Ritual # 1.

"It happens. It has happened. It will happen again. The West has its spaces -- wide-open spaces. The fuzz can't be everywhere. The nearest police station could be a hundred miles away. A fire only shows for a few miles. Sound only travels a short distance before erasing itself in the atmosphere. […] Across the canyon, in the other hills, another group played out the last rites of a witchcraft ceremony -- and the orgy prepared to cut loose." 

- 'Satan's Slaves and the Bizarre Underground Cults of California', by James Taylor (New English Library, 1970), p. 126

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Most sound sources taped in Southern California and Nevada, 1968-72.
Augmented and repurposed in secret, 2013-16.

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(I hope that Found Objects readers won't begrudge me a quick plug for a music/recycled sound-based endeavour I put online a few months back; I'll try to ensure it doesn't stay at the top of the page for too long.)

Hugo/Dead of Night

Monday, 23 December 2013

Meet Hugo from the rather great, must be watched at least once in your life 1945 portmanteau film Dead of Night. This chap bothered me, and still does bother me to this day.

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