First Stage of Construction Has Begun

We are happy to announce the beginning construction of the Anaphorian Embassy of Australasia.  While Anaphoria has rare deposits of purple marble, it was only the work of Italian immigrants that began its being used in various buildings. Here you can see freshly installed as the chosen exterior for the structure structure. Outside of just being our field office it will also will function as the storehouse of the Wilson Archives.

Form with Mnemosyne (Memory) In Exile.

   The essence of all form might be memory, what holds and what and can be recalled. The post-war abandoned it possibly having little desire in returning, when that might have meant to the great destruction just witnessed. The latter minimalist kept it distance too. It extended the timeframe of the present and sought to exhaust the possibilities instead of encompassing what a reflection might cast about it. Both hovered in an endless unity that kept all within it borders. Shadows were the last either embraced.
    Must we keep memories pools and mirrors at bay, or must we remained blinded in a ‘been there, done that’ way to not face the unfinished or changed. Must all work stem from the perpective of the sun. The sun that sees no shadows.
   It took Zeus to have a  Mnemosyne (Memory) that could gave birth to the muses. Might we find some place for her and her children in a direct fashion? Might we now gain by presences that so symbolize inspiration that appear beyond us yet as close as our shadows?

Speaking on Erv Wilson.

Here is an excerpt of what i had to say on reflection on the work of Erv Wilson. This is an extract from Stephen Taylors' Sonic Sky

A message from the Anaphorian Ambassador in Canberra

Site of Embassy in progress

The Anaphorian flag

Back in 2010, we brought you these pictures on the progress of our Embassy in Canberra. As the purification rituals had run into problems due to constant contamination by our neighbors and the general surroundings, building has not progressed very far. The ambassador {who does not use his name in order not to confuse himself with his role} manages to stay on the move in order to accomplish those things that seem  always to be pressing. This last week we attempted to catch up with him but found it was only in his yearly  'State of the Island Address' where we actually crossed paths. There was a brief meeting at the Vanuatu Art exhibit in the National Gallery but he was leaving as we were entering. We were able to record the main section of his delivery which occurred within the James Turrell Skyspace where the ambassador explored the shifting resonance of the space.

Inside the SkySpace

Looking up

Beyond One Sided Listening.

    If we entertain there is something to Jung's Psychological types, and apply it to ways of listening things take on an interesting form.  If nothing else it exposes the fallacy of either one or the others being more ego based than the others. It would be the extrovert who we would find interested in the 'sounds around us'  while the introverts the sounds that come from our interior. Perhaps the further distinction into four types is better in showing other ways of hearing too. Sensation being the former with the intuitive with the latter. We  also have the functions of thinking which analyses, breaks into pieces and defines the parts and material. The emotional on the other side would accept what emotions  that come up spontaneously. Historically, music has been thrown back and forth between these, each claiming a superiority. It seems it is as if music is at odds with itself, even ill. We are constantly asked to listen to works in one way or another. Sometimes these are  demands, that we listen in no other way.  It is no wonder that in the midst of the so-called assumed freedom we find little that truly convinces of it. At this point, i would prefer some path to a complete way of hearing, a harmony or a even dialog between all of these.

A Place for Distance in Field Recordings.

 

 Top of Mt. Dana - Yosemite

Field recordings are too often an extension of our urban perspective. One of the most common features in the urban landscape is the lack of distance in viewing and hearing. Outside of looking up, our opportunities to look or hear at long distances are few or limited. It is this same cramped horizon we find common in field recordings with a prevalence of closely recorded sounds with a push to get even closer than we could ever get with or bodily ear. An aural claustrophobia is easily invoked. The childhood wonder of echoes seem to be so often forgotten.  One morning as I lay in bed I remember hearing the most unforgettable sound, echoing at a great distance. It was late in the day when I discovered it had been a train wreck 8 miles away.  There were recordings in Tehran of people on the roofs yelling protests one could hear both close and far. Neither of things are pleasant and perhaps why distant sounds are both rare and avoided. Is this the only context we hear distant things?  Just as my eye craves to focus at a large distance, a reason my vacations have always sought such landscapes over other cities, my ear craves the same.

The Shadow Theatre of Anaphoria - Inauguration of Shadow Puppets

 The Shadow Theatre of Anaphoria invites you to the first stage in inaugurating a collection of new Shadow puppets. This ongoing Ritual process will take place at the Verge Gallery. Jane Foss Russell Plaza, City Rd, University of Sydney,  from Nov 1-7 Monday - Friday as the second week of their Speed Show. 

Preparatory Altar for  the 114 Sacred Stones

 The first night Nov. 1 at 6pm will include a rare performance by Whirlpool [Kraig Grady Meta-Slendro vibraphone and Chris Abrahams Meta-Slendro Pump Organ] of which subsequent ones are being planned . This and subsequent musical performances will be based on 704 throws of the I Ching thrown and recorded over the last 35 years by Kraig Grady. Each Hexagram has been translated into a harmonic sonority and as each throw often involved a hexagram changing into another this results in over 1300 chords that will be sounded over the 7 days.

Instruments will be on hand for others to participate as well and those wishing to engage in the playing process are asked to contact us to arrange an appropriate time. It takes a village to raise a puppet.

Alternating with music will be an ongoing process of pouring of sand pathways in order to connect the 114 stones that have upon them the symbols of the 114 sacred Anaphorian signs http://anaphoria.com/minspirit.html. The actual signs are only visible during such ritualistic conditions, yet the correspondence between signs and meanings remain a closely guarded secret. This does not mean that single signs and meanings have not been revealed for the benefit of those in the present. 

The process required that preparation already began today  [Oct. 18] with the building of an altar, made out of ruins as required by tradition to prepare each of the stones at the Austronesian Outpost of Anaphoria Island. Situated in Berkeley, NSW near Lake Illawarra