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Magick Matters
"Fossil Angels is a brilliant synthesis of many of the ideas of the acclaimed Alan Moore, one of the best graphic novel writers of all time and author of masterpieces such as From Hell, Promethea, V for Vendetta and Watchmen. Here is probably the best and most awesome of his works. Fossil Angels, written with brutal honesty, is a manifesto in defense of art and magic, a call to arms where all its obsessions and all its heroes come together: Aleister Crowley and the Golden Dawn occult secret society, the mythical magician John Dee, William Blake and the cathartic force of psychedelic rock bands. Alan Moore, with his prodigious erudition, makes us ask questions,...>>
"In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of "sonic phantoms": auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a "phantasmatic" presence.
Structured around a large body of compositional work developed by Ellison over the past decade, sonic phantoms are revealed and illustrated as they arise through a diverse array of musical sources, materials, techniques, and compositional tools: voices (real and synthetic), field recordings, instrument manipulation, object amplification, improvisation, and recording studio techniques. Somehow inherent in all music—and perhaps in all sound—sonic phantoms lurk and stalk with the promise of mystery and elevation. We just need to conjure them."...>>
