tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62446852011-07-30T19:51:12.362-07:00Truth and Infinitywww.stephenrennicks.webs.com
www.truthandinfinity.webs.comStephennoreply@blogger.comBlogger1171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-78049486861698560872009-07-14T11:47:00.000-07:002009-07-14T11:48:17.771-07:00Written Word Weekend, in Drumshanbo over this August bank holiday (Fri 31st July - Mon 3rd August). We plan on making this into an annual event and hope you will be able to support us in this by attending if possible. To get a flavour of what will be on offer, this Friday 17th July in Berry's Tavern in Drumshanbo, there is a press/fundraising launch. This is the same venue we are using for all Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-88560021766660802632009-05-07T13:20:00.000-07:002009-05-07T13:24:02.417-07:00Written Word Weekend, Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim. Four days of events based around the written word which I am helping to run. This is the first year so try and support it. To be held over August bank holiday weekend 2009.http://www.writtenwordweekend.blogspot.comStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-90333580526282425342008-08-29T04:23:00.000-07:002008-08-29T04:24:46.357-07:00The 8th August 2008 marks the end of the three year land art piece entitled ‘666 777 888’ by the artist Stephen Rennicks. You can view a video which will give you a flavour of what it is all about at link below.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEZRcKVYKkYTo go deeper go here.http://www.freewebs.com/666777888After that the next step would be to experience it for yourself. Directions are on the Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-27962939986113415762008-05-14T17:28:00.000-07:002009-02-08T03:18:53.100-08:00Stephen Rennicks is taking part in this years Architecture show at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim. The brief was to re-imagine a bridge and four artists and four architects were invited to take part. To view his concept, entitled 'The Natural Bridge', and the rest, you are invited to the opening at 5.30pm on Friday 23rd May. Stephen will also be leading a public tour of the whole Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-52283341662532498622008-02-15T07:18:00.000-08:002008-02-15T07:19:26.921-08:00“By the beginning of our present 'earth condition' of evolution the human being had developed a physical body , a 'life body' and a soul body. A fourth member, the 'ego', is being incorporated during this stage - the spiritual core unique to each human being. The ego or 'I' is thus the youngest and least developed human member but, to the extent that we can gain access to it, the ego is capable Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-21365731257247944592007-12-13T11:19:00.000-08:002007-12-13T11:27:07.522-08:00Stephen Rennicks has a new video piece entitled 'Transfixed by the Spectacle of the Means of our Destruction' on view at The Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim. It runs on a silent 4 minute loop and is about exactly what the title states. Or put it another way, the feeling of going to watch 'An Inconvenient Truth' and having no choice but to drive home. Happy Christmas.http://www.thedock.ieStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-71267701234091003532007-12-13T11:17:00.000-08:002009-09-06T06:24:22.980-07:00Meditation for the Michaelic AgeWe must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes to us out of the future.We must acquire serenity in all feelings and sensations of the future.We must look forward with absolute equanimity to everything that may come.We must think only that whatever comes is given to us by a divine world directive, full of wisdom.It is part of what we must learn inStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-54383720770969646992007-09-27T15:18:00.001-07:002007-09-27T15:18:56.657-07:00“Certain people are over and over proclaiming to the world that democracy must spread to the whole civilised world. Salvation lies in making the whole of humanity democratic; everything will have to be smashed to pieces so that democracy may spread in the world. Well, if people go on to accept ideas presented to them as they are, with wholesale acceptance of the term democracy, for instance, Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-23062257177516347272007-09-19T05:14:00.000-07:002007-10-17T11:40:06.296-07:00Stephen Rennicks, the Leitrim based conceptual artist, has a solo show entitled 'With and Without Context' at the Mantua Project House, Co. Roscommon on 20th October 2007 from 8pm. The two exhibition rooms there will feature mostly new and previously unseen work produced by the artist since moving from his Dublin base over 2 years ago. One room explores the artists influences, the other Stephennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-26569707645749019862007-08-19T15:02:00.000-07:002007-08-19T15:06:04.094-07:00Robin Whitmore is doing a dream diary at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon. He is also drawing other people's dreams as well. He has included my own strange dream which can be located from the link below. What does this say about me?http://collecteddreams.blogspot.com/2007/08/stephens-dream.htmlStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1556310482950475122007-07-11T11:31:00.000-07:002007-07-11T11:35:24.255-07:00The 22 minute short film by Stephen Rennicks and Barry Kavanagh, 'Life is a Scream in the Face of a Bright Madness', will be shown at the Mantua Festival cinema tent 13th/14th July 2007. The Richard Shaver revival starts here!http://www.mantuaproject.comhttp://www.freewebs.com/lifeisascreamStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-48435489607250653692007-06-10T07:41:00.000-07:002007-06-22T05:58:16.559-07:00"The philosophers who put the question of freedom in this fashion can never acquire a clear thought about it. For the human being in his present state is neither free nor unfree; but he is on the way to freedom. He is partially free, partially unfree. He is free to the degree he has acquired knowledge and consciousness of world relations. — The fact that our destiny, our karma, meets us in the Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1169323326961885022007-01-20T11:59:00.000-08:002007-01-20T12:02:06.993-08:00Two new websites I've done recently.The beginnings of a Leitrim site at http://www.freewebs.com/homemadeleitrimand Drexciya Research lab gets its own MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/drexciyaresearchlabStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1168185298756973802007-01-07T07:54:00.000-08:002007-01-07T07:54:58.766-08:00THE 42 COMMANDMENTS OF ANCIENT EGYPT I. Thou shalt not kill, nor bid anyone kill.II. Thou shalt not commit adultery or rape.III. Thou shalt not avenge thyself nor burn with rage.IV.Thou shalt not cause terror.V. Thou shalt not assault anyone nor cause anyone pain.VI. Thou shalt not cause misery.VII. Thou shalt not do any harm to man or to animals.VIII. Thou shalt not cause the shedding of Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1166369242834795652006-12-17T07:25:00.000-08:002006-12-19T10:48:03.576-08:00What I kept I lost,What I had I spent,What I gave I kept.English adage to keep in mind during this festive season.Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1165768745182908462006-12-10T08:36:00.000-08:002006-12-10T08:39:05.196-08:00I have my 'Temporary Residence' sound piece included in the current exhibition at The Dock gallery in Carrick - on - Shannon, Co. leitrim during December. Check out for The Dock for directions, opening times etc.Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1162637510706796432006-11-04T02:49:00.000-08:002007-10-11T16:34:13.209-07:00Stephen Rennicks is moving on to another address in Co. Leitrim and leaving apartment complex which was his home in Carrick-on-Shannon for the past 18 months. He has created a new sound piece inspired by his stay there and as a parting gesture to his fellow residents is depositing a CD of the piece, entitled ‘TEMPORARY RESIDENCE', into each of their letterboxes. A limited number will also be Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1162493186805350862006-11-02T10:45:00.000-08:002006-11-02T10:46:26.816-08:00"Man must develop positive consciousness. He has reached his present position on the evolutionary scale through his power to turn his mind into a microscope and concentrate on small things. But this has made him into a victim of the small and the negative. Human history is the history of childishness, of silly quarrels for small reasons."Colin WilsonStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1157567056426621852006-09-06T11:22:00.000-07:002006-09-06T11:24:16.446-07:00Things keep chugging along over at Hidden Classics. Just bagged an interview with Vector Lovers. Check it at http://www.freewebs.com/hiddenclassics/interviews.htmStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1156787352595605012006-08-28T10:48:00.000-07:002006-08-28T10:49:12.606-07:00"Seeing the entire universe in the Self and vice versa gives rise to true knowledge. On seeing the entire universe in his Self one realises (the truth) that self alone is the agent of happiness and misery and none else. ...after realising the identity of the Self with the universe, he rises for salvation."AvicennaStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1156364785789476752006-08-23T13:25:00.000-07:002007-10-11T16:33:29.315-07:00There is somewhere a great pile of rocks which is being built by many different hands spontaneously over time. Not every rock has or will be lain with the best of intentions but they all make up the whole. It is surrounded by four smaller piles, two by the same hand, the foundations of all sprang from just four individuals throughout the ages. This site is a place to come and view the surroundingStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1154282826501427812006-07-30T11:06:00.000-07:002006-07-30T11:07:06.516-07:00"Thought is born of failure. When action satisfies there is no residue to hold the attention; to think is to confess a lack of adjustment which we must stop to consider. Only when the human organism fails to achieve an adequate response to its situation is there material for the processes of thought, and the greater the failure the more searching they become."Lancelot WhyteStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1154165808680953532006-07-29T02:35:00.000-07:002006-07-29T02:36:48.696-07:00Stephen Rennicks presents 'Imagine Black Lough' as part of the 'Landscapes' show at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim from 3rd August to 3rd September 2006. All are welcome to attend the opening to be held between 5.30 and 8pm on Thursday 3rd August where the exhibiting artists will discuss their work during a gallery walk.Also taking part in 'Landscapes' will be the painter Malachy Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1148903349076729122006-05-29T04:48:00.000-07:002006-05-29T04:49:09.090-07:00Just posted an interview with the elusive Anodyne at Hidden Classics.http://www.freewebs.com/hiddenclassics/interviews.htmStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1145471914337782032006-04-19T11:36:00.000-07:002006-04-19T11:38:34.353-07:00The artist Stephen Rennicks who also works under the name Secret Society has created a trail to a previously lost lake in Co. Roscommon.From the barest snippets of information our imagination is good at conjuring up images of places we have not seen for ourselves, in fact the fewer details we have to work with the more complete our own picture often becomes. In the same way that we might have a Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1143388106875080302006-03-26T07:47:00.000-08:002006-03-26T07:48:26.893-08:00On the day we lose an hour of time Secret Society return it with their latest album 'Extra Hour'. This 60 minute continuous mix of music is all about that feeling of possibilities that come with extra time, the best example of which being when the clocks go back. Now usually this is when people, especially adults, take an extra hour in bed but it is also a time for second chances. The album Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1140203392517200612006-02-17T11:08:00.000-08:002006-02-17T11:09:52.530-08:00"A torn corner became the starting-point for new compositions, a chance rain blot the centre of an explosion, which then spread across further areas of the picture. The recognition of chance as the actual centre of Dada vitalised him and became in his hands the magic which imbued not only his work but his whole life."Hans Richter speaking of Hans Arp"For believe me the secret to realizing the Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1139947615796229352006-02-14T12:05:00.000-08:002006-02-14T12:06:55.806-08:00Ancient Records launches its Moment Series in style with the reissue of Moment No. 1 Secret Society 'Storm - To Remind & Transport' plus the 2nd and 3rd instalments in this on going series. New York sound designer Richard Kamerman and international collective Fuzzy Systems made the cut, their individual details below. Try our new easy to use PayPal ‘click to buy’ option on the Moment Series site Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1138992947819192792006-02-03T10:54:00.000-08:002006-02-03T10:55:47.830-08:00Just posted a rare and historic interview with a member of the elusive and legendary Supreme Dicks over at Hidden Classics.http://www.freewebs.com/hiddenclassics/interviews.htmStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1137946130301934942006-01-22T08:03:00.000-08:002006-01-22T08:09:54.573-08:00Listen or buy the 'Low Slung' 12" including the track 'Curl' by Black Sea Project by Stephen Rennicks and Tim Smyth at Juno. Truth and Infinity, Philosophy & Commerce.http://www.juno.co.uk/artists/Black+Sea+Project/Black Sea Project sitehttp://www.freewebs.com/blackseaprojectStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1135968296886632112005-12-30T10:44:00.000-08:002005-12-30T10:44:56.896-08:00"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow is the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."Jesus Christ, Sermon on the MountStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1135601168139577982005-12-26T04:43:00.000-08:002005-12-26T04:46:08.196-08:00At this time of giving and receiving it might be good for the soul of the World to rediscover the tradition of the Potlatch. I found this definition for you.PotlatchThroughout native North America, gift giving is a central feature of social life. In the Pacific Northwest of the United States and British Columbia in Canada, this tradition is known as the potlatch. Within the tribal groups of theseStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1135104102526514272005-12-20T10:41:00.000-08:002005-12-20T10:42:42.923-08:00There is now a user/printer friendly website version of Truth and Infinity which breaks my core writing down into four sections which cover, Life, Moments, Discoveries and Art. I have also compiled a Quotes section. Some of the pieces have been updated and there has been an attempt to instil some order into their sequence. During this lengthy process I was shocked to discover that I had written Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1134413500229766612005-12-12T10:50:00.000-08:002005-12-12T10:51:40.246-08:00'Time', the sound piece from the Costello Memorial Chapel Project by Stephen Rennicks, is included in a current exhibition at the Leitrim County Council gallery, The Dock in Carrick on Shannon. Read about the project in full at http://www.freewebs.com/costellochapelInformation on The Dock at http://www.thedock.ie http://www.freewebs.com/stephenrennicksWatch the trash pile getting bigger http://Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1133288747851863032005-11-29T10:24:00.000-08:002005-11-29T10:25:47.863-08:00There are 2 Secret Society tracks included on the recent CD by 'Artificial Memory Trace presents Interpretations 1’. The SS track ‘King’ is also ‘incorporated into the sound organism’ that is the ‘Paraexpanzin’ CD by Artificial Memory Trace. Both are on the Psyclone label run by Slavek Kwi. Some text about this below.Way back in 2003 I did a sonic interpretation of a drawing by the sound artist Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1131647321323161032005-11-10T10:27:00.000-08:002005-11-10T10:28:41.333-08:00If we choose to create meaning from everyday experience rather than seeing life as random we gain an important sense of purpose, of being part of a wider consciousness. Perhaps this wider consciousness does just stem from ourselves but we can benefit greatly from having this sense of meaning, no matter how personal. Even if it is only personal it is still of great consequence as in time we can Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1131189147765387792005-11-05T03:11:00.000-08:002005-11-05T03:12:27.776-08:00COSTELLO MEMORIAL CHAPEL PROJECT'Time' is the latest sound piece from Secret Society and will only ever be available from whence it came, the Costello Memorial Chapel, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim. The piece was constructed by Stephen Rennicks solely from sounds recorded from inside the chapel. From now till the end of the year CD copies of the piece will be routinely place on its door for theStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1131043108787112502005-11-03T10:36:00.000-08:002005-11-03T10:38:28.800-08:00I’ve written the following pieces for the Opinion section of Hidden Classics. Check it out in full at Hidden Classics.With the rise of the I-Pod, Mix CDs and compilations for everything, the way we consume music is moving ever faster towards the single track divorced from the artist. Often, as in the case of downloads we know nothing more about the track than the file name. Even with Mix CDs and Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1130882699264257882005-11-01T14:03:00.000-08:002005-11-01T14:04:59.273-08:00BLACK SEA PROJECT is a collaboration between Stephen Rennicks and Tim Smyth (That Boy Tim). Begun in 2004, this is music for the darkest of dance-floors.OCT 2005: 'Curl' by BLACK SEA PROJECT is now available on the ' Low Slung' 12" on Takeover alongside tracks by DEVERB, ED DEVANE & THAT BOY TIM.BLACK SEA PROJECTTAKEOVERStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1130433466146801632005-10-27T10:16:00.000-07:002005-10-27T10:17:46.166-07:00Man as a species only feels special in that he dominates the world in such a way that he has the time to think it. He may turn out to be like any animal and will certainly not live forever.Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1129832063443376122005-10-20T11:10:00.000-07:002005-10-20T11:14:23.450-07:00I've got a new site up and running called Hidden Classics, I just posted a rare interview with Azalia Snail there.The idea behind this site is to pinpoint isolated tracks that never became classics in their genre but yet have the necessary ingredients. The reasons behind their failure may be that they were simply overlooked, came in a limited quantity, were a B-side, were only available on a Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1127429658188648002005-09-22T15:53:00.000-07:002005-09-22T15:54:18.193-07:00"We are one nation, and one world...We cannot suppress our brothers liberty without murdering ourselves. We will stand together, as men, for human freedom and human dignity, or we will fall together, simians all, back to the swamp."Jack ParsonsStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1127083647399839432005-09-18T15:46:00.000-07:002005-09-18T15:47:27.796-07:00"For what end is served by all the expenditure of suns and planets and moons, of stars and Milky Ways, of comets and nebula, of worlds evolving and passing away, if at last a happy man does not involuntarily rejoice in his existence?"GoetheWhy so happy? The knowledge that everything is connected, that what we perceive as right and wrong are part of a whole. We must love and accept it all in joy.Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1126727628994865602005-09-14T12:52:00.000-07:002005-09-14T12:53:49.000-07:00*Secret Society's new album 'Moments' is out now.*Also new from Secret Society is the single track release 'The New City'(17min34sec).All releases from Ancient Records are available for 6 euro each including P&P for all EU states. All payments through PayPal. http://groov.ie/memorycells/ancientrecordsshop.htmlThere is now a new website which covers the art & music of Stephen Rennicks/Secret Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1125259538581612952005-08-28T13:04:00.000-07:002005-08-28T13:06:26.246-07:00I've redone the start of my 'Trail' project, it now has it's own website which is also the starting point. To refresh your memory read on.I have set a 'Trail', a secret path across cyberspace. A series of web sites connected by secret links, email, hidden clues in source code etc. I am hoping, amongst other things, to explore the democratic concepts of free web space, the ease with which you can Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1124475255282033952005-08-19T11:11:00.000-07:002005-08-19T11:14:15.286-07:00New Site:Stephen Rennicks/Secret SocietyStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1124051503322347792005-08-14T13:31:00.000-07:002005-08-14T13:31:43.323-07:00“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.”NeitzscheStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1124051475642185432005-08-14T13:30:00.000-07:002005-08-14T13:31:15.646-07:00“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy is success in life.”Walter Pater“Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.”Neitzsche“Open the second shutter, so that more light can come in.”Goethe (last words)“Die, my dear Doctor, that’s the last thing I shall do.”Lord Palmerston (last words)Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1123100601838327842005-08-03T13:22:00.000-07:002005-08-03T13:24:11.426-07:00Check out the last exhibition I was involved in here.http://www.freewebs.com/prismartistsgroupStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1122935016891950012005-08-01T15:22:00.000-07:002005-08-01T15:23:36.896-07:00People today don't know what to do with their spare time. Work and passive activity has become the way to pass time and if they are too exhausted at the end of the day to do anything else, so much the better not to have to think of something.Of course there never was a time in history that we were idle. Providing food and looking after the young was our essential work. Life always was a struggle Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1122411196440175522005-07-26T13:51:00.000-07:002005-08-28T13:19:22.053-07:00I will have 3 pieces, including one self generating sound piece, in a group show during the Carrigallen Arts Festival. The Prism Artists Group, working under the theme of 'Mask and Illusion', will be exhibiting their work to the public between 2 - 9pm each day from 29th July - 1st Aug 2005 at the Cornmill Theatre, Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim. The official opening will be held at the venue on Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1121895900017051682005-07-20T14:40:00.000-07:002005-07-20T14:45:00.023-07:00Just launched a new website dedicated to The Wormholes and bands closely related to them. Namely E+S=B, Amygdala and Memory Cells. It's called Ringsend Blues, I think because all this music is made in the hope of chasing their blues away. Ringsend BluesStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1121286392056244612005-07-13T13:25:00.000-07:002005-07-13T13:26:32.060-07:00“There’s a hidden message in Shaver’s work, one that’s often overlooked by both enthusiasts and detractors. Quite simply: We are the dero. To Shaver, we have virtually unlimited potential. Within us is a huge untapped capacity for wisdom, strength, vitality, and beauty. We could be like gods. Instead, we’re a stunted, perverted bunch: we kill one another, poison our planet, stultify ourselves Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1121111098411811802005-07-11T12:44:00.000-07:002005-07-11T12:44:58.416-07:00"I shall never forget that night in September in which the veil that concealed from me my own incredulity was torn. ...Anxiously I followed my thoughts as they descended from layer to layer towards the foundation of my consciousness, scattering one by one all the illusions that until then had screened its windings from my view, making them at every moment more clearly visible. Vainly I clung to Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1121020429801229922005-07-10T11:28:00.000-07:002005-07-10T11:33:49.806-07:00I am currently creating a trash pile in cyberspace for the benefit of the archeologists of the future. Check on its progress here.Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1120518600478255312005-07-04T16:02:00.000-07:002005-07-04T16:10:00.483-07:00The website covering the 'Life is a Scream' film project has just been created. It features the newly completed full length film script and in time the downloadable mpeg version of the original short, 'Life is a Scream is the Face of a Bright Madness'.Enjoy!Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1119698232033365222005-06-25T04:16:00.000-07:002005-06-25T04:17:12.036-07:00“A bad song is absorbed whole, in the moment, unconsciously. The person whose life it enters barely knows it’s there – it’s just part of the day. But as time goes on, and the song fails to live up to the life of the person carrying it, it starts to break down. It reveals itself as a tumour in the psyche. Never saying it’s name, it frames the bits and pieces whoever absorbed the song was willing Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1119033995712962832005-06-17T11:46:00.000-07:002005-06-17T11:46:35.716-07:00“To walk down the street as most people perform the act is to reject the only free handout life has to offer, to trample on the prince in a rush for the toad, storming the pawnshop to exchange gold for dross. What we call ’reality’, according to Burroughs, is just the result of a faulty scanning pattern, a describing device run amok.”Ann Douglas“We make truth. Nobody else makes it. There is no Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1118878084074377202005-06-15T16:25:00.000-07:002005-08-28T13:16:28.073-07:00I am setting a trail. Truth and Infinity is the starting point, it shall always be. Afterall, whatever you need to know can be found here, but do not let that confine you. There is a long path ahead, perhaps a lifetime, do not panic if you cannot immediately see the signs, it may be that I have yet to discover them myself. Although I am some way ahead. At the end you will know. You will also findStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1117134686322845612005-05-26T12:10:00.000-07:002005-05-26T12:11:26.326-07:00“Sham furniture, sham decoration, sham jewellery, sham wine, sham literature of the lowest type were poured out upon the mediocre masses who eagerly swallowed all the rubbish because it was cheap and, to them, undistinguishable from the real and good. By degrees they were joined by the stupid rich to whom good and bad were naturally undistinguishable. Thus there grew to be an immense public in Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1117133089773703772005-05-26T11:44:00.000-07:002005-05-26T11:44:49.776-07:00"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. "Greek ProverbStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1116874017501094042005-05-23T11:46:00.000-07:002005-05-23T11:46:57.506-07:00“All men bear within them their own divinity, and it needs some adventure of the spirit, some gesture against materialism for each man to gain his inheritance.”George Russell AEStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1116442168959499812005-05-18T11:43:00.000-07:002005-06-20T15:39:13.036-07:00A WET DAYThe expression, ‘your not a wet day in the place…’ is a common one in Ireland. Used by a boss or co-worker when you are not long in a new job and it is deemed that you are taking liberties. The perceived grievance might well be taking time off, asking about your wages or over familiarity, eg. ‘…and your looking for looking for time off’ , ‘… and you want more money or ‘ …and your Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1115060956092535142005-05-02T12:08:00.000-07:002005-05-02T12:09:16.093-07:00Drexciya Research LabStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1115041382971435472005-05-02T06:41:00.000-07:002005-05-02T06:44:39.520-07:00I occasionally write about music for Anorak which can be found here.Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1115040947201965322005-05-02T06:35:00.000-07:002005-05-02T06:36:25.430-07:00A rare word from your sponsor.Don’t despair if there’s a lengthy break in my posts, I have never treated this as a 'normal' blog, just free web space. Also from time to time my own working and social life catches up on my free time and I don’t always have the hours to devote myself to this line of thought.I have privately been describing Truth and Infinity as a process, part of my art, where I Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1115040832913726922005-05-02T06:32:00.000-07:002005-06-20T15:41:07.573-07:00“Disease is a departure from Nature; health a return. To realise this is to possess the secret of life. Nature is just, and the unjust must perish for their intemperance; Nature is impersonal, and all that is personal must pass away. Nature envies nothing, is jealous of nothing, and is a stranger to ambition.”Manly P. HallThe above quote reads as incredibly extreme in this day and age; I can’t Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1115040740039916902005-05-02T06:31:00.000-07:002005-05-02T06:32:20.040-07:00“A famous medieval astrologer is said to have predicted the time of his own death. When the fateful hour arrived and he found himself in good health, he committed suicide lest the accuracy of his science come to be questioned. If the dietician can prove the truth of the saying that men dig their graves with their teeth, the psychologist might also add that they fill the graves with their thoughtsStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1113903648592232702005-04-19T02:30:00.000-07:002005-04-19T02:42:36.293-07:00The debut screening of 'Life is a Scream in the Face of a Bright Madness' was held in London on 10th April 2005. Thanks to the good people of Fine Thank YouOriginally completed in 2000, within the last few months a new edit was made by the director Stephen Rennicks and the original editor Alan Lambert. There is hoped to be a new website launched soon with a free mpeg version, complete film scriptStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1109798290639876322005-03-02T13:17:00.000-08:002005-03-02T13:18:10.640-08:00“That which is in harmony with the universal plan must ultimately be victorious because that plan cannot be compromised and it cannot fail. There is a great motion in space by which all things, regardless of their appearances, ultimately work together in the service of the eternal good.”“The enlightened human being no longer desires what he has not earned, and he can live happily in a growing andStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1109768639802147942005-03-02T05:03:00.000-08:002005-03-02T05:03:59.806-08:00DJ Exercise MAKE A SET WITH ANOTHER PERSONS RECORDSI was asked to be guest DJ on Dublin’s Radio Na Life recently and wondered if I could manage to subvert the experience. I decided that restricting myself to using another persons records was a way to go. The challenge threw up a lot of questions for me like how many potential ways a set can really go and which one was I going to follow, picking Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1109711869781280622005-03-01T21:16:00.000-08:002005-03-01T13:17:49.783-08:00When we are happy we take that feeling for granted, but when unhappy times come we miss it and wish we had enjoyed it.When we have time off we take it for granted, but when we lose that free time we miss it and wish we’d done more with it.If we appreciate and are grateful for happiness when we experience it we are less likely to put it in jeopardy. When we have lots of free time we will use it Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1109711611948427802005-03-01T21:12:00.000-08:002005-03-01T13:13:31.950-08:00If we really want to develop a higher consciousness or regain our powers of intuition etc then we must leave civilisation, go somewhere to live a life that necessitates our development of these things and our continued use of them. Lets face it, how many people really want to do that? The alternative is to try to do it where we find ourselves, in a society that does not encourage or have much useStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1109711692897760042005-03-01T13:13:00.000-08:002005-03-02T05:06:05.123-08:00HypnosisThe way our brains store information must be understood before we can truly change how it works. Some people never change their minds, they find it hard to be objective or open-minded in general. Whatever opinions or impressions they have formed, no matter how little they know about it, will automatically come to the fore once any subject or situation arises. As we grow older age will Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1109711535337601802005-03-01T13:11:00.000-08:002005-03-01T13:12:15.336-08:00Do not strive to regain the past or model the future on previous experience. No moment lasts, but the next moment is its echo, full of the same potential, to be whatever we make of it.Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1105474145433801912005-01-11T13:07:00.000-08:002005-01-11T12:09:05.433-08:00Secret Society presents
‘Junk Out of Context’.
Sunday 6th Feb 2005
Lazybird, Upstairs International Bar,
Dublin.
www.lazybird.org
First Show (9-10pm approx)
Secret Society Laptop DJ set plus video projection.
The untitled film was commissioned by and shown previously at ‘Make One Room an Everywhere’ on 19th June 2004 at Temple Bar Gallery.
Second Show (10-11pm approx)
‘JUNK OUT OF CONTEXT’
LiveStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1105474013870017652005-01-11T13:06:00.000-08:002005-01-11T12:06:53.870-08:00“I do not set up any new idols; may old idols only learn what it costs to have feet of clay. To overthrow idols (idols is the name I give to all ideals) is much more my business.”
“The lie of the ideal has been the curse of reality; by means of it the very source of mankind’s instincts has become mendacious and false; so much so that those values have come to be worshiped which are the exact Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1105465387075862812005-01-11T09:42:00.000-08:002005-01-11T09:43:07.076-08:00“Help those dead to reality who want to awaken, to wake up, feed those hungry for knowledge of truth, for you (those awakened by gnosis) are the intelligent ones. Do not return to the old chattering parts of yourself. Do not go back to your old vomit. You have destroyed evil in you – do not fall into it again. Do the will of God for you come from God.”
Martin Seymour-Smith adapting The Gospel of Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1105445457810146232005-01-11T04:10:00.000-08:002005-01-11T04:10:57.810-08:00TO STRETCH A MOMENT IS TO LIVE OUTSIDE TIME
ANCIENT RECORDS/MOMENT SERIES
A series of 1 track CDs. Now open for submissions.
Directions:Interpret the following sentence however you decide. To Stretch a moment is to live outside time.
Further information and contact details from secretsocietyinfo@eircom.net
Moment Number 1
SECRET SOCIETY – ‘STORM – TO REMIND AND TRANSPORT’ ANC006
Know time and Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1105445190695033082005-01-11T04:05:00.000-08:002005-01-11T04:06:30.696-08:00"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."
Babatunde Olatunji
Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1103374380872428492004-12-18T04:52:00.000-08:002004-12-18T04:53:00.873-08:00“What is generally termed reality is, to be precise, a frothy nothing.”
Hugo Ball
The froth just keeps getting bigger.
“I allowed the old fortresses of art to be besieged by dreams. Dreams are mightier than atom bombs, what are the flights of supersonic aircraft compared to the flights of saints, dreamers and poets?”
“We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1103372375261066772004-12-18T04:18:00.000-08:002004-12-18T04:19:35.260-08:00“The opening night of a film is a sad night for a director. If the film is a success, he will look around at the group of friends who were responsible for making it so and realise that he will never work together again with all these same people and with the same spirit that infused the group during the preceding weeks and months. If on the contrary the film is a dud, he will begin picking it Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1103370318659948212004-12-18T03:44:00.000-08:002004-12-18T03:45:18.660-08:00“The hour when it is no longer day but night has not yet come is a delightful one for expansive temperaments. Then the glow of twilight casts its soft tints or its strange reflections over everything and encourages a reverie which blends vaguely with the play of light and shade. The silence which reigns nearly always at this moment endears it more especially to artists, who reflect, stand back Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1099336497519903922004-11-01T11:14:00.000-08:002004-11-01T11:14:57.520-08:00“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.”
Sir Isaac Newton
Society always measures what is worthwhile to pursue, uncover and work out. There are far more Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1099063903565509452004-10-29T08:30:00.000-07:002004-10-29T08:31:43.566-07:00My latest published submission to The Open Manifesto.
http://www.openmanifesto.com/submissions/101-200/127.html
Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1095162138712515792004-09-14T04:37:00.000-07:002004-09-18T11:03:49.296-07:00TRAINS FOR THE BLIND
Dublin based artist Stephen Rennicks produces art, writing and music under the umbrella name of Secret Society. ‘Making hidden history since 1999’ his tag line goes. He works both over ground and covertly but prefers to engage his audience by surprise. Always exploring context, he wants to make people think, see and hear differently.On first listening to Melissa’s material IStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1094823997694275702004-09-10T06:36:00.000-07:002004-09-10T06:46:37.693-07:00Since March 2004, for one year, Stephen Rennicks will be depositing audio cassette tapes (Sound-collage), CDR’s (Ambient electronics with theme of loss) and VHS tapes (Handheld Camcorder films) into charity shops across Dublin. So far he has produced 14 sound collages, 6 ambient pieces and 4 films. All the formats have a label reading as follows, In pen the title of the piece followed by the Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1093736844937053702004-08-28T16:45:00.000-07:002004-08-28T16:47:24.936-07:00‘Report from Iron Mountain’ is supposedly a US government research report from 1963. It basically is concerned with considering the possible outcome of a world without war and ways to achieve this. Regardless of its authenticity, I see it as food for thought at the very least, I have below edited my pick of what I felt to be the more interesting points.
The basic premise of the report is as Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1092566100684935292004-08-15T11:33:00.000-07:002004-08-15T03:35:00.683-07:00A Life Without Shadow
At our final death, when we do not return to the physical plain through reincarnation, we will go to a spiritual plain. I have my own theories what this might be like but at this point we must we concerned with how we get to that point.
The Buddhist belief that at death during the reincarnation stage we can look back at all our previous lives and perhaps even pick a Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1091186311742127912004-07-30T04:17:00.000-07:002004-07-30T04:18:31.743-07:00Stephen Rennicks has 8 art pieces on show at Big Bang, to be held at Digital Hub on 31st July 2004. This is the first time so much of the work has been together for the first time, an opportunity to judge how well it all stands together. This is a gig/art show.
More MP3's of Memory Cells, The Wormholes, Secret Society and more athttp://www.groov.ie/memorycells/downloads.html
Ancient Records is Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1088989745814626952004-07-04T18:01:00.000-07:002004-07-05T11:21:24.726-07:00"The solar system as it appears to us is merely a timeline. All the planets are exactly the same, simply seen at different stages of expansion, contraction and implosion. The planets after the Earth were at one point in the past exactly the same as the Earth. There were six Earths before this one."
Alan Lambert
To read more go to The Seventh Earth.Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1088180084769488512004-06-25T09:13:00.000-07:002004-08-15T03:36:19.683-07:00In the past few months I have got to a point with this blog where I have nothing new to say. I could continue just for the sake of it and repeat over and over the same basic points in endless variation and to some degree that is what I have already been doing for some time, but to write too much about what is actually very simple would be counter productive.
My second last variation on the theme Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1087562742876823112004-06-18T05:45:00.000-07:002004-06-18T05:45:42.876-07:00Saturday 19th June, Stephen Rennicks(Secret Society) takes part in a 12 hour DJ/Audio Visual event at Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin. His slot is between 10 and 11pm. He will be accompanied by a projection of a new video piece made with this event in mind. Full details below.
MEMORY CELLS - NO PEOPLE HERE (ANC004) is out now. This is the newly mastered soundtrack of the long unavailable Memory Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1086457739970499372004-06-05T10:42:00.000-07:002004-06-05T10:48:59.970-07:00"Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures."
Plato
Surely the above quote is the key that unlocks our questions about the nature of our society. We need to remove all poisonStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1086457179886769322004-06-05T10:39:00.000-07:002004-06-05T10:39:39.886-07:00"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
Martha WashingtonStephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1086047121039840152004-05-31T16:44:00.000-07:002004-08-15T03:39:07.920-07:00Say you have the day off and go for a walk in the country. The sun is shining, your feeling good and noticing all the little details of nature that surround you. Then on the way home you realise you mobile phone or wallet is missing. You realise you must have dropped it at some point on your walk.
Now you turn and retrace your steps as exactly as you can remember. Your eyes are constantly on the Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1084303115668884312004-05-11T12:14:00.000-07:002004-05-31T16:46:51.816-07:00STEPHEN RENNICKS(SECRET SOCIETY)
DJ sets coming up at…
‘Digital Gadget’
NBI,
Schonhauser Alle 157,
Berlin.
20th May 2004
http://www.digital-gadget.de
http://www.neueberlinerinitiative.de
‘Electric City’
Metropolitan,
11 Eden Quay,
Dublin.
3rd June 2004
VITALIC and AMERICHORD play live.
Lots of free MP3s of SECRET SOCIETY, MEMORY CELLS, THE WORMHOLES and more at
http://www.groov.ie/Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1083183823496677052004-04-28T13:23:00.000-07:002004-08-15T03:41:11.440-07:00It is only when death comes do we feel the regret of not doing more and understand we did not appreciate how wonderful life was when we had it. So approach all actions as if you were about to die and when things are slow, be grateful that they are slow.
Stephen Rennicks
Stephennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1082930577400044742004-04-25T15:02:00.000-07:002004-04-25T15:07:09.576-07:00"Any given day in my life is full of coincidences and close calls. One foggy day I came within seconds of being smashed by a train by my house where there was no crossing guard. All day long my mind swirled with thoughts of "what if". If I hadn't stop to clear the ice from my windshield I'd probably be dead. This fascinates me and makes me realize how every single action, no matter how trivial, Stephennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244685.post-1082930260778993862004-04-25T14:57:00.000-07:002004-04-25T15:01:53.013-07:00"The thinker or artist whose better self has fled into his works feels an almost malicious joy when he sees his body and spirit slowly broken into and destroyed by time; it is as if he were in a corner, watching a thief at work on his safe, all the while knowing that it is empty and that all his treasures have been rescued."
Friedrich NietzscheStephennoreply@blogger.com0