BNbanner06v4.jpg (109073 bytes)
home.jpg (10128 bytes)catalog.jpg (10967 bytes)bios.jpg (9707 bytes)news.jpg (10081 bytes)ARTIFACTS.jpg (11525 bytes)links.jpg (10123 bytes)

dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)
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

dot_clear.gif (807 bytes) dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)


Catalog - Black Note Music ] Kyron - Sonic Mandalas ] RFCL - Live at Godspeed ] Kyron - Dark Goddess ] The Lesser Ritual of Banishment ] Journey to Alpha ] Journey to Theta ] Kyron - Shamanmusic 2 - Sacred Shamanic Sex ] Shaman Music 1 - First Voyage - Kyron ] Via Sinistrae - The Tower ] Prospero - Fibonacci ] Children of the Secret ] Kyron - Doorways ] Kyron - Fin De Etapa ] Kyron - Morpho Genex ] Trip Tech - SLIDE ] Kyron - Whims Vol 2 ] Trip Tech - Silent Apocalypse ] Kyron - Persistence of Secrets ] RFCL - Black Valley ] RFCL - Treading Softly Against the Tide ] RFCL - Mobius Stream ] Cortex Burn - De Pelos! ] Kyron - KAOS Drone ] Kyron - Music Boxes ] Kyron - Whims ] Ion Evo - Troopers ] Spaces - Kyron ] Canciones Prohibidas de El Salvador - Kyron ] Ion Evo - On a Path of Rainbows ] Ion Evo - Rebirth ] Seraphim ] Solar Shop 2 ] Triborg ] Modus Operandi ] Zelda and Roland ] Kyron - Klav 1 ] Iris ] Apeshit ] Zoul Bahshroomti ] Cortex Burn ] Chimps in Space ] Ether Bunny ] Ion Evo ] Jungle Monkeys ] El Mozote ] Solar Shop ] Black Note Music - Who are we? ] Links ] Black Note - Music that we Like ] MP3 Tutorial ] [ Black Note Music News ]
Black Note Music ] Limits of Language ] Stockhausen beneath the Surface ] Force and Only Force ] The Thinking That Created Me ] Idoru ] Haditha ] Diagnosis of the Woman ] The Manipulation of Chromatic Alien Dancers ] Mandala 060320 ] Clarification ] Woman ] To Like or not to Like ] War Crime ] Romance ] The Art of Protection ] The Devil's Recipe ] Many Faces of Hysteria ] Penetrating Psychology ] Links ]

Please send all questions, comments or suggestions to
jcmg@earthlink.net