Upstream Color (2013) is Shane Carruth’s second film. It’s really weird and dolorous. His first film, Primer (2004), is also really weird, but differently—less gloom, more time-travel. These are a…
I was lucky enough to take in Renée Lear's Renée Taking a Sip of Water (Human and Video in Motion) at Trinity Square Video (Toronto) today, and felt compelled to…
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…
Video of a paper presented at the Tuning Speculation conference in Nov. 2013, organized by Marc Couroux and eldritch Priest. Four aural-neiric speculations with a very fat head The impulse…
http://vimeo.com/81781872 A Plague on Both Your Ears — eldritch Priest Almost everyone knows what it's like to have a song "stuck their head," or more likely, what it's like to have the…
Greetings folks, We'll have a swath of new posts on here in the coming weeks I expect, but I thought I'd start the year with a piece I've just published…
I was recently lucky enough to be part of a seminar with Jamie Currie (University of Buffalo), and was asked to respond to his paper. I thought the paper itself…
Here are the details for an upcoming event that features members of The Occulture: Asounder and the Free’scool are inviting you to participate in a series of workshops—(un)sound occupation—to be…
(PART ONE / PART TWO) PSYCHEDELIC ADJACENCIES are generated via the strategic imbrication of overtly incongruent but subliminally (genetically) congenial signals. Such formations are inevitably spawned within a colloidal dispersion…
(Part One here) PRIMERS: Pre-Internet earworm distribution system. The outcome of research carried out in the mid-1990s within an institution of higher learning (in a major Canadian city) involving the…
