Performance Sound & Vision

All the images used in the slideshow/video are images that are references or images that I am working with. the first half are of Elizabeth Clare Prophet the later half are of Aokigahara forest in Japan. this a forest that people say in haunted by ghosts, many people choose this place to kill themselves as it is said to be one of the most beautiful places to die in the world. it is second only to the Golden Gate bridge for the most suicides per year. some of the images are just random things that have/are influencing my work, this performance was a great chance to try out some ideas ive been playing with for a little while.

download the sound here

images all found on the internet, Eternal Rest photo by DC.

Performance

Im part of the third live performance night Livestock

it takes place at The Market Studios this Friday 26th Feb starting at 8pm.

This is an informal event which incorporates performance art, song, dance, and sound based work, the emphasis is being put on cross-discipline professional development in performance through a casual and experimental setting.
This is a bring your own booze event. There should be some pretty interesting and fun things.

The piece I'm doing is based on the Anti rock chants/prayers of the cult leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet along with some backwards and processed metal with improvised electronics. The piece also has a companion video piece, a slide-show with images that I was looking at when creating the piece. The set up will be very stripped back with 2 tape players and electronics provided by a Bug Brand Board Weevil all run into a small mixer with limited on-board effects. By using the tape players as a replacement for turntables, it references the source material used to create the piece. ECP's recordings have been used many times as sample sources for various music and the backwards metal is referencing the ideas that some music, mostly form the heavy rock/metal genre have used back-masked messages to corrupt the listener. It also references my time spent as a dj.

The images in the video/slideshow are mostly of ECP and Aokigahara, The forest, which has a historic association with demons in Japanese mythology, is a popular place for suicides; in 2002, 78 bodies were found, despite numerous signs, in Japanese and English, urging people to reconsider their actions. Due to the wind-blocking density of the trees, and an absence of wildlife, the forest is known for being eerily quiet.

I should have some footage and a recording of the performance that will be posted in the near future.

Monologue for a New Piece

Piece 1.

from here i can't see the stars

and i haven't been to anywhere like i was promised

if i wasn’t walking backwards

you'd still be so far away

two metal rings hang

next to each other on one wall

they over lap in a figure of 8

thats all i can see right now

another impasse

the story will have to be re-started

i remember the great grassy hills where we assembled below that night sky

we waited for the words

words of enlightenment

words to save us

high up on the grassy hill we waited to be taken into the love of the violet flame

to free our fiery sprit and redeem our souls

awake once more i begin again

i will not lie

i am afraid sometimes

wondering will i wake up in the morning or will this be the time?

i die before i wake wanting to go back to that place

the place of being inside of myself

inside a house where events remain and accumulate

i am afraid

of being left behind

facing the dark days ahead

surrounded by people who have forgotten

Elizabeth Clare Prophet 'Guru Ma'

Been listening to The Sounds of American Doomsday Cults vol 14 a lot lately, its really great!!!

from http://www.waxy.org

Back in the 1980s, a few thousand devoted followers of a religious sect called the Church

Universal and Triumphant relocated to a 32,000 acre Montana ranch and began

preparing for the Apocalypse. Clare Prophet, their aptly-named leader,

predicted a devastating Soviet missile attack on the United States set for

April 23, 1990. Responding to these doomsday visions, the sect began

cks. (The

church still lives on, albeit in a mainstream form.)

stockpiling weapons and creating fallout shelters to survive the attack.

Audio recordings from internal church services

surfaced sometime during the late-1980s and were released on Faithway

International’s Sounds of American Doomsday Cults Volume 14.
The highlight of

the batch is the Invocation For Judgement Against And Destruction of Rock Music

, a three-minute roster of ’80s rock and pop stars sentenced to eternal

damnation for various crimes against God.


“And we

especially call for the judgement in this hour in the destroying of rock music

directed specifically against children through the videos that were portrayed.

udgement of the Sacred Fire at this hour before the Throne of Almighty God.

And working specifically through these individuals for whom we call forth the

judgement of the Sacred Fire at this hour before the Throne of Almighty God.

Michael Jackson, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, David Boowie, Van Halen,

Madonna, Huey Louis And The News, The Cars, Herbie Hancock, Bonnie Tyler,

rd Al Yankovic, Cyndi Looper, Pink Floyd, The Pretenders, Billy Joel, Billy Ido

Stevie Nicks, Men at Work, ZZ Top, Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, We

il, Elton John, Neil Young, Sheena Easton, Patti Smith and Scandal, Fashion, Big

Gilmour, The Rolling Stones, Pat Benatar, Hall & Oates, Wham, Rebbie Jacks

Country, Morris Day and the Time, John Lennon, Appalonia 6, REO Speedwagon, Davi

don, Adam Ant, Bananarama, Christine McVie, Queen, Jack Cougar Mellencamp, U2,

Fleetwood Mac, the Alan Parsons Project, Rick Springfield, the Thompson

nd Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Dean Martin, KISS, Scorpions, Def Leppard.

Twins, Missing Persons, Duran Duran, Police, Eurythmics, Culture Club including Boy George,

Band-Aid, Relax, Stevie Wonder, Kenny Rogers, J. Iglesias

and Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Dean Martin, KISS, Scorpions, Def Leppard. And especially for the judgement of all movies including Beat Street, MTV,

Street Beat, Miami Vice, Kid Video, Scooby Dooby Doo, Spinal Tap, Michael Sembello, Flashdance, 2010.

And Andy Summers, Kenny Loggins, Phil Collins, Fire Incorporated, Olivia Newton-John,

and the movie Ghostbusters.

And all other individual groups or individual artists

who vibrate in consonance with them and with the vibration of the fallen angels

and the demons of death and hell from the bottomless pit.

We call forth thy flame now into the planes of Montair and for the full action

of the will of God for the confounding and confuting of these images and

this release of the plague of death and hell upon the planetary body.

We accept it done now with full power according to God’s holy will through this, our decree.“