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MASTURBATORIUM
THE HAFLER TRIO
This recording utilises elements from various pieces, most being initiated
with this project in mind, amongst which are: Psychological Astronomy
Psychophysicist (Newton, McKenzie), The Threat That Cannot Be Obeyed
The Hafler Trio (McKenzie, Karkowski), SPIRICOM The Hafler Trio (McKenzie,
Karkowski), Tesselation The Hafler Trio (McKenzie, Karkowski), A Luna
Kanula Asburd (McKenzie, Ponton), I Remain, Yours... The Hafler Trio
(McKenzie, Karkowski), Tantric Resonance The Anti Group (Newton, Baker,
Dennis), The Ames Room The Hafler Trio (McKenzie), Imsak The Hafler
Trio (McKenzie). Every other sound was constructed especially for this
Goddess Ritual accompaniment.
Back cover photograph of the Goddess herself during this
ritual taken by the legend that walks like a man, Les Barany. Front cover
photograph © Annie Sprinkle. H3O logo by Mark O. Design: Jon
Wozencroft. Much more that thanks are due to Annie, Ellen and Anya for above all,
faith. To all everywhere "we're all somebody's baby". Dedicated to
Marthe (she'll know why eventually).
Contact The Hafler Trio @ Alexander Boersstraat 30, 1071 kz Amsterdam, NL
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The construction and realisation of this piece is riddled with
contradictions and confirmations (as it should be). It has evolved
from a collection of half-formed (but well intended) ideas about the
relationship of sound to the sexual condition of people, to a concise
working example of a pragmatic approach to the same. Annie Sprinkle,
"Post Porn Modernist", brought her show of the same name to Amsterdam
in 1990. This show, which had already confronted many people with
their own perceptions of sexuality was now to be presented to a
so-called 'liberal' audience, with all their attendant differences
interpretation. Miss Sprinkle's show was a golden opportunity to
implement various hypotheses about the construction of vibrational
patterns to precise physical processes. A rough sketch was made of a
sound piece that would accompany an intense ritual at the end of the
performance, wherein Annie demonstrates the first steps to a form of
'Macro Sexuality' based not only on the genital orgasm, but on the
possibility of total ecstacy by means of the utilisation of sexual
energy channelled through the body, to the mind, and ultimately
through the spirit. After the first (sell-out) run in Amsterdam,
recordings were made of sexual noises produced by her. The reason for
this was as follows: just as Islamic cultures believe that a
photograph of a person contains is a fragment of their soul, an audio
recording contains just as much, if not more spiritual information
about the situation, character and essence of the person or
'atmosphere' it is made of or from. By means of manipulatory
processes, sculpting and juxtaposing these 'slices of life', a
powerful composite and 'affirmation' of the desired effect was
constructed (by means of sympathetic/empathetic vibration). This was
the starting point. As it now stands, the piece (in possibly) its
final version is built up of three reasonably distinct sections,
involving eleven disparate elements (the key number al magic[k]). The
basis of the first deals with the resonant frequencies generated by
the various planets in our solar system and a recording of a pulsar
named PSR 0833 minus 45, regarded by many as the most likely candidate
for an extra-terrestrial radio transmission. Added to this are the
three resonant frequencies of the earth itself. In Annie's show, this
section is a time of preparation, of invocation and evocation, the
beginning of the Goddess ritual. The lighting of candles in
remembrance of friends who have passed away and the setting of the
wavelength that she wishes to communicate on. Next, there comes a
section almost entirely constructed from noises produced by sexual
actions carried out by Annie herself sucking and saliva sounds,
vaginal penetration, fingers running over skin, breasts slapping
together, using a Hitachi 'Magic Wand' vibrator, hair rustling, orgasm
vocalisations, all within a highly charged erotic state. These
recordings were made with as much attention to detail as possible.
Added to this section is a near-subliminal configuration of pure sine
waves exactly tuned to attract communication with the 'dead', as
developed by the SPIRICOM organisation in North Carolina, USA. These
frequencies have been utilised as a 'carrier' wave to facilitate
two-way communications with the deceased. The correct frequencies to
enable these communications to take place were passed on to the
experimenters by radio from one of their ex-colleagues who had died
some seventeen years previously. At the end of this section, a detail
from a much larger work concerning the influence of the moon on the
psyche is introduced. The many so-called coincidences involving the
number eleven in the first moon landing (if it actually happened!) are
used, together with a large text written 'automatically' by a
'lunatic' during a full moon. These texts were then processed eleven
times. Naturally, the entire assemblage of the contents of this
release and its mastering took place on Sunday 28th April the most
esoterically important full moon of the year. The next section, the
climax, is based on various elements: the backbone is a tantric rhythm
created especially for this project by THE ANTI GROUP. Added to this
are 333 layers of Annie having her first "Breath Orgasm" (achieved by
focusing entirely on her own sex sounds), careful manipulations of the
SPIRICOM frequencies, voices from nowhere arising from atmosphere
recordings in an abandoned bath-house (water=moon) the location of
a ritual carried out by The Hafler Trio on a full moon Summer Solstice
in 1990, a recording concerning and evoking both native American
sexual techniques (where many of Annie Sprinkle's current sexual roots
lie) and obscure Sufi techniques of harnessing sexual energy for many
applications, and other abtruse elements which it is not necessary or
wise to elucidate. This piece has been heard in context with
considerable effect by hundreds of people; it remains to be seen if
this practical, functional work will have as much effect outside its
original setting. Finally, we would urge listeners to experiment with
applications, and report to us in alt candidness.
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