Author: xenopraxis

XENAUDIAL serial

HT to Xenaudial for unfolding its speculative psychoacoustical narrative. We will be following it closely. The latest chapter, below. - Fr. xenopraxis :::: Soon after the solo experiments mentioned above, X committed a number…
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Tuning Speculation II—Panel 4—Hiebert & Masciandaro!

Second instalment featuring the most extraordinary duplet of Ted Hiebert and Nicola Masciandaro! Attunement and Auscultation. Questions are appended to Nicola's presentation. Coming Next: Olszanowski, Barrett & Vertolli!
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Internal: AUDiNT (Phonoccultural Studies)

PRE-PREFATORY NOTE: The memorandum was first published in the UN TUNE magazine accompanying the 2015 CTM Festival (Berlin). PREFATORY NOTE: The explosion of activity around the release of the Senate…
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Anachronic Annexation

All substantial signals can be regarded both as transmissions and as initial commotions. For instance, a work of art transmits a kind of behavior by the artist, and it also…
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adjacent exposure

Xenaudial was unimpressed with SoundCloud's kowtowing to McCartney, whose embedded presence in #5 was machinically detected & suppressed. They—the collective copyright enforcing thought form—had evidently lucked into an algorithm that…
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Sounding the Counterfactual—Future-Past Proceedings

The Sounding the Counterfactual panel at London Critical was a resounding success, constellating future phonoccultural vectors which we hope will further catalyze praxis. PDFs of papers will be posted shortly. For…
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Sounding the Counterfactual & Transmètic Heresiarcs! The Occulture at London Critical, June 27-8!

Sounding the Counterfactual: Hyperstition and Audial Futurities Stream organizers: David Cecchetto, Marc Couroux, eldritch Priest London Conference in Critical Thought, June 27-8, Goldsmiths, University of London. That sound and affect…
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Xenochronic Rhythmanalysis: Paradromic Musical Practices in Colloidal Capitalism

This is the paper I gave at the ACLA in New York on the GREAT Alien Capital panel, Xenochronic Rhythmanalysis: Paradromic Musical Practices in Colloidal Capitalism; it is also available…
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Xenochronic Dispatches at Goldsmiths

Thanks to the magic(k)al efforts of phonomagi Lendl Barcelos and Katrina Burch, and the organizational acumen of Josephine Oezmen, I was able to give a repeat performance of my Xenochronic…
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Xenochronic Dispatches from the Domain of the Phonoegregore

In December 1995, I found an unsigned note tacked to the student board in the music building of McGill University in Montreal. The note was most probably destroyed in a…
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