The rustic gallery was formerly a holding pen where cattle were taken to be watered and cleaned after they were auctioned off to the highest bidder. The recording is then imputed into a program that I have written, rendering visualizations from those sound frequencies.įuneral Procession was featured in Empedocles' Ghost, a collaboration with Noysky Projects and The Syndicate of Creatures at Warehouse9, an early 20th century slaughterhouse in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District. Sampling a modern recreation of an ancient Greek funeral song, I have stretched the recording over 100 times so that the audible moments are abstracted to haunting drones and chimes. Portal (2) is an opportunity to learn from the mistakes and blunders of my ancestors, while cumulatively building on their core strengths and values.įuneral Procession / Portal (1) merges the technology of today with the mysticism and rituals of antiquity. While Portal (2) is fundamentally a vehicle for ancestral worship, it posits the conflicting nature of exalting familial men who were imperfect at best and down right repugnant at worst. The evoking spiral in Portal (2) was created using photographs of men on my paternal family from the 1860s through today, while the lyrics were sourced from Echo Canyon, an American Civil War-era song that romanticized the back-breaking work that many young Mormon boys endured while working on the transcontinental railroad. Strategically aligned with the four cardinal directions, this ritualistic pyramid harnesses both masculine and feminine power, concentrating their energy at the zenith where the four corner meet. Using conventions common to a witches' magic circle, Portal (2) is a gateway to the paternal spirits of my family in Utah.
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