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All The Beauty And The Bloodshed by Laura Poitras - Official Trailer

DEATH MUST DIE, LP

2018

Available via Marionette
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For the 8th Marionette publication, Soundwalk Collective present ‘Death Must Die’. This is a sound piece that began 5 years ago and ended up as a radio play, as well as a one time live performance in a temple in New York. More recently, the trio found the drive to revive the project and re-translate and reflect on what these recordings mean to all of them, and to revisit the piece in a more musical way.

‘Death Must Die’ is based on Stephan’s multiple visits to the sacred Indian city of Varanasi, known as the place where thousands of people go to die. This journey was sparked by a fascination of trying to understand what happens at such a place, and how the idea of death is approached both in practical and spiritual terms. Through recording sounds from each visit and participating in different kinds of ceremonies, Stephan re-imagined his understanding of how to perceive, approach, and accept death. ‘Death Must Die’ is meant to demystify the concept of death while finding a means to relate to it visually and sonically through the energy, scents, and setting.

The idea is for the mind to dwell a world away from pain. That only in such a state of acceptance can one be most uninhibited and most free to decompose without resistance. That all suffering originates from craving, from attachment or from desire, which leads to both head and blood refusing to be pacified. From what I gather, the people in Varanasi, whether in ecstasy or burning, throw their arms up in the air. They are in a constant state of seeing what they are, and not calculating what they should become.

‘Death Must Die’ begins before the rising of the sun and reproduces the cycle of a day in Varanasi, ironically and coincidentally, much like the process the Collective approached in reviving this project.

It is here that Hindus come to die and burn their dead. It is here, on the river’s edges, that the wrath and the grace of Shiva are expressed. Intoxicating as death itself, it is a hammering song of the dead, playing until one is transfixed, and it is the murmuring of the Ganges…the power of silence.

This release is set to come out sometime in September on vinyl (distributed by Honest Jon’s) and digital. A photograph shot by Stephan Crasneanscki of a native in Varanasi playing the flute is printed with a Risograph and included as an insert with complementing words extracted from the Nasadiya Sukta – also known as the Hymn of Creation – it is the 129th hymn of the 10th mandala of the Rigveda – which is the ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns concerned with cosmology and the origin of the universe.

All music composed, performed and produced by Soundwalk Collective [Stephan Crasneanscki, Simone Merli, Kamran Sadeghi]
Field Recordings: Stephan Crasneanscki, Dug Winningham
Arrangement and Mix: Kamran Sadeghi
Mastering: Noel Summerville
Photography: Stephan Crasneanscki
Artwork: Benjamin Kilchhofer
Special Thanks: Dr. Robert E. Svoboda, Eddie Stern, Veer Bhadra Mishra

YEAR
TITLE
PROJECT
2023 - 2024
CORRESPONDENCES with Patti Smith
Exhibition, CNA Bogotà, TPMM Tbilisi, FIM Guadalajara, MAMM Medellin
2023 - 2024
CORRESPONDENCES - Live
Live Performance
2023
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED - Live
Live Performance
2023
MAISON GAINSBOURG with Charlotte Gainsbourg
Soundtrack, Maison Gainsbourg Paris
2022
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED by Laura Poitras
Film Score
2022 - 2024
EVIDENCE with Patti Smith
Museum Exhibition, Centre Pompidou Paris, CCB Lisbon
2022
IGUANA TOKYO by Kaan Mujdeci
Film Score
2021
LOVOTIC with Charlotte Gainsbourgfeat. AtomTM, Lyra Pramuk, Paul B. Preciado, Willem Dafoe
Audiovisual Installation, FOROF Rome
2021
MEMORY LOST by Nan Goldin
Film Score
2021
A ROOF FOR SILENCE by Hala Warde
Sound Installation, Venice Architecture Biennale
2020
PERADAM with Patti Smithfeat. Anoushka Shankar, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tenzin Choegyal
Album LP
2020
WE ARE NOT ALONE with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Hussain Al Jassmi, Nina Kraviz, Willem Dafoe, Wim Wenders, Zhou Dongyu, Jean Nouvel
Sound Installation, Louvre Abu Dhabi
2019
THE TIME OF THE NIGHT with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Patti Smith
Sound Installation, Fondation Carmignac
2019
MUMMER LOVE with Patti Smithfeat. Philip Glass, Mulatu Astatke and the Sufi Group of Sheikh Ibrahim
Album LP
2019
THE PEYOTE DANCE with Patti Smith
feat. Gael García Bernal and the Rarámuri Indians of the Sierra Tarahumara
Album LP
2019
THE WOMEN’S MARCH, 1789 by Nan Goldin
Sound Installation, Palace of Versailles
2019
OSCILLATION
Sound Installation, Philharmonie de Paris
2019
AYAHUASQUEROS
Audiovisual Installation, Times Square 'Midnight Moment', NYC
2019
MIRAGE
Sound Installation, Louvre Abu Dhabi
2019
SIBERIA by Abel Ferrara
Film Score
2018
DEATH MUST DIE
Album LP
2018
ULYSSES SYNDROME
Sound Installation, Manifesta12 Palermo
2018
EΞΟΔΟΣ I Exodos by Sasha Waltz
Score for Dance Choreography
2018
WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND
Audiovisual Installation, Kraftwerk Berlin
2018
KREATUR by Sasha Waltz
Score for Dance Choreography
2017
TRANSMISSIONS
Album LP
2017
RESONANCE
Sound Installation, Palazzo Reale, Milan
2017
BEFORE MUSIC THERE IS BLOOD
Album LP
2017
PRINCES AMONG MEN by Stephan Crasneanscki
Film Score
2016
KHANDROMA
Audiovisual Installation, Rubin Museum, NYC
2016
KILLER ROAD with Jesse Paris Smith and Patti Smith
Album LP
2015
A MEMOIR OF DISINTEGRATION with Nan Goldin, Samuel Rohrer and Tina Frank
Audiovisual Performance, CTM Festival, Berlin
2014
SONS OF THE WIND
Film Score and Album LP
2009
KILL THE EGO by Ro Starr
Film Score
2008
CHANEL MOBILE ART by Zaha Hadid
Sound Installation, Hong Kong, Tokyo, NYC

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