{"id":66,"date":"2017-11-21T12:43:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T04:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sagepbbbt.wordpress.com\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2017-11-21T12:43:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T04:43:51","slug":"ifaq","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sage.craigpedersen.com\/blog\/ifaq\/","title":{"rendered":"inFrequently Asked Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why \u2018Pbbbt\u2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Beause I have a great affection for silliness (and sometimes experimental sound stuff can feel a little stuffy).
\n2. I like that people stumble over the pronunciation \/ don\u2019t know how to say it.
\n3. As a head nod to Derrida and his \u2018differance-with-an-a\u2019, which asserts the primacy of the written word over the spoken.
\n4. As a head nod to the great Dada sound poet Kurt Schwitters (who wrote a poem called PPPPPP).
\n5. To turn my (stage) name into a sound poem.
\n6. Because I like the idea of blowing a sage (wise) raspberry. Zen has a long and glorious tradition of mixing the profane and ridiculous into meditation teachings and \u2018pbbbt\u2019 gets used on the internets as a transcription of blowing a raspberry; though of course the linguolabial or bilabial trill gets transcribed by linguists as [\u0299\u0325].
\n7. Because Eris told me to. She gifted me this (magickal) name as part of an invocation ritual I performed. Look away now if you don’t want to hear the results.<\/a><\/p>\n

How do you pronounce \u2018Pbbbt\u2019? [okay, I actually get asked this a lot]<\/strong><\/p>\n

a) See point 2. above!
\nb) blow a raspberry
\nc) say\u00a0\u2018Pee Bee Bee Bee Tee\u2019 or \u2018Puh Buh Buh Buh Tuh\u2019 [Pbbbt has three<\/em> \u2018B\u2019s in it]
\nd) say \u2018Sage Raspberry\u2019
\ne) anything else that makes sense to you<\/p>\n

Why don\u2019t you use the phrase \u2018extended vocal technique\u2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the term \u2018extended vocal technique\u2019 has much wider usage it seems problematic to me; at best it seems inaccurate\u2014in many traditions such techniques get learnt alongside \u2018normal\u2019 singing techniques, or simply as a different way of singing, rather than an extension <\/em>of regular technique\u2014at worst, it seems Eurocentric, verging on racist to suggest that only western singing, and forms similar to it \u2018count as singing\u2019 and then one can optionally add some additions, or extensions<\/em>, to that language. Michael Edgerton uses the term \u2018extra-normal\u2019, which evades some of these problems. It still \u2018normalises\u2019 some techniques, but then in all the traditions that I have familiarity with, people recognise that the techniques we wish to describe with these terms differ from other, more widely practiced types of singing. I don\u2019t find that as problematic as asserting the primacy<\/em> of \u2018normal\u2019 singing. And I haven\u2019t come across a better term. I welcome suggestions.<\/p>\n

Why do you sometimes spell musick with a \u2018k\u2019 on the end?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well\u2026 this chap Aleister Crowley started spelling magick with a\u2018k\u2019 at the end to differentiate it from \u2018stage magic\u2019. Some folx use this spelling, others don\u2019t. But as a lot of my music has elements of ritual work and\/or meditation, and because my \u2018sage musick\u2019 project in some sense constitutes a magickal diary, I thought it fitting to spell it \u2018musick-with-a-k\u2019. And, you know, I enjoy neologisms and wordplay. (Not a massive Crowley fan; I acknowledge his\u00a0huge influence on Western esotericism but he did act like a dick a lot of the time.)<\/p>\n

Do you really have a phobia of origami?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes. And I feel totally comfortable with people laughing at this\u2014even I find it funny\u2014and it also genuinely freaks me out, no joke.<\/p>\n

Which Spirits do you work with?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have worked with a number of different entities over the years, I\u2019ve felt particularly drawn to or inspired by Baphomet, Choronzon, Eris, Kali, Santa Muerte, the Great Serpent, the Spirit of Plastic, Green Tara, Tiamat, Unknown Entity and Washing Machine. Plastic and Washing Machine function as experiments in the idea of urban or industrial shamanism\/animism. I\u2019ve done a lot of work with \u2018Unknown Entity\u2019 as part of an exploration of dada or \u2018anti\u2019 magick in the last few years. Magick without results! Ritual without intent! An alternative to the results oriented, patriarchal-hedonistic stream of magick. A life affirming action, in the way that Dada had a life-affirming, anti-dogmatic stance.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t Choronzon a scary evil demon?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Choronzon gets a lot of bad press. For me, Choronzon functions as a personification of the process of realizing the illusory nature of ego that forms part of the process of the \u2018dark night of the soul\u2019. Meeting them can feel quite challenging, yes. But they just do their thing. I took a lot of inspiration from Demitria Monde Thraam\u2019s writings on Choronzon (particularly this interview<\/a>) as well as Tibetan Ch\u00f6d ritual as channeled via Tsultrim Allione (short version: have compassion for demons). I have a bunch of recordings of workings with Choronzon that I will rework into an album in the hopefully-not-too-distant-future. <3 <3 <3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why \u2018Pbbbt\u2019? 1. Beause I have a great affection for silliness (and sometimes experimental sound stuff can feel a little stuffy). 2. I like that people stumble over the pronunciation \/ don\u2019t know how to say it. 3. As a head nod to Derrida and his \u2018differance-with-an-a\u2019, which asserts the primacy of the written word […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sage.craigpedersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sage.craigpedersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sage.craigpedersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sage.craigpedersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sage.craigpedersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sage.craigpedersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sage.craigpedersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}