http://www.zkdomain.com Music, Art and Writings of zK Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:11:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Although Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage never actually meet in this film (Cage's enigmatic questions about sound are intercut with some of Kirk's more ambitious experiments with it) these two very different musical iconoclasts share a similar vision of the boundless possibilities of music. Kirk plays three saxes at ... http://www.zkdomain.com/2008/01/14/sound/ Among the inspirations for Mary Shelley's gothic classic 'Frankenstein' from 1818 were the (in)famous experiments carried out in public by the physicist Giovanni Aldini (1762-1834) at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1803. Aldini was the nephew of the Italian physiologist Luigi Galvani who experimented with frog legs in the late ... http://www.zkdomain.com/2007/10/17/galvanising-aldini/ The owl of Minerva is the owl that accompanies Minerva in Roman myths, seen as a symbol of wisdom. It was used by the nineteenth-century idealist philosopher G.W.F. Hegel to mean philosopher. Hegel noted that "the owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk" -- ... http://www.zkdomain.com/2007/10/17/the-owl-of-minerva/ What does it feel like to drown? If you're decapitated, how long do you remain conscious? New Scientist has a fascinating feature on how it feels to die from a variety of causes. Electrocution, fire, heart attack... what goes on in your body as you shuffle off this mortal coil? ... http://www.zkdomain.com/2007/10/12/how-it-feels-to-die/ The importance of sound Magnum Photos http://www.zkdomain.com/2007/10/12/the-importance-of-sound/ If you are against escape, then, by definition, you are a jailor. C.S.Lewis What is Magical Realism? magical realism - BH Rogers A Beginning The term "magical realism" was coined by a German art critic, Franz Roh, in the late 1920s for painters trying to show reality in a new way. A ... http://www.zkdomain.com/2007/08/24/magical-realism/ http://www.zkdomain.com/2007/08/15/dreams-freud-dreamed/ The Sea Priestess Astral Disaster - COIL "The Sea Priestess" We thank Frater Perdurabo on the sleeve of the record. This is a magickal name Aleister Crowley used. It means "I will endure". A lot of the lyrics are based on ... http://www.zkdomain.com/2007/08/08/astral-disaster/ First of all thanks to MaT for this one. A powerful reminder as to the human cost of revenge. Below is a Guardian interview with the director Andrea Arnold. more red road - AA at greencine 'I like darkness' Andrea Arnold is aware she will for ever be the woman who said "bollocks" ... http://www.zkdomain.com/2007/08/04/red-road/ If we are to talk about influence. WSB is a primary one. The picture above is an image devised by John Coulthart, being an advertisment for a night of Burroughsiana, that Jenx kindly accomodated. But if i remember correctly hardly anyone came. Even those of us who were there have ... http://www.zkdomain.com/2007/08/03/pipe-cleaning-with-wsb-and-bg/