ALT.SPACE conference+ JUNGLE AAA MANIFESTO
Anna Balint
epistolaris at freemail.hu
Mon Jun 3 14:37:08 CEST 2002
http://www.socialfiction.org/jungleaaa/alt_space.htm
ALT.SPACE: Saturday 15 June
Conference about alternative, unusual, provocative & post-democratic
approaches to outer space
Organised by the Jungle Association of Autonomous Astronauts in kind coöperation with Smart
Project Space
Programm:
Jeroen Kumeling [UFO expert, founder of ufonet]
Siebe Thissen [on: The imagination of outer space in popculture]
Jungle AAA [Localizing the Jungle vector]
Ricky Seabra [Developer of the ISADORA space module]
Noortje Marres [About a trip to Baikonur: the technical
imagination and the fallout of space travel]
Károly Toth [Zero G lab]
Debra Soloman [Artrace in Space]
Steve Korver [Steve Korver tells Tales of a Gagarin Obsession...]
PIDPI [closing performance by the alians from 'De Hondenkoekjesfabriek']
At the same time Smart Project Space will host the
exhibition "Crafting Space - a Smart Space Project".
Open from June 1 to July 7
Tuesday - Saturday 12.00 - 22.00 / Sunday 14.00 - 22.00
Where? Smart Project Space, Constantijn Huygenstraat 20 Amsterdam
Start? 13.00 hour
Admission? Free
Want to participate? mail us @ jungleaaa at socialfiction.org
Godspeed Luther Blissett
JUNGLE AAA MANIFESTO
1) The development of breakbeatscience
Every junglist knows the sensation of the surging bassline, the unsurpassable angle of
the break, which drags the body out of bourgeois catatonia & put's it into the
hyper-kinetic ultra-physic audiostrata of autonomous atronautism. Hiphop & jungle both
respond to the body without interfering with 'the mind'. Hiphop moves - and that's the
difference - horizontally & jungle vertically: all the way up, immer gerade aus, into
space; jungle wishes to stretch & gummify the body akin to the way in which a vocoder
manipulates a voice to 1000 extra-planetary levels, which will never be achieved, not on
this stinking planet that is. Earth is not suitable for the total realisation of jungle & for this
& 333 other reasons JUNGLE AAA strives towards a phonoxodus into space, with
jungle as its main catalyst.Breakbeatscience is its instrument; the productional alchemy
that isolates, manipulates & modifies music's DNA into supra-energetic entities which,
when shaped into clusters of breakbeat extravaganza, form their own engine: the
rhythm engine. What in biology is called genetic engineering is labeled drum'n'bass in
music; no vulnerable material in a petri dish, but sonic amoebaliens which compressed
into high volumes are the source of the explosive combustible fuel for the rhythm
engine.Breakbeatscience introduced space on earth, now JUNGLE AAA's space
programme is going to get earth into space.
2) The promotion of psychoaudiology
Psychoaudiology is the sonic fiction of the break. A renegade form of breakbeatscience
which is however also it's inevitable future. A psychoaudiologist is the Ubu Roi of
Patajunglism, the study of jungle that does not exist, but should exist in another, better
world. As the successive step after the audiopsychologist DJ, who has become a front
& a tool for the 4 powers who want to keep us on this earth, the psychoaudiologist is
the mantronix who eviscerates G-forces & the acetate audiokaryogram in a live
dialoremix on at least 3 decks in which the sound of today is turntabilized into the
space'n'bass of the phuture. The sonic fiction of today is the sonic fact of tomorrow.
One of psychoadiology's biggest strengths is its gigabyte capable browser program
which is always frantically searching for unheard fields of spunkjazz, polyrhythm &
catajungle in which every new technology or its innovations are immediately distributed
throughout the matrix of break beat labs bedroom studios. It's impossible to monopolize
a new voodoofication of existing programs, but is syncretic & annexes the
psychoaudiolyst no matter who s/he is. Unlike NASA & their ilk, every new breakthrough
which can help to bring space closer is spread as fast as possible throughout the
junglenautic borganism. NASA projects upon itself the image of the saintly avant-garde
helping to guide mankind to the future thereby exposing itself to great risk & suffering,
but in reality they do nothing but provide us with reactionary phenomena like Buzz
Aldrin, John Glenn & Wubbo Ockels. JUNGLE AAA is not a junglenautical DJ-branch of
free-masonry, but a knock on your headphones which is going to give Luther Blissett
what was just rhetoric for Prodigy Kool Keith: a break to another dimension.
3) The mythopoetics of the junglenaut.
Be reasonable, demand the impossible & achieve the absurd. The Fermi paradox
which states that if intelligent extraterrestrial life forms exist, they should already have
found us is a bore. The fact that no real evidence has ever been found for the existence
of alien life forms is already proof that they must be intelligent. Aliens are the
rosicrusions of the space age.The junglenaut was present at the birth of stars here on
earth & and saw the biggest star of all at its zenith: GROOVERIDER SUPERNOVA: an
omega point of good taste & a techstep breakbeat singularity placed in a conceptual
lasagna at a Himalayan level of psychoaudiology. Blinded by the light, the junglenaut
now looks up to the skies where the stars belong & beam into the depths they deserve.
The junglist is just a record shop browsing nrrrd who still maintains belief in the binary
schism between the DJ-caste & the passivity of the audience, for the junglenaut
drum'n'bass is not the soundtrack, but the groove behind the entire operation to area's
where not the cop, but Luther Blissett is in control. The junglenaut is the cybotron: the
vocoderian elastification of the junglist; the phagocyte of house & techno in the
patajunglist spectrum; the captain Mission of the space-age, moving in several
directions at once just like the Association of Autonomous Astronauts.
4) The terrorization of gravity
Gravity is the police force of Gaia's autocracy & should just like every other institution of
repressing power be antagonised, bullied, taunted, provoked, wounded & killed just like
any other institution. It is essential that the G-forces be weakened, before the AAA
space programme commences. By flying, ballooning, zeppelining, mountain climbing &
building skyscrapers. The latter should be acoustically correct so the elevator shafts
can later be used as launching pads for the sound system shuttle in which the
junglenaut plans his/her progressive escape. Jumping as a form of gravitational
disobedience is an ongoing thorn in gravity's side. The sub genre JUMP-UP
DRUM'N'BASS should be taken literally. The practice of hacky sacking is held in high
esteem by the JUNGLE AAA, because of the drop dead mentality of the bag, the act of
keeping it in the air is an brutal slap in the face of gravity.
5) The encouragement of space piracy JUNGLE AAA is obsessed with the myth of
captain Mission, the seanaut who abandoned the tyranny, the hierarchy, the slave trade
& the war machine of the navy & buccaneers to found Libertatia in the jungle of
Madagascar. A free state which selected the best parts & got rid of the rubbish of
Western society; a civilisation in dub. The era of terra nova selector Mission is behind
us. Now terra nova; space is being used to count the chickens in the enemy's
meadows, but the AAA will go there where their cameras can't see.& when NASA, after
years of disasters, finally succeeds in getting their lada-shuttle past Venus, the
JUNGLE AAA will be ready for them, hidden behind a meteor, out to get rid of their
neo-colonisation & to prevent a replay of the 'discovery of Amerikkka'.
6) The destruction of house, capitalism, fascism & NASA
The junglenaut is the adventurer who gives the sound system shuttle escape velocity &
gravity its defeat & sees her/himself confronted with the 4 horse riders of gravity who
don't want to lose their Newtonian status quo to the entropy of Luther Blissett. JUNGLE
AAA doesn't keep up with the 19th & 20th-century romantics of the streetfighter &
cityguerillo, it is not some sort of crypto Bakuninist or micro-communist variation of the
old socialist tendencies who, like in Star Wars, want to fight fire with fire.JUNGLE AAA
is disgusted with the dichotomy of their 'us' Vs. 'them' ideology & is preparing to wave
goodbye to this linearity together with the narrow minded dogmas of the gravity revelling
quartet from the rear window of SS Photek, while those who stay behind rule their own
garbage & Faithless and Underworld will finally find their habitat on the worn out soil of
dystopy earth.To practise triolectical ways of thinking here on earth, the AAA has
developed 3-sided football to oppose the subliminal, omnipresent group thinking of the
establishment & the institutionalised anti-establishment. But the JUNGLE AAA's
metavolution has more tools than just 3-sided football, dubplates & 808s; using D.I.Y.
robotics, micro sound systems, schockwaves, UAOs, data-tsunamis,
semiotixscatching & syncretixsampledalia JUNGLE AAA's discokrakers will
simultaneously frustrate the audiostrata of everyday life on multiple planes.
7) Breakdancing in space
NASA's 404s confuse Star Trek's retro futurism with the hollow chewing gum that
space really is. AAA neuro funkateers refuse to cooperate in a space fantasy which
extrapolate gravicapital notions like labour, profit & egoism into the wild skies; nie
wieder John Wayne, nie wieder 'It's quiet here, too quiet'. No to space as a new
marketable & patentable area, but as a tactic to become more 'human' in the constant
perplexifation of an environment which allows the junglenaut to experience a whole new
range of feelings & movements. Just as fish didn't climb onto pangea in a mobile
aquarium, so humans will, once they are up there, evolve into uninmaginable shapes &
adaptations to strange surroundings. Earthly phenomena like dancing, shopping &
getting drunk will have to change or they will be rendered obsolete. Together with the
rave in space & sex in space programmes of other AAA groups, JUNGLE AAA is
certain that breakdancing in space will not only be better, but will also be more
progressive & more fun. All the new steps which used to be impossible due to the
tyranny of mother earth will be just as spectacular as the 333 effectoletics of hacky
sacking in space.
8) The glorification of the sub-sonic bassline
Every junglenaut knows there is only one thing better than a sub-sonic bassline & that
is an ever deeper bassline. The bass is the engine which keeps the sound system
going. The beats are an accessory, perhaps as baroque as fuck, perhaps minimal like
the lines in a Mondriaan painting. The bpms determine the velocity, but it's the bassline
which gives the rhythm engine its kinetic energy, a delicious woofer wave resonating
within the abdomen, the space organ par excellence. A junglenaut/psychoaudiologist is
a bass fetishist who prefers a silently running sound system above a techno rave which
travels at boiling speed towards its own Nemesis. Or as Luther Blissett=everybody
said: You too an astronaut.
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