Staff Releases and Projects

Projects We are Involved With – and – how to support them:

If you have a project with a “kickstarter-style” campaign or a project that we can support- put it here!

Media company David Bragi and Dolores Nurss Partnership is in the early stages of producing a feature-length animated film based on the late composer Gustav Holst’s popular orchestral suite The Planets. Inspired by early 20th century ideas about astrology and mythic symbols of the solar system, Holst’s visionary masterpiece is a perennial favorite among classical music fans with an interest in mysticism and fantasy.

Utilizing cost-effective 3D animation techniques, the movie will combine imaginative visual effects and a dramatic Odyssey-like storyline to create a ritual journey through life, from the fire and anger of youth to the wisdom of old age. It features a lively 2014 arrangement and recording of the The Planets by David C. Hëvvit, an experienced soundtrack artist for television and film.

The producers are currently organizing a first-round crowdfunding campaign to finance the early stages of production and related expenses. Interested parties can email a message to bragi@grailmedia.com.

Thea is traveling in Mongolia this Autumn envisioning a traveling museum, a ger–a Mongolian yurt–with Mesozoic scenery painted on canvas around the outside, and dinosaur bones and activities inside.

Follow her adventures here: https://futuristnaturalist.com/2015/08/11/for-mongolia-the-future-rides-in-on-dinosaurs/

Publications: Papers, Books

Articles

Our music reporter, Robyn Perry, has recently become an author for CVLT Nation, “The Home of Heavy Metal Culture”. As a music history writer for the site, topics of her articles include punk’s roots in 1960s garage rock; Chinese rock and heavy metal; the androgyny of 1980s hair metal; and an album review of ‘Russian surf band Gulag Tunes’ 2006 album Мелодии и ритмы Гулага, or, roughly translated, Melodies and rhythms of the Gulag. Find her author’s page on CVLT Nation here.
She also just had her first academic paper “Surf Rock and Its Effect on California Culture: The Perpetuation of the California Myth” published by Magazine Americana: The American Popular Culture Magazine. Support the beginning of her academic journey by checking it out here.

Robyn will be hosting the SRA’s new Music Pages and “Ritual Arts Radio” featuring the music featured in Coreopsis Journal and some staff favorites beginning in October! Stay “tuned”!

Music and Art

Leslie Fish, Editorial Staff has released “Avalon Has Risen”: a recording dedicated to Leslie Fish’s most inspired bardic and Pagan songs. These songs serve up myth and magic, and Leslie’s unique sense of wonder and humor. The release a 32-page color lyric booklet, crafted by Celtic illustrator Bradley Schenck. Introduction by noted fantasy author Diana L. Paxson. Listen here: http://www.prometheus-music.com/avalon.html

Kristoph Klover produced this recording and it has been released by Prometheus Records. Check out Leslie’s blog here: http://lesliebard.blogspot.com/

Gary R. Boodhoo, occasional Host of the SRA Salons is involved in creating an exhibit of his art works with Deep Dream Vision Quest performs continuous sequential Deep Dream processing on live video. Motion detection reduces the amount of data fed to the neural network. The machine dreams about whatever it last saw until something moves and a new picture arrives.

A neural video installation by interactive designer Gary Boodhoo. Gary created a magic mirror, an ambient interface for discovering creative artificial intelligence. Machine hallucination cools down the hot boundaries of public space. Turns out it’s easier to meet people when they’re aliens too.

Laurie Dietrich, Editing Staff, has four photographs on display in CARAS III, an exploration of the art of portraiture curated by Deborah Keller-Rihn at Centro Cultural Atzlan (1800 Fredericksburg Road #103) for the 2016 Fotoseptiembre USA International Photography Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Closing reception Friday, October 14, 2016 from 6-9pm. Fotoseptiembreusa.com. Her new performance piece, INVOCATION, an experiment in enhanced storytelling (a collaboration with Erik Bosse) will premiere November 4, 2016 at URBAN-15 (2500 S. Presa, San Antonio, TX) as part of the Sonic Provocations series. Invocationtheshow.com. Her short play, DREAM TRAINING, a theatrical trance-journey using dream imagery for the purposes of self-examination and discovery, will premiere October 13 at Jump-Start Performance Co. (710 Fredericksburg Road, San Antonio, TX) as a part of R.E.M., a production of F.I.R.E. Collaborative, and she was invited to be one of the playwrights featured in Viva Theatre Company’s inaugural 48-Hour Play Festival, Sept. 9-11 in San Antonio. Along with her co-conspirators at Expanding Inward (expandinginward.com) she created and facilitated a four-day residential intensive, THE FIVE TRUTHS OF THE UNDERWORLD, using re-storied myth and community ritual for group and individual release, healing and regeneration Sept. 29 – Oct. 4 in St. Louis, MO.