Book Release from Strange Attractor Press

"Engaging... packed with interest" - The Times Literary Supplement
"The cultural scope of the book is dizzying" - The Quietus
"Amiable… thoughtful... very intriguing" - Art Monthly
"Fascinates" - Mojo Magazine

What are the connections between Leonardo da Vinci and Dick Whittington, between the BBC Monitoring Service and punk band The Clash, between wartime military intelligence work, visual arts theory, battle management systems, Spiritualism, radio and recording technology and criminal witness testimony? What role do JG Ballard, Osama bin Laden, William Burroughs, Jean Cocteau, Richard Dawkins, Jean Genet, William Hogarth, Pope Pius XII, Primo Levi, proto-Surrealist writer Raymond Roussel, teenage criminal Derek Bentley, Sigmund Freud and crystallographer Louis Albert Necker play in the disentangling of mysteries of human perception?

Taking a major cue from art historian EH Gombrich's seminal text "Art & Illusion", "Rorschach Audio" is a work of contemporary cultural scholarship and an exploration of the art and science of psychoacoustic ambiguities. Part detective story, part artistic and cultural critique, “Rorschach Audio” lifts the lid on an array of fascinating and under-examined perceptual and political phenomena.

“Rorschach Audio” is essential reading for everyone interested in air-traffic control, anechoic chambers, artificial oxygen carriers, audio art, bell-ringing, cocktail parties, cognitive science, communications interference, compost, the death penalty, Electronic Voice Phenomena, evangelism, evolutionary biology, experimental music, ghosts, the historiography of art, illusions of sound and illusions of language, lip-reading jokes, nuclear blast craters, predictive texting, singing hair, sonic archives, sound design, steam trains, tinnitus, the Turing Test, Victorian blood painting, visual depth and space perception, ultrasonic visual music, ventriloquism, voices and warehouse robberies and fires.

"The earliest form of sound recording technology was not a machine but was written language..." (page 96)

http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/rorschach-audio/
http://rorschachaudio.wordpress.com/

Trade distribution by Turnaround
ISBN 978-1-907222-20-7
Hardback, 191 pages
Art Theory, Cultural Studies
UK £10 Non-Fiction

An early MIT Press version of "Rorschach Audio" (published 2001) can be downloaded here -
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lmj/summary/v011/11.1banks.html

Project supported by The Arts & Humanities Research Council, Goldsmiths College (University of London) and The Institute for Modern & Contemporary Culture at The University of Westminster

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Regardless of Authority #2

Regardless of Authority Issue Two is now live. It features poetry from Edward Krzeminski, Tim Peeler, Adrian Manning, April Michelle Bratten, Melanie Browne, Walter Thomas Beck III, Michele McDannold, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Nathan Graziano, Jason Fisk, and JJ Campbell. It also features photography and art from David Thompson, Eugenia Loli, Melanie Browne, Jennifer Tomaloff, Ben John Smith, and Abigail Beaudelle. Enjoy!! http://regardlessofauthority.wordpress.com/

Nothing to Lose with special guests from "The Cassfield 'Get Yourself Together' Tour"

2 hours plus 40 minutes in overtime? Nothing to Lose. Hosted by Brian W. Fugett, Michael D. Goscinski and Michelle L. Quinn AND special co-host Walter Thomas Beck III. WITH SPECIAL GUESTS: Brooklyn-based poetry//music//performance duo CRAIG ULTRAVIOLENCE CADY & LUCAS DEEDEEREX CAREY, currently on "The Cassfield 'Get Yourself Together' Tour." ALSO the latest baseball report from RYAN SNELLMAN! Mather Schneider called in? Two Mathers?? Karl Koweski??? yep. it's all in there. check it out. archives, yo. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theliteraryunderground/2013/07/27/nothing-to-lose

Craig Ultraviolence Cady and Lucas DeeDeeRex Carey have been elected by their hometown of Cassfield to take the city on an introductory tour and connect with new friends across the country. The show explores communication as it relates to city life, consumption, and gun violence through a disquiet fuzz of 60s optimism. The tour begins in Brooklyn on July 23rd and includes stops in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. more information here - https://www.facebook.com/events/479816232099852/



more...
www.acidloudacid.blogspot.com

www.facebook.com/craig.u.cady

www.lucascareymusic.com

www.facebook.com/lucas.carey

Call for Submissions - CfDL #8

now reading for Citizens for Decent Literature #8 print and online due to be released as soon as it's ready, probably sometime in October. subversive, revolutionary, disturbing?.. send it to us.

By sending us a submission you are granting us permission to publish your work online and in a print zine and archive it forever and ever. The only payment we can offer at this time is a contributor copy. Thank you for considering Citizens for Decent Literature. any questions or comments should be sent to admin@citizensfordecentliterature.com

*Send Poetry, SHORT stories, essays, lists, etc. Only send one submission at a time (3-8 poems, 1-2 short stories etc). Submit here - https://theliteraryunderground.submittable.com/submit

*Simultaneous submissions and previously published works are accepted.

*No need to send Author BIO’s.

http://nowplaying.citizensfordecentliterature.com/

Random Acts of Terror in Los Angeles tonight

this is happening tonight! if you are in the area, you should check it out. getting this book to print has been quite the journey. i'm proud of my involvement and hope that if you can't get out to the event, you'll give the book a look-see, help us spread the word and maybe buy a copy. support the small press. the independent press. whatever you want to call it. support literature that refuses to conform, has something to say without apology. giving voice to the voiceless or some shit like that.

Friday, July 19. 8pm Pacific
Stories Books and Cafe, 1716 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90026
Join us for the poetry book debut of Luis Rivas’ Random Acts of Terror. Hear from poets Matt Sedillo, David Romero, Luis Rivas and special musical guests.

More info about the book can be found at http://theliteraryunderground.org/randomactsofterror

“like” it on fb https://www.facebook.com/RandomActsOfTerror

Luis Rivas lives in Los Angeles, California. He was a telemarketer, construction worker, flower delivery driver, fast food cashier, sales clerk, non-profit canvasser, tutor, adult store and strip club manager and package handler/zip code sorter. He dropped out of Los Angeles Valley College where he was studying journalism to work full-time at a porn shop. Then he got fired. Now he has gone back to school, continuing his studies in journalism and Chicana/o Studies at California State University of Northridge and Los Angeles City College. He is currently a full time journalist student and part-time activist. His poetry has appeared in numerous small press publications. Luis is currently the poetry editor at Gloom Cupboard and a columnist for Red Fez.

Matt Sedillo is a two-time national slam poet, grand slam champion of the Damn Slam Los Angeles 2011 and the author of For What I Might Do Tomorrow published by Caza De Poesia 2010. His poetry has been published in anthologies alongside the likes of such literary giants as Amiri Baraka, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Hircshman and Luis Rodriguez. Sedillo is a frequent guest on numerous programs on KPFK 9.07 FM and has also been featured twice on Radio Free Atlanta 8.93 FM. An interview and excerpt of his work was featured in a story that appeared in the Los Angeles Times.

David A. Romero is a proud Pocho/Chicano spoken word artist from Diamond Bar, CA.
Romero is the host of Between the Bars Open Mic at the dba256 Gallery Wine Bar in Pomona,
CA. Romero has opened for Latin Grammy winning artists Ozomatli and Latin Grammy
nominated artists La Santa Cecilia. He has featured alongside Taalam Acey as well as with a
number of HBO Def Poets. His work has been featured numerous times on multiple programs on
KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.

Zygote in my Coffee #142

Zygote in my Coffee #142 is now LIVE! Heather L Nelson, Brad Hamlin, Michele McDannold, Shane Allison, Ian Mullins, J.J. Campbell, William Taylor Jr., Cassandra Dallett, Kevin Ridgeway, Jon Bennett, Walter Thomas Beck III, Misti Rainwater-Lites, Doug Draime, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Jessica Caudill, Ben Newell, Len Kuntz, Jessica Caudill, Eddie Krzeminski and Michael D. Goscinski

http://www.zygoteinmycoffee.com/

Citizens for Decent Literature #7

Citizens for Decent Literature is a project of The Literary Underground.
CfDL #7 is now live.
Alan Catlin, Tim Murray, Carl Miller Daniels, Len Kuntz, Leah Angstman, Michael D. Grover, Brian W. Fugett, Larry Duncan, David Blaine, Bree, William Taylor Jr., Sarah E. Alderman, Ted Jackins, Heather Dorn, H. Lynnette Barr, Rebecca Ferlotti, J Claudius Cloyd

view it online in plain text
http://nowplaying.citizensfordecentliterature.com/

view the print format in pdf form (it's in color but the actual print copies are in b&w)
http://issuu.com/literaryunderground/docs/cfdl7

Call for Submissions: Silver Birch Press

Announcing the Silver Birch Press NOIR Erasure Poetry Anthology, a collection of passages from hardboiled detective novels — by Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross MacDonald, and others — with sections marked out to create poems. If you’re unfamiliar with erasure poetry, check out our posts that feature The Great Gatsby erasure poems by james (w) moore and Cathy Dee.

TO SUBMIT: Photocopy a page from a noir/hardboiled novel, mark out passages with magic marker or white out (or another form of your choosing) to create a noir poem. On a separate sheet, list your name, address, phone, and email, along with the title of the novel, author, edition, publisher, page number, and any other identifying information.

SEND TO: Silver Birch Press, P.O. Box 29458, Los Angeles, CA 90029 (DO NOT FOLD, AS WE WILL FEATURE THE ORIGINAL SUBMISSIONS IN THE BOOK) or email as an attachment to silver@silverbirchpress.com.

DEADLINE: September 1, 2013

PAYMENT: All contributors featured in the book will receive a paperback copy of the Silver Birch Press NOIR Erasure Poetry Anthology

We look forward to reading your inspired NOIR erasure poems!

http://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2013/07/07/silver-birch-press-noir-erasure-poetry-anthology/

Zygote in my Radio! OPEN MIC/FREE-FOR-ALL

ZYGOTE IN MY RADIO! TONIGHT!!! Saturday, July 6th. 9pm Pacific/11pm Central
Open Mic/Free-for-All. Call in to (805) 856-2808
join us for the debut of Zygote in my Coffee #142. Great new work by Doug Draime, William Taylor Jr., Cassandra Dallett, Ian Mullins, Michael Cuglietta, John Bennett, J.J. Campbell, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Walter Beck, Misti Rainwater-Lites, H.L. Nelson, Jessica Caudill, Len Kuntz, Bradley Mason Hamlin, Michele McDannold, Kevin Ridgeway, Ben Newell Eddie Krzeminski, Shane Allison, Michael D. Goscinski
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theliteraryunderground/2013/07/07/zygote-in-my-radio