Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A friend of mine introduced me to these strange but inspiring musical pieces hosted on a rather web 2.0 website. The music it seems is written by a man named Sunil, who hosts a sort of new age retreat, education, community, and yoga center founded by Sri Aurobindo in the early 1900s.


"This section hosts music played by the Mother and Sunil. The Mother used to improvise on the reed organ and later switched to an electric organ. She played on New Year's Day and on some other occasions. These were recorded from the 1950s."

From 1965, the Mother entrusted the composition and recording of New Year Music to Sunil, and later also asked him to make music for passages she read from Savitri."

Its very difficult to describe but these pieces are almost within theyre own universe of improvisational, cinematic and eerie sounds. And theres just tons of this stuff, all like hidden gems.

Sunil's New Year Music ¨ 1967 

Mothers organ music ¨ 16th May 1954 

Mystic Solitude 

Mothers organ music ¨ Perseus  

You can explore the entirety of the 50+ years of music all uploaded to their website here: øsørøiøaøuørøoøbøiønødøo

On Liking Women - thoughts

ANDREA LONG CHU  On Liking Women  via N+1 Mag

I don't usually read feminist essays or write down my thoughts but this one caught my attention - partially because it's rare to see feminist literature written by a trans woman, (rather than trans literature written by a "feminist"). And this essay seems to be fairly aware of that, as it was written to address a problem within the current dialogue of the fourth wave - that desire is inherently subject to politics. Andrea compares this at length to the story of the "political lesbian," in a time when the Secondwave sought to rid itself of the irony of heterosexuality in a sphere of deliberate radical feminism.

new toys

its a christmas miracle!
 

I'm particularly a fan of this track here

 

Magic E / Look & Read

Make moving patterns

Noted

Swedish UFOs

CAN – Live in Soest, Germany 1970

Indents pt.1

A little collage of some british television series indents, 60s-79. Intros that are kind of surprisingly unsettling for childrens tv shows, at least nowadays. Im not sure what draws me to indents, but I suppose it's the combination of incidental music and 60s video animation oddity.

this one sounds like something out of a Oneohtrix song

I feel like ghost box makes 20000x more sense after watching these.