An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Regenerative Responses: Growing The Soil Carbon Sponge
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How Urban Forestry Can Cool the Climate and Promote Social Equity
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Sampling of Found Sound – Composer Pierre Henry
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Youth Climate Strike Takes Over Downtown Los Angeles
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Bottles And Cans Recycling: A Social Contract In Peril
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal releases ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ this June, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
electronic music Archive
Sampling of Found Sound – Composer Pierre Henry
Posted on October 17, 2019 | No CommentsThe Art Of Sounds is a 2007 documentary on French electronic music pioneer Pierre Henry (1927 – 2017). Henry, along with his colleague Pierre Schaeffer, creating a form they dubbed musique concrète – an approach to electronic music based on using recorded sampling (also known as ‘found-object’) as source material.
Pauline Oliveros and her Beautiful Canopies of Sound
Posted on April 15, 2019 | No CommentsPauline Oliveros was a vital creator of new music, a renowned electronic art music innovator and composer, an accordionist, the founder of deep listening and other experimental practices, a genius inventor of sound-making software, and a fearless champion on issues of gender, race, ability, and sexual orientation. Following is an essay on her "Sonic Meditations."
Speaking in Sonic Tongues – dublab’s DJ Nanny Cantaloupe
Posted on June 26, 2016 | No Commentsdublab innovates music, arts and culture with it's freeform internet radio broadcasts in an age where access to mind-bending creation is both limited and expanded. Premiere sonic explorer, Mitchell Brown <> pioneered the movement with his ambient-abstraction-universe-sampling mix-match radio show "Glossolalia." 
Appropriating the Media Barrage with Negativland
Posted on April 22, 2016 | 1 CommentSound, video, and fury presented on the passing of Richard Lyons, also known as Pastor Dick, co-founder of culture-jamming avant garde music collective Negativland, the third member to die in the last year.
Brian Eno: A Visual Music of Ambient Melody
Posted on January 14, 2016 | 5 CommentsThe principal innovator of Ambient and Generative Music, multi-media composer and producer/collaborator with David Bowie, Talking Heads, and U2, Brian Eno is most fascinated by chance music by performers who 'don't completely understand their territory'
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Cosmic Pulses of Sound from the Dog Star
Posted on November 28, 2014 | 5 CommentsOn the inimitable and controversial Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer who fused science fiction with classical music, whose 20th Century groundbreaking creations expanded the bounds of electronic music and serial compositions from the brightest star Sirius.
Delia Derbyshire: ’60s Science Fiction Sound Art
Posted on November 8, 2014 | 1 CommentWatch "The Delian Mode" a documentary on the innovative electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire, who worked from 1960 to 1973 at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. She utilized both real-life and ‘artificial’ electronic sounds in her compositions using a musical style known as Musique Concrète.
Sound Motel: Experimental Musings in Los Angeles
Posted on January 31, 2012 | 1 CommentEagle Rock's Welcome Inn transformed into a micro-concert grand finale for Los Angeles's Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival on Sunday, January 29th. The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound produced this free, six-hour event.
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