French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier (1948-1983) is one of the few composers, perhaps the only one, to use an invented language throughout his entire compositional career. Vivie's use of what he ...

Is Susan Hiller a ghost-believing, holy water–packing, aura-gathering, ESP adherent? No. But she does get asked that a lot. Call it belief by association. And Hiller is regularly associated with a ...

Automatic writing is an ancient form of divination in which messages seem to flow out of nowhere through your hand and on to paper. It is said some who have attempted this form of mediumship have ...

Oscar Wilde advised against any enterprise requiring new clothes. I feel the same way about enterprises requiring serial numbers. So you'll understand why I experienced a brief bout of ataxia (a loss ...

For decades, physician and author Silke Heimes has been leading groups in therapeutic exercises to put thoughts and feelings down on paper. Heimes, a professor of journalism at Darmstadt University of ...

Having been around since 1978, the Lovely Music imprint is one of the longest-running sources for independent and adventurous avant-garde American music. The label, which was founded by Mimi Johnson, ...

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Automatic Writing are two brothers (Neave Merrick and Jamie Merrick) who create their own brand of mind-altering, pulse-quickening, head-spinning, heartbreaking ...

Automatic Writing transforms involuntary speech into an ambient soundscape, conjuring four spectral musical "characters." Object Collection reimagines this on a stage of flickering monitors and ...

Automatic Writing's October 2013 piece locating intersectionality as a firm and necessary component of class struggle politics, and identifying the risk many critics of intersectionality fall into of ...