Zach Layton

oberlin, itp

sound archivist/composer

flamingfire.com, de-regulator, kassettemusic.com

wfmu, berlin, max/msp/jitter, brainwaves, telepathy, ranier werner fassbinder, i ching, socialism, zazen, computer music, werner herzog, coyle and sharpe, gilles deleuze, joseph beuys, patty hearst, sleeping, ranier maria rilke, comics (hate, eightball, blackhole, johnny ryan) burroughs, diane arbus, gnosis, martha colburn, damon packard, the nation, sensor building, hardware hacking, john cassavetes, gena rowlands, ben gazerra, circuit bending, john giorno, amy goodman, maker's mark, drinky crow

crash, moby dick, the magic mountain, the sleepwalkers, catcher in the rye, please kill me, psychotic reactions and carburator dung, snow crash, empire, herbert marcuse (one dimentional man), understanding media, nova express, cryptonomicon, 501 german verbs (fully conjugated), Berlin Alexanderplatz, the man without qualities, war fever, bukowski, the philosophy of andy warhol, computer music tutorial, disgrace

suspiria, dawn of the dead, fox & his friends, love is colder than death, even dwarves started small, the good the bad and the ugly, cronenberg, rosa luxemburg, spinal tap, pierre le fou, the american friend, network, after hours, barfly, barbarella, the bitter tears of petra von kant, a dirty shame, reflections of evil, ed wood, in a year with thirteen moons, opening night, vanishing point

scott walker, arthur russell, irma thomas, goblin, georgio moroder, dio, ymo, psychic tv, rameau, velvet underground, roxy music, oval, kraftwerk, john cage, brian wilson, robert ashley, ennio morricone, kompakt, peoplelikeus, Barbara Morgenstern, Bpitch, beegees, bjork, thomas fehlmann, john lurie, leonard cohen, satie, mahler, bo diddley, burt bacharach era dion warwick, klaus nomi, joanna newsom, disco, french new wave, new york no wave, morton feldman, meredith monk, terry riley, tropicalia, 70s italian sountracks, shangri-las, rod mckuen, harry nilsson

democracy now, strangers with candy

He knew that there is sex in plants, and he had a theory of evolution and the survival of the fittest. Originally, "countless tribes of mortal creatures were scattered abroad endowed with all manner of forms, a wonder to behold." There were heads without necks, arms without shoulders, eyes without foreheads, solitary limbs seeking for union. These things joined together as each might chance; there were shambling creatures with countless hands, creatures with faces and breasts looking in different directions, creatures with the bodies of oxen and the faces of men, and others with the faces of oxen and the bodies of men. There were hermaphrodites combining the natures of men and women, but sterile. In the end only certain forms survived.

The Stringfellow hypothesis takes the form of the following equation: the rate of telepathic flow between two minds is directly proportional to the intensity of the relationship between the two minds. The units used to measure `flow' and `intensity' are taken from psychochemistry. In less mathematical terms, we may say that this hypothesis indicates that even between mature telepathists there can be no telepathic communication until some sort of existential emotional relationship has been established in conventional, sensory ways. Thus, among complete strangers there would exist only a kind of noise, a short- wave static. The Stringfellow Hypothesis also suggests that here the potency of human eroticism would play an important role. A strong sexual attraction would be a substantial basis for the establishing of a geometrically increasing rate of telepathic flow.