Lasercave presents: A talk by Orland Bishop, founder of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation in Watts, Los Angeles, and a pioneer of innovative approaches to urban truces and restoring community. This was recorded live in Portland, Oregon on May 8, 2009, as part of the Global Oneness Project. Check out globalonenessproject.org for more information.

Jeffrey Jerusalem plays for his mom, fans, and friends on the dry-campus of PSU. New cuts! Preview/party of upcoming, game-changing singles!

Daniel Higgs plays a lot of wonderful songs in our living room. 100 people showed up, or maybe a little more. Totally mellow scene with good wine, good lighting, and a nice crowd.

John Niekrasz - drums
Arrington DeDionyso - bass clarinet
Gregg Skloff - bass
Ben Kates - sax

First part of a night of music at Greymalkin, Jan 4 2009.

A select few of the performances at the 2008 Helsing Junction Sleepover. I just guessed at a bunch of song names for reference use. What a wonderful weekend! Leave a comment if you want any of the solo tracks.

Gary May - Go Billy Go
Powernap - E.T. Bone Phone
Mirah - Jerusalem
Jared Snyder - Woody Cover
Valet
Lake - Places We'll Go
Calvin Johnson - Sitting Alone (At the Movies (Acapella))
Pine Hill Haints - Starving on the Streets of Mobile
Explode into Colors
City Center
Madeline - Tie one on
Karl Blau - Let It Rot

"Live" refers to the Ableton product. Liberty Hall is a sweet IWW/community space in North Portland. This mix is long, sweaty, and very danceable.

DJ for a techno wizard duel at the Greymalkin. Put together on the fly, but polished a bit for syndication!

"Otto."

Final act in the radio play. Lovely work.

For those too lazy to manually download media:

Hey Friends! After an inexcusably long absence from the Lasercave community, I'm excited to present Bowlpack III from your favorite Lasercave mp3J, Senor Bowlpack B. This thick mix is a lot more hectic than the previous two, however, I only had the last 3 nights to work on it so it doesn't feel complete. Here's my excuse briefly: In January the software I use to make these mixes (Ableton Live 5) "phoned home" so to speak. In other words it realized that there was a copyright violation and very cleverly disabled the software and made it impossible for me to simply re-install it. Shortly thereafter, the computers power supply gave out. Once I moved out of Philly I finally took the thing to the Genius bar and got it fixed. This was 6 days ago. 5 Days ago I backed up and reinitialized my hard drive. 4 days ago I reinstalled some of my crucial software. And for the past three nights I've been laboring to bring you people the best that I can give in danceable party jams before leaving for a very epic roadtrip with Ms. Lena Sradnick tomorrow afternoon. Actually, I've gotten a lot quicker and more comfortable with Ableton Live recently and realize I can crank these jams out quicker than before. In fact, I bet I could do this shit live, at a party or something, if someone gave me the chance. You should all give a try at using Live if you have any interest.

Written and produced by Matt Wellins. A deeper trip into Matt's brain and some really beautiful sounds and soundscapes.

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Written and produced by Matt Wellins.

This is Episdode One of a three episode radio play that Matt and his Pittsburgh homies made. Matt built a low power FM transmitter and broadcasted the whole thing on loop for two weeks in downtown Pittsburgh for two weeks. This is a very trippy ordeal, that gets deeper and deeper as it progresses. Part radio play, part word gymnastics, part immersive soundscaping and mythography. Stay tuned for two more installments!

actors:
ryan coon, olivio ciummo, angela biggs, josh tonies, adam grossi, maurice bajcz, jim storch, julia morrisson, jesse mclean, thad kellstadt, jessica fenlon, matt wellins, jocelyn hillen, and Edgar Um Bucholtz as "The Weather Commissioner."

addendum-having made the trip up 287/87 in upstate new york many times, I have always wondered what the hell the pompton lakes would look like, should i have taken that exit. now i wish i had gone to check it out.

Chapter 5: Living in the Future: the "Modern" Agricultural Ideal

Read by Azure Akamay. Azure is a micro farmer who leaves gardens in her wake, gifted in friends' backyards as a gentle tweaking of priorities of that person. Johnny Appleseed style, but less Christian and she wears shoes more often. You can find a picture of Azure with some sheets over her head on the cover of the Mount Eerie Singers Long Player.

This chapter is really powerful.

In celebration of May Day, I present a brief collection of IWW/worker songs. The first was a recording of a Pete Seeger concert, the rest were unmarked tracks on a LIttle Red Songbook comp I found on the torrents. Nameless is fine though, a song written by one is a song written by all.

Tracks:
1. l'International - Pete Seeger
2. We have fed you all for a thousand years
3. There is power in a Union
4. There'll be pie in the sky when you die (Thats a lie)
5. Solidarity Forever

Jade, Jonah, Jeff, and Joel Kovel, present a J Palace Production: The Regime of Money.

An epic vodcast made from interview footage with Joel Kovel, a leading voice in the ecological socialist movement, found footage, and some basic beats. Joel Kovel is the Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies at Bard College, where he teaches the classes "The Ecological Crisis: Marxist Perspectives" and "William Blake: Artist, Poet, Visionary". He also graciously donated money to Jade, Jonah, Tim, Adam, and others to travel to Venezuela in 2006 for the World Social Forum.

Joel is the author of such books as:

White Racism: A Psychohistory, Pantheon, 1970.
A Complete Guide to Therapy, Pantheon, 1976;
The Age of Desire: Case Histories of a Radical Psychoanalyst, Pantheon, 1981.
Against the State of Nuclear Terror, Pan, 1983.
The Radical Spirit: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Society, Free Association Books, 1988.
In Nicaragua, Free Association Books, 1988.
History and Spirit, Beacon Press, 1991.
Red Hunting in the Promised Land, Basic Books, 1994
The Enemy of Nature, 2002, Zed Books (essential)
Beyond Zionism, 2007, Pluto Press
Ongoing: Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism.

From his very web 1.0 website:

As an activist, Joel Kovel has been engaged in struggles for peace and justice since the Vietnam War era. He has worked within the antiwar and antinuclear movements, the solidarity movements in Central America and the Caribbean, the movements for democratic media, and, increasingly, for ecological transformation. He lived in Nicaragua for a period in 1986, and accompanied Pastors for Peace as they broke the US blockade on Cuba in their 1994 Friendshipment. He has acted in films, worked frequently with the Bread and Puppet theatre, and lectured on four continents.
Kovel joined the Green Party since 1990. In 1998, he was the Green Party candidate for US Senator from New York, and in 2000 sought their Presidential nomination.
Kovel is married, has three children, three stepchildren and five grandchildren. He lives in Willow, a rural district of Woodstock, in Ulster County.

If this doesn't make you want to contribute your homemade artistic endeavours to this webzone, nothing will.

Chapter 4: The Agricultural Crisis as a Crisis of Culture

Read by Ryan Muller. Ryan made a beautiful, "classic Muller" guitar soundscape for this chapter. His voice is almost as lifting as his eyes. A very profound chapter! We're getting deeper and deeper into this great work. Ryan works with and for the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award winner Judy Pfaff. Building surely beautiful, significant items.

Chapter 3: The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Agriculture

Read by Gregg Dart. My (Tim's) minidisc broke, so Gregg had to read this twice. Many thanks. Gregg has a business called Totally Creative Concepts in Salem, OR. I am not sure entirely what it does, but Gregg does neat stuff very often. Enjoy. It is very possible that there will be weekly podcasts of this book, due to overwhelming enthusiasm from people reading chapters.

Here's a couple selections from a show we did in our basement in Philly on March 12th. Most of you probably know Jeremy Butman, Liv Carrow and Powernap (Jonah Adels and Jeffrey Brodsky). Gabe Adels, Jonah's brother, is also featured in here doing an awesome song. Brandon Shmidt is Tristan Dahn's good friend from home and a member of the band The Pacemaker. The rock band featured after Powernap is a group called Microwave Background that Jeremy knows from his school in Indiana. Enjoy!

-Jeff

FINAL EDIT: maybe this works now? so i made this a while ago real quick and now it's finally hopefully available. i have a few new projects (audio and otherwise) that im working on (in addition to my senior project installations, which are on the may 18th. so. a lot happening. here is:

my first podcast. it is sort of a song and was improvised in about the time it takes to listen (maybe like seventeen seconds more). to quote part of the song/pod: "i hope that you like it/ i hope that you love it." it is in m4a 4mat because thats what apple thought was best. im not totally sure i agree and will certainly repost (replete with ---struck thru--- links and thinks).

EDIT in mp3 now and with a title that fits LC style guide. sorry.

EDIT (2) now? back to m4a. this hardly seems worth it now.

ANOTHER EDIT: maybe now it works?
you can email me jesse.malmed@gmail.com if this doesnt work and for some reason you need my voice but know i hate talking on the phone.


ps do you guys ever think about semiotics of hypertext ie signification relationships of links? a signifer that includes not just the baggage of its "definition" and whatever the reader brings to it and its context within the sentence etc but also both the place that it leads and the way the url for that looks in your status bar and and? i just did and i think its pretty interesting. maybe ill think about it in the shower or while pacing and come up with a bit more for you laserheads.

Chapter 2: The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Character

Read by Zach Wallace. Really great recording! Zach just finished doing some "radioactive" soil science research in Michigan, and is now going to tour and play music with a new band called Sun Circle. Peace Noise. Go support and enjoy it if you can!

Zach's Record Label
Zach's new band

Chapter 3: The Ecological Crisis is a Crisis of Agriculture is also apparently finished. Soon. Lots and lot of chapters to read, but this is really exciting. Volunteer for a chapter!