Felthead Animation Experiment

Feltheads (bumpkins) are felted heads by Threadonism - shuffled around under some lights and a camera, with audio by steve fly (warming up for a finnegans wake reading) and special thanks to janne. With luck, more to come very soon. Please let us know what you think, how to improve it?

Fly Kick Scratch - NinjaJamm vs. Turntables by Fly

Fly Kick Scratch

Custom 'Kick Out The Jamms' Ninjajamm pack, plus one turntable. The first experiments with ninjajam running on an ipad, and Vestax PDT 2000. Recorded straight into audacity. Uploaded here naked. For more info about ninjajamm visit www.ninjajamm.net

and here for video demos of the packs:


--Steve Fly

Notes on seeing Slavoj Zizek in Amsterdam last night

AFTER THE COURAGE OF HOPELESSNESS

Slovoj Zizek spoke at the Westerkerk (Church) in Amsterdam, and I’m happy to report he kept up the reputation of a witty provocative intellectual giant. Forgive me as I mangle some of his thoughts together with my own.

These recollections are splintered and fragmented by the rather dull Q & A period that caught me off guard and distracted me. Zizek asked, “what happens on the days after the revolution” by using a clever analogy of the next day after the final scenes of V for Vendetta? This baffled some on the panel who had not heard of the graphic novel, or the movie, which in turn baffled me.

I would have answered Jerusalem by Alan Moore, provides an example of what happens after the revolution. It all happens again, and again, in a kind of eternal return, a past present future all-at-once. If you ask the question how does the revolutionary event change the day to day perception of the people, or how can the changes be sustained over time? The principle of eternal return, exhibited by Alan Moore in his book, makes a good start.

Zizek rapped hard on Ecology, and on catastrophe of the ecological variety, (Rene Thom) and relations with global capitalism. He seemed critical of the carry-on-regardless attitude of those who make token gestures to save the planet like recycling, buying organic food and biodiesel, without addressing deeper causes at root: consumerism and neoliberal attitudes. As you suspect, he communicated this in his unique terse, dynamic language.

He spoke on how the symptom of any problem, can often be misread as the cause, he constructively criticized the leftist political movements for these symptomatic solutions to problems. Interestingly to me, 'Simtome' is latin for Symtom, and was a phrase introduced by Lacan and used by Zizek which was borrowed from James Joyce.
“"the symptom can only be defined as the way in which each subject enjoys (jouit) the unconscious in so far as the unconscious determines the subject."--Jaques Lacan.

Zizek went on to describe how, paradoxically some far-right parties in Poland support workers union rights, something that traditionally you might associate with the left. Another example is how the European Union (who the leave campaign branded as those unelected officials in brussels) in reality helped to avert far worse humanitarian disasters than we currently see around us. Paradoxically, intervening with fully legitimate elections and parties such as the aforementioned in Poland, so as to avert openly racist, xenophobic and homophobic policy spreading. Totalitarianism, may at times result in a better outcome for the people than open democratic elections.

Zizek points out, to his horror, that the voting people, for the most part across Europe are against immigration and integration, preferring insular and right leaning political policy and strong right leaning leaders. The attacks upon the character of Jeremy Corbyn by the UK right wing press are all based on his inability to admit hes a serial killer.

The decision by Angela Merkel to go ahead and open the borders to the immigrants, going against the popular will of the German voting public, is another example of overpowering of the will of the people with a higher executive order, arguably for the good of humanity? In these examples, Zizek argues some leaders are in favour of progressive ideass to help refugees, or to curb xenophobia and racism, to do the right thing from a humanitarian point of view, that may mean going against the democratic will of the majority of the voting public. Man...this forced me to think in new ways.

The message on Brexit was a similar, the will of the voting public in Europe is right leaning, democracy has led to those with the most hatred and ignorance winning at the polls. The left are left shocked without an alternative strategy to capitalist democratic principles. Bernie Sanders in the U.S, and Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, both seem capable of making such a progressive strategy for an alternative. Currently the political leadership in the UK and USA, seems to me the worst political leadership in the history of both countries. A shambles, a disgrace, an example of what democracy and capitalism, combined with media coercion lead to: Donald Trump.

I think that the UKIP movement and the Leave campaign were both riding an old guard conservative Trojan horse, designed to bring back the old white classicist, racist, greedy guts, Tory principles back into number 10, with a new rule book of xenophobia. Hatred of the poor, the vulnerable, mentally and/or physically disabled, those on welfare, artists, and more or less anybody that is not them and not slaving away for some global capitalist monster or other. The shit stained threads are unravelling between the Nigel Farage, Richard Mercer, Steve Bannon, Julian Assange, Dominic Clements and Cambridge Analytica. A complex of forces are always at play, but how much can you blame the media for coercing people to leave the European Union? How insular and xenophobic where millions of brits before the leave campaign provided a bus to jump on? Hard questions, but necessary.


I am forced to reconsider ideology I have clung to for a while, that open source democracy and representative democracy are practically good and solutions to the current political economic system. I have to rethink the idea of a constitutional framework like a safe-guard against abuses at a transnational scale, a legally binding document which prevents the violation of basic human rights. To paraphrases to quotes: Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups, monarchy is rule by one imbecile, democracy by 500 imbeciles"

At one point Zizek said that if most white people were to hear how he talks with his black friends they would be appalled, and understand his lack of political correctness.
He touched on the subject of Zionism and right-wing conspiracy theories, putting forward another paradoxical reality by describing Zionist Anti-Semitism. He highlighted mass murderer Anders Brevic as an example of a violent terrorist holding right-wing, Zionist inspired paranoid fantasies about immigration and the arayan superior white races. He went on to point out that some conspiracy theorists propose that there is a Judeo Muslim conspiracy behind the turmoil in Europe and the near east, his point being that those wafting the flames can always find another conspiracy linking whatever bogeyman they have to the most recent world events. The imagination of the paranoid specializes in making links where there were previously none, inversely the imagination of the pronoid also makes links but to the betterment and wider understanding of a situation.

Over the past 12 months wild conspiracies are surfacing, for the first time, within the mainstream political sphere. Fully cracked and crazed far-right white supremacy, and Eugenics most toxic and devoutly blind. Other journalists have traced the rise of the American right and Trump, to 4chan message boards, Reddit, Pepe the frog, and the ranting fat mouth zealot Alex Jones, and the trajectory fantastical conspiracies about the global elite, the globalists and their attempt to create prison planet earth, usually with help from George Soros, Hillary Clinton. I think these are somewhat easy meat for a pop conspiracy theory, royals and bankers always turn something up. Zizek didn’t speak explicitly about Cambridge Analytica and Richard Mercer, and the relations to Nigel Farage, Dominic Clements and the well funded leave campaign. To me, this is the cutting edge of conspiracy research right now. There are thousands of slimy tentacles.

Some of the most stimulating parts of his talk for me, were where he quoted and improvised on Peter Sloterdijk, who should have been on the panel but had an unfortunate accident. Zizek riffed on the new anthropocene period, where humanity can no longer ignore its footprint all over the face of planet earth, and that these big boots are designed and paid for by capitalist expansion, commodification, and so a complete ignorance to the ecological threats noticeably now upon us. Melting glaciers, earthquakes, fires, floods, famine.

Furthermore, Zizek pointed out some cruel Hegelian reversals, a company capitalizing on newly uncovered, dry land, revealed due to the melting ice caps in Greenland. The company imply that this new green land, in Greenland, is, green land. To mean green, as in ecologically friendly. Such is the power of marketing and the endless tricks up their muddy sleeves.

I was fascinated to hear Zizek discuss his friends in America, and their research into the predictive ability of computers, versus humans, with particular focus on personal questions such as: will this marriage or relationship last. The computer program is fed a whole array of data sets stretching back in time, and calculates the approximate scenario. The punchline is that the computer program knows you better than you know you. Other artificially intelligent software has been disrupting the stock market too, according to Zizek, and produces more accurate stock predictions than a highly paid Wall Street human. (if you can call anybody who works on Wall Street fully human?)

I imagine this is due to the susceptible nature of humans, emotions, desires, complexes, delusions and amplifications, improvisations, which lead us to spur of the moment decisions. Quick to judge and impatient people, rarely representative of the long game perspective of intelligent machine learning.

Zizek joked that perhaps the way to get rid of the clown, Gert Wilders, is with help from computers like this which simply outsmart the dumb, or those playing dumb. I’m here reminded of an unanswered question “why are our politicians and world leaders not wired up to a simple lie detector, a polygraph, or some such device built sense bullshit, in real time?” Direct democracy connected to a hierarchy of values based on an verifiable, transparent system. Call it the Bushit detector, in Honor of the master of Bullshit George W. Bush. Catalogue name: Nightmare Bushit' Whirl.

Zizek said words to the effect that if you don't address the likes of Gert Wilders and Marie Le Pen, and Nigel Farage then what else are you standing for? This is the fight for Europe. To figure out our common ground and shared weirdness, and to basically agree to tolerate each others manias. Respect my atheism because of it, not in spite of it. Please respect my beliefs because...not, in spite, of them.

The phrase ‘spaceship earth’ leapt into my ear when i heard it in the context of Peter Sloterdijk. Due to its use by Buckminster Fuller in the title of his book : Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth. I have yet to look into Sloterdijk's recontextualization of the term, for Fuller it approximated all-around-the-world synergy and shared resources, doing more with less.

Zizek proposed that in the future, countries will need to figure out temporary land loans in the wake of ecological crisis, and of other unforeseen problematic relations between sovereign states in times of dire catastrophe. I can imagine solving the refugee crisis by giving a certain people, defined by their homelessness, land, perhaps only temporarily, but under a sovereign agreement. Ending the status of immigrant and native. If people are not living on the land (i.e the billions of square meters on earth currently not occupied by humans, but capable of sustaining a life of relative comfort) why not let them. Maybe add the stipulations of no guns, and no claim to land ownership. I can dream of a return to the sovereignty of our planetary biosphere, DNA-RNA systems, life, not the borders on a map defined by death, war and coercion.

The big man seemed kind and forgiving to me, and was open for lively debate, passionate and open to changing his mind based on new evidence. I found this to be refreshing, I hope he continues on his current trajectory.

--Steven Pratt

Amsterdam 25/03/2017.

All thinking people oppose terrorism

one year after Brussels was bombed
London was struck by a thoughtless coward
one man with a knife
and a car and a familiar agenda
to cause a spree of terror in the minds of the people
across the mediasphere through
targeting random people
in whatever fundamentalist reality tunnel
this fucker inhabited

all thinking people oppose terrorism
the chaos of the indiscriminate
attacks so devilish in simplicity
a desperate act from a lonely suicidal
maniac driven by who knows what
kind of a broken mind?

all thinking people oppose terrorism
that species of violence and will
to kill based on inflicting a lasting fear
here, in the simplicity, lies the terror
any car and any knife could
take any human life!
both the terrorists and the state are
clear in agreement about that

all thinking people oppose terrorism
but differ on their way to stop it
and on why it started, and, what
else and who else are to blame,
violence united in violence
violence and terrorism know no
nation or religion or race or sex
be indiscriminate in equal condemnation
of terrorism and violence, and war
think different.

all thinking people oppose terrorism
stop the war stop the killing stop
the robbery stop the lies,
oppose the causes of hatred and
the demonization of entire cultures
oppose the use of theistic
terminology such as 'evil'
which plays into the hands of the devil
that master of distraction, obfuscation
and fear mongering

all thinking people oppose terrorism
some people finacially support it
keeping hands clean
selling arms to unstable lunatics to
inflict terror in another land
terror by another brand
the terrorismometer is broken

all thinking people oppose terrorism
some say that false flags are waving
terror as a set-up and a pretext for
cultural division, increase in
state powers and surveillance and
racial profiling and security investment
sheep dipped dupes and manchurian
candidates and strange coincidences
intelligence operations and....and....but

all thinking people oppose terrorism
and so explode with the opposite
everyday love bombing and attacking hate
with thermonuclear peace weapons
killing softly with his song
an unquestionable force for good
with the power of forgiveness blazing

all thinking people oppose terrorism
and should resist the rush to revenge
resist the urge to hate
let the violence become the exclusive
signiture of terrorism
all violence is degrading to the human
stop the wheels stop the killing and the
mockery and the fighting talk
and spare a thought for the victims
and their friends and families and join them
with opposing terrorism
everywhere everywhen.

"All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other.--Amiri Baraka

These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.”--Ed Snowdon.

A tough question and a poem

To celebrate 100’000 blog views, a blog tough question, and a poem

I started writing this as a response to the question below, taken from an article that whizzed by on social media. Since starting i watched some Slavoj Zizek on youtube, and marveled at his diligent dance around philosophical questions, and then recalled his comments on punching a nazi, a theme of this blog, that i conclude to mean, don’t punch a nazi, please, it lowers any progressive movement and authenticity of the undeniable force for good. By using the oppressors method of violence. Zizek holds his place as public intellectual and comedic philosopher of our times IMHO.

“By definition, the antifa arguments are both radical and controversial. The unanswered question is whether liberals, moderates and others who oppose the radical right can learn something from the antifa activists’ confrontational stance. Or will the violent tactics they advocate only worsen tensions in a divided society and beget more violence?http://www.salon.com/2017/03/10/anti-fascist-radicals-liberals-dont-realize-the-serious-danger-of-the-alt-right/

Yes, the liberals, moderates and others who oppose the radical right can learn something from the antifa activists' confrontational stance, and yes, violence worsens tensions, and begets violence. The unanswered question can be answered with art, i think. Yes, in my humble opinion. Let me try to explain...art to mean and deeper/broader sense of the interconnection between things.

Anarcho-pacifism, to mean a kind of make crazy peace not normal war, love bombs, etc. Disruption comes in many forms. To build, artfully, can can say whatever it is you want to draw attention too by destroying it. Temporarily apply huge artificial cracks, fake smashes, and the illusion of destruction to any target, without actually breaking or damaging anything, permanently. A temporary augmented dystopia.

The world is watching, so put on a jolly good show out there. Who’s watching who? An umbrella, a funny 3D printed steampunk mask, general clowning, moving music, intricate beatbox, singing, tone-science experiments, dancing, and lion shit’s are all fun and games. The heart of the battle, the muddle of the political language of change, the language of class warfare, and the general left leaning humanism associated with it, seem to me, in the balance. To be an undeniable force for good?

What we need right now are artists united in a willingness to step to the front lines and translate this raw humanism into a new language we can all read. And that may make us laugh, or interrupt the tragedy of two valued global divisions. My main critique of the violent far-left type of anarchism is that it does not make me laugh. Or, it makes me laugh and then, later, feel awkward and sticky.

Although, i laughed out loud when i first watched the video of Richard Spencer getting sucker punched, a widely perceived deserved punch, to a neo-nazi. The meme 'punch a nazi" went viral in and a lot was said about by thinkers and provers alike. But, if violence leads to more violence, it must be stopped to go forwards. To be seen as a force for good, without question.

Next in my way, on my way to defending anarcho-pacifism is the obstacle brought to my attention about an incident of sexual harassment at a school. A girl was repeatedly harassed by a boy, snapping her bra, and somewhat ignored by the teacher, so she punched the boy in the nose, twice. Again, my first instinct is justice, and to think - here is an example of necessary force used, nobody has any permanent damage. Right on sister! However, i can't help but think of alternative scenarios here. What if the boy had suddenly died, less justification? What if it was the teacher snapping her bra, and who then got punched, more justified? either way here i am forced to think of an artistic alternative. For example: draw a picture, write a song, make a video, or cast a spell/poem into the heart of the matter. Much of the responsibility in this case was deflected and propagated by the teachers, and the justified response of the parent who leads the story with her narrative.

Thought #1: Slogans on bra straps that read "when is it not okay to punch a pervert? and signs all over every city war memorial that read: "When is it not okay to punch a Nazi? temporary signs and sigils, but please, nothing to physically damage property.

One problem, i have with physical violent retaliation, from experience, is that it depends on a 100 percent certainty you know from where the violence originated. In the moment, split second your senses tell you, roughly from what direction the punch came,  and from who. But you might be mistaken, cause another cycle of violence. I ask you dear reader to think, please think before physically striking anybody. Yet, if it comes down to it, be prepared to feel psychically self-defeated sometime afterwards. The gut instinct in these cases, after long consideration, was wrong. The goal is to stop the wheels, or change them for a new set, and then stop them. Non-violent civil disobedience is a friend of Art and in need of magick. Know thyself, love one another.

To live by example, to express charity, compassion and shared openness to others, perhaps even strangers, and leave no doubt in anybody else's mind that you are a force for good. For peace.

Tolerance, Brevity.

Poem by Steve Fly

tough minded and spirited saft

tender minded pacifists united

up the creek on a raft craft

everyone united artists

intuition counterparty to unique

the removal of

violence from all human relations

refuse to cooperate by it, resist

repeat general strike

'on your bike, take a hike'

psychically self-defeating.

to coerce by beating to reverse

the meaning of solidarity cooperation

mutual aid open thought

taoist targeting total state

either capitalist or socialist

the centralised control block

square solid unmoving

blubber state

wailing to oppose violence

tool of oppression, non-verbal

hatred in action

fascism racism and war-mind

factions other say a little provocation can

go a long way to social upheaval

knee jerk reactions

Music as a weapon

is a weapon in a pig pen

music weapon when a weapon

made of music

weapons weapons weapons

an artists stockpile of fantastic

weapons built to last and built to fight

against the forces of ignorance

of racism, greed, corruption, murder

and genocide

music is a weapon to fight fascism

music is a weapon

stolen from the musicians

sound weapons are used by government

sonic cannons are a thing

but can they sing and do they swing?

punching nazis weeping poeweapen.

punching nazis is not punching judo

it’s punch and judy

and getting all moody

whoever the crew be violence

crude 'G'

don't punch a fascist and don't

punch a nazi

try them trial them shame them

file them rehabilitate don’t hate

who can turn a nazi

better than the English paparazzi?

American Russian

see how the poem took a jab there

a punch in the nuts and guts

a slight lump on the figurehead

i see you reading me

what is this?

punching a Nazi

bop, right on the nose.

oh i do hope the blood doesn't stain

his nice clothes.

Hugo Boss at a toss?

look, here's the brain floss,

an eye for eye for an eye for a ear is wrong.

like a nose for a foot for a hand for a

toe for a tongue

my enemies enemy is your enema.

go suck yourself off in a

16 screen cinema

sinnerman sick of ya' yappin'

and clappin' sappin' and strappin'

floppin' and flappin' 'flippin' and

'strippin' the patience

out of friends

leaving the innocent with

a case of the bends

anger can be handy

but not on the brandy

and not on the candy

early on a sunday

better to run than risk breaking

that spine you so rigidly hold

on your back all the time

relax and don't punch

stretch out now don't hunch, get a healthy lunch

if you breath and

have water all's fine

if you visit the waterfalls finer

take a break don't worry

shut up look up fuck up

let the mindspray mindspray

book up

ideas into chapters

raptures vultures pecking

memory bleeding

seeding painful inner cactus

and barbed wire pasta

string of fishing-hook on toast

the sour shit sandwich

served up

and still i have a smile and a message of

good luck duck

don't do it

like a Gremlin after midnight

it makes them multiply and

justify such a violent psychology

both physical and mental

be gentle be a man, beer man!
awake from ideology

--Steven Pratt.

Amsterdam.

17/03/2017

Cosmic Trigger NinjaJamm - Demo's

These 3 Cosmic Trigger themed, Ninjajamm packs are an example of what NinjaJamm can do, or what you can do with NinjaJamm. After carefully cutting up the samples, anybody with enough time on their hands, and will, can use the NinjaJamm framework to produce a unique tune pack. You can download the app free for both IOS and Android devices, here: www.ninjajamm.net

Special thanks to Tom Grashion for help programming the packs, and to Matt B, Alex, and Aneek at Ninjajamm.

--Steve Fly


Kick Out The Jamms - NinjaJamm Demo #1



 Fly Raw - Ninjajamm Demo #1

Fly Walk -

NinjaJamm Demo #01



Kick Out The Jamms - Ninjajamm Demo #2

RAW DJVJ

Robert Anton Wilson and the DJVJ Revolution.

"enter the mix"--Ninjajamm.

Friday, March 19, 2010. (edited 01/03/2017)

I dedicate this writing to Ken Campbell and the Science Fiction Theater of Liverpool, and to creative artists who use music, theater, and multimedia to inspire others and spread the wisdom across all corners of the metaphorical toast.

Approx. three years ago (now 10!) Matt Black, Ken Campbell, Alan Moore and Mixmaster Morris spearheaded a multimedia tribute to Robert Anton Wilson, held at the Royal Queen Elizabeth Festival Hall in London. This mindwarping event was at the vanguard of (2007) technology, directed toward expanding consciousness and connecting the emergent networks of raw-heads with wicked edutainment.

I helped connect Matt B with Deepleaf productions and the Maybelogic Movie/Academy, to record some of the exquisite video material used in the 2.5 hour extravaganza. With some help, I also managed to find an independent host for the entire show (sadly no longer) and have been ruthlessly promoting the event since March 2007, together with other works of Dr. Robert Anton Wilson

On the 31st of August 2008 the great British writer, comedian, actor Ken Campbell passed. He was the comic-glue who pulled the whole QEII tribute event together, as the raging ring master. Ken preserved the biting wit and information rich satire that I find budding within RAW. and that seems to me desperately missing from the the popular pop conspiracy movement. There have been a number of fitting tributes to the life of Ken Campbell and I hope that someday, somebody will produce an equally stunning multimedia tribute to Ken, like that which was made for Bob. (this has now been done)

I can also trace most of my reasoning for being here to Jung’s dream (Page 223 of Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections) situated in Liverpool, a dream that inspired the creation of the science fiction theatre Liverpool. The theater that the science fiction drama group inhabited, first opened on the day that C.G Jung died (6th June, 1961) and is just down the road from where John Lennon and the Beatles first sang Yellow submarine, you can read about this on page 223 of Cosmic Trigger.

The fact that Jung called Liverpool the ‘pool’ of life is due to this dream he had. I find particular interest in the fact that the dream concerns the discovery of a swimming pool. More than half of the dreams i remember are in pools. I first came across the works of Robert Anton Wilson in the mid 1990’s while living in the UK, and the sources of my discovery lead me to deduct that Bill Drummond and the KLF, who were carrying the money burning flame of discord in the UK at that time, probably led to my coming across Cosmic Trigger. Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty were there, back in 1976 when Bill was working briefly alongside Ken Campbell, and Jimmy came to see the show. In the RAW tribute video Bill describes how he first came across the book Illuminatus Trilogy!

Bill spoke of his new seventeen project and ‘no music day’ that also came up on radio show (2009) on the 'late late breakfast show' that also featured my friend John Sinclair, who admires 'Wild' Bill Drummond, which brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to the JAMS!

RAW attracted me to the United States in 2000 A.D and led me on a five year journey acriss-cross the United States and back to Europe (2005). The day after the Royal Tribute to RAW I flew out from London to Amsterdam and have lived here since then. I once caught up with Matt Black and Mike Ladd at a Coldcut gig when they played the 'Paradiso' club in 2008. (Breaking: Coldcut just released a new album together with On-U sound: https://coldcut.bandcamp.com/

Since the London performance Coldcut and the constellation of artists that appear under that umbrella have produced countless ‘live’ shows, recorded and released ‘tracks’ ‘albums’ and even a conscious social green movement called of energyunion, continuing they're trajectory into the uncharted territory of multimedia manipulation and networked sound artivism.

As some of the first visual jockeys (VJ's) and inventors of the first VJ software that I am aware of: VJAMM’ Coldcut and by extension Ninjatune have been the mainstay of tech innovation. I was first attracted to Ninjatune by way of the Jazz Breaks series around 1994 and some of the early releases from Journey's by DJ’s, Luke Vibert, DJ Food, Amon Tobin and Funki Porcini. This new sound, to me, together with the emerging Bristol bass music scene, some Drum and Bass brewing in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, and the sounds of James Lavelle's Mo-Wax, oozed with dubbed out blunted beats. These sounds more or less shaped my musical cultural leanings for a while, and inspired me to acquire turntables, a mixer, and learn the arts of the DJ.

One sure fire sign that Ninjatune, or somebody at Ninjatune had a respect for RAW came when they released NINJASKINS: Ninjatune signature rolling papers. They came with a wonderfully intelligent fold out package describing various terms and phrases of Ninjatune philosophy, with RAW undertones. In collaboration with UK graffiti artist and music producer PART2 we made a tune that was released on Ninjatune’s sister label ‘Big Dada records’ in 1999. The track was called Quantum Mechanix’ from the album Equalibrium by New Flesh For Old Featuring DJ Weston. I carried the album to the US wishing to turn Bob onto Big Dada and Ninjatune.

After spending some time with RAW at the Prophets Conference Palm Springs and in San Francisco, I was invited to his home to conduct an interview on September 10th 2002. It was here he told me about a movie project he was working on with some locals tentatively called Maybelogic, and so i got in contact with 'Deepleaf productions' and quickly turned them onto Ninjatune, and some other musical entities I thought had an affinity with RAW, like cosmic-jazz cats 'Kosmic Renaissance' (The Supplicants). For this linking I was generously given associate producer credits on the finished movie, plus my mash-up from the DVD menu music, featuring Garaj Mahal bassist Kai Eckhardt. A movie all about RAW with a soundtrack including The Cinematic Orchestra, Amon Tobin, Boards Of Canada, Funki Porcini, and others, what?

I had done nothing more than send an email, but for me, after this spree of fortune i would tireless promote this movie and of the Maybelogic Academy (which sprung up in 2004 to provide online classes led by RAW) and of Ninjatune, playing many releases for over sixteen years (now 23) I credit Ninja with inspiring me to experiment with DJ sets and mixing techniques. Since moving to Amsterdam my musical diet changed once again, in favor of live music and writing projects influenced by my encounter with the giant of music, poetry, and activism, John Sinclair

"Although the circumstances for this event were somewhat rare and the resources to reproduce such an event based on donations for the most part, I still feel it stands as an testimony to Multimedia edutainment at its most terse and best, almost fully formed in its experimental launch that night the video teaches by example how educational lectures may look and sound like over the new decade.--Matt Black."

Although the show is 3 (10) years old, it has not picked up dust only moonlight, and it seems more relevant each day that passes, it stands as a great experimental interface between cinema, music, theater, comedy that I feel culturally binds America, Britain and the rest of Europe, and the entire world. All schools, colleges and University programs would benefit from such an interactive DJ VJ interfacing class.

For me Alan Moore produces consistent work that secures his place as the greatest living Englishman. A well rounded genius, and widely celebrated as such, he exhibits a creative interpretation of 'art and reality engineering', buttered up with RAW recipes. To see and hear Alan reading from ‘Masks of the Illuminati’ together with his wonderfully bright ‘eulogy’ for RAW (Featured in my Ninjajamm Pack above) was a heart thumping highlight of the evening in London, his accent made me feel personally at home. His first words from Masks included “A watchmaker in Amsterdam...” The following morning i flew to Amsterdam to attend the 'Jam in the Dam' festival and meet with the band Galactic, from New Orleans.

I have a long list of thanks and wish to add some extra names to those on the E-flyer’ Matt Black, Lance Boucher, Nigel Blunt, Nick Larson, Part2, Ninjatune office staff, Juice Aleem, John Sinclair, Galactic, Mixmaster Morris, Mike Ladd, Propanon, Toby Philpott.

"Ken Campbell: We did it in Liverpool because Peter O'Hallaghan had come across a dream in Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections. The dream changed Jung's life, persuaded him to buckle down to the unconscious for the rest of his life. Anyway, on page 223 he says something like: I was in a dark and grimy city. It was clearly Liverpool. It goes on . . . And this began to obsess Peter who was a proud Liverpoolophile. http://www.frogboy.freeuk.com/ken.html

“At O'Halligan's venue, known as the Liverpool School of Language, Music, Dream and Pun, artists became immersed in readings, performances and bizarre experiments. "It was the inspirational talking shop, where dole-queue dreamers developed their big ideas," Bill Drummond says. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2007/feb/21/europeancapitalofculture2008.liverpool

NinjaJamm - The final chapter (2017)

In 2012 a team of coders and developers came together to build a new audio remixing app called Ninjajamm. Spearheaded by Matt Black of Coldcut, the project became an instant success, winning the support of many NinjaTune artists, app reviewers and users.

Due to the unique share and remix attitude of Matt, NinjaJamm stands out as yet another example of innovative decentralized technology that encourages play, discovery and community, ninja jamming. Culture jamming and hacking are similar activities, re-purposed technology, crafty new tools. With literally hundreds of remixes of any given NJ release, everybody who has a device can download the app free! and begin remixing. Each downloadable ‘Tune Pack’ is like any other digital mp3 release, but with the major difference of being handed over as individual stems, to rearrange. This design intervention intervenes in the major record company world, by giving you and everybody else the means to make your own remix, share it, jam with others.

With a little effort and concentration it's now possible to create and upload your own Tune Packs, made with your own samples, and so tool-up creative audio outlaws, for little or no cost, and begin jamming. I recently made 3 Robert Anton Wilson inspired Tune Packs: ‘Kick Out The Jamms’  ‘Fly Raw’ (See Above), and ‘Fly Walk’ (watch this space)

Special thanks to Tom Grashion, who actually programmed the pack, and to  Alex, Aneek, Matt B and all Ninja's at www.ninjajamm.net

MaybeLogic Dome.

Find The Others festival was a three day confestival of discordia and high weirdness in Liverpool, November 2014. I organized the 'Maybe Logic dome' exhibition, which was a series of films made for projecting inside an 8 ft. inflatable dome (provided by Mario of immersive theaters). Although i didn't end up getting all the video together and rendered correctly for the show, the list of contributors helps to define my on-going vision for a touring Maybe Logic dome, or mobile pop-up Academy. I see the Dome projections as a new intermediary between virtual reality and augmented reality. You are sharing a 360 experience together, rather than in your own goggle world. Treats from David McConvile (BFI) Bobby Campbell, Youth, Coldcut, Alan Moore, Maybe Logic Academy Faculty, and Morley Markson. Plus DJ Food.

In the summer of 2014 it was announced that Daisy Campbell would produce a stage adaptation of 'Cosmic Trigger I" by Robert Anton Wilson. The Cosmic Trigger Play was like an ultrasonic magnet to me, and i made the trip to meet the producers and landed the role of musical director. Over the next 5 months i worked my balls off on recording, arranging, writing, and producing music for the play (with much help from the legendary Tim Egmond in Amsterdam) most of which was not used due to a late decision to have me playing 'live' drums. Some of the recordings went into a Ninjajamm pack called Fly Raw.

My original idea was to cut a vinyl record full of sounds and samples to be played during the performance, but a combination of factors, lack of funds and lack of time led to this idea being shelved. However, for the purposes of this article i think that there are certainly openings for turntables and theater to combine forces, Kid Koala Q-Bert, DJ Food, and DJ Spooky are already experimenting in this area. (See my published novel 'Sixty' and 'Open Source History' due for release later this year)

DJ Greg Wilson and Super Weird Substance are about to perform together with Alan Moore and full gang of RAW heads in Liverpool, April 1st. Celebrating the Mandrillifesto of Alan Moore, and the music dance entertainments of Super Weird Substance.

The KLF have announced a new album in 2017 and the release of a science fiction trilogy. The justified ancients of mumu seem very much alive and kicking. The DJ/VJ revolution continues to move minds and bodies across the planet, thanks to all those keeping it epic and encyclopedic, global and local. Peace.

--Steve Fly, Amsterdam 01/03/2017