Wireless - experimental 4 piece - attempted descriptions

Many people have attempted to describe the sounds and journeys that Armchair Astronaut's oldest shamanic beat combo WIRELESS in create - here are a few to be going on with:

The music you hear in a coma

Transmissions between stations of consciousness

Dreamstate Soundscapes

Soul music for the dark heart of the cosmos

Telepathic orchestra

Way out sounds for the exit generation

Music realised as a meta language, to speak between centuries, accrosscultures and divides

The medium for total information immersion

A language that talks to the body, as well as the mind

Innerworld music, mapping the mindscape

The universal hum, the static backdrop to dreams and nightmares

Wireless music is telepathy music

It maps the breathless expanse of inner mind travel

A journey through the body of light

Wireless demonstrate music evolving before your ears. Not as entertainment,but as a journey
They take the journey seriously, as they do the destination

Wireless music maps new territories, investigates ever more arcane regions
As a result of the enquiries, more doors exist than the walls to contain them
Telepathic synergy therefore remains the crux of the operation

Guided by wires, speaking without tongues

Mining a seam to themselves, Wireless have tapped into a hidden source ofmind altering, bowel-churning music, to explore the wealth of auralpossibilities made available to the intrepid

Bleached, sunkissed organic dronedelica

Innermindseye music

Not for the weak hearted

Avant-garde experimentalists Wireless indulge us listeners to a cerebraljourney through quite spectacular inner vistas

The music you hear in a dream

The biological static boiling through the mind

Sound of sunlight on closed eyelids

The hum of blood

The passage of thoughts

Born out of dreamstates

Tapping the hidden blueprints, the turning points of the year, of theplanets. Secret codes to the universe itself. Music- the science betweenmemory and mathematics encoded in the very stuctures of our psyches, of ourmental functioning. The higher language beyond thought and rational.Wireless tap the deepest realms hidden within sound.

Honeybee track with Jamie Lidell

Armchair Astronaut have released for free enjoyment the fruits of a chance meeting between the Armchair Astronaut group HoneyBee and the great Jamie Lidell. The track on the site is Nosebleed part 1 and is available at the HoneyBee page on the Armchir Astronaut site. For more on Jamie Lidell you can go to his site at http://www.jamielidell.com.

Nosebleed - does what it says on the cover ! give it a whirl and clear your sinuses.

Psychic Radio - the Armchair Astronaut WebZine

Psychic Radio is the WebZine for Armchair Astronaut Records
and you can find Issue 1 online at our Psychic Radio Page

Here reproduced is the article on the great WIRELESS combo - mainstay of the Armchair Astronaut stable.

WIRELESS are a group of experimental artists. Their adventures in sound and music have been emanating through the ethers since January 2002, and are winning them listeners from across the musical spectrum.
Described variously as “amazing head-burst movie music”, to ”soundtracks for the seriously disturbed ” . WIRELESS have crafted together a compelling body of work. Their sound takes the listener on a journey through a series of sublime landscapes, through crumbling cities and deserted cathedrals, through the air over forgotten civilisations, from deep beneath the oceans, to deeper into space.
Mining a seam to themselves, WIRELESS have tapped a rich source of mind altering, bowel-churning music, to explore the depths of aural possibilities made available to the intrepid.
The music you hear in a coma--Transmissions between stations of consciousness--Dreamstate Soundscapes.
Mapping the hidden blueprints, the turning points of the year, of the planets.
Secret codes to the universe itself. Music- the science between memory, mind and mathematics encoded in the very structures of our psyches, of our mental functioning.
The higher language beyond thought and rational. WIRELESS tap the deepest realms hidden within sound. In the pursuit of meaning, the scenery can be terrifying.
WIRELESS make music which evolves before your ears. Not as entertainment, but as a journey for the senses.
They take the journey seriously, as they do the destination. The music maps new territories, investigates ever more arcane regions.
Telepathic synergy remains, as ever, the crux of their operation. Guided by wires, speaking without tongues.
WIRELESS make unsafe music beautiful. Music which exists and addresses its own corporeal bubble. Adrift from any safe houses of musical convention. Orbiting their own star, or lost between planets. Giant rusty liners buckling on impact and sinking on a time lapsed audio ocean. Crackles from transmitters placed in the afterlife. The whispers and echoes of the chattering dead. Snatches of lives in parallel worlds. Transmissions from the ethers, interference from sources unknown. To witness Armageddon, and get it down on tape, to play it on reverse, time and time again.
WIRELESS make dangerous music. Both, for the listener and the group themselves. Live executions, public or private, require active listening and response, to engage and then concentrate. Every execution potentiates a transformation. Nothing is at rest.
All involved experience a personal head journey, a sense of having come through to the other side of something, a sense of arrival.
Some listener’s report shifts in mood or consciousness, altered perceptions of time etc. Do not panic, this is quite understandable and a healthy response to the experience itself. Whilst WIRELESS take every measure possible against personal discomfort, the nature of live executions will always permit the unexpected to happen. WIRELESS cannot be held responsible for any after effects of listening.

Armchair Astronaut is an umbrella !

What?

Armchair Astronaut is an umbrella organisation for experimenters at the outer edge of spontaneous creativity.

It has evolved from a group of performers, musicians, artists, and film-maker’s who co-operate and interact on many creative levels. They share personal and collective visions, collaborating on projects which draw on their individual strengths and unity of purpose.

Why ?
To carry out experiments in word, image and sound that confront assumptions of who and what we are in the world today. To make music that dislocates our fragile sense of our place in this world, to open the mind to its sense of place in the next. To develop simple and practical approaches to the exploration of the fifth quarter. But mainly for the fun of it.

Visit http://www.armchair-astronaut.com/ and listen to some of the cutting edge experimental music there. There are also videos to view.

Welcome to the Armchair Astronaut Blog

The role of music or sound making has, since it’s most primitive origins been central in the practice of attaining ecstatic states of consciousness. Indeed, the initial purpose of making music was to induce a sense of transformation in the listener, for healing or procuring a magical result. It was a branch of shamanism, a form of sorcery.

Here at Armchair Astronaut we encourage, record, involve and collaborate to achieve the essential breakout from the mundane.

Our home is http://www.armchair-astronaut.com/ and you will find recordings, videos, texts, images, links and microscopic audio meteor dust from our expanding universe.

The home page is a tree - depicting many of the links between people and bands that are connected to our organisation and label - including the members of Wireless and Under Mother Bungalow - Paul Harrison , Ben Abbo, Marcus Ripley and Richard Miles and branching out to many others.

The site is being built and version 1 will be out on April 16th 2006 - but you can visit now and see the Front page - and play some UMB