Generic Objects

Generic Objects
Gean Moreno / Ernesto Oroza

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SYNTH BRITANNIA

Synth Britannia A documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesizer from the experimental fringes to the center of the pop stage.

THE UNDERWATER FORESTS OF KAZAKHSTAN

CARNIVOROUS PIANOS, KILLER LAMPSHADES AND FRUIT MELODIES

Trailer

THE TRANSMEDIA EXPLORATIONS OF GENESIS P-ORRIDGE

Link to Synesthesia: Genesis P-Orridge / Tony Ousler

Soft Focus (part 1 of 4)


Soft Focus (part 2 of 4)


Soft Focus (part 3 of 4)


Soft Focus (part 4 of 4)


Throbbing Gristle - Discipline

AGENT COOPER'S DREAM (BACKWARD THEN FORWARD)

The Theory of Reverse Speech and Speech Complementarity:

(1) Human speech has two disctinctive yet complementary functions and modes. The Overt mode is spoken forwards and is primarily under conscious control. The Covert mode is spoken backward and is not under conscious control. The backward mode of speech occurs simultaneously with the forward mode and is a reversal of the forward speech sounds.

(2) These two modes of speech, forward and backward, are dependent upon each other and form an integral part of human communication. One mode cannot be fully understood without the other mode. In the dynamics of interpersonal communication, both modes of speech combined communicate the total psyche of the person, conscious as well as unconscious.

(3) Covert speech develops before overt speech. Children speak backwards before they do forwards. Then, as forward speech commences, the two modes of speech gradually combine into one, forming an overall bi-level communication process.


BACKWARD


FORWARD

A DIFFERENT KIND OF MIST

THE GAIN OR LOSS OF MASS

KARIN DREIJER ANDERSSON

THIS MAN

In January 2006 in New York, the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams. In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private life. The woman swears she has never met the man in her life.

That portrait lies forgotten on the psychiatrist's desk for a few days until one day another patient recognizes that face and says that the man has often visited him in his dreams. He also claims he has never seen that man in his waking life.

The psychiatrist decides to send the portrait to some of his colleagues that have patients with recurrent dreams. Within a few months, four patients recognize the man as a frequent presence in their own dreams. All the patients refer to him as THIS MAN.

From January 2006 until today, at least 2000 people have claimed they have seen this man in their dreams, in many cities all over the world: Los Angeles, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Tehran, Beijing, Rome, Barcelona, Stockholm, Paris, New Dehli, Moskow etc.

At the moment there is no ascertained relation or common trait among the people that have dreamed of seeing this man. Moreover, no living man has ever been recognized as resembling the man of the portrait by the people who have seen this man in their dreams.

READ TESTIMONIAL AND THEORIES OF 'THIS MAN'