604 entity Crop Circles aka Pleiadians aka Etnica
Members: Max Lanfranconi, C. Paterno, M. Begotti, A. Rizzo, Francesco Damato, Filippo Scrmizzi

Discography:

Different Species (off of _Psychedelic-Voodoo_ MixCDx2)
Full Mental Jackpot              KICK58
Full Mental Jackpot EP         AURA001
Lunar Civilisation                 AURA003
 sample: "Personally, I'm convinced that there must be many, many higher civilizations in this enormous and incredibly ancient universe of ours." (Arthur C. Clarke quote) 
pun on the film _Full Metal Jacket_ directed by Stanley Kubrick
 

• Cover art depiction of crop circles on _Signs of Life_604 Compilation BR036CD on Blue Room Released
• Cover art depiction of crop circles on _Public Energy #1_ by Speedy J on Plus 8 (1997)
• 4. _In-Formation_ MP3 (160k)
• 5. _Pure Energy_
• 8. _Tesla_
• 11. _As The Bubble Expands_ MP3

Crop Circles are entheogenic.   If they are fake, it might be the only true art form left  (and possibly the grandest ever conceived and executed).  If it falls under the notion of "prank", by definition, it must remain anonymous.  Those who claim the work, when demonstrating their technique, fall miserably short of the intricacies involved, especially in the dark, clandestine, and with a time limit.  There are no mistakes, and they are always complete, finished within a matter of hours, and no-one being able to spot them in the process.  The most aesthetically pleasing ones defy explanation, no matter how you look at it.  In order for this art to be effective in its intention, no credit must be taken, painstaking planning and implementation are involved, and skilled stealth techniques must be practiced and acquired.  There is no school for this.  The real art school seems to be the earth and its fields of grain and stalk.  You can't sell it, it's temporary, and it transcends the ego driven, heroin induced, and very urban "artist mystique".  The experience, the work, speaks volumes beyond words. - @Om* 10/3/01

• release _Crop Circles_ MP3 (42:15)(39.6megs) CD by Steve Roden on Trente Oiseaux (1998)

• emo track _In Circles_ MP3 by Sunny Day Real Estate off of _Diary_ CD on Sub Pop (1994)
• lo fi indie rock track _Cryptic Shapes_ MP3 by Tobin Sprout off of _I Stayed Up All Night Listening To Records_ compilation on Anyway (1998)

• post rock release _Dream Signals In Full Circles_ by Tristeza on Tiger Style (2000)
• 5. _Aurora Borealis_ MP3
• 8. _Are We People_ MP3 (192k)
• tech-house track _Brilliant Circle_ MP3 (192k) by Aubrey off of _Brilliant Circle_ 12" on End Recordings #039
• industrial breakbeat track _Circular Cosmic Spot_ MP3 (192k) by Meat Beat Manifesto off of _No Control ep_ 12" on Play It Again Sam (1992)
• ambient track _Two Rapid Formations_ MP3 (vK) by Brian Eno with Bill MacCormack/Dave Mattacks off of _Music For Films_ 12" (1978)
• track _Communion: The Crop Circle Thesis_ MP3 by Jedi Mind Tricks off of _Amber Probe_ ep
• "specifically, a generation of mutated warriors from the nether, that's never antiquated, my flux is like somatic stimulation, as macro-electrolytes converge, eternal recurrence, our mentals merge, it's cyclical, but it revamps its own thesis, reaching the premium blend in the communion."
• "i left my image of a crop circle in the form of a galactical star map, perhaps to another plane of consciousness..."
• "through a series of psychological tests i have been declared a demon, travelling through dimensions fatal weapons leave you bleeding, dissecting grey matter, doesn't matter in my cathedral, but how could you stand my timber land in your cerebral, faces of space probes be scattered through my mental, acoustics in my chamber just endanger instrumental, fundamental rhythms are symbols of eternal power, devour, by my infinite skills to disappear, getting lost in the holocaust that rage between my ears, complex like gravity, tragically and mathematically how to be discordant black magickally... analyze the tangle as you get mangled by my triangular rhythms... systematic rotations of my words cause havoc."
 

• 604 track _Circle Makers_ MP3 (160k) by Manmademan off of _Lovetechnology_ 12"x2 on Flying Rhino (2000)

• 604 track _Sonic Mandala (Crop Circles mix)_ by Space Tribe off of _Sonic Mandala_ CD on Spirit Zone (1996)
• cover depicts sacred mushroom
• samples: "This is the crop circle, chord, and its all 14 of these messages combined in to a single chord that last for several seconds";  "I sometimes wish I have been blessed with multiple arms and legs."; 

THE Double Helix CROP CIRCLE from The Kryon Quarterly

On June 17, 1996  a spectacular crop circle was discovered in England. The formation looked strikingly similar to the blueprint for human DNA. The circle measured 648 feet long, with a double-helix type design, and appeared in a field of barley..

Kabbalah	Buckyball	Antahkarana

Fractal Mandelbrot Set

The final crop circle formation of 1997, was the "Strange Attractor" fractal at Hackpen Hill .   The term means "an irreducible invariant set that attracts the trajectories of all nearby points." This term was used byTerence McKenna to describe the "Omega Point," which sucks our evolutionary trajectory towards it, like the plughole at the end of time.
 

Twilight Zone timetunnel  July 15, 1995 Cissbury Ring

Crop Circle formation near Stonehenge

Stonehenge Julia Set.  First reported on 7 July 1996, this impressive formation apparently appeared within the space of half-an-hour or so, in broad daylight, right next to one of the most visited sites in the world.   Measuring 900 by 500 feet, with 151 circles, the glyph was visited by thousands of people.  The farmer wisely chose to charge an admission into the field, and recouped the cost of his damaged field many times over.  This intricate glyph was one of two Julia Sets to appear in the summer of 1996, and was linked to fractals, and possibly chaos theory (or even the new vogue of chaos magic).  Stonehenge is one of a number of places that attract crop circles over and over again through the years, along with Silbury Hill, the Punch Bowl at Cheesefood Head and East Field at Alton Barnes, to name a few.  HOwever, Stonehenge appears to be one of the pivotal points in the world of crop circles, with a majority of the formations occurring within a forty-mile radius of theWorld Heritage site.
 - _The Crop Circles of Wessex_
 

This sign structure is found on Nordic Bronze Age altars and in prehistoric Egypt. is also a heraldic sign known as a mirror. As a Bronze Age ideogram it was most probably a sun symbol.   Compare with the Mayan cross, , and with , found in ancient Troy and made up of five sun signs and an arrow cross.   In eighteenth-century chemistry this sign was used for saccharum or sugar.   The same structure, but with a filled inner circle, , is a modern German map sign for radio beacon (the sign  is a synonym).   In August 12 1989 this structure was a crop circle in southern England.

In his extensive database, leading crop circles researcher Colin Andrews notes several accounts of a trilling sound heard by people prior to witnessing crop circles forming. The reports describe a total stillness in the air; the morning song of birds stops, proceeded by a trilling sound and the banging together of wheat heads despite an absence of wind. The crop then lays down in spiral fashion, the whole episode lasting no more than fifteen seconds.

This sound was eventually captured on magnetic tape and analyzed at Jet Propulsion Lab (located in Pasadena, California, started by Jack Parsons) as mechanical in nature and beating at a frequency of 5.2kHz. The same sound had been previously heard by a BBC cameraman whilst recording an interview near a crop circle, shortly before crossing the formation's threshold which proceeded to render two $50,000 TV cameras obsolete. Obviously, if sound is a main component in the creation of crop circles it can certainly be interacted with.

• aerial  rorschach
• technical term - "agriglyph"
• local 604 label Agrigrlyph Records
• Crop Circle - Milk Hill August 13, 2001 - megaglyph
• Crop Circle Gallery
• video footage of the infamous Oliver Castle video (realvideo)
• video (vhs/ntsc) _Crop Circle Communique_
• Anomalog:
  • Jacques Vallee On Crop Circles
  • Crop Circles: A Celebration
• film _Crop Circles: The Quest For Truth_ directed by William Gazecki - shown August 23, 2002 at the Nuart Theater, Santa Monica.
• by far the most thorough and engaging, and memetically tactical movie on the topic, coinciding with the release of the dreadful _Signs_.  the director's approach is refreshing: "build it and they will come"; "the best way to combat disinformation is through good information", meaning he's still figuring out how to put it out in wide release, and he focuses on the positive elements of the mysteries, as opposed to hoaxers.  the q&a with the  director after the showing was quite entertaining.  like the crop circles themselves, it's just something that had to be done w/o the usual motives: profit, distribution, notoriety. the most important new idea gleamed from the movie: formations in europe tend to pattern themselves around underground waterways and the physics related to them.  the ones found in north america tend to pattern themselves around electrical power lines.  the last part was particularly eerie to me, as electrical transmission towers are a personal fascination of mine.  - @Om* 2/24/2002
• trailer & 5 excerpts (quicktimes)
• i own a crop circle windchime    which i obtained at a used bookstore in Pasadena

 
• possible connection to cymatics
• possible connection to Ernst Chladni's sound waveplates.

  

A quote from Freddy Silva of Crop Circular:

"This coincidence echoes the repeated claims by many channelers/mediums/sensitive people at the beginning phase of the phenomenon that the Earth is undergoing a change in frequency - a raising in the Earth's vibrationary rate, a sentiment also shared in the prophesies of native tribes around the world concerning Earth changes of this period. Further corroboration comes from  whose recent soundings of Earth from space record a rise in the frequency 'hum' emitted by the planet."

Crop-circle articles that appear in scientific journals, when they appear at all, are usually of the debunking variety. But here follows the abstract from a recent paper printed in a European journal. It presents data that could lead to a technique for separating "real" crop circles from hoaxes.

"Crop formations consist of geometrically organized regions ranging from 2 to 80 m diameter, in which the plants (primarily grain crops) are flattened in a horizontal position. Plants from crop formations display anatomical alterations which cannot be accounted for by assuming the formations are hoaxes. Near the soil surface the curved stems often form complex swirls with 'vortex' type patterns. In the present paper, evidence is presented which indicates that structural and cellular alterations take place in plants exposed within the confines of the 'circle' type formations, differences which were determined to be statistically significant when compared with control plants taken outside the formation. These transformations were manifested at the macroscopic level as abnormal nodal swelling, gross malformations during embryogenesis, and charred epidermal tissue. Significant changes in seed germination and development were found, and at the microscopic level differences were observed in cell wall pit structures. Affected plants also have characteristics suggesting the involvement of transient high temperatures."

(Levengood, W.C.; "Anatomical Anomalies in Crop Formation Plants," Physiologia Plantarum, 92:356, 1994. Cr. N. Talbott)

On one hand, mainstream scientists, when they deign to notice them at all, pronounce that all crop circles are the work of hoaxers, as in the article by J.W. Deardorff referenced below. On the other hand, several books and a flood of reports in fringe publications claim that the crop circles, particularly the complex ones, are evidence that extraterrestrial intelligences are attempting to communicate with us. There is also a middle ground upon which stands G.T. Meaden, a physicist, and a few other scientists. Meaden has summarized this third position in the following paragraph:

     "...we believe that the formation of real crop circles is a rare phenomenon resulting
     from the motion of a spinning mass of air which Professor Tokio Kikuchi has modelled
     by computer simulation and calls a nanoburst. This disturbance could involve the
     breakdown of an up-spinning vortex of the eddy or whirlwind type. On this theoretical
     model such a process leads to plain circles and ringed circles---types which are
     known from pre-hoax times in Britain and other countries, and are the only species
     which credible eye-witnesses have seen forming. All other so-called crop circles
     reported in the media news in recent years are likely to be the result of intelligent
     hoaxing, while the so-called paranormal events to which Deardorff alludes are nothing
     but the consequence of poor observation and/or exaggeration by susceptible mystics
     and vulnerable pseudoscientists. In the absence of hoaxing the subject would still be
     unknown to the general public because the average number of real-circle reports per
     annum is small (indeed in some years it may be zero)."

(Meaden, G. Terence; "Crop Circles: The Real and the Hoaxed," Weather, 47:368, 1992. Deardorff, J.W.; "Crop Circles: Someone Had to Say It!" Weather, 47:142, 1992.)

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