The Last Blast in the Grand Ballroom?

Ownership of the historic Lake Merritt Lodge has been taken over by the City of Oakland. It is still unclear what they plan to do with it, so this next Friday's show, maybe the last in the Lodge's Grand Ballroom. This is where IAO Core recorded it's fabulously successful live CD (the) singularity (recording of live event) last January. The building has been home to such legendary artists as Dario Puga, Jello Biafra, Benjamin Bufano, Jerry Garcia, Richard Brautigan, IAO Core, and countless others.....

Here you may download IAO Core's (the) singularity (recording of live event) Set the First

IAO Core (the) singularity (recording of live event) Set the First

and here it is world. The whole first set : The Waltzincore (Dub) , Hello Little Spark, .. a colour, Radioactivity, Good Evening Blazing Apostles Can I Help You?, Melody of Certain 3, Push the Button, I Feel Closer, You Love Me, Violet Eyes, We Live Again, Vibrating 

and here you may download (the) singularity (recording of live event) Set the Second

IAO Core (the) singularity (recording of live event) Set the Second

The songs in the Second Set: Damien, The Dogtower, Masterhit 3, Strange Powers, Property of Thieves, The Vargtimmon, MA'AT (Drumspace), Salvo after Salvo of Ripened Spores Burst into the Air, The Divine Invasion,
Up-Rising, The Immigrant Song

(the) singularity (live event) was recorded in January 2012 in the Grand Ballroom of the historic Lake Merritt Lodge in Oakland, CA. Avoid prolonged exposure to (the) singularity (live event) if under the influence of children under water and over.the counter cultural back drops into the cornea after a large meal..... Rinse and repeat if necessary....Do Not Panic Unless You Want.To....

IAO Core's (the) singularity (recording of live event) is set loose on the Metaverse!

The new IAO CORE live album,(the) singularity (recording of live event) has been let loose on the Metaverse and it is truly an awesome thing to behold. Culled from three IAO CORE singularity performances of January and February of this year, the songs present a single live album, over 2 hours in length! And while you can download both sets for free starting this weekend, let me tell you how you can best experience, (the) singularity (recording of live event) : When you purchase the whole enchilada directly from Metaversal you get: a beautiful 22 page booklet that includes lyrics and artwork for each of the songs, autographs of each of the IAO Core personnel that appear on the recording, a third CD (another full hour) of music from the singularity performances unavailable elsewhere, and the satisfaction of knowing your 20 dollar purchase keeps the IAO Core in Guitar strings, nine volt batteries, etc for another year. So while you can download it for free, (the) singularity (recording of live event/the whole enchilada!) is available directly from the band and at finer Sonic Emporiums worldwide

the following is part of a piece I did with ”GhostWire” on our new CD "(the) singularity (recording of live event)"

(the) singularity is nearly upon us and I thought I'd give you a few details about some of the album's tracks: Part of the fun of being Iao Core these days is being able to choose songs to perform from our back catalog, and/or improvising them on the spot (would not be possible without my talented band mates!) and/or covers of songs from my life as a huge music fan, that are very emotionally charged and special to me...

The Waltzincore
This song is the first song of every IAO Core performance, a kind of call to the assembled that we are now entering the Metaversal Core. It never sounds the same way twice and of the three “singularity (live events) versions, the one we chose for the CD is like an rambunctious overture built on ascending levels of warm synthesizer and E-bowed guitar, timpani and marimbas, like the industrialized anthem of some tuned in, outsider alien culture, .

Hello Little Spark
This song was on the first IAO CORE album and is the first song I ever wrote lyrics specifically for the music (which doesn’t even sound remotely like the original music, so let‘s think of it as evolutionary) A love song to the life force .The narrative features virtually no metaphors or similes; everything seems to happen at face value--a complicated search for meaning or "interpretation" is unnecessary. Again, the song is closer to traditional American music than love songs heard on the radio. It is direct yet not necessarily blatant or trite since the subject matter is uncommon for contemporary American rock lyrics.

“Give me love, Give me life, a small monkey for a pet,
and girlfriend for my monkey Named “Chabooya crepe suzzette”

When the sasquatch stumbles across the missile silo, and I myself in dream tumble over the white cliffs of Dover, over and over”

(When analyzing song lyrics, certain basic differences from poetry have to be understood and observed. When comparing popular song lyrics to contemporary or classic poetry, it is difficult not to miss a striking difference in quality--song lyrics generally tend to be outspoken and trite where poetry clouds itself in ambiguity and complex imagery. The intelligent rock musician is put in the position of working as hard as a poet or painter, while being expected to accept his gifts with the self- deprecating shrug of the idiot savant.)

Blazing Apostles
begins with a Tibetan horn blasting it’s call as if through remote Himalayan passes and then into a hyper paced electronic jam reminiscent of early Kraftwerk , with an overlay of tweaked manually recorded samples from Ms. Ghose. The backwards drums only make it more surreal... there’s a lot of guitar in this…very greasy…very IAO Core…

Skinflowers.
is all about it’s infectious bass line over a rhythmic sea of hammered strings and a beautiful melody line seemingly composed from sampled animal growls, grunts and other beastly noises. Even more clearly an American song in the best tradition of folk singers like Woody Guthrie or Phil Ochs is…

Royal jELLY
a brilliant bit of electronic cabaret featuring yours truly scat singing a duet with a honeybee. I kid you not! Is that a real horn section in there? Strange and beautiful. It is a song depicting the plight of a bee keeper. My lyrical eye in describing my topic was so sharp that I heard of an actual Bee keeper wondering "what the guy who wrote this song would've thought if he'd ever known a band like the Iao Core was gonna be doin’ it." I consider this the best compliment I ever received for a lyric, obviously because it certifies an authenticity I aimed for.

Dogtower
is another first set song, a reggae infused extravaganza with D. Gardner lending the proceedings tasty if not otherworldly swashes of turntablism. Mega. Lyrically once again everything seems to happen at face value--a complicated search for meaning or "interpretation" is unnecessary.

The Babysitter
is thundering bass, fuzz guitar, drums, an amazing tight power trio piece that reminds me of the early Stranglers: power pop with an edge. Rimi’s recital of the description (in French) of a 16 millimeter stag film involving Infantilism (this film was shown behind the band in our early live performances, endearing us in the hearts of the S.F. fetish underground scene) from the back of the films box gives the whole affair a Euro trashy feel. Even cloistered nuns must know what she's talking about..

Pirouette
This was inspired by the first acoustic tour we did with Tarantula Hawk in Holland and Belgium in 2007, and one mad night in particular when we were driving back from a gig to the hotel we were using as a base. We had plenty of Absinth and primo weed and started to record ourselves accapella making up a song. Kory was in the front singing the keyboard parts, Rimi was singing bass parts, I was singing the melody and Goshi was keeping time on an Absinth bottle with a broken drumstick…our tour manager was laughing so much he could hardly drive and was getting secondarily stoned…We got so excited we got into a series of nipping duels with some badgers down at the grain elevators. you had to be there really…very funny…

MA’AT
is the “magic orgasm” of “(the) singularity (live events)” Let me back up…the order of songs, is of exceptional importance during a Iao Core show. Traditionally, since 1987,a Iao Core show is split into a first and a second set, where the first set is characterized by more conventional songs that are played without too much improvised jamming; the length of the songs stays within reasonable limits as well. The second set, in contrast, features many improvised jams that stretch the songs easily out to fifteen, twenty minutes. At some point in the second set, Goshi and Rimi (percussion & drums) will take over and play an extend drum solo while everyone else leaves the stage. Before they are finished, the other band members return, and Goshi and Rimi leave the stage. What follows is an extended, beatless jam of exploratory sounds known as "Space." Somewhere in the middle of the second set of every Iao Core show the band turns a corner. We enter a musical environment without walls or structure. The song form is abandoned, and the very elements of music may be called into question. The only mandate is to explore new territory. It is an environment where rhythm, tone, color, melody, and harmony can be explored without rules or predetermination, a musical adventure where composition and performance are one. MA'AT is such a piece. After "Space," we will play three or four more songs, commonly ending with a high- energy song like "The Babysitter'" or "Porpoise," and come back for a one-song encore. This pattern forms a relatively firm structure in which highly unstable elements are put--the music is always improvised, and not one song has been played twice the same way, and the actual list of songs played always varies, to the point where not even the band members know what we will play before we go on stage. This is of high importance because…………

IAO Core : The Divine Invasion "Live 2012"

Masterhit 3 and Strange Powers performed live at (the) singula...

well, (the) singularity (album, download, CD etc...) comes out tomorrow (Vernal Equinox)
 in more formats than i ever imagined you could distribute condensed Love before
(who wants an 8 track cassette and who's wants the simstim!?!)
and so today i'm sneakin' ya'll this little gem of a performance video from (the) very same "singularity"
shows that gave us the album material of which everyone is privy to tomorrow..... got it? good...
enjoy this, as usual, with volume on 11....

IAO Core: Radioactivity

(the) singularity (event) 2-17-2012 BiG ELECTRIC CAT

the following is part of an interview I did with "the Wire" on (the) singularity (events) and specifically Big Electric Cat....

""singularity" refers to the emergence of greater-than-human intelligence through technological means, resulting in explosive superintelligence. Since the capabilities of such intelligence would be difficult for an unaided human mind to comprehend, the occurrence of a technological singularity has in the past been seen as an intellectual event horizon, beyond which events could not be predicted or understood. Terrence McKenna once descried the singularity as "the Transcendental Object(at the end of Time)" and this stuck with me. He also speculated that 2012 would be the year of it's arrival. Now, Object relations theory is a psychodynamic theory within psychoanalytic psychology. The theory describes the process of developing a psyche as one grows in relation to the environment. The basis of the theory is that the way we relate to people (and situations) in our adult world was programmed into us by the way we experienced our parents when we were infants and while we grow up.The Self (or subject) relates to Objects in the unconscious. "Objects" can be images (internalized) of one's mother or father. Objects can also be parts of a person, for instance an infant relating to the breast..Objects may be both real or things in one's inner world (one's internalized image of others)..At (these) singularity performances I got to sculpt these "Transcendental Objects" in real time, out of our songs and our visuals, while I was performing. The cues consisted of lighting effects, animation of elements of the set, the mandelbulber program, particle effects, L-systems, and even a big electric cat.. The sound reactive is also important. We used audio analysis to displace textures that then became light projections. Audio was also used for modulating particle dynamics, even the geometry in "Hello little Spark" using a vertex shader. We were getting frame-rates of between 17-60fps rendering stereo at 1024x576.

Part of the fun of being Iao Core these days is being able to choose songs to perform from our back catalog, and/or improvising them on the spot (would not be possible without my talented bandmates!) and/or covers of songs from my life as a huge music fan, that are very emotionally charged and special to me.. Adrian Belew was such an inspiration musician when I was a lad, the noises and sounds he squonked out of his guitar blew my young mind, things like "Elephant Talk" and such, so you can imagine how much fun it is fover me to cover "Big Electric Cat " and then sculpt it into a "Transcendental Object", or "Aural Sculpture", if you will.......

IAO Core: (the) singularity part 4: Hello Little Spark / Hallelujah

What appears as blackness in this case is a visual field so rich in data you can't see the florist for the bees. So just surrender and take things [It's not necessary to write this down -it will happen to you again, in the same way] shaggy muzzle of a perfunctory dispatch nuzzles your crotch and growls at the same time. Some will begin torso-miming the first act of a logistical play, startling and incestuous protective and cacoëpistic, so pretty and artistic, vernacular and déclassé little flyers.

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

(the) singularity (live event) part 3 Damien/ TMATLAWFP

one of my favorite "singularity' moments, the classic Legendary Pink Dots song,
with all due respect to Mr. Edward KaSpel. I love the acoustics in the Grand Ballroom
which is in Oakland, California, which may or may not be the arsehole of the Metaverse, but one thing is certain: Art of this almost other-worldly nature could not be created within the confines of the civilized world. It is Art that pleads a kind of lost divine madness a its guiding inspiration. the center will make itself known to those who will be a part of it there and who will find their way there and those who are to be a part of it in another location will also respond to the gravitational pull of Love in evolution, embracing the death of the false, for the endless perpetuation of the real, via the mysterious process of change, which is the dance performed by that which is immortal in us …and is the perceptible part of the divine in demonstration of it. In any case, help is on the way. Endure and believe, because, whatever happens is supposed to happen, because evil is in the process of destroying itself; however they do it, let them do it. Get out of their way. Believe me…. They will be running for the fire doors. Step aside. You know what? Don’t listen to me. You can do as you like. Do something. Don’t do something. Enjoy listening to the new Iao Core album. “Singularity“. The ball is either in your court or the dealer wants to know if you would like a card. I can’t make that decision for you but based on what I have experienced, read about, dreamed …and… that inexplicable thing. I think you are going to be okay if you are and if you are not; then there’s still time because you are reading this.

(the) singularity (release event) will take place on Friday, February 17th

The legendary IAO Core, purveyors of epic noise rock delicacies, perform live in the Grand Ballroom of the historic Lake Merritt Lodge in Oakland, to promote their 23rd album,"(the) singularity". The "songs", newly formed in atom smashers, are like albino dachshunds charging out from the catacombs into the brilliant embrace of the sky which stands for a moment on a guitar string, strung out on the background of something very continuous. ("String theory" need not be altogether esoteric.) You can have the whole enchilada. It awaits you in beckoning repose. As well as download, three physical formats of the album will be available. Alongside the standard CD release, there will be a limited double pack CD including a recording of the acoustic set from January's "(the) singularity (event)". A real treat is in store for all the vinyl junkies out there as "(the) singularity" will also be released on a limited edition vinyl LP. More details will follow soon including an interview with Johannes about the album...All due respect to the following "singularity" incarnations: The Magus (Johannes Ayres); The Reaper (Luke Skeels); Emperor Agni (Corey Christopher); Mistress Fortune (Rimi Ghose); The Jesters (Seofon and Travis T. Cortez); and The Sonne (Kris Force). This ritual is brought to you by IAO Core.

The Core issue 93 release event and Iao Core: “Singularity” CD Listening Party

They are soooo here. The Winter 2011/2012 copies of the 93rd issue of The Core. These gorgeous, hand made, investment quality art zines are limited to 200 copies of each issue. Each mag has a painting of an Enochian Angel by yours truly, Johannes Ayres, as it's back cover, so this will be the last time all 200 paintings can be viewed at the same time and anyone interested in picking out the painting they want gracing the back of their copy can do so. This Friday evening, I will show you the process of production of the Enochian Angel Paintings, and you can view all 200 before they catch the four winds, and be the first to hear the new Iao Core CD "singularity" (it's awesome). Live performances by

spiffywingedserpent
and
Strontium 90 (Japan)

Neon Leon and ADHDJ
will spin Electronic Body Music, and some will begin torso-miming the first act of a logistical play, startling and incestuous protective and cacoëpistic, so pretty and artistic, vernacular and déclassé little flyers.

Celebrity guests will read excerpts from the new issue of The Core
and Cash Hose will give a slide presentation/lecture on his recent trip to the Abyss …
Will there be Time-traveling Sex Magicians? Yes, there will Time-traveling Sex Magicians, and there’s an amazing Tarot reader (a bastard daughter of yours, if Reverend Martini is to be believed) who will read the cards for you for tips and cheese. You needn’t dress in any but the most perfunctory manner nor bring any crickets (there will be plenty of those!) Intelligence is the greatest aphrodisiac, but a dab of extract from a civet's anal gland and a nice pair of shoes will work just as well today. This event is free of charge before 9:00 and 5 dollars after and will take place from 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Historic Merritt Lodge, 2332 Harrison in Oakland, California, which may or may not be the arsehole of the universe, but one thing is certain: Art of this almost other-worldly nature could not be created within the confines of the civilized world. It is Art that pleads a kind of lost divine madness a its guiding inspiration. the center will make itself known to those who will be a part of it there and who will find their way there and those who are to be a part of it in another location will also respond to the gravitational pull of Love in evolution, embracing the death of the false, for the endless perpetuation of the real, via the mysterious process of change, which is the dance performed by that which is immortal in us …and is the perceptible part of the divine in demonstration of it. In any case, help is on the way. Endure and believe, because, whatever happens is supposed to happen, because evil is in the process of destroying itself; however they do it, let them do it. Get out of their way. Believe me…. They will be running for the fire doors. Step aside. You know what? Don’t listen to me. You can do as you like. Do something. Don’t do something. Enjoy listening to the new Iao Core album. “Singularity“. The ball is either in your court or the dealer wants to know if you would like a card. I can’t make that decision for you but based on what I have experienced, read about, dreamed …and… that inexplicable thing. I think you are going to be okay if you are and if you are not; then there’s still time because you are reading this...............................................................................................................................
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What is most important to this Core Event is your Presence…. At sunrise on Saturday the 21st, IAO Core invites you to the rooftop of the Lake Merrtit Lodge for a secret set. Don't spend the morning in the living room, searching for the previous evening as though it were a dissevered cobra, the sections of which were hidden here and there about the room. . . No matter how cleverly you seek, however, you can't seem to find the head or the tip of its other extremity, the tail; so you are by no means certain of the creature’s real dimension, of how much there was left to uncover. Even when you check behind what we all thought to be the object which might most obviously conceal a clue— a curiously slashed landscape painting which hung at a disconcerting angle on the fruit-splattered wall— you'll find nothing but a pair of immaculate formal gloves nailed to the plaster. The real deal will take place on the rooftop..../..

IAO Core performs Up-rising and the Immigrant Song Live 1-6-2012

,….. The Legendary IAO Core in the Grand Ballroom of the historic Lake Merritt Lodge, Oakland CA
To the Lightcrafty, the karios of the moment imparts a dark, and bitter-sweet flavor. The IAO Core was fully functional, informing the uninitiated we’re all going down the rabbit-hole. And that’s an order. "Hello little Spark" first time heard since 1993 (revolution, up-rising ) and sexy musick, (breakdown and renewal) IAO Core is the longest arm of the key theme presented in this arena era of transformative contra puntal fugue. Corey playing bass and Luke Skeels Hyper-Abyssic heavyweight guitar histronics where never exactly 90 degrees apart seven times, offering the people of Oakland and the world and the other world a chance to realize how much power punch they serve in those chops If every song in the whole show was laid into end Punches would be thrown out of windows, showering spirits upon those living below the party line. Nightcaps will be dislodged an hour later on holidays, extending daylight for the revellers and looters.At this juncture, humanity, the whole stinking roiling contentious disparate, and dysfunctional mass of us, over these next 12 precious months, needs to learn to address every cat with the greeting ‘Good afternoon, Mr. Ravenscrofte’the IAO Core is hence more, even if the cat is female, and even if it isn’t the afternoon. Doff your hat if you’re wearing one; click your heels if
your not....

Live 8-9-11 Rite of Sol/ Set One

IAO Core: Live 8-9-11 Rite of Sol/ Set One

Download "Live from the Orange Peel" here for free!

IAO Core: Live from the Orange Peel, Set 1
"By giving our ancestors certain ideas and techniques, the Metaverse insures its own manifestation(s). As a performer the last thing I am concerned with is what I’m going to do about it. I’m not going to do anything. I have been doing it all along and so have you. When Iao Core plays a gig like "The Orange Peel", we are doing what we have been doing but now we bring others too, awestruck in nerve-cathedrals of confounding microcircuitous elegance, fabulously vivid and animated beyond belief.. Shows like that remind one that once an event has happened in this sphere, it’s frozen into the Order of Mainstream Reality and cannot “unhappen”. It weaves it’s way into our lives so it’s Information can be exchanged on levels other than the physical, and isn’t limited by Time’s arrow. It was like the central shaft of a sunflower. You can have the whole enchilada. It awaits you in beckoning repose." ... JRA