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At this year's META event, in the Black Montains of North Carolina, we conducted several hands-on sessions with other event attendees. Highlights included interactions with children, who seemed to be more open and tuned to the plants and rocks presented. A trio made up of Harpsichordist Elaine Funaro, tenor Michael Bennett and plants was arranged one afternoon. The video presented here is of Michael Bennett humming and the plants coming in and out of cadence with him.

Long-standing friend Sariah Storm paid a visit to the studio in November with Brendan Angelides (aka Welder). The two of them got acquainted and re-acquainted with the studio before sitting down to drive Ableton Live with signals from Rocks, Plants and Piezo Sensors.

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Noted sound designer Richard Devine (myspace) visited the studio in mid-July.
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We are saddened to announce the passing last weekend of our esteemed friend and colleague John Norseen, whose words and videos have provided much information and entertainment to us over the last few years. He was 53.

John was introduced to us as an employee of Lockheed Martin, as a semiotics specialist and brain researcher in the area of Biofusion, a field of study which turned out to mean the weaponization of the mind. Johns many emails became the source material for a manuscript, "Outlaw Technology", which remains unpublished, though aspects of it have appeared on this website. In our lengthy correspondence, I found John to be unusually forthcoming on all those weird topics that Intelligence types refrain from discussing---from mind control, to UFOs, to underground labs, to psychotronic technology, to life after death, to telepathy, Zero Point Energy, psychic warfare, to time portals and all those myriad venues of contemporary myth-making that constitute the shadow cast by a mechanistic and reductionist Science. As such, he was a true anomaly among men; well trained intellectually and scientifically, a consultant to numerous branches of the military, think tanks and alphabet agencies, and by my reckoning, a witness to many of the things we casually dismiss as over-the-top nonsense. It is also intensely ironic that at a very challenging point in his professional and personal life, John discovered a wealth of support and friendship among the creative and free thinking community of individuals he reached out to over the last several years of his life.

Justin Boreta of Slidecamp and Glitch Mob fame, paid the studio a visit in early July. He plugged right into the IBVA, bio-sensors and the Eventide Harmonizer.