• Megan Leach, Steven Cline, Hazel Cline

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Steven Cline – Analog Synthesizer, Rattles, Voice

Hazel Cline – Voice, Bowed Zither, Circuit Sniffer, Piezo Combs, Rattles

James Robert Foster – Voice & Computer (Max/MSP), Double Bass, Bass Guitar, Dictaphone, Piezo Combs, Rattles, Wooden Flute

Mike Stasny – Drums, Voice with Electonics

Players: AK, SC, HC, AM, JF

Directions: Played in the usual blind folding manner, with one exception. Each player must first pull a tarot card, and then write their their haiku line as an intuitive response to this card. The third player then draws a visual synthesis of the lines. Players: AK, SC, HC, AM, RC

Directions: Played in the usual blind folding manner, with one exception. Each player must first pull a tarot card, or choose a chance sentence from a book, and then draw their panel as an intuitive response to this card or sentence. Players: AK, SC, HC, AM, RC

AHHHHHH

BOG IRON

DRUMMER BOY

ARIZONA

Directions: Each player is one part in a huge machine, and decide silently what noise their own particular machine part makes. When everyone is ready, all begin making their noise at the same time. Afterwards, discuss collectively what shape, function, and origin this machine might have. Once the discussion has ended, draw your idea of the machine’s form.

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CHARACTERISTICS

• Large and round, lots of long arms and things that reach out
• Steam Powered
• Hydraulic processes that occur sometimes, but not always
• Some kind of snipping action
• Small round orbs come out and spin fast, like a weather vane
• Trudging along on long legs
• Is a mechanical animal moves through environment and interacts with things, processes things
• Autonomous machine running under its own will
• Gigantic robotic bug with pincers
• Takes things from environment and presses them into golden bricks, makes the famous yellow brick road behind it.
• Antagonistic to surroundings, imposing its order onto the world
• Attitude of “Just doing a thing”
• Turns life into something pretty, as opposed to truly beautiful
• Giant flea?

ORIGIN

• It seemed like a good idea at the time
• Crawling out of the center of the sun
• Organism began acquiring sticks and rocks and adding to itself, making metal parts and attaching them.
• Worked for so long that it evolved away its intelligence and fused with machine, became mindless
• Has mind but all that’s left for it to think is “I’m doing a good job!”
• Hyper focused
• Too efficient
• Programmed itself in response to an initial impulse

Players: HC, SC, AK, AM, RC

04/28/2022 Dream: I had a dream of a new surrealist game we were playing in Atlanta last night. Small squares were cut out of colored construction paper (bright reds, blues, yellows) and at the center of each color square a chance word or image was also attached. I think we were supposed to write a poem or something that was a synthesis of the feel of the color, and the essence of the word or image? Though the details are somewhat vague now. – SC

03/18/2022 Dream: Someone new had shown up to our Atlanta Wednesday meetings, and had the idea for us to all do improvised noise while also playing Dixie Chicks CDs at high volume. Everyone was like, are you sure…? Also, someone had ordered subs for the group, but the bread was old and soggy. So yeah, everyone was just sitting around the circle, holding soggy subs, looking somewhat perplexed. – SC

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Players: Aaron Dylan Kearns, James Robert Foster, Hazel Cline, and Steven Cline

(Nothing)

GLOWBABY

POMPEII NIGHT LIFE

NOT AGAIN…

Players: ADK, JF, SC, HC

Featuring: Steven Cline, Hazel Cline, Aaron Dylan Kearns, Juli Maria Kearns, Megan Leach, Steve Morrison

Egregore soundscape: Hazel Cline, Martin Kearns

Egregorrhea #6 – Surrealist Egregores, Or, How To Take A Collect Call Collectively
written by Jason Abdelhadi and narrated by Juli Maria Kearns

Film, editing, original background music: Aaron Dylan Kearns