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Justin Wiggan
The Lipton Files

Album NZ 2006 on PseudoArcana label
Spoken Word (Field Recording, Minimal, Experimental)

Gathering together the documentation surrounding a top secret research institute devoted to perception and memory research. The Lipton Files is perhaps the most extravagant folly undertaken by PseudoArcana yet. Packaged in an A5 ringbinder this set contains 3CDRs, 1DVDR and a multitude of supporting images and texts. These documents illuminate the history of the experimental work undertaken by one Dr Lipton and his colleagues (as well as the history of allies- 'The Brotherhood of the Order of the Wing') via research papers, oppositional pamphlets, website screenshots, and the xeroxed documents and photos of what is presumably a private investigator. The story unveiled is one of radical science, utopian visionaries, the magical arts, shadowy conservative networks, and ultimately of governmental cowardice. The 3 CDRS present the audio component of 3 separate experiments undertaken by the Lipton Institute. To the uninitiated these sound not unlike long (60 min+) experiments in minimal electronic music... The DVDR (10 min) re-caps something of the history of the Lipton project through film and image and also presents a short but extraordinarily vivid sequence of video footage of 'memory capture' from Lipton's experiments utilising EEG technology.

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