(From LAShTAL.com) Buratti Fine Art presents a special exhibition showcasing the various traditions and expression of esoteric art ranging from automatic drawing, digital art, printmaking, sculpture and painting. The work of contemporary artists are shown alongside international and historical artists and who have paved the way in one of the art world’s most exciting genres. Artworks previously exhibited at the Pompidou Centre and Palais De Tokyo will be on show.
The Juniper Tree
Nietzcha Keene, Iceland, 1986 (not released until 1990), 78 min
‘Based on the fairy tale “The Juniper Tree” collected by the Brothers Grimm … The Juniper Tree is set in Iceland and portrays the story of two sisters, Margit (Björk Guðmundsdóttir) and her elder sister Katla (Bryndis Petra Bragadóttir), who escape their home after their mother (Guðrún S. Gísladóttir) is stoned and burned for witchcraft. They go where no one knows them, and find Jóhann (Valdimar Örn Flygenring), a young widower who has a son called Jónas (Geirlaug Sunna Þormar). Katla uses magical powers to seduce Jóhann and they start living together. Margit and Jónas become friends. However, Jónas does not accept Katla as his stepmother and tries to convince his father to leave her. Katla’s magic power is too strong and even though he knows he should leave her, he can’t. Margit’s mother appears to her in visions and Jónas’ mother appears as a raven and to bring him a magical feather.’ – WIKI
Une exposition s’adressant à quiconque se demande ce qu’il lui adviendra après la mort. Montons-nous au ciel après notre mort physique? «Dormons-nous» jusqu’à la vie après la mort? Certains considèrent que la «vie actuelle» est une épreuve en préparation du prochain royaume de l’existence et que «mourir» signifie qu’une personne quitte la «vie» ici-bas, et non pas que son existence a pris fin.
Le cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, en collaboration avec le Musée des religions du monde, est fier de présenter cette étude stimulante et émouvante sur la vie et la mort. Par ces images uniques, nous vous invitons à célébrer la vie de ces sujets immortels et à réfléchir, avec les auteurs WALTER SCHELS & BEATE LAKOTTA, à la nature sociale de la vie et du mourir.
Présentée du 18 mai au 8 octobre 2012
Espace B de la Basilique Notre-Dame
424, rue St-Sulpice, Montréal p.Q.
H2Y 2V5
514 842-2925
Le viol du vampire
Jean Rollin, France, 1968, 100 min
‘Trois célibataires provenant de Paris échouent sans raison apparente devant un château. Les trois amis sont convaincus que les châtelaines sont déboussolés et ont besoin de leur aide. Mais les forces du mal sont présentes dans le château’ …
You don’t play the ANS synthesizer with a keyboard. Instead you etch images onto glass sheets covered in black putty and feed them into a machine that shines light through the etchings, trigging a wide range of tones. Etchings made low on the sheets make low tones. High etchings make high tones. The sound is generated in real-time and the tempo depends on how fast you insert the sheets.
This isn’t a new Dorkbot or Maker Faire oddity. It’s a nearly forgotten Russian synthesizer designed by Evgeny Murzin in 1938. The synth was named after and dedicated to the Russian experimental composer and occultist Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (1872–1915). The name might not mean much to you, but it illuminates a long running connection between electronic music and the occult.
You can find traces of the occult throughout the history of electronic music. The occult obsessed Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo built his own mechanical instruments around 1917. The famous Moog synthesizer made an early appearance in Mick Jagger’s soundtrack to Kenneth Anger’s occult film Invocation of My Demon Brother in 1969. And in the late 1970s Throbbing Gristle built their own electronic instruments for their occult sound experiments, setting the stage for many of the occult themed industrial bands who followed. The witch house genre keeps this tradition alive today.
It’s little the surprise otherworldly sounds and limitless possibilities of synthesizers and samplers would evoke the luminous. But there’s more to the connection. The aim of the alchemist is not just the literal synthesis of chemicals, but also synthesis in the Hegelian sense: the combination of ideas. Solve et Coagula. From the Hermetic magi of antiquity, to Aleister Crowley’s OTO to modern chaos magicians, western occultists have sought to combine traditions and customs into a single universal system of thought and practice.
"The production of nervous force is directly connected with the diet of an individual, and its refining depends
on the very purity of this diet, allied to appropriate breathing exercises.
The diet most calculated to act effectively on the nervous force is that which contains the least quantity of
animal matter; therefore the Pythagorean diet, in this connection, is the most suitable.
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The main object was to avoid introducing into the organism what Descartes called 'animal spirits'. Thus, all
animals that had to serve for the nourishment of the priests were slaughtered according to special rites, they
were not murdered, as is the case nowadays".
