr. Fiorella Terenzi has a doctorate in physics from the University of Milan, has studied opera and composition, and taught math and physics to hundreds of students. In research at the Computer Audio Research Laboratory at the University of California San Diego, she developed techniques to convert radio waves from galaxies into sound - released on her CD 'Music from the Galaxies' (Island). In lectures and performances, on television and at planetariums, and in her new book, 'Heavenly Knowledge', Dr. Terenzi has combined science and art to awaken people to the universe around them @ http://www.portalmarket.com/tere nzi.html

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LISTEN

It is actually a well-established principle now in atomic physics that atoms react and behave as though they had resonance. This resonance principle effectively disintegrates the barriers between physics and music. In other words, some scientists are beginning to regard the atom as a kind of tiny musical note.

~ David Tame, from 'The Secret Power of Music: The Transformation of the Self and Society Through Musical Energy' (Destiny ISDN 0-892-056-481) @ http:/ /www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0892810564/aauricleelofaucu

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WORLDVIEW

Electronic Music Foundation offers a beta version of something that may prove to be important in your life. The idea is simple; a singular portal dedicated to the cutting edge of music and the media arts @ http://www.emf.org/guidetotheworld/

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EVESDROPPER

Andrea Parker situates sonic-melodramas and unclassifiable interludes upon two new releases - the prolong awaited debut, 'Kiss My Alp', and a mix-comp for Studio K7's 'DJ Kicks' series. 'Kiss' locates the missing link between Julee Cruise and Massive Attack via vitreous vox, sumptuous sound-escapes, and etherealized psyche-stratagems to heighten our temporal contentment and reduce the insatiable urge to consume. Get a glimpse @ http://www.studio-k7.de/djkicks/071.html and http://www.mowax.com/ap/

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ELEMENTS

Psychomusicology, as a subdomain of the academic discipline of Systematic Musicology, can assist the working musician to a better understanding of his own processes, because it is the science which deals with the very processes which every musician must use, and which alone gives rise to the art of music itself. It is both suprising and unfortunate that a subject so obviously and fruitfully related to the interests of all musical people should be so little known today.

The Psychomusicologist is something of a maverick among music practitioners. While Musicology is a widespread occurrence, Psychomusicology remains eminently individualistic, idiosyncratic and enigmatic, standing ever apart from organized scientific investigations while performing important functions for the psychic life of the aural culture. The stuff of the psychomusical world is subjective. It cannot be measured by an instrument. Efforts may be under way to do so, but their outcome will not alter the value of the experience.

Comparable, but not identical to sonic shamanism, Psychomusicologists utilize techniques of unique efficacy that elude modern psychology. What is the role of the Psychomusicologist in society at large? The vocation of Psychomusicology is still a new concept. He/She is a manipulator of sonic information, which means they have all the vibrating elements of life as their palette, their main function is to induce musical ecstasy in a society where ecstasy is the prime motivation for existence. Thus the Psychomusicologist is a master of musical ecstasy and the practice of Psychomusicologizing is a technique of this ecstasy.

A person may become a Psychomusicologist through an initiatory experience. The initiation has two aspects, an ecstatic one which takes place in the musical experience, and a traditional one in which the Psychomusicologist gains instruction in certain techniques such as the significance of sound, the expressive musical language, an understanding of the underlying principles which animate life, a cornucopia of linguistic apparatus, the practice of metatation, and so on, by an experienced Psychomusicologist. Lack of public retrial on this instruction no way implies that it is neglected.

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VIDEOSYNCRASY

In Future Sound of London's highly conceptual and creative video 'My Kingdom' (Astralwerks), alien lifeforms arrive and integrate themselves into everyday life. Somebody is coming who may change the world @ http://www.internetv. com/vdolive/fsolkingdomvdo.htm

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ULTRAMEDIA

Dutch artist Gerald Van Der Kaap's reputation for propelling the frontiers of painting, photography, video and experimusic is growing with his latest brainchild, the Automatic Veejay Machine, a system actualized with 'Oo-Kaap' - an audio-video database admitting infinite editing via an audience-activated search engine. Videos are intuitively allied to sundry shreds of poetry and interview clips are projected on a massive, building-mounted screen.

And while the notion of sampling is its aesthetic kernel, the output-experiencer realty it germinates is evolutionary in that the experiencer is dynamically involved in a sound and visionary rainbow of unlimited potential. Vogue Hommes called this new stratagem "techno's negative multimedia equal". We hail this extra-sensory artfulness as a humane option to the impish volatility of a Gatesian "digital nervous system" @ http://www.xs4all.net/~00kaap/

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CIRCUIT BENDER
By Reed Ghazala

All art resolves itself emotionally in the observer. Literature, visual art, music... consciously and subconsciously we are moved. Every sound has its emotional counterpart and therefore has a place in sonic composition. In this way, all sound-makers, be they traditional musical instruments, circuit-bent instruments or anything at all that makes a noise, stand on equal ground.

Interview: http://www.furious.co m/perfect/emi/reedghazala.html Instruments: http://207.137.50.71/sound.html
Reviews: http://207.137.50.71/reviews/

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CONCERTO

Al Di Meola, House of Blues Sunset Strip, Los Angeles

Al Di Meola has traversed the spectrum of music with his guitar. His repertoire ranges from his own brand of electric fusion to the study of world music through his acoustic guitar. His early days were spent with the jazz/rock fusion group Return To Forever, where he had replaced guitarist Bill Conners before he had even turned 20. Today, Al continues to dazzle audiences with his stunning guitar performances @ http://www.hob.com/live/events/

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NETCASTER

The Pik 'n' Mix/Ignition show is a deft slice of advanced signals coordinated by The Kaleidoscope with regular guests Interchill Records and The Wildman. Catch them red-handed in a global mixout @ http://www.pirate-radio.co.uk

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As long as we have ears we cannot take the sonic away from space.
You can take away images by closing your eyes but you can never close your ears. Thus, there is no ambi-nvironment without a consciousness, or better yet, no space without aural mind.

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THE LISTENING ROOM

Pre-listening 0.3 - set or setting?

You might have guessed by now that creating a rich ambiance around listening is essential. The design, lighting, and "feel" of your room creates a powerful metaphoric environs in which to contemplate the unfolding magic of music. Each part works perfectly so that that every element in your awareness is completely lent to your experience.

If you've been designing the conditions, both inside and out, to make a music haven, you'll know why the impulse to amplify new music moods at home is a pure expression of your desire to amplify life. Now consider these two quotes:

"When you meditate, do you need to have a quiet room? A beautiful view? Beautiful music? Most people say 'Yes,' to which I respond, Then the room is doing the meditating for you."

~Caroline Myss

"To create an authentic musical experience, the listener rather than the equipment is the central and dynamic force. The most important force in this process is you the musical lover. The single most important determinant of an authentic experience is your imagination - what you put into it."

~Harvey "Gizmo" Rosenberg

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ACCESS

Perfect Sound Forever is the monthly online music magazine wobbling with warped perspectives on little known corners of music since 1993. Their Spring '99 interviews and articles twist new insight out of Neubauten, Pierre Henry, Squarepusher and more @ http://www.furious.com/perfect

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EARWAVES

In April, 1996, Public Radio International and producing partner, WGBH Radio Boston introduced "Sound & Spirit", a 52-week series which addresses America´s resurgent interest in spiritual exploration and expression. Each week, host Ellen Kushner blends world and classical music traditions with the ideas and insights of the world´s cultures. Every show is organized around a single topic, some universal aspect of the human experience (joy, grief, love, etc.), which often finds its most profound and moving expression through music @ http://www.pri.org/locator.html

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NATURA

Are you ready to listen to the plants? http://www.biopark.org/sprtqu3.html

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ASK DR. TECHNOLOVE

Q. What is the Matrix?
A. Haute cyborgs snared in the heart-fated inferno of the photostatted present augment a pointless charade like animated marionettes under the surface-skimming guise of psyche-futurism where data-fleshed depictions of an acid cinetripolis become somber fronts for old-school brutality @ http://www.whatisthematrix.com

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OVERTONE

"Michel Chion is saying that each of the senses has the full capacity of all the others. It's simply that hearing happens to go through the ear, but all the other senses can go through the ear as well. The ear is meant to hear, but it can do other things as well, if it was switched on to the right capacity."

~Kodwo Eshun, from 'More Brilliant Than The Sun:
Adventures in Sonic Fiction' (Quartet, ISBN 0 7043 8025 0) @ http ://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0704380250/aauricleelofaucu

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A U R I C L E : screening system for an aural world

Auricle is your planetary audioscope and technocentric travel agency endowing innate autonomy for today's epicurious listener. An uncorrupted muse in the aural feedbank, Auricle is infused monthly from the optimystic counterparties of Auricle Communications, Chicago, Illinois. Sonic Concierge: Mark Christopher Riva, who having reasoned with himself, writes out loud to the center of the cosmic ear where one can hear the overarching theme of euphonic innerosity - the subtle and profound intimacy with music.

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CONTRIBUTORS

Kristin Shenkel, R. Murray Schafer, Kodwo Eshun, Mixmaster Flow,
DJ Kensho, QR Ghazala, Harvey 'Gizmo' Rosenberg, Dr. Technolove, Joachim Ernst-Berendt, Jordan Ayan, Giles Reeves, Tim Sanders, Caroline Myss, Harvey "Gizmo" Rosenberg.

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REVIEW POLICY

Send visceral media to: Auricle, 1915 Clinton Ave., Berwyn, IL 60402 Deliver virtual information to: flow@auricle.cc

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PHILOSOPHY

Auricle sanctifies the inspiring and perfectly unknown projects that capture in haunting, deeply evocative ways, the music hugging the fugitive shores of the ever-changing metaverse. In part, Auricle is connected with artists who are the true-tongued morphologists of the sonic galaxy, those deeply romantic figures, working in isolation and outside the canons of pop life whose input/output are dexterous screens for our rapid assention into the animated space of aureality. To the extent that aureality is a global aesthetic, occupying no explicit territory but universal, these alchemists are the forerunners of the swiftly emerging earscape, numinous champions of aural culture unveiling the sound of the future.

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Copyright (c) 1999 Auricle Communications. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without written permission is prohibited. Linking to this site is not considered reproduction. We invite you to link to this or any of our pages.

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