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The Hurdy Stone Zine + LunaTronix poster/pamphlet including a QR code link to view the LUNATRONIX WTF? sound & vision incantation by TowerBlock1
Photographs and texts documenting the standing of The Hurdy Stone in a field in Stroud where The Standing Stones encoded it with their Twa Sisters recording using the experimental LunaTronix Encoding System.
52 page full colour zine in stapled card wraps 21.6 x 27.9cm
LunaTronix Poster/Pamphlet55 x 42 cm folding down to 21 x 27.5 cm
Contributions to the zine by: Jimmy Cauty (Stone Stander and Lunatronix Encoder) Jem Finer (Stone Stander & LunaTronix Encoder) Marcia Farquhar (Witness) Steve Lowe (L-13 Chief Engineer) Museum of Roadside Magic (Steering Coven) Tree Carr (High Priestess Witch) Rattle and Brash (Custodians of the Stone)
Photography and zine design by Foxtrot Lightning/Sophie Polyviou Cover design by TowerBlock1/Jimmy Cauty
Published by Prophetic Promotions Press in association with L-13 Light Industrial Recordings and The Standing Stones
The Hurdy Stone was stood in the grounds of Rattle
& Brash, Stroud on 1st May 2026, for the opening of NeoAncients Festival. The cosmologically charged ceremony was led by High Priestess Tree Carr, with heavy plant machinery operated by Sparrow Crane Hire, blessings by The Museum of Roadside Magic’s Steering Coven, and witnessed by a crowd of curious bystanders
processed to the site by Johnny Fluffypunk. The monolith was then encoded with sound using the experimental LunaTronix system and the witnesses invited to put an ear to it and listen.
This was the second monolith to be raised by The Standing
Stones, a band formed by Jimmy Cauty and Jem Finer. The Stones draw on influences from early music technologies, trad folk, and electronic dance music, creating soundscapes steeped in deep time & universal wyrdness.
