SilKMilK MagiZain
Ink of the SpiderGoats and their Ilk:
'Altar of Babalon' picture (c)06 Taz.
SilKMilK s p o o l # 3 has now been successfully launched in Melbourne (Australia) (Freyaday the 13th Jan full mooon) and in London (UK) (Satyrday the 18th Feb '06).
(Left and Right: Video still from Yoka's performance at the Melbourne launch. More stills below.)
The London Launch featured:
Synth & sitar doomraaga soundscapes from
RAAGNAGROK
Musically-accompanied invocatory readings of works from the new s p o o l by:
Axtya Drugvant & Ilaktra Drugvant ('Conjuror of Heresies' and 'The Gospel of Babalon') -pictures below left
Tristram Burden (extracts from 'My Hero: A Wild Boy's Tale')
* Performance Poetry & Musick by John Crow/Constable and Niall McDevitt
Music by ORGONAUTIC
-Ambient Space-Pop from Germany
(For the purpose of this occasion represented By Alexander Nym -right-and Elijah)
There was also an exhibition of contributors' artwork and a screening of footage from Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Co.'s Parzival: The Fool's Journey production at Glastonbury Tor last year, and Orryelle's new 'EVERY LAST DROP' Babalon & the Beast Video clip from the imminent full-length DVD of The Choronzon Machine
The theme of the new SilKMilK
s p o o l # 3 is the Woman and the Beast, and/or the Woman as the Beast: Babalon, Durga, Medusa, Sekhmet, Bast...
Left: Orryelle performing a MahaKali & MahaKala mask-dance at the Melbourne Launch
Below (animated gif): Yoka as a Victorian Lady with very civilized mannerisms...
(Her performance at the Melbourne SM3 launch was accompanied by live improvisational musick by ORCHESTRA-ted ChAOS, conducted by Orryelle (violin)).
...A Civilized veneer, that is, until the chicken feet (above)...and pig trotters were served...
...Manners progressively give way to raw animal lust (the music dementing in turn)
...it's okay, it's only beetroot juice...?
The waiter becomes a victim of lycanthropy.
Once he's under wraps, her domestic self re-emerges and she schizophrenically attempts to clean up the mess...
...Eventually She realizes her beast-self in unsupressed freedom, integrates it and leaves naked and new...
The flyer art at the top of this page -by Heidi Valkyrie- is also the cover of the new s p o o l, ofwhich the contents list and sample art, text and sounds -along with advance ordering information- are now viewable/listenable HERE.
An inkredible synchronous birthing! These little spiderlings -shown here with their mother on Her eggsac in Her web woven over Zain's picture of an arachnean priestess and her alien baby- were born in the corner of this editor's room on the night (just after solstice) when I finished formatting the new SilKMilK s p o o l for publication!
CONTENTS, SAMPLE PAGES & Ordering Information for the new
SilKMilK s p o o l # 3
In 2002 scientists found that by isolating the web-spinning gene from spiders and injecting it into the DNA of goats they would produce a super-strong SilK-MilK. They have been trying to work out how to farm spiders for years as their webs are 5 times stronger than steel (relative to density), but had no luck because of the cannibalistic nature of spiders in large groups. They aim to produce bullet-proof vests with the silkmilk. But why should the Military have exclusive rights to such a brilliantly surreal concept?
Therefore we are hijacking the concept for aesthetic and magickal purposes, producing our own luscious non-violent silkmilk ink; or perhaps reclaiming is a more appropriate term -after all, Metamorphic Ritual Theatre co. (a vessel of The Order of ChAOS on the outer)- have been performing plays and rites about Pan and Arachne for years -this is their strange offspring...
SILKMILK MagiZen is a collective publishing vehicle of The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of The Silver Dusk and affiliates. A perfect-bound (square spine) print journal with an audio/video CD in the back cover, it presents artistic expressions in a range of mediums from musical and soundscape (inc. Spoken word) to film, painting, drawing, poetry and essays, all with magickal intent and/or content. It aims to give the reader/viewer/listener an overview of the diversity of creative expressions available now and in the future from the IMPress.
SilKMilK s p o o l # 1
(Launched May 2oo3)
- CONTENTS, SAMPLES, ORDERING INFORMATION (-Still Available)
SilKMilK s p o o l # 2
(launched April 04)
- CONTENTS and SAMPLES of the SECOND SPOOL, Strange Photographs from Performancy at its Launch, & ORDERING INFORMATION
SilKMilK s p o o l # 3
(launched Jan 06)
-CONTENTS, SAMPLE PAGES & Ordering Information for the
new s p o o l.
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