The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop

After eight long years the Mirage Men film is finally finished, and I’m thrilled to say that the initial response has been overwhelmingly positive.

The film has been enthusiastically accepted for the Sheffield Doc/Fest 2013 where it will receive its world premiere.

Screenings take place on 13 June and 15 June – both will feature Q&As with the crew and other guests.
There’s more information at the Doc/Fest site

You can follow the film’s progress at miragemen.com

My first solo gig as The Asterism…!

More info and tickets available via Cafe OTO

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Tuesday 5 March
Strange Atttractor & Disinformation discharge 30,000 volts into anything (and anyone) within reach for a live demonstration of ‘Circuit Blasting’ at the Legendary Labour Club in Northampton. Expect a shocking display of sonic mayhem…

Also that evening, Joe Banks discusses Electronic Voice Phenomena and other audio hallucinations in a presentation based on his book Rorschach Audio

Tuesday 5 March, from 7pm
Legendary Labour Club [map]
95 Charles Street
Northampton NN1 3BG
Entry £2

I’m excited to be speaking at the Transmissions VI festival in Ravenna, Italy, curated by Daniel O’Sullivan.

It an amazing lineup and should be a fun, beautiful and inspiring weekend – come!
More news on what, when and where as I get it.

TRANSMISSIONS VI
14-17 March, Ravenna, Italy.

CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE
ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE (LICHENS)
ÆTHENOR (DANIEL O’SULLIVAN, STEPHEN O’MALLEY, KRISTOFFER RYGG, STEVE NOBLE)
STIAN WESTERHUS & SIDSEL ENDRESEN
DANIEL HIGGS
PHARAOH OVERLORD
MOTHLITE & MR TODD
GRUMBLING FUR (DANIEL O’SULLIVAN & ALEXANDER TUCKER)
PHIL MINTON’S FERAL CHOIR

VISUAL WORKS BY IAN JOHNSTONE, DAVID C W BRIGGS, DANIEL O’SULLIVAN, MARK TITCHNER, ALEXANDER TUCKER, ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE, SIMON FOWLER, CATHY WARD, SERENA KORDA & RAYMOND SALVATORE HARMON

TALKS BY MARK PILKINGTON, WRITER AND PUBLISHER OF STRANGE ATTRACTOR PRESS

WIRE MAGAZINE LIVE Q&A’S

Raagnagrok ended the year with a gig at Power Lunches in Dalsonia, a new set to say farewell to twin avatars Patrick Moore and Ravi Shankar.

Thanks to Andy Sharp of English Heretic for these great tangerine dreamscape photos from the night.
 

The Wire Salon, presented by Mark Pilkington
Crystal Voyagers – A Journey Through The New Age

London Cafe Oto, 6 December 2012, 8pm, £4 on the door only.

Enjoy our New Age video playlist

Off an overgrown path towards the back of a Hampstead churchyard lies a stone slab decorated with a large nine-fold geometric symbol, the enneagram, and a statement that ends:

“…we ever cease to be hereafter
The unreal has no being
The real never ceases to be”

The grave belongs to AR Orage, a pioneering populariser of the early 20th century mystics George Guirdjieff and Peter Ouspensky, and editor from 1907 to 1924 of the weekly progressive journal, The New Age.

At the dawn of the modernist era, Orage’s journal both defined and named a burgeoning global movement that, over the next century, sought to expand minds and change the world via a potent combination of mysticism, self-discovery, humanitarian politics, environmental concerns, and the embrace of technology.

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THE HAUNTED WORLDS OF NIGEL KNEALE

WHEN: Saturday 17 November 2012, midday-9pm
WHERE: Michelson Theater, Room 648, 721 Broadway, New York
[at Broadway and Washington Place] [map]

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

SCHEDULE
Midday: Introduction (by Sukhdev Sandhu)
12:15: Screening: The Stone Tape (1972, 90 min) (introduced by Dave Tompkins)
2:00 – Screening: Murrain (1975, 60 min) (introduced by Bilge Ebiri)
3:30 – Panel Discussion including Mark Pilkington and Will Fowler
4:45 – Screening: ‘Baby’, from Beasts (1976, 60 min)
6:00 – Screening: Quatermass and The Pit (1967, 97 min) (introduced by David Pike)
8:15 – Musical Performance: The Road (1963) – reading / live synthesiser and percussion soundtrack by Rose Kallal, Micki Pellerano and Mark Pilkington of a long-lost Kneale TV play

[...]

This Sunday, 11 November, at 2pm, I’ll be presenting my talk ‘The Abuses of Enchantment‘ for my old fortean friends the Ullage Group, at the Jalopy Theatre in Red Hook, Brooklyn. I’ll also be discussing Mirage Men and will show a few clips from the film…

All proceeds will go to the Jalopy’s relief fund for the area, which was hit very hard by hurricane Sandy last week, so please come if you can.

The Abuses of Enchantment:
How military and intelligence operators have shaped and exploited beliefs in UFOs, ghosts, monsters, vampires, and elements from folklore and conspiracy theory to create an armory of supernatural weapons of mass deception, capable of manipulating consciousness on a grand scale. The talk traces the inspiration for these toys, tools and techniques to a range of sources which include fiction, cinema, stage magic, advertising and occultism, and uncovers the ways in which they have–for many of its intended and unintended targets–altered their very perception and understanding of the world around us.

2 pm, Sunday 11 Nov 2012
The Jalopy Theater,
315 Columbia St., Brooklyn.
$10