#Hilma's Ghost

[jareckiworld]

Hilma's Ghost (Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray) — "Shake off your chains! You are attracted to the dark side, but channel The Devil to push you to greater heights. If you seek clarity, cut the etheric cords with anything that is not serving you in this moment. A golden passage lies on the other side of your self-doubt. Raise your sword up and retreat from the palace of illusion." (acrylic, flashe, and ink on canvas, 2023)

[havesexwithghosts]

The Lover’s Labyrinth notes and snapshots

[theaskew]

Hilma’s Ghost (Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray), "Giving and giving and giving leads to the burnout of too much generosity" Abstract Futures Tarot, 2021. Acrylic and flash on canvas, 20 x 16 inches. 

[echidnana]

just found the most gorgeous and fitting tarot deck for us ever... but it's $100....

[oracularpig]

[Image Description: Three images of the Abstract Futures Tarot, whose art consists of abstract shapes and colors. /end ID]

this is literally our dream deck omg. it's the abstract futures tarot by hilma's ghost! pictures from benebell wen's review of the deck

[laresearchette]

Friday, October 06, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: PET SEMATARY: BLOODLINES (Paramount +) V/H/S/85 (Shudder/AMC+) THE UNXPLAINED (History Canada) 10:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT? BERING SEA GOLD (Premiering on October 09 on Discovery Canada at 9:00pm) THE VERY VERY BEST OF THE 80s (Premiering on October 13 on AXS Canada at 8:00pm) THE PROOF IS OUT THERE (TBD - History Canada)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA ANGELA BEYOND THE LIGHT BARRIER DESPERATELY SEEKING SOULMATE: ESCAPING TWIN FLAMES UNIVERSE THE ELEPHANT FAST X ROOMMATE SURPRISE AND SEEK TOTALLY KILLER

CBC GEM BEACH VOLLEYBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (until the 15th) GHOSTS (UK) (Season 5) NEVER SAW IT COMING PEPPA PIG (Season 1) SISI (Season 2) ZARQA (Season 2)

CRAVE TV THE BLACKENING CON AIR THE CRAFT THE CULTURE HIGH FINAL DESTINATION HILMA THE LESSER BLESSED MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES MRS. DOUBTFIRE PLANE THE QUIET GIRL

DISNEY + STAR AARON CARTER: THE LITTLE PRINCE OF POP CAMPING OUT CHIPS AHOY FIDDLING AROUND INFERIOR DECORATOR MICKEY AND FRIENDS TRICK OR TREATS OLD MACDONALD DUCK WHEN THE CAT’S AWAY WYNKEN, BLYNKEN AND NOD

NETFLIX CANADA A DEADLY INVITATION BALLERINA FAIR PLAY

MEN’S RUGBY WORLD CUP (TSN3/TSN4) 3:00pm: France vs. Italy

NHL HOCKEY (SN) 7:00pm: Penguins vs. Sabres (SN) 10:00pm: Flames vs. Canucks

CFL FOOTBALL (TSN/TSN3/TSN4) 7:00pm: Elks vs. Argos (TSN/TSN3/TSN5) 10:00pm: Blue Bombers vs. Lions

A REALLY HAUNTED LOUD HOUSE (YTV) 7:00pm: Lincoln Loud and his best friend, Clyde, skip the Loud family's Halloween Spooktacular to attend an over-the-top party hosted by the new cool kid at school, Xander, leaving his sisters to plan the annual event and grandiose neighborhood performance.

A NOVEL ROMANCE (Super Channel Heart & Home) 7:30pm: A best-selling romance novelist moves to Portland to cure his writer's block and unknowingly falls in love with his biggest critic. When their true identities are revealed, they have to find the courage to take a leap of faith.

FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW (Global) 8:00pm: Hulking lawman Luke Hobbs teams up with lawless operative Deckard Shaw to battle a cybernetically enhanced soldier who possesses superhuman strength, a brilliant mind and a lethal pathogen that could wipe out half of the world's population.

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB (CTV2) 8:00pm: Upon learning that the museum's magic is disappearing, night watchman Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) sets out on an epic quest to the British Museum in London to save his friends one last time.

THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF JERSEY (Slice) 8:00pm: Highcliffe, High Class

YOUNG LOVE (HBO Canada) 8:00pm/8:30pm/9:00pm/9:30pm (SERIES PREMIERE): An honest look into the world of an African American young family of millennial parents, as they juggle their careers, marriage, parenthood, social issues and multi-generational dynamics striving for a better life.

PLANET WONDER (CBC) 8:30pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Delving into the science of tree communication and the human relationship with trees.

FRIDAY NIGHT THUNDER (APTN) 8:30pm: After a terrible run at the 16th Canadian Sprint Car Nationals, Glenn Styres has concerns about his tires and believes they are the root of the problem. When Glenn is unheard by his crew after the race, he is forced to take drastic measures.

BIG MUSIC (CBC) 9:00pm: A look at whether digital music gives musicians and consumers more control or whether it changes the nature of the songs.

TRANSPLANT (CTV) 9:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): Bash and Mags team up to save a John and Jane Doe found in the woods; a fully qualified surgeon now, June sees her old mentor in a new light; suspended from the hospital, Theo longs for the action while treating patients virtually.

PARANORMAL REVENGE (CTV Sci-Fi) 9:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Each story unfolds from the perspective of a main storyteller - a victim - who has been targeted by a mysterious paranormal entity or entities.

MS. MATCH (W Network) 9:00pm: Athena's past and present romantic complications will decide who she is and who she dreams of becoming.

BATTLEBOTS (Discovery Canada) 9:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): The journey to the Golden Bolt starts now with the first Sin City Slugfest; eight robots will enter, but only one will punch its ticket to the tournament of champions; every fight is win or go home.

BOBBY'S TRIPLE THREAT (Food Network Canada) 9:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): New York City Chef Kelvin Fernandez already beat Bobby Flay with his legendary signature dish. Now, Bobby's invited him to the Triple Threat Kitchen for a shot at the Titans, where judge Adrienne Cheatham must decide if Kelvin's strategy pays off.

HAUNTED DISCOVERIES (T&E) 9:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Visiting the Conrad-Caldwell house, a Victorian-era mansion haunted by its original residents; meeting a living descendant; Brandon and an aerospace engineer conduct an environmental analysis in hopes of capturing proof of paranormal activity.

THE QUIET GIRL (Crave) 9:00pm: A 9-year-old girl from a dysfunctional family goes to live with distant relatives for the summer. Staying with the middle-aged farm couple, she discovers a new way of living.

W5 (CTV) 10:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): W5 meets a grandmother imprisoned in Hong Kong for a crime she says she did not commit.

WARRIOR (CTV Sci-Fi) 10:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): Mai Ling uses her government connections to consolidate power; Ah Sahm and the Hop Wei must find new ways to survive.

[velvetrogue]

Calum grunted when he felt Hilma dig her nails into his back, although the sharp sensation did send a jolt of excitement up his spine. As he adjusted to her tight cunt, his tip only initially in her, Calum still growled and moaned nevertheless. He grinned as he met her gaze, pushing forward simultaneously to start filling her up properly, inch by inch. He’d already declared how much he loved her pussy, but with how gorgeously delightful it felt sinking into Hilma, Calum couldn’t resist adding, “God, your cunt’s like heaven…” before moans overtook his words, the grin remaining on his features. Hilma began dragging her nails along his back, the renewed sharpness making Calum cry out loudly and in delight. With Hilma also pressed her foot just under his ass, pushing him closer, Calum met her in kind, not stopping until he’d buried himself to the hilt inside her. He ghosted his lips against hers, eyes sparkling with mischief and lust. Kissing her in an embrace that swiftly turned heated, Calum began rolling his hips backwards, nearly pulling his cock all the way out of her but instead pushing right back inside for the first thrust of many. 

@sarawritesx

His words brought an amused chuckle from her, teeth biting into the bottom lip all excitedly. "Glad you know who the boss here is..."the brunette couldn't help but tease him about it. A gasping moan broke free when he ripped her panties without much effort, the movements so sexy that she couldn't help herself but dig the tips of her nails into his back. Her back arched into him upon feeling the pressure of his tip against her tight cunt, making her moan in expectation. Big smile stretched across her lips upon hearing him declare just how much he loved her pussy, followed by a loud cry as he pushed inside of her. Nails dragged across his back, Hilma not being afraid to mark him. "Fuck, baby!"she groaned in pleasure, one of her legs folded in the knee so her foot was pressing just under his butt cheek, pushing him closer to her.

[cithaerons]

ok watching personal shopper!

[folkhorrorrevival]

Ithell Colquhoun, Ghosts and World Receivers

Ithell Colquhoun, Ghosts and World Receivers

Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of the Fern Loved Gully by Amy Hale In art history discussions British Surrealism is often an under-represented topic as is one of its most important pioneers – Ithell Colquhoun. But there is more to and more to say about Colquhon than her on-off relationship with Surrealism as Amy Hale makes strongly apparent in her biography of this intriguing artist. Born in India in…

[arthistorybabes]

In honor of her record breaking exhibition at the Guggenheim, we are re-releasing our 2017 episode on Hilma af Klint, the abstract painter that talked to ghosts.

Accompanying spotify playlist coming soon.

[monkvyasaa]

Introduction to Esoteric Astrology | Monkvyasa

What is esoteric astrology?

Esoteric Astrology is astrology that specialises in the soul. Esoteric astrology is concerned with defining our soul’s contribution to the evolution of humanity in the area of our unique outward character or what will happen to us in this lifetime. It is taught as a means of reconciling the soul and character. To acquire our most self and live with soul consciousness, esoteric astrologers say we want to move past our fabric nature, using our character as a device of soul expression in the area of the alternative way around. If this sounds a bit woo-woo, it genuinely is because it is. Theosophy, or the “New Age” movement of the past, late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, gave birth to esoteric astrology.

History of esoteric astrology

The Theosophical Society was founded in 1875 as a home for upper-elegance intellectuals who had superior mediumship capabilities and were eager to find out about esotericism. Consider séances and Hilma Af Klint’s artwork. Along with Alice Bailey, the founder of esoteric astrology, Rudolf Steiner and Helena Blavatsky have been major members of the movement.

Alice Bailey’s five-quantity A Treatise on the Seven Rays, which she claimed to have channelled through her disembodied religious teacher, DK, codified esoteric astrology (read: a ghost). “Certain subjects I may additionally say will in all likelihood be seemed as revolutionary, or as erroneous, as unbelievable or unprovable with the useful resource of the usage of the educational and uninspired astrologer,” she writes withinside the introduction.

She is aware that her teachings are contentious and her delivery is untrustworthy—expect Instagram-well-known-crystal-healer vibes. Her teachings have been carried forward into the modern era with the useful resource of the artwork of Alan Leo (the particular sun sign horoscope writer) and modern intellectual astrologer Dane Rudhyar.

How is esoteric astrology different from the astrology I know?

The biggest significant distinction between esoteric astrology and modern intellectual astrology of sun sign horoscopes (and all of the one memes) is the usage of planetary rulers. The rulers of the signs and signs shake down like this in modern astrology:

Aries – Mars | Taurus – Venus | Gemini – Mercury | Cancer – Moon | Leo – Sun | Virgo – Mercury | Libra – Venus | Scorpio – Mars, Pluto | Sagittarius – Jupiter | Capricorn – Saturn | Aquarius – Saturn, Uranus | Pisces – Jupiter, Neptune

However, because of reality, esoteric astrology is all about transcending our nature and discovering our higher purpose within the collective (aka, manifesting our great existence similar to the great effects on the rest of the world). The planetary rulers reflect each sign’s higher octave or more calling. In esoteric astrology, each sign has an exoteric planetary ruler who knows the sign’s herbal outer expression, similarly to an esoteric planetary ruler who is The sign’s religious side. The exoteric rulers are much like in modern intellectual astrology, but the esoteric planetary rulers are very inside the subsequent ways:

Aries – Mercury | Taurus – Vulcan* | Gemini – Venus | Cancer – Neptune | Leo – Sun** | Virgo – Moon | Libra – Uranus | Scorpio – Mars** | Sagittarius – Earth | Capricorn – Saturn** | Aquarius – Jupiter | Pisces – Pluto

What can I research from an esoteric analysis of my chart?

We now understand that esoteric astrology differs drastically from modern intellectual astrology. It’s a complex device with murky origins, and now no longer like traditional sorts of astrology, working towards it necessitates studying the jargon language of “esoteric” and “exoteric” rulers, the seven rays, and soul consciousness. This sort of astrology, which specialises in the collective in the area of the individual, does not count on lifestyle activities or provide heat takes on the character. An esoteric chart analysis specialises in transformation and the way to better understand our soul. That’s a lifelong process.

Bottom line

Esoteric astrology is concerned with who we are coming to be in the area of who we are.

[jareckiworld]

Hilma's Ghost (Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray) — Automatic Theorem Painting V (oil stained on cotton velveteen on wooden panel, 2022)

[sbowen]

Mahirwan Mamtani

is in Cosmic Geometries at EFA Project Space, which also has work by Carrie and Dorothea and Yevgeniya and Biren. Organized by Hilma’s Ghost, the show is a group exhibition of intergenerational and intersectional artists that examines the spiritual and aesthetic functions of abstract painting and geometry in art. More #mahirwanmamtani

[theaskew]

Hilma’s Ghost (Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray), "Why are you torturing yourself when you have already healed?" Abstract Futures Tarot, 2021. Acrylic and flash on canvas, 20 x 16 inches. 

[egelinjeoor]

Art history mythology: the invention of abstraction in the presence of ghosts (part 1)

"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" Linda Nochlin asked this question in 1971 and somehow we are stealing with it. Fashion label Dior found the question pressing enough to print in on a t-shirt for its 2018 spring collection. We might wonder why we care about this question. We already know the answer: historically women were excluded from education, spaces and platforms that were vital to achieving the idea of greatness that history connects to artists like Carravagio, Michelangelo or Picasso. Men can be seen as responsible for this exclusion, but more importantly, they are also responsible for creating the idea of a great artist. Essentially, being a great artist means being considered one on male term. And that is a hurdle that few woman can really pass. Why should we try?

Instead, art historians are slowly considering a rewriting of historical narratives. This rewriting is no longer oriented at celebrating the creations of a few exclusive induviduals operating a strict sphere of what western society deems artistic. Instead, this rewriting decentralisez. It takes into account craft art such as lace or embroidery that are historically granted a lower status than painting or sculpture (usually out of sexist, classist or racist ideology). Importantly, art history should stop being a history of a few great (white) men and start becoming a history of art production, in all senses of the word. This rewriting means rejecting the mythology erected by men, in order to see that art production is a diverse, deeply personal craft that can derrive from all kinds of places. 

In a series of essays I’d like to look at this strange mythology, and try to debunk its myths. We will start with one of the most pointless but lingering myths in early 20th century art: the invention of abstractionism. 

Sometime in 1911, Russian painter Vasilly Kandinsky painted his first abstract painting. Nothing about this date can be said with any certainty. Similar to other early abstract artists like Robert Delauney or Kazimir Malevich, he had a tendency to predate his artworks. Still, Kandinsky often commemorated this moment as the invention of abstract art: a defining moment for modernism. Kandinsky’s legacy was defended aggressively by his wife after his death in 1946. She collected a team of art historians to prove her husband’s legacy. They never had to prove her right: Kandinsky’s invention of abstractionism is included in many art history classes and books. Most overview works will name him as the affectionately named ‘father’ of non-representative art, although he is no longer necessarily called the inventor of abstractionism.

The invention of abstractionism is a race that started far after the finishing line. The reality is that neither Kandinsky, Delauney nor Malevich invented abstractionism. The oldest known artistic expressions of mankind are little geometric patterns in stones and seashells. In fact, the first drawings you yourself once made as a young child were probably representative of nothing. The difference between your drawings and Kandinsky’s paintings is really only the fact that we would call the former random scribbles, while we call the latter an abstract painting.

But even when we look at Western contemporary art, at works by people who were themselves concerned with making paintings and even exhibiting them in the traditional sense, there is still a group of painters that manage to predate Kandinsky quite a bit. All of these painters were female, and they were never completely accepted by the artistic mainstream. The earliest artist discussed, Georgiana Houghton, lost a large chunk of her money in trying to exhibit her works, only to be ridiculed by contemporary art critics. The younger, and nowadays more widely known Hilma af Klimt, was completely rejected by the anthroposophist Rudolf Steiner. Deciding that the world was not ready for paintings, she stopped exhibiting.

Both women would never have called their own works ‘abstract’ in the sense of Kandinsky or Malevich. And both women never met. But they were both deeply spiritual, and they both connected their artworks directly with a higher power: they created art that came not entirely from their own minds, but from an inspiration given by ghosts and ancient entities.

Georgiana Houghton Georgiana Houghton was born in Gran Canaria in 1815, but lived in England for most of her life. We know next to nothing about her childhood. She never married and lived in her parents’ house until their deaths in the 1860s. Houghton became strongly involved with spiritualism in 1859, after a seance were a medium contacted her death sister, but she always remained a devoted Christian, claiming spiritualism to be a ‘gift of god’. She started training to become a medium herself and started using a planchette, a kind of heart-shaped wooden tablet used in automated writing, that can be seen as a predecessor to the Ouija board. 

Houghton and her ghosts in 1882. Houghton became quite controversial when late in life she collaborated with Fredrick Hudson, a notorious ghost photographer.

Via a cousin, Houghton came into contact with medium Elisabeth Wilsons ‘spirit drawings’, drawings that were executed in the hand of Wilsons death son’s ghost. This interested Houghton,  because her deceased sister had been a prolific artists. She attempted to draw in her sisters hand, which failed, but she succeeded in channeling the ghost of a deaf and blind man called Lenny. Using her automatic planchette, she started creating art automatically, guided by the spirit she channeled. Her technique developed throughout her career. After she stopped using a planchette, she also started introducing colors. Houghton never claimed authorship of her artworks, calling the process of their creation. Intentionally or not, for a woman in a position like Houghton, these claims enabled her to create some incredibly radical artworks without being condemned for stepping out of line.

On the back of ‘”The Eye of God” Houghton made a typical planchette-drawing and did an automatic writing on the paintings meaning. The back claims that this work was inspired by the ghost of renaissance painter Correggio.

Houghtons paintings were never entirely without representation. The spirits would usually guide her in automatic writing, enabling her to write down the explanations of works. Colors were strongly imbued with symbolic meaning and sometimes a representation was sought within the drawings. In 1871, Houghton decided to exhibit 25 of her paintings in a gallery in London. Although some viewers expressed great admiration of the work, the serious art critics were not the biggest fan of this strange occult women. Needless to say, Houghton did not end up in the art historical canon. She died in 1984, penniless and largely forgotten.

When we look at Houghtons work today, it looks strikingly modern and quite beautiful. These works were not painted by an untrained artists, but by someone with experience, who knew what she was doing. It is difficult to say how much Houghton believed in her own sayings, but creating art definitely had a spiritual meaning for her. It was something she let happen to her, a depiction of an experience, rather than a representation. The early works of Kandinsky, in their pure brightness, remind me of Houghton. There is also some William Blake, and a lot of 70s psychedelia. At first glance, it is hard to believe that these works were painted in the 1860s, when nothing like this had ever been done before.

Georgiana Houghton, “The Eye of God” (1862). Watercolor on paper.

[jgthirlwell]

2019 year in review

This year I also invited some friends and colleagues to reflect on 2019

JG Thirlwell

Composer Foetus Xordox Manorexia Steroid Maximus Venture Bros Archer

www.foetus.org

30 Albums of 2019 (although not all of them came out in 2019) Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble Where Future Unfolds (International Anthem) Le Grand Sbam Vaisseau Monde (Dur et Doux Caravaggio Caravaggio 2 & Turn Up (La Buissonne) Swans Leaving Meaning (Young God Records) 13 Million Year Old Ghost (Chaykin) Ben Frost Dark Cycles 1 & 2 (Invada) Sote Parallel Persia / Sacred Horror In Design (Diagonal) 33EMYBW Arthropods (SVBKVLT) Anna Meredith Fibs (Moshi Moshi) Kelly Moran Ultraviolet (Warp) Thom Yorke Anima  (XL) Hildur Guðnadóttir Joker Soundtrack (Water Tower Music) Lingua Ignota Caligula (Profound Lore) Igorr Savage Synusoid (Metal Blade) Oli XL  Rogue intruder Soul Enhancer (Blo-onm) Red Fang Murder The Mountains (Relapse) Michael Kiwanuka Kiwanuka (Polydor) Richard Dawson 2020 (Weird World) Idiot Flesh Fancy / The Nothing Show / Tales Of Instant Knowledge and Sure Death (YouTube) Ikarus Echo / Mosaiasmic (Ronin Rhythm Records) Poil Sus / Mula Poil (Dur et Doux) Orange Goblin A Eulogy For The Damned (Candlelight) Nivhek After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house (Yellow Electric) Ni Pantophobie (Due et Doux) Andrew WK You’re Not Alone (Sony) Rustin Man Drift Code (Domino) Kishi Bashi Omoiyari (Joful Noise) Liturgy HAQQ (YLYLCYN) Croatian Amor Isa (Posh Isolation) Schnellertollermeier Rights / X /  Zorn einen ehmer üttert stem!! (Cuneiform) Scandinavian Star Solas (Posh Isolation) Synth Sisters Euphoria (EM records) JPEGMAFIA Veteran + All My Heroes Are Cornballs (EQT)

Notable Concerts I went to dozens of concerts and events in 2019. Here are some of the most notable. All in NYC except where noted.

Jan 8  Matt Marks Tribute at  Protoype Festival. Roulette Jan 19  Lemon Twigs MHOW Jan 26  Julia Wolfe /  NY Philharmonic Fire In My Mouth Lincoln Center Feb 16  Lucretia Dalt Issue Project Room Feb 23  Willliam Basinski  Ambient Church Mar 13  Lou Reed Drones St John The Divine Mar 18  This Heat LPR + July 31 at Elsewhere Mar 20  Oran Ambarchi  Fridman Gallery Mar 28  Fire! at Zurcher April 11  Aphex Twin Avant Gardner May 4  Zombi El Cortez May 11  Lawrence English Knockdown Center May 13  The Who + Orchestra Madison Square Garedn May 15  Alva Noto Metropolitan Museum June 11  Andrew Cyrille Marathon Roulette June 13  Christeene / Nastie Band Brooklyn Bazaar June 26  Simon Hanes National Sawdust July 27  Nick Zinner 41 Strings Rockefeller Center July 30  Flaming Lips / Lennon Claypool Delirium Capitol Theater Portchester Aug 2-4  Bang On  A Can LOUD Festival Mass MOCA Notth Adams Aug 27  Pharmakon St Vitus Sep 5  JD Emmanuel Issue / First Unitarian Church Sep 18  Lingua Ignota St Vitus Set 21  King Crimson  Radio City Oct 10  Melvins Warsaw Oct 19  Helm Cafe Oto Nov 1  Marc Almond Brooklyn Bazaar Nov 6  JPEGMAFIA Bowery Ballroom Nov 23  Caterina Barbieri Unsound Fest, Knockdown Center Nov 30  Knower Bowery Ballroom

Film & TV These films were flawed but resonated with me.

Chernobyl Ozark Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Joker Midsommar The Irishman Uncut Gems

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Matt Johnson

The The https://www.thethe.com/

Looking back on 2019 I decided to list a handful of political / alternative news websites rather than films, albums or books. In the UK the corporate media stooped to shocking new lows during our recent General Election campaign. Such dirty tactics are to be expected of conglomerates owned by the likes of Rupert Murdoch and his fellow right wing billionaires but this time around, previously ‘liberal’ outlets such as the BBC and Guardian also fully participated in the outrageous lies, smears and character assassination against the leader of the opposition Labour Party. The British population were now being forced fed the Establishment’s propaganda du jour from every possible direction. Personally I try to gather my information from as many alternative outlets as possible to contrast with the 24 hour corporate brainwashing we’re subjected to these days. I’ve listed just five sites from the dozens I regularly visit and although I certainly don’t agree with everything expressed on these sites I do feel that it essential that in supposed free and democratic societies we are at least exposed to a variety of viewpoints and opinions - rather than being trapped inside social media echo chambers in an Internet that is increasingly controlled and censored by sophisticated algorithms and where politically correct digital lynch mobs accuse anyone with an opinion that contradicts the official narrative of being a Russian agent! Anyway, a Happy New Year to you all and here’s hoping 2020 sets the new decade off in roaring style!

https://www.medialens.org/

https://www.truthdig.com/author/chris_hedges/

https://www.corbettreport.com/

https://thesaker.is/

https://thoughtmaybe.com/about/

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Tristan Perich

Composer www.tristanperich.com

Here is a rather random selection of 10 of my favorite tracks of 2019, mostly courtesy Spotify recommendations over the year...

Full playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6OUSFLqLsAwhRQRF44yxWN?si=r33XRUuGR_iIOZHg4thuyA

Lechuga Zafiro: Para Abajo feat Matmos & Seba TC https://open.spotify.com/track/2xMnSTIBNZ8AT6w6TdZyU9

Kelpe: A Year and a Day https://open.spotify.com/track/4ANoLzEjtGOBl5qCvEiLov

Shida Shahabi: All In Circles https://open.spotify.com/track/5qMnq88JPMJQ81x5szpN3t

The Vernon Spring: Strength of a Young Man https://open.spotify.com/track/0zQUqR1UcXoPRSrTt0WuPs

Dessert: Thunderbird https://open.spotify.com/track/5rAguSvXxyo5zBq9a5RQWd

Yves V w/ Icona Pop: We Got That Cool (Robert Falcon & Jordan Jay Remix) https://open.spotify.com/track/1lEtudJvZNiibWzXc5m4mh

Selena Gomez: Look At Her Now https://open.spotify.com/track/4yI3HpbSFSgFZtJP2kDe5m

Masahiro Sugaya: Umi No Sunatsubu https://open.spotify.com/track/43egCanD1UNNvoCo2K4veC

Konradsen: Baby Hallelujah https://open.spotify.com/track/6TBnYhxTzSiiVmMBjpZ3gH

Slow Magic: Girls (DJ Clap Remix) https://open.spotify.com/track/31Sdj7aF1h4emCJtkxdy1A

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James Ilgenfritz

Composer https://infrequentseams.com/

James Ilgenfritz's favorite witnessed events, by month:

Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future (January, Guggenheim) Anaïs Maviel: who is this ritual for and from? (February, Roulette) Roscoe MItchell, SPACE, Wavefield Ensemble (March, Park Avenue Armory) Blank Forms: Nadah El Shazly (April, Brooklyn Music School) Barre Phillips Solo (May, Zurcher Gallery) Heiner Goebbels: Everything That Happened And Would Happen (June, Park Avenue Armory) Zodiac Saxophone Quartet: Charles Waters, Ras Moshe Burnett, Claire Daly, Lee Odom (July, Scholes St) Tie: Judith Berkson: Partial Memories & Juho Laitinen: Robert Ashley's The Wolfman (August, Ostrava Days, Czech Republic) Zeena Parkins / William Winant / Ikue Mori (September, The Stone) Vinnie Golia / Bobby Bradford Quartet (October, Edgefest in Ann Arbor) LA Philharmonic: Wubbels, Macklay, Sabat, Smith, Perich (Los Angeles, November) Art Ensemble Of Chicago (December, Washington, DC)

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Carl Michael Von Hausswolff

Artist / Composer

https://cmvonhausswolff.net/

10 special artists of 2019 in no specific order: • Hildur Guðnadóttir - her film music • sunn o))) - their Life Metal and Pyroclasts albums • Ilpo Väisänen - his concert in Stockholm • Cindy van Acker - her choreographic work • Jónsi & Alex - their old Riceboy Sleeps album and 2019 tour • Swans - their leaving meaning album • Flowers Must Die - their Där Blommor Dör album • Bigert & Bergström - their climate awareness art • Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson - all their work during 2019 • Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Tim Story - their Lunz 3 album

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Ryan Martin

Label Boss, Dais Records

www.daisrecords.com

Richard Youngs & Raül Refree "All Hands Around the Monument" Sarah Davachi "Pale Bloom" James Hoff "HOBO UFO (v. Chernobyl)" Wojciech Rusin ‎"The Funnel" Caterina Barbieri "Ecstatic Computation" Solange "When I Get Home" Kali Malone "The Sacrificial Code" Deathprod "Occulting Disk" Vatican Shadow "Kuwaiti Airforce" Ben Vida "Reducing The Tempo To Zero" JPEGMAFIA "All My Heroes Are Cornballs" Dean Hurley "Anthology Resource Vol. II: Philosophy of Beyond" Sean McCann "Puck" Oren Ambarchi "Simian Angel" Tyler, The Creator "IGOR" Helm "Chemical Flowers" JAB "Erg Herbe" Emptyset "Blossoms" E-Saggila "My World, My Way" Jacob Kirkegaard "Black Metal Square" Boy Harsher "Careful"

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Weasel Walter

Composer/performer / label head https://weaselwalter.bandcamp.com/

2019 was far from my favorite year. Regardless, I managed to release not one, but two new double albums by The Flying Luttenbachers (as well as two European tours with the unit) in addition to the usual slew of improvised music gigs and releases, and co-ordinating and producing an archival release of vintage NYC weirdness (Ozone). I also rocked Mexico City with Lydia Lunch Retrovirus, played a ridiculous gig with Encenathrakh, and disbanded Cellular Chaos (for now, at least).

When I become obsessed (or re-obsessed with something), it usually leads to a ton of proselytizing Facebook status posts. Combing my 2019 posts, it seems that my musical obsessions this year weren't very highbrow. Ha ha ha. Yes, I'm super into Xenakis, Cecil Taylor and whatever else, but dumber music can supply great creature comfort, and I guess I needed that in large amounts, so that's what it was. Sometimes badass modernists have to take time out to stay in bed all day and read comics because it's a hard cold world out there.

Weasel Walter top 10 musical obsessions of 2019 1. Kid Creole and the Coconuts (1980-1985 era) 2. Redd Kross 3. The Saints "I'm Stranded" 4. Jane Aire and the Belvederes 5. Miles Davis 1972-1975 6. Khanate "Things Viral 7. Mandy Zone & Ozone "Live at Max's Kansas City 1981" 8. Mayhem "Grand Declaration of War" 9. Comedy Bang Bang Episode #554 w/ Middleditch, Sanz 10. Weezer "Pinkerton"

Weasel Walter worst thing about 2019

1. Windows 10

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C.Spencer Yeh

Composer / Performer https://twitter.com/cspenceryeh?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Ten live music highlights of 2019 - The Brandon Lopez Trio (Lopez/Steve Baczkowski/Gerald Cleaver) at Fridman Gallery, June 18 - DeForrest Brown Jr., Pennies From Heaven series at CONTROL, January 15 - Charmaine Lee, Nothing Changes at Saint Vitus, January 30 - Bloodyminded at Apartment 202, December 14 - Longmont Potion Castle live QnA, Spectacle Theater, March 23 - Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, Roulette, July 1 - Helm, Elsewhere, September 21 - Korn, Radiohead, Red Light District, October 26 - Mdou Moctar, Max Fish, September 1 - Mayo Thompson plays "Corky's Debt to His Father," Le Poisson Rouge, December 8

Speed round – five various still on the mind at the end of 2019 - Charlotte Moorman / Nam June Paik long sleeve t-shirt, Boot Boyz - Acacia leaf omelet and shrimp in sour curry, Jitlada, Los Angeles - Lynnée Denise, presentation for Omniaudience (Side Two) presented by Triple Canopy/Nikita Gale/Hammer Museum at Coaxial Arts, May 4 - PARASITE (2019) - ANIARA (2018)

Also, Spectacle Theater turns ten in 2020 and you should really come visit us.

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DJ Food

Artist / composer / DJ / curator

www.djfood.org

Music / podcasts: Pye Corner Audio - Hollow Earth LP (Ghost Box) Various - Corroded Circuits EP 12" (Downfall Recordings) Chris Moss Acid - Heavy Machine 12" (Balkan Vinyl) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Fishing For Fishes LP (Flightless) Pictogram - Trace Elements cassette (Miracle Pond) Vanishing Twin - The Age of Immunology LP (Fire Records) Big Mouth podcast (various) (Acast) Beans - Triptych LP (Gamma Proforma) Roisin Murphy - Incapable single (Skint) Ebony Steel Band - Pan Machine LP (Om Swagger) People Like Us - The Mirror LP (Discrepant) Coastal County - Coastal County LP (Lomas) Adam Buxton podcast (various) (Acast) Ghost Funk Orchestra - A Song For Paul LP (Karma Chief) Jon Brooks - Emotional Freedom Techniques LP (Cafe Kaput) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Organ Farmer (from Infest the Rat's Nest LP) (Flightless) Jane Weaver - Fenella LP (Fire Records) Polypores - Brainflowers cassette (Miracle Pond)

Design / packaging: Pepe Deluxé - The Surrealist Woman lathe cut 7" (Catskills) Various - Science & Technology ERR Rec Library Vol.2 (ERR Records) DJ Pierre presents ACID 88 vol. III LP (Afro Acid) Mark Ayres plays Wendy Carlos - Kubrick 7" (Silva Screen) Tomorrow Syndicate - Citizen Input 10" (Polytechnic Youth) The Utopia Strong - S/T LP (Rocket Recordings) Jarvis - Sunday Service LP (ACE records) Andy Votel - Histoire D'Horreur cassette (Hypocrite?) Sculpture - Projected Music 5" zoetrope picture disc (Psyché Tropes) Lapalux - Amnioverse LP (Brainfeeder) Hieroglyphic Being - Synth Expressionism / Rhythmic Cubism LP (On The Corner Records)

Film / TV: Sculpture - Meeting Our Associates (Plastic Infinite) This Time with Alan Partridge (BBC) Avengers: Endgame (Disney/Marvel) Imaginary Landscapes - Sam Campbell (Vinyl Factory) What We Do In The Shadows (BBC2) The Mandalorian (Disney+)

Books / Comics / Magazines: Beastie Boys Book - Mike Diamond & Adam Horowitz (Spiegel & Grau) Cosmic Comics - A Kevin O'Neill Miscellany (Hibernia Books) Electronic Sound magazine (Pam Com. Ltd) Moebius - 40 Days In The Desert (expanded edition) (Moebius Productions) Rock Graphic Originals  - Peter Golding w. Barry Miles (Thames & Hudson) 2000AD / Judge Dredd Megazine (Rebellion) Silver Surfer Black - Donny Cates/Tradd Moore (Marvel) Help - Simon Amstell (Square Peg) The Scarfolk Annual - Richard Littler (William Collins) Wrappers Delight - Jonny Trunk (Fuel)

Gigs / Events: Vanishing Twin @ Prince of Wales Pub, Brighton Stereolab @ Concorde 2, Brighton People's Vote March 23rd March, London Wobbly Sounds book launch @ Spiritland, London Confidence Man @ The Electric, Brixton, London Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul Festival, Moseley, Birmingham Bluedot Festival, Jodrell Bank, Manchester HaHa Sounds Collective play David Axelrod's Earth Rot @ Tate Exchange, London School of Hypnosis play In C @ Cafe Oto, London Palace Electrics, Antenna Studios, London The Delaware Road, New Zealand Farm, Salisbury Breaking Convention closing party, Greenwich, London Jonny Trunk & Martin Green's Hidden Library @ Spiritland, Southbank, London Negativland / People Like Us @ Cafe Oto, London HaHa Sound Collective plays the David Axelrod songbook @ The Church of Sound, London, Sculpture, Janek Schaefer, Mariam Rezaei + the 26 turntable ensemble @ The Old Baths, Hackney, London Vanishing Twin & Jane Weaver's Fenella @ Studio 9294, Hackney Wick, London

Exhibitions: Sister Corita Kent @ House of Illustration, London, Augustinbe Kofie @ Stolen Space, London, Victor Vasarely @ Pompidou Centre, Paris, Mary Quant @ V&A Museum, London, Stanley Kubrick @ The Design Museum, London, Tim Hunkin's Novelty Automation Museum, London, Keith Haring retrospective @Tate, Liverpool, Nam June Paik, Tate Modern, London, Takis @ Tate Modern, London, Shepard Fairy @ Stolen Space, London, Damien Hirst 'Mandalas' at the White Cube, London, Bridget Riley @ The Hayward, London, Museum of Neo-liberalism, Lewisham, London.