Official Report On The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies Of Kenji Siratori: Appendix 8.2.3 | TRS109
This release is a 163 page paperback book, with an accompanying CD soundtrack, and digital download! TRS109 is a conceptual collaboration between cult Japanese author, Kenji Siratori, the Canadian electro-acoustic duo Wormwood, and a host of well known academics, writers, and other members of the Ministry Of Transrational Research Into Anastrophic Manifolds!
The “Official Report On The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies Of Kenji Siratori: Appendix 8.2.3” is an AI generated, xenopoetic “glitch novel” of sorts, with a good portion of the book also given over to a randomly written and ordered set of strange and beautiful footnotes that were submitted by the 60+ members of the Ministry. This is a futuristic work on all fronts, and in order to contrast with the digitally obtrusive writing, and to play into our belief in“technological mutualism”, our packaging design and visual aesthetic is of a more analogue and DIY, old school cut and paste nature. What we have here then is a work of art that bridges past and future, but is firmly embedded in the NOW!
>>>THE CONCEPT:
“The result is a work of xenopoetic emergence: a beautifully absurd, alien document scintillating with strange potency. Bringing Official Report on The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori: Appendix 8.2.3 is a xenopoetic data/dada anthology that documents the activities of the artist collective The Ministry of Transrational Research into Anastrophic Manifolds. The anthology results from an experimental approach to impersonal literary composition. Similar to surrealist definitions, but on the scale of a technical document, members of the Ministry-poets, musicians, novelists, painters, curators, artists, scientists, philosophers, and physicians-were asked to offer a microfiction, poem, essay, fictional citation, or computer code, in the form of a footnote or annotation to a glitch-generated novel by iconoclastic Japanese artist Kenji Siratori; however, each participant wrote their contribution without any access to or knowledge about the nature of Siratori’s source text. After collecting the contributions, the “footnotes” were each algorithmically linked to an arbitrary word from Siratori’s novel. Bringing together algorithmically and Al-generated electronic literature with analogue collage and traditional modes of literary composition, the Ministry refuses to commit solely to digital, automated, or analogue art and instead seeks technological mutualism and a radically alien future for the arts.
Accompanied by a groundbreaking original score by electro-acoustic duo Wormwood, the anthology offers the radical defamiliarization and weird worlds of science fiction, but now the strangeness bites back on the level form. Readers should expect to discover strange portals from which new ways of thinking, feeling, and being emerge. A conceptual and experimental anthology, Official Report on The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori inaugurates collective xenopoetic writing and the conceit that the future of art will consist of impersonal acts of material emergence, not personal expression. Consume with caution.”
Andrew Wenaus
The 50 deluxe copies have been extensively hand modified in an old school, analogue fashion. Attached to the cover of the book is a spinning, plastic moiré strip, to further contribute to the overall psychedelic aesthetic. also on the cover is a plastic strip with the authors name, hand punched on a vintage Dymo Labeler. The inside of these Limited Edition copies have numerous pages embellished with hand rubbed and distressed vintage Letraset lettering, in a deconstructive manner. Pages are also hi-lighted, rubber stamped, hole punched and then textually rearranged, typed upon in red ink, hand notated, and have attached to them vintage vocabulary cards, post-it notes, stickers, and mysteriously anonymous 60 year old psychology student profile sheets. Other appropriate paper ephemera may be slipped between the covers as well. Hanging from the back cover is the factory pressed CD in a hand worked, windowed envelope. Each copy with its CD then comes in a large, center-holed anti-static envelope.
WARNING!! AS IS STATED ON THE BACK OF THE BOOK…
“Loved ones of those that disappeared reported that prior to their detainment, the victims were
sent an unmarked envelope. The envelope contained a letter whose contents consisted
exclusively of 317 black rectangular glyphs. Due to the still uncertain nature and status of this
Appendix, Time Released Sound would like all readers to be aware of this history!”
Those of you that purchase the Limited Edition version will very possibly be sent one of
these envelopes as well, sometime after you have received the book, so please be
careful when ordering it!
This release will be available for purchase at our Bandcamp page on Friday, September 1st, at 10AM, California time. Please purchase it here…
https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/
This release will ship the week of September 8th, 2023
>>> CREDITS:
Written by Kenji Sartori
Footnotes by the Ministry of Transrational Research into Anastrophic Manifolds:
Rosaire Appel, Louis Armand, David Barrick, Gary Barwin, Steve Beard, Gregory Betts, Christian Bök
Mike Bonsall, Peter Bouscheljong, Maria Chenut, Shane Jesse Christmass, Roy Christopher, Tabasco “Ralph” Contra
Mike Corrao, R.J. Dent, Paul Di Filippo, Zak Ferguson, Colin Herrick, S.C. Hickman, Maxwell Hyett, Justin Isis
Andrew Joron, Chris Kelso, Phillip Klingler, Adam Lovasz, Daniel Lukes, Ania Malinowska, Claudia B. Manley
Ryota Matsumoto, Michael Mc Aloran, Andrew Mcluhan, Jeff Noon, Jim Osman, Suarjan Prasai, Tom Prime
David Leo Rice, Virgilio Rivas, David Roden, B.R. Yeager, Andrej Shakowski, Aaron Schneider, Gary J. Shipley
Kenji Siratori, Sean Smith, Kristine Snodgrass, Sean Sokolov, Alan Sondheim, Simon Spiegel, Henry Adam Svec
Jeff VanderMeer, R.G. Vasicek, Andrew C. Wenaus [Ministry Director], William Wenaus, Eileen Wennekers
Christina Marie Willatt, Saywrane Alfonso Williams, D. Harlan Wilson, Andrew Wilt.
All music composed by Andrew Wenaus and Christina Marie Willatt.
Performed by Andrew Wenaus, Christina Marie Willatt, and Kenji Siratori.
Packaging design and artwork by Colin Herrick
Produced by Andrew Wenaus and Time Released Sound
Time Released Sound 2023
>>> EARLY REVIEWS:
It is only fitting that a book as exorbitant and unhinged as this be accompanied by the most pedestrian of endorsements. Something nice and straightforward, communicating basic facts in plain language with no redundancy, silliness, or puns. For instance, The Official Report on the Intransitionalist Topologies of Kenji Siratori: Appendix 8.2.3 renegotiates the distinction between information and noise; dramatises problems of reference through topological analysis and transduction; explores paratext as a site of poetic intervention; posits reading as possession, decryption, or apophenia; and forecasts human-machine symbiosis as the future of literary experimentation. It is 163 pages long and contains forty-eight occurrences of the word ‘telepathy’, fourteen of ‘fate’, and five of ‘lacking’. It will take an average human reader approximately three and a half hours to complete.
-Amy Ireland, URBANOMIC
Official Report on The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori, written by chronotopologist, hypermorphicist, anastrophicist and negentropist, Kenji Siratori, the Japanoisic übermensch of glitch poetics, with its dramatis personae (Appel, Armand, Barrick, Barwin, Beard, Betts, Bök, Bonsall, Bouscheljong, Chenut, Christmass, Christopher, Contra, Corrao, Dent, Di Filippo, Ferguson, Herrick, Hickman, Hyett, Isis, Joron, Kelso, Klingler, Lovasz, Lukes, Malinowska, Manley, Matsumoto, Mc Aloran, Mcluhan, Noon, Osman, Prasai, Prime, Rice, Rivas, Roden, Yeager, Shakowski, Schneider, Shipley, Siratori, Smith, Snodgrass, Sokolov, Sondheim, Spiegel, Svec, VanderMeer, Vasicek, AC. Wenaus, W. Wenaus, Wennekers, Willatt, Williams, Wilson, Wilt) in a sous rature of 153 footnotes from these “Official Members of the Ministry of Transrational Research Into Anastrophic Manifolds” under the patamathematical leadership of Ministry Director Andrew C. Wenaus, is a posthuman chef-d’œuvre in its autoglossolalia, thanatotics, somniloquies and in an “invariant homeomorphic plasticity” whose “Siratori Signals” with their “spikey polyhedral surfaces” are being “marionetted by an invisible xenoforce.” Preordained and intercepted in 2084, Chronotopologies is a cult classic cum “super-détournement,” whose hyperstitional innovations don the new blazon, x(t)=■∞-1.
—Daniel Y. Harris, author of The Posthuman Series, (Volumes I-V, BlazeVOX)
>>> ABOUT KENJI SIRATORI:
“Kenji Siratori (1975): a Japanese avant-garde artist who is currently bombarding the internet with wave upon wave of highly experimental, uncompromising, progressive, intense prose. His is a writing style that not only breaks with tradition, it severs all cords, and can only really be compared to the kind of experimental writing techniques employed by the Surrealists, William Burroughs and Antonin Artaud. Embracing the image mayhem of the digital age, his relentless prose is nonsensical and extreme, avant-garde and confused, with precedence given to twisted imagery, pace and experimentation over linear narrative and character development.“
>>> ABOUT WORMWOOD:
Wormwood is a Canadian electro-acoustic duo comprised of Christina Willatt and Andrew C. Wenaus. They have released four LPs and recorded, arranged, and performed electro-acoustic scores for theatre, dance, film, and contemporary classical ensemble.
