Black Note Music News



March 2010	RFCL - ISULA - A New Black Note CD A collection of dubtronic experiments connected by a particular creative process and a minimalist aesthetic.
February 2010	Categories of Knowledge - A new web art piece on Deconstructionist. Love Song - A new Black Note Video on YouTube A new review of Kyron - Union on Pal Reviews. Check it out here. Produce To Be Good - A new Black Note Video on YouTube
January 2010	Mirror - A new Black Note Video on YouTube Gently - A new Black Note Video on YouTube
December 2009	Kyron - Union - A New Black Note CD A smooth experimental ambient electronic listening experience laced with traces of glitch and tribal. The Roots of Motivation - A new Black Note Video on YouTube
November 2009	Truth - A new Black Note Video on YouTube VIKADI - 36 Experiments with Video, Image, Language and Sound A new web art piece on Deconstructionist.
October 2009	Jealous God - A new web art piece on Via Sinistrae. A new review of Kyron and Molina - Melting Point on Heathen Harvest. Check it out here. Bacchanal - A new Black Note Video on YouTube
September 2009	Via Sinistrae - LEHADBIK - A New Black Note Music CD Trace the sonic maps of a timeless labyrinth with this unpredictable mix of Dub, Electronica, Noise, Industrial and raw Magick. Madness Is The Limit - A new Black Note Video on YouTube The Desert of the Real - A new web art piece on Via Luminosa.
August 2009	The Movement Center - A new Black Note Video on YouTube The Blue Roads - A new web art piece on Via Luminosa. Thanking Timothy Leary - A new Black Note Video on YouTube
July 2009	The Transcendence Algorithm - A new Black Note Video on YouTube Pajarito - A new Black Note Video on YouTube Tales of the Race of Ka - A new web art piece on Via Sinistrae.
June 2009	RFCL - The Heart of the Music Box - A New Black Note Music CD A constantly shifting dub voyage laced with unrepentant noise, traveling slowly into chaotic dispersion. Path - A new Black Note Video on YouTube Underneath - A new web art piece on Deconstructionist. Visions of Emma Sutro - A new Black Note Video on YouTube
May 2009	Puppets - A new Black Note Video on YouTube They Ride The Waves - A new Black Note Video on YouTube Radio Free Clear Light Art Exhibit at Aspect Art Gallery Aspect Art Gallery, 731 Polk, San Francisco, CA 94109 415-563-3596 Opening Reception: May 15th, 6-9:30pm Show Runs from May 15th-June 15th Masquerade - A new web art piece on Deconstructionist. Conflict - A new web art piece on Deconstructionist. The Angel of Danger - A new Black Note Video on YouTube Clear And Ancient Knowledge - A New Transmission on the Via Sinistrae Podcast. (download it here)
April 2009	Projective Module "That And Nothing Else..." - A New Black Note Music CD From their own perception and interpretation of these celestial footprints in the abyss, three immortal descendants of the primordial Mother and Queen of the Heavens bring you Projective Module Inner Dialogue - A new web art piece on Deconstructionist. A new review of Kyron X Griddle - CIty Made Of Teeth on Heathen Harvest. Check it out here. Kyron Interview on KUSF - Go to the second hour for the interview.
March 2009	Rorschach - A new Black Note Video on YouTube Inner City Bondage - A new Black Note Video on YouTube To Create - A new Black Note Video on YouTube
February 2009	Kyron and Molina - Melting Point - A New Black Note Music CD Melting Point is an audio artifact from a night of electroacousticl experimentation and a collection of the musical explorations and remixes that developed from it. Both improvised and composed elements are woven together to form a continuous whole. Banishment - A new Black Note Video on YouTube Radio Free Clear Light Art Exhibit at Gallery Cafe in San Francisco Click here for a report on the show RFCL pushes the edge of coffee-shop decency to bring out subversive hints of erotic darkness. Show runs all of February 2009 Gallery Café 1200 Mason St, San Francisco, CA 94108 (415) 296-9932
January 2009	Pieces of Me - A new Black Note Video on YouTube Water - A new Black Note Video on YouTube They Do As They Wish - A new Black Note Video on YouTube I Am Beyond Time - A new Black Note Video on YouTube The Wrong Side of Bardo Town - A new Black Note Video on YouTube
December 2008	I Am The Glory - A new Black Note Video on YouTube The Flight of a Bird of Prey - A new web page on SF Bardo The End Of Advice - A new Black Note Video on YouTube I Am The Power - A new Black Note Video on YouTube To A Stranger - A new web page on SF Bardo
November 2008	The Understanding of Chaos - A new Black Note Video on YouTube Newt And The Silver Key - A new Black Note Video on YouTube In The Palm Of Your Hand - A new web page on SF Bardo The Act of Creation - A new Black Note Video on YouTube Sanctuary - A new Story on Extradimensional. Pleasure Dome - A new Black Note Video on YouTube The River - A new Black Note Video on YouTube
October 2008	Kyron x Griddle - City Made Of Teeth - A New Black Note Music CD An Explosion of Musical Permutations from a Single Seed Seventeen distinct tracks await the caress of an attentive ear, all derived from a single song originally recorded by psychedelic progressive rock band, Griddle. I am The Kingdom - A New Black Note Video on YouTube City At The Mouth - A New Black Note Video on YouTube KEY - A New Black Note Video on YouTube Radio Free Clear Light Art Exhibit at Gallery 159 in Vallejo Click here for a report on the event An exploration of the simple objects we take for granted, for one month, the gallery space will beg us to pay closer attention to the wonders disguised as the mundane. Show runs from: October 3rd-24th Opening reception: Friday, October 3rd 7-10pm Gallery 159 - 628 Marin Street Vallejo, CA www.159online.com 707-501-7041
September 2008	Hero Of The People - A New Black Note Video on YouTube A Ghost in El Salvador - A New Blog on Kyron's experiences in El Salvador At The City's Edge - A New Black Note Video on YouTube
August 2008	The Endless Reel - A New Black Note Video on YouTube Paranoid Systems - A New Web Page / Video Combination on Deconstructionist Life Was Different Then... - A New Black Note Video on YouTube The Vast Invisible World - A New Black Note Video on YouTube Falling Into The Human - A New Black Note Video on YouTube Predator - A New Black Note Video on YouTube
July 2008	Union - A Web Labyrinth on Via Luminosa Reminder to the Eternal Voyager - A New Black Note Video on YouTube After The Revolution - A New Black Note Video on YouTube An Interview with RU Sirius - A New Black Note Video on YouTube The Vast Invisible World - A New Transmission on the Via Sinistrae Podcast. (download it here) The Ritual Begins - A New Black Note Video on YouTube The Solar Body - A New Black Note Video on YouTube
June 2008	The Grace of God - A New Black Note Video on YouTube Far Away From Home - A New Story on Extradimensional. Waterboarding is Torture - A New Black Note Video on YouTube Through the Labyrinth - A New Black Note Video on YouTube Into The Flames - A New Black Note Video on YouTube
May 2008	The Grace of God - An Encounter with the Holy Hobo - A New Page on Via Sinistrae The Surface of Reality - A New Black Note Video on YouTube Worlds of Gold - A New Page on Via Sinistrae The Ritual Begins - A New Transmission on the Via Sinistrae Podcast. (download it here) Tears Flow - A New Page on Via Sinistrae New Soundtrack for The Life of Surfers
April 2008	Eye Over Body - A New Black Note Video on YouTube The Solar Body - A New Page on Via Sinistrae Kyron - Sonic Mandalas - A New Black Note CD An electronic aural transmutation of ancient principles...from expansive bright moods to dark ambient spaces and everything in between. New Soundtrack for A Moment of Freedom In Search of the Ordinary - An RFCL Art Exhibit at Melt! in North Beach, San Francisco throughout the month of April Monday – Friday 11:00am-10:00pm Located at 700 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
March 2008	Radio Free Clear Light Art Exhibit at Philz Coffee A show of Avant Portraits taken of the various denizens of Philz forming a mirror gateway into a heightened reality. Philz is at 3101 24th St @ Folsom and is open Weekdays 6:30a – 8:30p Weekends 7:00a- 8:30p Ten of Clubs - A new web page on Via Sinistrae Tale of the Baby Birds - A New Transmission on our Podcast (download it here). Today March 13 2008 - A new web page on Via Sinistrae Down the Rabbit Hole - A new web page on Via Sinistrae Kyriel - A new character added to Extradimensional. A new review of RFCL-Live at Godspeed on Heathen Harvest. Check it out here. New soundtrack for I Followed the Flight of the Eagle
February 2008	The Invocation of the Medusa - A New transmission on our Podcast (download it here) Io Pan - A New Black Note Video on YouTube Yog Sothoth - A New web page on Via Sinistrae Radio Free Clear Light Art Exhibit at OFF Brava space - as part of Mission Art and Performance Project. New soundtrack for The Story of Don Florentino
January 2008	Waiting for the Mission - A new story on Extradimensional. The Limits of Language - A new web art piece on Deconstructionist. Micro Spaces - A new Black Note Video on YouTube Hidden Veins - A new web art piece on Via Sinistrae.
December 2007	Two for the Road - A New Black Note Video on YouTube Radio Free Clear Light Art Show at ORE Projectz Pieces selected from the In Search of the Ordinary Collection; a series that explores street corners of the San Francisco Sunset District as windows into the realm of the fantastic. The show ran from December 15, 2007 through the first week of January 2008. Awake and Release - A New Black Note Video on YouTube Through the Labyrinth - A New Transmission on our Podcast (download it here) Stockhausen Beneath The Surface - A tribute to one of the greatest composers of the 20th Century.
November 2007	That's the Way - A new web art piece on Via Sinistrae. Opera Rotas - A New Transmission on our Podcast (download it here.) Force and Only Force - A new web art piece on Deconstructionist.
October 2007	RFCL - Live at Godspeed - A New Black Note CD A live recording of the ritual performance in June at Godspeed Cafe in Oakland. Devious intent sugar coated in silky electronic noise; your passport into the unknown. Kyron performs with Transient at the Climate Theater. Ecstatic Muse Art Show - A Radio Free Clear Light Art Exhibit Kyron performs with David Molina at the Y2K7 International Looping Festival. Kanenas - A New Transmission on our Podcast (download it here).
September 2007	Forbidden Corners - A New Black Note Video on You Tube New Booklet : "Web of Words" Available on Mad Dog Magick - This book works to engage both your rational waking consciousness and the deeper pre-linguistic subconscious mind for maximum absorption of the teaching presented. A new review of "Kyron - Dark Goddess" on Heathen Harvest. Check it out here. Experience is a Tunnel - A New Black Note Video on You Tube Io Pan - A New Transmission on our Podcast (download it here).
August 2007	KROKOS - A Compendium of 36 Magickal Actions A renovated version of "Where They Make a Desert..." - our video commentary on the war in Irak and the endless Empire. The Halub Tree - A New Transmission on our podcast. A new graphic booklet: "The Ancient Art of Protection" available at Mad Dog Magick. 2 New Videos of RFCL Performances. Check them out on YouTube below: RFCL with Carlos Cartagena at Illusion, Mission Cultural Center, in San Francisco RFCL at Godspeed in Oakland
July 2007	Avant Portraits is launched. We explore the strangeness behind the mask. For The Gods Are Here - A new page on Via Sinistrae, based on a text by Borges. Cogs - A new transmission on our podcast.
June 2007	RFCL at Godspeed Cafe in Oakland "The Heart of the Music Box" Video See it On YouTube or on IFILM And visit the Via Sinistrae page derived from the video here. Murmur - Art Exhibit at L's Cafe. Our shamanic psychedelic graphics currently on display. From May 20 - June 20 Seven Temples - A new transmission on our podcast. RFCL once again at MAPP June 2 - This time the unpredictable invocation was at Sundance Cafe on 24th St. RFCL performs at Ilusion June 1 - A collaborative effort of over 50 artists hosted by the Mission Cultural Center.
May 2007	DARK GODDESS - A New KYRON CD "Electronic soundscapes that conjure cyberpunk images give way to organic beats, croaking, and mirthful debauchery." Lydia aka Istra has officially joined our team. Meet Lydia here. 2 New Transmissions on the Via Sinistrae Podcast: Image and Beauty Crosswords - A New Interactive Object on All Hail Discordia Nothing to Protect- A New Addition to the Beauty Process Diagnosis of the Woman - A New Interactive Page on Deconstructionist
April 2007	Radio Free Clear Light- Interactive Performance at L's Cafe as part of MAPP. An interactive exploration of the border lands between the Image and the Real. What really lies behind the conditioned perceptions of our programmed nervous systems? Check out a video of the event: LONG VERSION - IFILM SHORT VERSION - YouTube Kyron performs with David Molina at Melting Point Gallery. Check out the details here: Melting Point Live Improvised Film Score.
March 2007	Via Sinistrae Podcast is up and running! A series of readings and improvisations, colored with joyful noise and fractalized electronics. Check it out here: http://sinistrae.libsyn.com/ Chambers in the Labyrinth Blog - A careful exploration of the many chambers of the multidimensional labyrinth. Each one may offer a clue, a tantalizing hint, that will blossom into full significance as it finds its place in the Infinite Mandala. Check it out here: http://chambersinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com/ A multilevel tribute to Hugo Chavez here: The Devil's Recipe
February 2007	Mad Dog Magick Blog - A continuing series of notes, thoughts and experiments that pertain to our own magickal work and may be of use to others in the same or similar path. Check it out here: http://maddogmagick.blogspot.com/
January 2007	A new review of "Via Sinistrae - The Tower" on Heathen Harvest. Check it out here: http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=2007012513235820 Several Black Note Music titles are now a part of Pandora, a revolutionary internet radio. Check out Via Sinistrae on Pandora here: www.pandora.com Several Black Note Music titles are now available for purchase on Itunes. "The Tower" is here: viewAlbum-playListId=201725437 "Triborg" is here: viewAlbum-playListId=210491209
December 2006	Courageous Mutation - A shadow fairy tale constructed as a deep collaboration between two writers and photographers. A further experiment into the creative collective process. Follow the link here: http://www.viasinistrae.com/mutation01.htm
October 2006	Via Sinistrae Live- The Tower will be released by the end of the month. The intensity of a Via Sinistrae event has been captured and distilled for your ear. This CD will be available through our catalog and at www.viasinistrae.com .
September 2006	Black Note classic Triborg had a makeover recently, bringing new life to one of our most beloved titles. Digitally re-mastered and re-released for 2006, Triborg is a magical mix of live bass, electronic samples, electric guitar, heavily processed supersonic squeals and phat beats!
August 2006	You can now get your hands on some cool Black Note merchandise. Visit http://www.cafepress.com/blacknote and find T-shirts, totes, and more.
July 2006	Several Black Note titles became available through www.shamanmusic.com this month, among them our best seller The Lesser Ritual of Banishment. For those that enjoy the music offered through Black Note, we’d like to point to a series of interactive pages featuring text, graphics, and sound. At www.allhaildiscordia.com you will find audio/visual experiments created by JC Mendizabal and Etanna Sack.
June 2006	Via Sinistrae is being held at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco California on June 23 at 7:30. Tickets may be purchased in advance at www.viasinistrae.com Our newest release, Doorways is available through our catalog and with select retailers this month. "The latest CD by JC Mendizabal, the person behind this project, can hardly be compared with his previous ones. Doorways is a 65-minute long apocalyptic score for a lovely psychological horror trip." -Phosphor Magazine #121 View the rest of this review here.
May 2006	We’re welcoming a new member to our team this month. Meet Etanna here.
March 2006	This month Kyron’s newest release, Fin de Etapa becomes available. Fin de Etapa is a very intimate and personal story told through a sequence of musical and pure sound pieces in a great variety of styles (ambient, krautrock, prog, glitch, dub and raw uncompromising noise). The main unifying factor is the ongoing storyline as it is told through samples taken from voice messages. Fin de Etapa is an unpredictable episodic musical voyage through a tale of magic, friendship and sorrow. Visit our catalog and read the reviews.
February 2006	Experience Via Sinistrae- The Tower on February 4th at Xicoco Shamanic Arts in Riverside, California. The sonic vibrations of Kyron will accompany dancers in this final episode of a series of invocations held at Xicoco since December. This is the last performance Kyron is scheduled to give in Riverside this year, so catch him while you can! See www.viasinistrae.com and www.xicoco.com for more information.
January 2006	Via Sinistrae hits Riverside again this month on January 7th at Xicoco Shamanic Arts. Via Sinistrae- The Chariot will as usual feature the live music of Kyron. See www.viasinistrae.com and www.xicoco.com for more information.
December 2005	Kyron will perform in at Xicoco Shamanic Arts in Riverside California this month. On December 3rd catch him for a Shamanic Storytelling featuring the vocal stylings of Lavonne Deguma and a performance by Liebre and Tortuga. On December 4th he will perform in Via Sinistrae- The Empress, an ecstatic Dance and Invocation. For details visit www.viasinistrae.com and www.xicoco.com .
November 2005	Morpho Genex becomes available this month through our online store. You can also find this latest release from Kyron at CDbaby.com and in select stores.
October 2005	Trip Tech’s latest creation Slide will be available this month through our online storefront. The release features David Collin playing a 1931 Rickenbacher lap steel guitar, one of the first electronic instruments. Kyron drops in with his own jazzy blues guitar, dubtronics and unpredictable harmonies and arrangements. Beyond the brain, the sounds interweave and become pure music, folk electronica, ambient blues... wordless songs out of dreams and dashes of sound that will seep through your nervous system in moments of pure silence.
September 2005	Kyron strikes again bringing us the second installment of Shaman Music. Sacred Shamanic Sex was created as an active element to accompany a series of live tantric invocations. It’s now available at our storefront and through select retailers. Kyron , David Collin, and their theatric accomplice Koyote will be stirring things up at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco with a Via Sinistrae on September 10th at 6pm. This event will feature the live musical workings of Trip Tech.
August 2005	On August 1st Via Sinistrae will take place at Xicoco Shamanic Arts in Riverside. For more information about this performance visit www.viasinistrae.com