The movement of air currents are capable of causing a candle to quiver or waver. Air currents are the providence of the breath of the dead. The spirits of the deceased traverse the River Styx as souls of air. In Sanskrit, prana; in Greek, psyche or the pneuma of the aura; in Latin, the animus and spiritus of being. Gathering the spirits of the dead -- their disembodied voices -- into a wind capable of influencing a candle's flame demonstrates the telekinetic power of the beyond. Two members of the dead will be marshalled for the purposes of the 2008 World Telekinesis Competition. The first member, Konstantin Raudive (1906-1974), a student of Carl Jüng, explored the 'voices of the dead' in what he called 'Electronic Voice Phenomenon' (EVP). The voices of the dead as air currents also possess electromagnetic properties; thus they are capable of leaving traces on blank tape, communicating through untuned radio crystals and speaking in the white noise of static. The Tactical Tape Loop Division (EVP Unit) is indebted to Raudive for developing the techniques of deciphering, by way of analog reel-to-reel machines and blank tape, the voices of the dead. The second member, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), also investigated the unconscious properties of language that control the brain. To this end, with Bryon Gysin (who unfortunately is unable to participate), Burroughs developed a technique of the 'cut-up', again using analog tape, to disconnect and disrupt the Grey Room properties of control language. The third member, tobias c. van Veen (b. 1978), will combine the EVP and cut-up techniques of deceased members Burroughs and Raudive. Working together from the Beyond, Raudive and Burroughs will attempt to exert their spiritus on analog tape deciphered by van Veen. By applying the technique of the cut-up to this Electronic Voice Phenomenon, van Veen hopes to disrupt the control mechanisms of language insofar as language takes the form of material currents of air, qua the spiritus of dead members Raudive and Burroughs, and thereby, and of course telekinetically, directing this spirited wind from the location of Montréal, causing the candle to flicker, waver, extinguish or inflame.
11.04.08 Programmable Media II, PACE U, NYC [turbulence] |
29.03.08 saibotuk plays magnetic opera of the dead @ TEXTURES_22, Cagibi, Montreal |
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['til death do us a part] is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., for Networked_Music_Review. It was made possible with funding from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney general at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
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