TOS5. Space Rituals

2-4pm Wed Feb 25
Lindsay Auditorium
Sturm Hall 281
U of Denver

From the Pink Floyd’s space rock shows at London’s U.F.O. club to Hawkwind’s free concerts and the disasters of a Sex Pistols gig, media ritual surrounds these artists. Concentrating on space-related performers ranging from Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, Yes, Tim Blake's Crystal Machine, and Arjen Anthony Lucassen’s Star One to Sun Ra and Parliament, I consider the spatial nature of group identity and the practice of collective deep listening and communal trance in relationship to the telematic bodies described by Roy Ascott and Derrida’s echographies of television. I’m particularly interested in conflicts between zones of cosmic spiritual identity and electronically mediated presence.

TOS3. Cognitive Dub Science

2-4pm Wed Feb 04
Lindsay Auditorium
Sturm Hall 281
U of Denver

This presentation zooms in on "memory" as a particularly important, discrete state of consciousness with powerful parallels in the use of magnetic tape in recording, manipulating and composing sound. Listening to diverse works by Brian Eno, Eno and Fripp, Richard Pinhas, Jamaican dub engineers, William Basinski, Boards of Canada, Tricky, DJ Spooky, and Kode9 + the Spaceape. I consider the relationship of the delay effect and sound recording to the phenomena of death, decay, and disintegration. Informed by the works of Jacques Derrida, I suggest a philosophy of electronic voice phenomena that helps us consider how dreadlocked systems produce sonic intelligences, Others otherwise known as ghosts.