January 2012
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“The interconnectedness of human and natural life is the central theme of Astral Plains, the new outdoor line from COSMIC WONDER Light Source. This collection features a range of products suited for spending more time with the natural world. By cultivating a greater awareness of the seasonal rhythms of life, the universe reveals itself to us. CWLS continues to explore various aspects of...
Masuk Angin/Soundtracks
Dylan Martorell presents Masuk Angin - a three-piece junk exotica band exploring improvisation, movement and sound at Utopian Slumps in Melbourne on Thurs 19 Jan - Sat 21 Jan. Masuk Angin is a component of Soundtracks, a series of street-based collaborative nomadic music events that will take place across three countries in 2012. Yes.
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Chime Band feat. Smokey Quartz + Lapis Lazuli
Debut chime jam at Higher Planes Super Meditation, 11.11.11.
Do whatever you want
Dune by Alejandro Jodorowsky
December 2011
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Magic Sock Offers: Downloads + Mail Orders
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HIGHER PLANES DIGITAL SOUND BOOK: now also available via DOWNLOAD
Download here: http://siberiarecords.bandcamp.com/album/higher-planes-sound-book
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FLEXI-POSTCARD + NEW PLANES
- 2 x grooved flexi-postcards (suitable for all good record players) feat. Kirin J Callinan and FORCES - New Planes Public Press Issue 2 feat. a study of 70s, 80s and 90s underground popular Australian...
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Runway Issue 20: Magic
Runway is a Sydney-based arts publication that enourages critical dialogue within the local community by showcasing practices that are experimental, conceptually and community driven.
Issue 20: Magic features Kenzee Patterson’s mineral findings, wind-changing sculptures by Anna John, Ella Barclay’s interview with Pia Van Gelder on animate machines and new writing by Jack Jeweller...
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Higher Planes Sound Book Text
Text published in Higher Planes Sound Book, November 11, 2011.
This cassette is interested in messages and methods of filtering modern torrents of data. It is about consciousness, listening and believes the root of magic is contact with intuition and instinct.
As self-educators the makers on this cassette have experimented with methods and techniques of meditation. Referencing forefathers and...
November 2011
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A Cassette Portal :: Higher Planes Sound Book
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I n t r o d u c i n g New Planes latest project, Higher Planes Sound Book - a limited edition cassette + riso print poster. As self-educators the musicians on this cassette have experimented with methods of meditation. The tape is a bulletin of self-improvised sound rituals for spiritual and psychic development. It’s been produced to cassette as track selection is uneasy, and so one...
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Super thanx to all those who were able to join us for the Super Meditation Celestial Rave at Neilsen Park in Sydney on 11.11.11/11:11 or in your own zones via FBi 94.5fm radio! It was a multi-dimensional opening. Live rituals + sacred hours. Totally tribal in nature. Photos here soon.
Restream your super-meditation after 11.11.11 here: http://ondemand.fbiradio.com/
October 2011
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Higher Planes Super Meditation Cassette +...
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11.11.11/11:11 To celebrate the release of the Higher Planes Cassette, New Planes and Siberia Records will present Higher Planes Super Meditation, a live ritual event to be held on 11.11.11 at 11pm. Hochman and Hopkins (Holy Balm / NOTV), Erik Omen, Holiday Sidewinder, Smokey Quartz and Lapiz Lazuli Chime Band (++ more to be announced) will perform meditations under moon-glow...
September 2011
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New Planes Public Press Issue Two ~ Introduction
Introduction for New Planes Public Press Issue Two: The Page as a Performance Site, September, 2011
Since activation New Planes has been interested in I/eye notions. The homonym has binary meanings – it references the individual and that through which we see.
Initiated out of fascination with non-traditional modes of communication New Planes is an open-model project that rejects acceptance as...
August 2011
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~~ S u b m i s s i o n s O P E N :: Issue 3
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Proposals for New Planes Public Press Issue 3 are now open. Issue 3 explores autonomy, activism, and is interested in the evolving mechanics of fringe cultures, non-monetary exchange systems, networks of shared information, interdisciplinary practices, self-organisation and home school. A central unit will examine ‘The Page as a Maxi-pad’ - women’s issues by women and men. New Planes...
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~~ L a u n c h i n g New Planes Public Press Issue...
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You are invited to… :: O p e n i n g R e c e p t i o n :: :: NEW PLANES PUBLIC PRESS :: :: Issue Two: The Page as a Performance Site :: :: Thursday 1 September, 7-9pm :: :: Serial Space, 33 Wellington St, Chippendale :: :: The live p r o g r a m m e :: Animated Collages by Angela Bermuda Video poetry conference by Marcus Rechsteiner Birthing the Spirit by David Capra...
June 2011
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Concrete Poems + Hany Armanious: Un Magazine 5.1
Published in un Magazine Issue 5.1
Issue 5.1 of un Magazine overlaps ideas about artist-writers, art writing and art as writing. For the issue I imitated Hany Armanious’ process of imitation and reproduced his bogus artefacts in concrete poem form as a means of understanding the material facts and fictions of his craft-based practice. Innumerable mistakes, a volume of waste and found...
May 2011
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March 2011
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Healer: Emma Hunz
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Performing/Guzzling by Kim Gordon
“I thought about this kind of alternative perspective when I was doing a series of watercolors that depict audience members from the point of view of being on stage. I was trying to see how abstract I could make them and have them still look like faces. I used metallic inks to give the effect that I was turning the lightshow on the audience. I was trying to reverse the idea in my head that...
February 2011
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Dan Arps & The Estate of L. Budd Modern...
Michael Lett, Auckland.
January 2011
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~~ Launching New Planes Public Press ISSUE ONE
December 2010
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Ship by Alexandra Bircken
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Dharma Bums by myPetsQuare
Press Release for myPetsQuare’s Spring Summer 2010 Collection, Dharma Bums.
With their roots firmly planted outside the box, myPetsQuare’s outputs are an ongoing visual revolution.
The liberated design outings of Dharma Bums SS 2010, take inspiration from the flowing motion of phases, cycles, changes and the road less travelled.
In the words of Kerouac, “the only people for me are the mad...
November 2010
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Bababa International, The Soothsayer
Published as part of a Thinkers and Doers Series in Redfern’s independent broadsheet South Sydney Herald, November 2010.
“The things to do are: The things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.” - Buckminster Fuller
After a field trip to a vending machine manufacturer for their impending show, three members of the Bababa...
October 2010
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Maud Traon
July 2010
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Riley Payne
June 2010
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New Planes Public Press Launch :: Repressed...
newplanes:
+++++ W E L C O M E T O +++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++ + + +New Planes Public Press+ + + + ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Launch + instore feat. WHORES READINGS PRINTED MATTER NATIVE IDEAS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sun 4 July, 4pm Repressed Records 356 King St, Newtown ++++++++++++++++++++++++ NPPP is an open model for writers and artists to experiment with...
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Making Sense of Dan Arps: New Planes Public Press
Published in New Planes Public Press Pilot Issue, 2010.
Making Sense of Dan Arps
I entered at my own peril and was hit with a doom vibe. It wasn’t expected and is far from where I’ve ended up. When it comes to engaging with the artwork of Dan Arps, losing your head is very much the point. The only way you can make sense of things is to let go.
I encountered a cabinet of absurdities at Dan’s...
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Un Magazine 4.1 :: Feat. Tom Polo
Published in un Magazine Issue 4.1, June 2010.
un Magazine showcases art dialogues in new formats. For the issue I paired Tom Polo’s artwork titles with his responses from an interview as a humble assertion that he is constantly in conversation and competition with himself. Download the pdf here.
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Barbara and Michael Leisgen: Writing with the sun
May 2010
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Hallucinations Pamphlet Series
Hallucinations can be impromptu. As narrative investigations of the imagination, they have the ability to momentarily rearrange your brainforest. The Hallucinations Pamphlet series has been seared by the immediacy of works by sound sculptors Dylan Martorell and Nathan Gray. Installations have acted as portals to an alternative perspective – doors to enter and explore the colour, shape and life...
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Ujino Muneteru :: Remote control band
Published on TwoThousand, May 2010.
In 1978 Japan’s Ujino Muneteru set himself “the task of providing an answer to pop in my own electric way”. His ongoing sound sculpture project, Ujino & The Rotators, is a machine-based party band of blenders, drills, hair dryers and other artifacts activated by programming or remote control. This Friday Ujino is performing alongside Toy...
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You're going to fetch the wind on a unicorn by...
Transmitting a mind’s interior:
You got real fancy instincts But your mouth is so large I think I see a hundred people in it I guess you like it that way Cause you’re a flop And there ain’t no more wringer washers To roll your fingers through I see your insides aren’t the same since 1951 You’re dying inside a window I saw your face all cut...
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Wisdom pyramids
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Deep Magic, Deep Tapes and Alex Gray
Published on Peace Lodge, May 2010.
How to encounter magic ::
1. Get up 2. Encounter the pits of humanity 3. Talk to the guy who sleeps on the bench on your block. See where he’s been 4. Notice the positive fissures of your existence 5. Bottle it 6. Or listen to Deep Magic who generate a lasting elixir on cassette for a small fee
The vehement dialect of not not...
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There's music, it's visual
“What are you seeing?”
“Purple smoke.”
April 2010
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Real Life Awaits Us by MANIAMANIA
Press release for MANIAMANIA’S ‘Real Life Awaits Us’ collection, December 2009.
MANIAMANIA is a jewellery label by stylist Tamila Purvis and art director Melanie Kamsler. The duo met creating the pages of Russh Magazine for over three years, where they developed their collaborative chemistry and mutually spirited visual language. Their combined experience in styling and design...
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Circle Pit :: Black Poetry
Published on Peace Lodge, May 2010.
The band Circle Pit is modelled on two humans. They come from separate planets but have syncopating heart rates. Their inextricable linkage is both celestial and visible to the naked eye. They circumnavigate life together, hang out and when apart it’s custom they text on when to write and jam next. There are times when CP’s two parts ‘Jack and...
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Volcanic Community by Ian Hundley
March 2010
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Chronicles of the triangle > > >
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Your voice is my earring
This sits on the lobe a lot.
I want to read you page to page I want to read you get to know your name I want to read you start to end I want to be your closest friend I want to read you I want to turn your page over and over and over again I wanna I want to read you I want to read let me read let me read you
I want to read you word for word I want to read your read your blurb ...
January 2010
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The Pandolfini Code
Artist profile for Rafaela Pandolfini’s website.
When I look at her photographs, there’s something about them that’s hard to name. They’re lucid moments, which go in through the eyes and dribble into the scenery of the mind to percolate – always magnetic, often illicit. It’s as if her protagonists are watching you, watching them, just being.
This ritual of existence is performed through...