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endgame one: death ritual April 2005
where conscious self sacrifice is undertaken to let go of what I have to achieve something I have only dreamed.
purpose:
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to take the selfish melodrama out of death & celebrate the soul's release.
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to deconstruct the stereotype of purrfect cosmetic teenage beauty.
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to birth the notion that old bodies have their own beauty.
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to find inventive & obvious ways of embarrassing oneself thru art.
focus:
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the death ritual should be set as climax to a sequence of several contrasting free soundscape improvisations flowing in and around several seven minute prerecorded sound forests.
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In fact, this prerecorded undergrowth can be introduced & withdrawn according to the aesthetic pleasure of the D DAY D JAY chosen for that performance.
performers 01:04.05
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max wilcox: guitarism & altitude
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kavi samut: extratexturalism & angel anchors
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misbah: freesong & alarming passions
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dada alien: glissandi madamentoro & dead body
the ritual
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dada: I saw myself dead & wished to design my own dying. I wished to hear my life & all its singing rush right past me. I wished to be washed & demagnetized, sung free & purified, cleansed & scented by scattered petals.
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Then I wished to be loudly & simultaneously praised & cursed for my helpings & hinderings.
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Then I wished to be given to the deepest well of highest consciousness for seven minutes.
Finally I should be given a last chance to return to the cell of the brain by one of three means:
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successful sexual stimulation.
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spectacular combinations of herbs by medicine (wo) man
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uproarious group laughter
Should one of these three strategies raise me to interaction then I shall rise again.
Otherwise I'm dead man, you can turn off the quarter inch tape.
Should I revive, I am free to clothe myself as a paradox
& symbolize the two opposing elements of my reborn self.
Once demonstrated thus, the new self is free to begin.
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