What inspires Thee Uncondemning Monk? Not hard to guess with a flag that size...

Field Report: The Jack Frost Committee has been taken over, so to speak, by new additions to the committee. Also, as a related consequence of these new comrades Skybird was but a clerical illusion. We here at the gated office have a problem of an erasing memory, our codes are for better and worse relied upon for verification, and yet it is know that there have been cases where entire identities and profile clusters are wiped from digital storage-time... follow as you may the broken pages... she no longer is and St. Stephen no longer, in any sense of the word, in control. Aglaeca has resumed and absorbed some of the remaining power, yet the bulk of the com-directives are coming from the new members of the committee, members that choose to remain anonymous at present-future time, of course they support full disclosure in non emergency situations, we pray that time will arrive. Instead we turn to what inspires us at the committee:

We live in a contradiction: a brutal state of affairs, profoundly inegalitarian–where all existence is evaluated in terms of money alone–is presented to us as ideal. To justify their conservatism, the partisans of the established order cannot really call it ideal or wonderful. So instead, they have decided to say that all the rest is horrible.(http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/5/alainbadiou.php)

MotherHalo: 23 Plus Signs (new un-limit release)

MotherHalo: 23 Plus Signs, towards a review and pirate release thereof

LET Start with the Sounds, yes, the album has an unusual range. Knotting together Motherhalo's unique sound is an analytically structured interweave of  industrial dance and improvisational jazz/experimental soundwerk --- experimental in the best sense of the term--- chalk-lined full of groove orientated sonic rhythms, never so busy that it looses melodic legibility, rather Motherhalo treats their sonic portions as a matter of textual intensity, and whether subtle or harsh (on occasion) the album guides its users, lifting their soul into psychedelic realms of phat base and drum loops combined into sonic walls of nitrously echoing heat, distorted vocoded voices bemoaning, leading the user through the DE-conditioning  tales intertwined with lines of guitars that (s)weep, and gadgets that s(w)ing, "Blood", no. 6--"Surveillance Bait", no. 7, quotes lifted and implanted...he talks to you... to the chopping block, goodbye alcohol, goodbye t.v., FIRE, virtual game, you know not what you do, and masterfully mixed experimental musical tale that is not simply a conceptual album, but an album opened up to you, for you to open your self, to open up in shock, awe, uncanny truth, that you are not home in your home, that you are home in no-where that is right t/here, clutching a dark razor blade, this is a game, blood with a thought, cover your faces, virtual --- you know not what you do, remove your faces, to the chopping block, clutching a dark razor blade, this is a game, thoughts, fire, cover your face, good bye t.v., good bye... blood with ink... know not what you do... the games of 23 plus signs are a pathway into a ritual... you are entered and centered in Blood, at the emblematic point, when you will have realized that you are too far, its too late playing in this ocean, 23 Plus Signs' quiddity, this speak and spell of alternative dimensions that intrude and include like rhizomatic infection, fragmenting the familial patterns that have long been set, by the time you realize that you have been in a panic, anxiety, and its far too late as we have been trying to warn you away... this picnic is not as seems, TV (lies), that is why we are what we are ≈ nomads of the sound-waves and their productions underground we swim [are] we [are] moving forward. If so, its because the present is going to murder someone, and television shows us that police are terrorists, that self-expression is where revolution begins...remember you where given a choice to choice, only the choice matters, resist these choices, these camps that they will put you in, 23 plus signs, to let you know to WAKE UP! you are now included! tag you're a trans-human-separatist... and perhaps not even human at all**

(welcome to our organization, Thee JFC, your ISP has been recorded, and reported! we are friendlies, you will be contacted, do not be alarmed when this happens, you will be then assigned a frequency and instructed on how to...)

23 Plus Signs :: A New Sound Project Realized by MOTHERHALO

will it come? will you be able to hear about the "door that leads into the garden that has been locked for years", no. 9, "Interstellar Mystic"*Originally appeared on Spaceship Graveyard MetaSpace KRU, "The Virgin and the Volcano"...

"When 37 First Stepped off the train,  outside the Eternal Life Administration and Processing Station*"...

Islamic Angels are submitting to God, with lies that comes from the bloggers, that come from the media, that you give to your friends, they have refused, given up the ghost, we are the holy spirit of fire, here our catholic unity, can you not hear the whaling calls, they are burning with Fire, no longer idiots, literal, they have burst into In-finite Fire... and t/here in gold it stood awaiting, 23 Plus Signs. The hand painted CD case, golden, opened up to a note on lined paper, "Please review, online," is what was handwritten on the lined scrap of paper, on the inside of the hand painted CD, 23 Plus Signs. 23 Plus Signs adored the work. The CD itself also painted with the care only a hand can give, not that the hand has no involvement, but the smooth laser printed CD looses that human quality, some would call imperfection, we would dare call life, not unlike a Subject of Truth/Da-sein, but rather so, we are the creatures that are immoral. Remember, we kick followers... we eat the meek... we crave you to be strong... you take to much drugs... the 1960s, they they changed times, we want to shock you out of your ways, because we are doing nothing but the program that in uncontrolled into a autopilot of desired disasters, all avoidable for something that tome, which arrives to us as:

23 Plus Signs

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is it an album or manifesto ?!?!? Hunchbacks and Soldiers (Frater AC)

We are not sure what it is that we have, that has been put into our hands. We have it, playing now on our desktop, playing as we write these words, of a promised review. We open the inside of the CD side of the case, in between the plastic side there is more paper, notes, liner notes. Mother Halo (is that one word or two, on the front of the case its spelled MOTHERHALO, and so that is the spelling we shall conform to) is the name of the band. The album is a compilation of sorts, or rather the album is a collaboration. Here we quote: 

THANK YOU! I HAVE NEVER BEFORE WORKED ON A MOTHERALO ALBUM USING CONNECTION AND DATA LOADING TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE ONLY ON THE EARLY TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY INTERNET, THE ORIGINAL PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF 23 PLUS SIGNS (37 COPIES) WAS ACCOMPLISHED ENTIRELY WITHOUT THE USE OF THE WEB. ONE-OF-A-KIND HAND-PAINTED DISCS WERE DIRECT MAILED THROUGH THE POSTAL SERVICE TO RECIPIENTS WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY SIGNED UP FOR MY [JPD] "TIME CLUSTERS" MAILING LIST. INCLUDING EVERY ARTIST ON THE ALBUM 12 IS A COMPLETE SUCCESS...

And that is the truth of the matter. And so we ask you, or that is we here a question, a voice being raised. What is the purpose of doing a review of an album which has only 37 copies and hence can only be heard by a few individuals. Ah! You got us... what is the point? Well, there is a point. As there is no copy right that we see on the work, we have the ability and the go ahead to distribute this work across the internet as we see fit. Review? Review? 

We will do one better for you... we will be bringing you 23 Plus Sign in video... we of The Jack Frost Committee, are committed to making video works, visuals, for the album 23 Plus Signs. We do this so that the revelation that is 23 Plus Signs may spread I.T.s wings and Fly... we have only one command, we are to follow our good, not the good, but thee good, the extra E makes a difference, thee good shall be followed, thee good that is beyond a simply good and evil, a process that does not collapse into the right or left, but continues onward open, in faith to the truth of this event, these events, we mark, no longer records, but discs, put out into the world. And 23 Plus Signs addresses these worlds; from the prophetic "32 Sights In Site 23", no. 5 on our version of the album, to no. 4 & 5. Blood (aural and emblematic mix respectively), (with work from Obiekt, thee Uncondemning Monk, Sidney S-Ickness, Spaceship Graveyard, and more, not to give it all away in this review), we are going to now and over the course of the summer be working with other members on the album to release this puppy in digital formats, beyond the 37 copies... there will only ever by 37 o.v. thee hand-painted originals mailed out to list members. These copies will remain as they are, as special as they are, for all time that they are and are remembered. The truth set forth on this album is immense.

A.A. o.v. Thee Uncondemning Monk (St. Stephen, and Aglaeca)

under the sign of 23 & 37 (God is the obvious responsibility---"self expression is where revolution begins" from the song, "Surveillance Bait", track no. 7)

God No. 8, "Thirty-Seven Kills Twenty-Three At 4:15" (is sooo fucking!! and its heavy-groove hypnotic-rocking, really digging these sounds... the only comparison one can make is to an alien spaceship invasion that knows warfare as a dance of droning sonic magick)

*Words on "The Gathering" Taken from the book "This Number Speaks" by Jason Patrick Doherty (check out on amazon or lulu)

or write to Thee Uncondemning Monk (look for our blog on the web or visit one of our pages on Facebook, also St. Stephen, and [the members of] The Jack Frost Committee)

= 5 × 10^-9 M yr^-1                     MK UBV  --- o.v.---- IX Vel 

What we have in 23 Plus Signs is

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12+7=23=5; 1+2=3...7.... 3+7=10=1+0=1... 3,7 = 0,1

Discourse of the Analyst - Deliberate subversion of the prevailing master discourse 

The four positions in each discourse are:
Agent = Upper left. This is the speaker of the discourse.
Other = Upper right. This is what the discourse is addressed to
Product = Lower right. This is what the discourse has created
Truth = Lower left. This is what the discourse attempted to express.
The four variables which occupy these positions are:
S1 = the master signifier
S2 = knowledge (le savoir)
$ = the subject (barred)
a = the objet petit a or surplus-jouissance

Q: What makes a Lacanian joke funny?
A: Its signifier by its very nature anticipates meaning, unfolding its dimension before it.

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** what is matter? where is it that we are? is energy eternal? and what is Spinoza, Cantor, Maurice Merleau-Ponty are the right way to start?

Who Are You? Uncondemning Monk o.v. mine...

We told you, we are in process o.v. (alchemically) producing thee Uncondemning Monk. But you may not understand what that means. So, we have decided on an explanation to aid your enjoyment and understanding of this project. First thing to know, the project is not static, it is purposely undefined and will continue to be left open in that manner. This is important for all of history, all its permutations, all images of identification are brought to bare on the subject, as we move from (away) this understanding of a subject. As Deleuze would say, we are not on that plane of the subject, rather we are concerned with being haecceities.Second thing to know is that as this project changes new emerging theme will come to the fore. The larger project is always shifting, taking place in a morphological manner, topologically speaking it rotates, but on its revolutions, new faces emerge, like a quark, a turn and a half might be needed to bring us back to a start, but never an origin.


Third, our engagement is simple. Wake UP to the Reality of Sigil and Chaos Magick use in everyday life. Its the economy stupid. Enough stated there, but you prob still have no clue as to what our aims are, and yet we are finding it difficult to be more clear. We are destroying personality formations in seek of new types of relations to self, to understanding body as a myriad, multiplicity not as a dichotomy, by going through it all. Since there is no exit, we move through it. And as we dig deep, we destroy, as we push through we destroy, as we transform we destroy, we create/destroy, that is what must be done in the doing, in all doing. So join us through our EVILutions. From the filth we bring your destruction, its from the left behind that the seeds of death infect and decay the new Jerusalem, your gated communities, your Bysathine death towers and kept shells. We are here and you know why... we are the many, we are the no one, we are Thee Uncondemning Monk. Coyote Satan!


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Looking Back at St. Stephen's experimental writings: 5 and Dime

Five & Dime: (or 1 in 10 + 1): [1-5; pp. 200-210]

The above link is to a piece of writing by St. Stephen of Thee Uncondemning Monk. Thee Uncondemning Monk is not simply about sound and light via "music" and "film," but rather we embrace/borrow/glean/steal (so far) any and all methods for fabrication, creation, the making of artifacts and markers of splace-time, what peoples call recordings, we capture these explorations, even the mundane ones, especially the mundane (how sacred it can become, and then secular again, not like the turning on and off of a light switch, no, not a nightlight, but also not not a luminous ding). 

Thee eradication of the frozen, as Kafka and Walter Benjamin request of us, as Nietzsche calls for we who hear and take up our hammers, to philosophize and sound out the hollow, others call for a tuning-fork, that we should tune-in, turn-on, drop out, DROP BACK IN (so often forgotten, we must shout it now). We also know, as you may to (you will shortly), that it is high-time, neigh passed tide-highs to Philosophize with an A-Bomb, perhaps now its time to vaporize with even never vibratory technologies... sucking that all in and blowing it out once again, do we make imagary breath when we speak in our head? 

The above piece of writing puts into action the bricolage technique; as well as other methods gleaned from Burroughs and Gysin; and other unconscious infantile and influential  flows... we hope you enjoy this short writing (image) experiment...

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GOD HATE FAGS; Christmas™, the Seaon in Which We Think™ (tag)

Album review by St. Stephen ov Thee Uncondemning Monk

God Hates Fags, by Phudge Packerz  

Let just jump write in with what St. Stephen wrote (on behalf of Thee UM) on FaceBook: you may not understand or get from the title how anti-bigoted this album is; but it is, as we see it, a rejection of stereotype of what people OUGHT to Be, not what they are or want to be, as such homosexuality, indeed the entire discourse that is known as Queer Theory (QT) has largely been overshadowed by a loud minority that seek approval from breeders or the ideal white middle-upper-middle class family and its "christian" values, and seek to normalize, homogenize, codify, the sexuality of non-heterosexuals... as if having sexual relationships with persons of your own biological sex makes one be a certain way; this is not true (at least not necessarily so), people adopt or lean toward these cultural identities, and instead of making them their own, they conform to their idealization of these stereotypes; and if anything this should be the reverse (inverse, diametrical opposite?), we should adapt these cultural identities to our needs (if we must use them at all)... I hope that I have been clear in my explanation of my interpretation (and may my utter seriousness not mar the enjoyability of what is an unpretentious and enjoyable album)! ROCK Gangsta!

Here is the link to the Wonderful Album... No, that is not its name, the title of the album is God Hates Fags (Mr. Fist keep AMAZING us, day after day, new material, old material, it doesn't matter... shine on  your crazy diamond): http://bloodntongue.bandcamp.com/album/god-hates-fags?autoplay=true


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December Update: Future Senarios and Current Currents

Greetings from Erehwon,

Much has happened. We will start with the great new first and then wind down. We are proud to say that Thee Uncondemning Monk is now regular present in the sway of Coyotel Priest A.A. This is a great occasion for celebration, some mote it be, to control abandon embrace a historical modern destruktion, empty form, life returns, even before the winter, hiding in the cave tiny one, virus goes, what have we done, surely not done enough, you don't even stand there you sit, you sit, you sit, in the sway; go through not around, there is no other passage way; go through to the crown, there is not but a fool on he/r way, as such it is a gloomy day and another day of WAR before the red of a dawn; no clock we wind you; the day grew longer, and time personal, space was as it was, now different. We prepare, we continue on our mission (http://nightatnoon.com/leyba2/press.html).

AIN23 is now being fully supported through our A.A. channels as such we will continue to contribute to all sound and visual projects they here-forth offer... and this too is another part of bridge-work and as we understand the free-radical has been trasnforming in his potientila (Nuit) that s/he (Hadit) are able to become, one is infinite says A.C. As such Audio Project #4 23 Seconds In Time Audio Project is still open!

Many new track have been release on SoundCloud; a few on Reverbnation on FaceBook, and a bunch are being worked on. A semi-secret/secret project is on it way to reveal its truth to those who we shall appear to, those that has found us. As we get closer to this secret project we might and might not talk about it here; these things have not been decided, and as such whatever transpires, there will be something very new on the horizon.

Thee UM has also been working with Hal's Contact Compilation where one minute songs are the standard... we are currently engage in a chain permutation and can hardly wait for this to be realized, but the fun is only starting as the chain-mails pour in...See our latest in Contact Compilation 5 (collaborations only): http://halmcgee.bandcamp.com/album/contact-compilation-5-2011

So, as you can see, much has been happening.

And not just one more aside, but a great thing, we are also now supporting the work of Brunhild Ferrari (http://www.lucferrari.org/).So we all can look forward to collaborations of a different nature.

Well, that is the report... please go check out the sites, because one song by Thee UM does not mean the next song has sounds in common... style, all submit, change, moving forward... work; sound - sigil ! 23 ! A.A.


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Sunday Operetta to Marx

Greetings readers of Thee Uncondemning Monk,

Many new things are happening, but today we would like to talk a little about our latest release, Sunday Operetta to Marx: Zen Vampire University. But before getting into the new release we would like to reiterate what our project is, in part, about. First, Thee UM and music, what is the relationship?

As you may have already read, we are not actually what one would call a musician. But that is not right, Thee UM members are musicians, that much we are sure of, but more honestly, they are not concerned with "making music" as much as exploring sound. We see ourselves as sound-painters, or sound-sculptors.

Sunday Operetta to Marx: Zen Vampire University was created by listening to a university lecture on Marx. The lecture was given on 11 Nov, 2011. In particular that lecture was on Part V of Das Capital, Volume I, by Karl Marx. While we listened to the lecture, we decide that we would make some music for the lecture, to make it a bit more interesting for others. But, but the sound quality of the lecture was so atrocious that we "had" to removed it from the music. This cut-out is what would become the Operetta. So we cut-out the lecture and left the music. The way it was divided simply is where we naturally stopped while paying to the lecture. These pauses where the perfect place to divide up the work. As such, the album is an ambient piece that goes well with all audio where their is only speaking (but no music accompanied it). For instance, try listening to the album while watching a live stream of Occupy Wall Street, and you will understand what I mean. The music is meant to be played in the background, while reading, you guessed it, Marx. That was our  intention with this piece.

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Contact Compilation 4 (2011): We are of

Its a hot little project, and as such the songs are flying onto the list, such that right on the heals of Contact Compilation 3 (2011), we have Contact Compilation 4 (2011). The next Contact Compilation, which is going to be number 5, is scheduled for at least a month away. The idea behind number 5 (2011) is that artist will be randomly paired and will have to produce music as such in these randomly assigned pairings. Could be something good, could be something bad... as the saying goes... but we are willing to take a shot at this happy little accident, our invitation to Contact Compilation. We are honored to be apart of what may prove to be a historical moment in music, and sound creation/manipulation... as such, we are learning that others have views of their work as we do, that it is not necessarily about writing songs, as such, its about working with sound, and on occasion this becomes what people normally refer to as music and a song... but they are all songs, these sound works. On Contact Compilation 4 our song too a different approach. Only getting a single minute, we decided to write a little conceptual piece on the phrase "we are of". Please come and check out what we have come up with... each step is an improvement going in every-direction (EZ23), this is not about progress towards perfection, as much as it about working to explore what we can do with what we have to work from, as the world is given, we... in the middle and from whence we travel, from whence we start... and that tree, that one over there, its is weeping, can you hear it? and the other, the other is so much more...  a face, a hand, sweet on the brow, and ax sharp from the grinding... silly lover light us don't leave us now, but leave us, not to far away nor in those oceans, far off past the milky-way... ;)

AND REMEMBER; Contact Compilation 4 (2011) is a Free Download!
and see our track information: Thee Uncondemning Monk, "We Are Of" (Nov11)

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