Study for a Crucifixion
with blood, metal, stars
Summary
Some kind of a crucifixion: a roar of absolute human/inhuman rage and despair and vehemence and fury and defiance and blood…. It is a cry of furious aggression, channelling right from the core – viscerally alive with pain – but through this ultimately a violent breaking-through: through the noise and brutality and cruelty and nothingness and impossible contradiction of the situation…. the affirmative cry of the human voice – a howl and hallelujah all at once.
An opening of stars twinkling and bright. A limb of metal reaching out from a red haze. Dead flies littered beneath electrical coils which are streaming with blood and crystal. There is a feeling of a catastrophic rupture. Copper ore winks and glistens amid the gore-spattered ground, oozing with dark petrol-like fluid. The light is hot and bright – constant; but within this constant there is an intense strobe-like volatility — as if undergoing a seizure: rattling, at breaking point.
Sound
The sound is very much the soul of this thing. It needs to be, and to carry, all the above (see summary). It must express some kind of a roar and ecstasy – the vital core of a human being made bright and alive; baring everything against immense pressure.
The sound plays as an infinite loop. Needs to strike a fine balance between a broken brutal screaming noisiness, and a musical element – a melody carried by a voice – breaking through.
The melody/vocals are stretched out to a point of abstraction which elevates it by burning / washing away the micro musical information, leaving just the raw expression of the melody and human voice.Â
The demo below is an example of the kind of expression I am after.
Key Components / Details
The Arm
References
A sawn-off piece of metal juts out from an abstract reddish haze – like an arm reaching up through a mist of blood. A poignancy to the way it is inexplicably there – reaching up from some abstract dimension, into the violent empty space around it – but with no clear function; like an antennae pointed into nothing.
The TV / The Scream
A CRT TV screen displays an abstraction for a scream. The image is shaking and the screen distorting and flickering but staying on.
The black abstract forms
twin forms – animalistic implications – the curvature of a spine. Relating to the human form but total abstractions of it. Feeling of implicit violence / menace. Material composition: black metal. made-up of a discordant lattice / mesh of razor sharp edges. Dust of black broken glass / obsidian peppers the ground around them.
The Electricity Coils
Streaming with blood, and chunks of copper ore – blood gathering in pools beneath them. Dead flies litter the ground.
The Spine
A human spine juts out from a constant spurt of blood, spraying out at wild angles. The spine is fixed like a knife – (barely) tamping a catastrophic wound.
The Stars
An abstract opening – like a tear in the fabric of things – through which stars glimmer brightly from the dark.
