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M E D I A K A O S
mediak@well.sf.ca.us (415)241-1568
JOSEPH MATHENY Cultural Provocateur
O, gentlemen, the time of life is short! And if we live,
we live to tread on kings! -Shakespeare, Henry IV
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presents Books, CDs, Tapes, Records, and Videos from the MediaKaos collection.
(415)241-1568
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Videos
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T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, A Night of Ontological Anarchy and Poetic Terrorism.
Featuring: Hakim Bey, Robert Anton Wilson, Nick Herbert, Joseph Matheny, Rob Breszny of World Entertainment War, the artwork of James Koehnline and more!
A great quality tape produced by Sound Photo Synthesis, documenting the T.A.Z. night, February 6th, 1993, at Komotion International in San Francisco.A one of a kind and not available anywhere else. Includes original "Chaos" poster and handbill from show.
Order # MK0001 2 Hour Video $35.00
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Zone of Calm - by Xian Atrocity
In the eye of the storm is the Zone of Calm. Using brute force recording techniques, Xian presents us with this transcendental, post-industrial audio mindscape. Do not be fooled by the title: this soothing sound massage is not for the feeble. If you are ready, strap yourself into your meditation chamber, take a deep breath and let the sonic roughage cleanse your filthy soul.
Order #00015 60 min audio cassette includes tract $5.50 ____________________________________________________
Recycled Time - by Christian Greuel and Aaron Ross
The immediacy of pure existance can only be revisited as idealized and corrupted memories. Yet these three video selections, taken from a cyber-synaesthetic experience presented at the California Institute of the Arts, provide a bleeding edge, stroboscopic feeding frenzy for your central nervous system's hearty appetite. Very engrossing, often frightening and always beautiful, this tape is a wonderful endurance test for your psyche.
Order # MK00016 Video cassette $20.00
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Books
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Esoterrorist: Selected Essays 1980-1988
Genesis P'Orridge
One of the best books about technoshamanism in existance.The product of one brains fascinating rollercoaster ride along the fringes of culture and sexuality, a virtual mapping of the evolution of an ORIGINAL Cyber-Shaman. If you only read one book this year, make it this one and become an interactive particle in the ESOTERRORIST web. All versions contain a new color collage by Genesis. Special Handbound Artlaw version.Limited quantity. Order # MK0002 $40.00 Regular Paperback version.
Order # MK0003
$14.99
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Thee Psychick Bible: The Apocryphal Scriptures of Genesis P'Orridge & Psychick TV
Thee Psychick Bible contains manifestoes, essays, qoutes, and other miscellaneous writings (i.e. scriptures) from the numerous PTV material dating from its earliest origins to the present day. With the exception of Liber XIII, which is a reprinting of Thee Grey Book. The layout is a double column format that can be read together or independently. Each page consists of a primary (larger) text block and a secondary (smaller) text block. The text found within the primary columns are materials compiled and edited from the numerous PTV L.P.s, CDs, twelve-inch records and other related matter.Nearly all the writing in the secondary columns come from other PTV/Genesis P'Orridge sources as a compliment and/or distraction from the primary text.
Order # MK0004
$14.99
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One Foot In the Future: A Woman's Spiritual Journey Nina Graboi
Blending dramatic events with profound reflections on the spiritual path and the human condition, One Foot in the Future is written in a lucid and eminently readable style, covering one womyns journey from a Nazi prison camp to the LSD experience in America with Leary, and Alpert during the Millbrook days, and on through the present to the future. "Her autobiography is a rare, precious life achievment." Timothy Leary
Order # MK0005
$16.99
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Records, CDs, Cassetes
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Fixated
The Seven Inches of the Apocalypse
IndustrialTechnoSEXhouseMUSIC
Fixated was concieved and created by Illusion of Safety founder/leader Dan Burke.The work of IOS can be categorized as ambient, post-industrial, power electronics, and decomposition. Music thats time is cum. Taking a pro-Erotica/anti-censorship stance this CD combines Kraftwerk type rhythms with loads of Industrial-Techno-House stylings interspersed with provocative soundbytes from pornographic films and real life, mixed with double entendres that keep it up. Lustful obsessions, Erotic sound bytes, and pornographic beats that move your mind and appendages.
50 min CD
Order # MK0006
$12.00
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Fifteen/Finite Material Context
Illusion of Safety
Over 70 minutes of material from two previously available Complacency cassttes re-released on CD by Tesco orginisation (Germany) sub-label Functional.Some of the best "group" work from 1987/88 and solo pieces from the limited edition boxset "Finite Material Context" (1990)." a true gem of industry- meets-Andromeda sonic union."...Option Magazine
70 min. CD
Order # MK0007
$12.00
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Inside Agitator
Illusion of Safety
"...another in a never-ending series of uncompromising and exquisitely-crafted tonalities.the title refers to a favorite theme of founder/leader Dan Burke, namely a ghastly glimpse into the aberrations of the human psyche.This collection of the half-rhythmic beat/collages and half ambient-noise reflect the dichotomy within us all; the age -old struggle between the violent and the sublime, the Dark & the Light." ...Scott Marshal
CD
Order # MK0008
$12.00
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Prevost/O'Rourke
Third straight day made public
Live recordings
cover by David Jackman
liner notes by John Corbett
TSDMP presents the meeting of legendary AMM percussionist Eddie Prevost and guitarist Jim O'Rourke performing live in England. Mining an area familiar to fans of both AMM and O'Rourke's, but also exploring new possibilities in the realm of improvisation. Ideas of what improvisation "sounds like" disappear and are replaced with extremely visual walls of sound, color, and light.There is an empathy beyond call and response, reaching a language of pure sound. Eddie Prevost: An original member of England's legendary improvising ensemble AMM (which has included Keith Rowe, John Tilbury, Cornelius Cardew, and the Arditti String quartet's Rohan de Saram), works with "Supersession" (with Barry Guy, Evan Parker, and Keith Rowe) and is a member of the Eisler Ensemble. Writes and lectures on improvistaion and related subjects. Jim O'Rourke: Known equally as a composer and improvisor. Known for his work with Henry Kaiser, Keith Rowe, K.Null, Derek Bailey, John Oswald, Gunter Muller, Voice Crack, and Nicolas Collins. As a composer, he has written pieces for the Rova sax quartet and the Kronos Quartet.
51 min. CD
Order # MK0009
$12.00
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The Banishing Ritual
Illusion of Safety with Joseph Matheny
This new work embodies The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram ( a timeless ritual of protection and pureification) with dense layered hard beat structure. The flipside is a trance piece, starting with dark soundtrack textures that build into a gentle rhythm using African log drum and Kalimba. Ritual vibrations and liner notes by Joseph Matheny of MediaKaos. 7" vinyl
Order # MK0010
$5.50
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A Transmedia Litany
Genesis P'Orridge with XKP
Good quality tape of Genesis P'Orridge's Transmedia lecture and musical/visual litany, recorded in San Francisco, at the legendary MediaKaos/Future Cult Project Space. For the final show in the FC series Genesis and XKP put the audience into a trance, and then proceed to build up to an earth shaking crescendo.
Double casstette set
Contains original Transmedia Litany poster and handbill
Order # MK0011
$8.99
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Aleister Crowley
Poems and Evocations
Original Recordings of A.C. performing rituals and reading his poetry. Very rare.
Cassette
Order # MK00012
$5.50
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T.A.Z.: The Temporay Autonomous Zone, a night of Ontological Anarchy and Poetic Terrorism.
An audio tape of the above T.A.Z. show (see video section).
Cassette
Order # MK0013
$10.00
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Pagan Amen
4 songs
Early MediaKaos "found/sound art" project, early trance/ambient experiments from 1988. Out of print until now. Rare. Cassette extended single
Order # MK00014
$5.50
Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery (probably sooner). Included $4.75 postage for up to 5 items. Mail check or money order made payable to:
Athanor MediaKaos/Athanor Arts
409 Laguna Suite #4D
San Francisco, CA 94102
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Coming in April: BOOKS, CD ROMS
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VIRUS
David Jay Brown
VIRUS is a science fiction psycho-thriller about a genetically-engineered virus of extraterrestrial origin. The novel is written through the eyes of someone who suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder, so perspectives shift with each personality. The virus we discover is a highly intelligent,conscious entity! _________________________________________________
The Last Book
Joseph Matheny and Friends
The Last Book is an ongoing experiment in interactive media, employing written word via email and snail mail, cassette culture and mail art collages, voice mail experiments, derive', and other mediums. The project started with a "template" created by Joseph Matheny utilizing cut-up techniques, trance visioning, games of chance, tarot, and the methods of John Cage. The results of the interactions between Matheny's template and various participants around the world are being gathered and bound in a handsome "Artlaw" edition and hypercard stack. __________________________________________________
INCUNABULA
Peter Lamborn Wilson, Joseph Matheny, and Friends
A CD ROM based on the wacky INCUNABULA works of P.L.W. and J.M.
See INCUNABULA and INCUNABULA 2: gopher well.sf.ca.us Also see "Advances in Skin Science", bOING-bOING #11 October 1993
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The Scrapbook of a Haight Ashbury Pilgrim: Spirit, Sacrament, and Sex in 1967/68 Elizabeth Gips Elizabeth was named "The Original Psychedelic Grandma" by Peter Bergman of Firesign Theater. A treasure trove of intensley personal Sixties memorabilia, esoteric and psychedelia... -Robert Anton Wilson A different look at the Sixties. __________________________________________________ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Snail Mail: Voice Mail: EMAIL: MediaKaos (415)241-1568 mediak@well.sf.ca.us 409 Laguna #4D