"El ciberespacio y el espacio mágico son constructos que se manifiestan puramente en la imaginación. Ambos espacios se constituyen enteramente por tu pensamiento y tus creencias."[1]

BIT.R.I.O.L. es una instalación de Realidad Aumentada y pieza sonora meditativa inspirada en la tradición alquímica y los ritos iniciáticos.

El título de la obra proviene de la sigla V.I.T.R.I.O.L. un término propio de la alquimia que alude a “Visita Interiora Terræ Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem”, o en Español “Visita el centro de la Tierra y rectificando encontrarás la piedra oculta” 

Retomando esta tradición alquímica, pero anclada en el SXXI y las prácticas de Tecnopaganismo, BIT.R.I.O.L. propone un espacio liminal esotérico de contemplación, reflexion y trascendencia. 

A través de herramientas tecnológicas como los teléfonos móviles o tablets (nuestro mercurio y azufre) y de la egrégora que se genera en los espacios virtuales que habitamos en la red, se crea un templo virtualizado. 

En Magic Squares and Future Beats, Genesis P-Orridge alude a la alquimia de la tecnología: “Burroughs, y Gysin, ambos me dijeron algo que resonó en mi hasta ahora. Ellos señalaban que los alquimistas siempre usaron el equipamiento y las matemáticas más modernas, la ciencia más precisa de su tiempo. En consecuencia, para practicar efectivamente la magia en tiempos contemporáneos uno debe valerse de las teorías y tecnologías más vanguardistas de la era”[2]

Por medio de un código QR ubicado en el espacio físico de la sala (a modo de códex o llave secreta) se accede a un portal de Realidad Aumentada, un espacio liminal mediado por un dispositivo móvil con conexión a internet que ubica al espectador en un entorno inmersivo, inmaterial, simbólico y contemplativo en 360 grados. 

La pieza sonora que acompaña a la obra fue creada sintetizando de forma digital y analógica voces humanas, grabaciones electromagnéticas y grabaciones de campo, y en conjunto con las fragancias difundidas en el espacio acentúan el carácter sagrado e inmersivo de la obra y remiten a los mantras y cantos religiosos, y a los bálsamos e inciensos de los templos.

El espectador se ubica entonces en el rol del neófito, único recipiente y habitante de la obra. Su vivencia es iniciática y significa la experiencia. En esta suerte de cámara de reflexiones se encuentran elementos simbólicos no explicitados. La experiencia es vivencial y parte de un hallazgo, quien lo vive lo interpreta. Así como al hallar un cairn milenario, un petroglifo o un artefacto desconocido, el universo de referencias personales y la conciencia colectiva trabajan en la experiencia.

La tecnología como producto humano, ya indivisible de cualquier otra expresión, también tiene un rol en nuestra construcción espiritual. En su tercera ley Clarke afirma que “Cualquier tecnología suficientemente avanzada es indistinguible de la magia”[3]  El Metaverso, aunque inmaterial, no es un campo estéril y puede constituir la forma de acceso a experiencias trascendentales y nuevos modos de entender e interpretar nuestra relación con el cosmos y la interrelación entre todos los seres, las cosas y las fuerzas invisibles de la naturaleza. 

Por Leticia Almeida y Mathías Chumino

https://www.c03ra.com/bitriol

☿ 🜔 🜍


[1] Pesce, Mark (1995). Technopagans. WIRED MAGAZINE 3-07 https://www.wired.com/1995/07/technopagans/ - Traducido por los artistas
[2] P-Orridge, Genesis. “Magic Squares and Future Beats." Richard Metzger ed. Book of Lies:
The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult. (Disinformation Books, 2008)
Traducido por los artistas
[3] Clarke, Arthur C. (1962) Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible.
Traducido por los artistas

BIT.R.I.O.L.

Soundscape for the outdoor immersive VR experience: Limen

Limen

El Fin De La Guerra Electrica

Lyrics by Tanky
Sample from the movie Häxan by William S. Burroughs
Recorded in Clovvder Haus
Mix and master: Par at Twin Peaks
Cover photo by Tanky

Witch

CLEOPATRA RECORDS MIXTAPE 2019 by RUIN RADIO

TRACKLIST:
"BORN TO LOSE"  THE HEARTBREAKERS
"I WANNA BE YOUR DOG (FAST VERSION)" IGGY & THE STOOGES
"YOU CANT PUT YOUR HANDS AROUND A MEMORY (RARE VERSION)" JOHHNY THUNDERS
VOWWS – "IM LOSING MYSELF IN YOU" W/ GARY NUMAN
GERMS  "WHAT WE DO IS SECRET"
Reagan Youth  "(Are You) Happy?"
"I’M NOT YOUR STEPPING STONE" SID VICIOUS
"JANE SAYS" LIVE – JANES ADDICTION 
"LOVE WILL TEAR US APART" JOY DIVISION
CHRISTIAN DEATH – "DEATHWISH"
"OCCULT MATTERS"  EGRETS ON ERGOT
"NEW ROSE" THE DAMNED 
"I’LL FALL ON YOUR KNIFE" PETER MURPHY
"PAINT IT BLACK (COVER" MINISTRY  
"LIL BOYS PLAY WITH DOLLS "THE LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH
"MASKED" THE WAKE 
"THE NEW ORDER " OF ANOTHER WORLD

BIO - 
www.reneeruin.com was founded in 2009 as a platform to showcase independent and underground musicians, artists, fashion designers, writers, designers, creatives of all walks and culture as well as support incredibly talented women across all industries. 

Renee Ruin has been a respected blogger in fashion, music and the arts both internationally and locally. She has featured and interviewed fashion designers, artists, musicians, authors and jewellers in her time and is well regarded across all industries as a connoisseur of the noir, avant-garde & the alternative. Her unique interviews and musician curated mixtapes by famous musicians such as Courtney Love and Shirley Manson have earned her high regard amongst the music community and musicians themselves for her forthright and honest journalism and loyalty to the craft.

Over the years the website evolved from a simple blog into a full spectrum online publication featuring articles, exclusive interviews, features and the integration of RUIN RADIO which is a monthly mixtape which is curated by Renee Ruin and is also special guest curated by musicians. Just some of the musician curators who have participated are Brody Dalle, Shirley Manson, Chelsea Wolfe, Courtney Love, Alan Mcgee of Creation Records, Jarboe, King Woman, Zola Jesus, Tony Hawk and Heather Gabel. 

Renee has interviewed musicians in the past such as; Mark Lanegan, Jarboe, Heather Gabel of HIDE, Murder City Devils, Wesley Eisold of AN and Cold Cave, Deap Vally, The Bronx, The Gallows, The Black Ryder, White Lung, Dave Pajo of SLINT, White Lung, Death Valley Girls, LA WITCH, Plague Vendor, Vowws, Lawrence Rothman and the list continues to grow. 

Renee has interviewed artists in the past such as; Roman Dirge, Shae Detar, Krist Mort, Rita Minissi, Nona Limmen, Dylan Garrett Smith, Tamara Santibanez, Tom Bagshaw, Darla Teagarden, Elizabeth McGrath, Abbey Watkins, Mab Graves, Aunia Kahn, Ellen Rogers, John John Jesse, Rudy Fig, Patrick O'Dell, Gareth Stehr, Julia Deville, Charmaine Olivia, Angela Boatwright, Edith Lebeau.

As well as regular articles and features, reneeruin.com also runs several series of interviews focussing on unique and talented women called "Who's that Girl?", a regular "Featured Tattoo Artist" interview series and will be launching a new interview series in the coming months about Female Business Owners called "Women Who Rule". 

reneeruin.com makes a conscious effort to accept NO sponsored advertisements and NO paid sponsored content. This is not out ethos. This is and always has been a project of love and passion. reneeruin.com is one woman and one women alone, me. Help keep the DIY dream alive. 


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Love Will Tear Us Apart (1980 Martin Hannett Versions)

CLEOPATRA RECORDS MIXTAPE 2019 by RUIN RADIO

For over two years, Post-industrial auteurs Kim Larsen and Clay Ruby have been chipping away at this split release, sculpting something truly confounding and unique. While either side of this split sounds almost nothing like the other, where both projects connect is in their ability to combine seemingly incongruous musical elements together seamlessly. Combinations of space and tension, sorrow and frenzy, loss and abundance, all exist within the same short spans of time. Not only are they highly dynamic in terms of mood but also in style, where ingredients from various types of Folk music, Death Industrial, Funeral Doom, Kosmische Musik, Electroacoustic composition and further mutations all clash together in a way that could only make sense on this album. The freedom with which Larsen and Ruby approach their compositions is unparalleled, and yet this music is not just a progressive stew of paradoxes. Rather is it distilled down into a refined, romantic and highly personal consonance.

Les Chasseur de la Nuit & Burial Hex - teaser for split LP

In session Uruguay’s dark ambient post industrial duo Clovvder (https://soundcloud.com/clovvder). We’ve music by Deftones, Metz, Voljum, Metalogue, Submerged, Poppy, Opal Tapes, Derlich, Inigo Kennedy, Dreadcore, and Editions Mego.

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Deliver Me From Mine Enemies
             Excerpt from Psalm 59
          We Shall Not Accept Your Quarantine
          Dedicated to Carl Valentino and Michael Flanagan
          Recorded London 1986

The mob captures a man with the plague and beats him to death.
The crimes against nature cannot be tolerated and must be removed
forcibly from his body. But the Enemies of the State who are not yet sick are waiting outside the gate to fight those who will police them

--

Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God:
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and
Save me from bloody men
For lo, they lie and wait for my soul:
The mighty are gathered up against me;
Not for my transgressions, not for my sin, O Lord
They run and prepare themselves without my fault:
Awake to help me and behold
Swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
But thou, O Lord, shall laugh at them. The God
Of my mercy shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies
And at evening let them return, and let them
Make a noise like a dog, and go round about
The city. Let them walk up and down for meat, and
Grudge if they be not satisfied
Break out the great teeth of the
Young lions, o lord and when he
Bendeth his bow to shoot his
Arrows, let them be cut in pieces!
Bring them down, O Lord, our shield

--

This track is excerpted from "Deliver Me From My Enemies", from the record The Divine Punishment. You can listen to the piece and record in its entirety here:

diamanda-galas.lnk.to/cxKk_EM

Deliver Me From My Enemies -- Excerpt

Taken from Gavilán Rayna Russom - The Envoy LP/Download [ELP047]

• Solo debut album of pulsing, beat-less urges by NYC transdisciplary artist Gavilán Rayna Russom
• Includes guest appearance by industrial and downtown figures Cosey Fanni Tutti and Peter Zummo 
• Cut at D&M, Berlin

Transdisciplinary NYC artist Gavilán Rayna Russom beautifully comes into her own with a distinguished solo debut album statement including the voice of Cosey Fanni Tutti and brass arrangements by downtown legend Peter Zummo

After decades exploring her sonic personality in various projects inspired by her deep immersion in NYC’s club and avant-garde scenes, Rayna uses ‘The Envoy’ as a vessel to firm up and convey her personal conclusions on intersections of gender and electronic music. Enriched with complex human experience and key influence from sci-fi writer Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel ’The Left Hand of Darkness’ - a book that strongly resonated with her due to its descriptions of an alien race with multiple sexual characteristics - the album is intended to realign misconceptions of Russom’s prescient early work such as 2005’s ‘The Days of Mars’ LP for DFA, which arguably foreshadowed a rise of beat-less and more ambiguous urges that are now commonplace in contemporary dance music, yet were at the time lumped in with retro-fetishist trends. With ‘The Envoy’ Russom returns to a 2019 music scene that’s better prepared with the politics of an emerging new world, and thus readied for her ideas to take hold in the public consciousness.

Entwining Russom’s perspectives on gender, the occult, and spirituality, and how they relate to the body and music’s healing properties, ‘The Envoy’ clearly yet ambiguously expresses the artist’s concerns in nine interrelated parts. Practically devoid of percussion, but full of body-moving polyrhythmic pattern, the pieces spill out of the lines of any typically imposed “grid”. Within this loose context, porous to the chaos of noise, Russom smudges a blend of analogue and digital synths to connote an elusive sense of self, encouraging the listener to navigate the music’s curves and silhouettes by instinct. 

Employing the fluid potential of electronic music at its most fundamental in a way that loops right back to the glyding suspense of her prized early work, even literally incorporating elements of long form solo recordings made in the late ‘90s in the wake of Russom’s psych/noise band Soma.

Unanchored by kicks, yet pulsing in its own ways, the album flows with an underlying elegance from Cosey Fanni Tutti’s spellbinding recital of Russom’s text in ‘Kemmer’, set to an organic, orgiastic writhe of arps and stressed noise, and on thru the free-floating organ scape of ‘Envoy’, to acknowledge more grimly industrial impulses with ‘Strength out of the Dark’ and also a towering highlight of the album in ‘Discipline of Presence’, where Russom’s throbbing mass is hauntingly illuminated by plangent brass arrangement from Peter Zummo (key Arthur Russell collaborator). The 10 minute ‘Winter’ then wraps it all up under a titular reference to Ursula K Le Guin’s novel, placing Russom as a filament of solo piano-playing light within the cold expanse of NYC.

Gavilán Rayna Russom - Kemmer (w/ Cosey Fanni Tutti)[ELP047]

Par - Las Ruinas De La Guerra Electrica (El Fin De La Guerra Electrica Remix)

Programa 134 de Transmisión Sonora, emitido el 18/4/20 por Unradio de Medellín, Colombia.
En este programa que recomendamos, llevado adelante por Impre Mogollón con The Burros Discos, compartimos temas de nuestra discografía, un mixtape con algunos favoritos y un spoken word improvisado para la ocasión, basado en la soledad de la pandemia y en un relato de Theodore Sturgeon.

Arte de tapa: C03RA

TS 134 - Clovvder

Velvety white smoke filling the room.
Rusted wire intertwined.
Feral cats purring to the moon.

Tanky & Cobra

Witch

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