EVENTS

Ethnopsychedelia Talk at Sublime Frequencies / Global Alchemy, Club Transmediale, Berlin

Festsaal Kreuzberg, Skalitzer Strasse 130, 10999 Berlin

I'll be giving a talk about ethnopsychedelia as part of a two day event celebrating and exploring the work of the excellent Seattle-based Sublime Frequencies label, whose provocative presentations of musics from around the planet I've been an admirer of for a while.  Syrian pop star Omar Souleyman and Western Sahara rock band Group Doueh (both are amazing!) will perform, the SF guys will talk about their work, and there will be films, DJ sets, discussion.

Text of talk available here.

Here's my original essay on SF and ethnopsychedelia.

See the Transmediale website for further details.

Yage Tapes: Shamanism and Intellectual Property in Colombia

University of Buffalo Law School, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy

A few years ago, anthropologist Mick Taussig and I sat down and went through a shoebox of cassetes recorded by Taussig in Colombia in the 1970s of Putumayo healer Santiago Mutumbajoy.  We were amazed at the clarity of the recordings and offered them to Locust, who issued a CD of one of the most interesting tapes as "Psychedelic Shaman Sounds of Santiago Mutumbajoy".  At this event, I'll be discussing these recordings, and IP issues as they relate to indigenous cultures, anthropological fieldwork etc. with Taussig, legal scholar Mark Bartholomew and Locust boss Dawson Prater.

See The Baldy Center website for full details.