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Source Unknown: Dance of My Father

from This Is Not An Album by drummis

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Written as accompaniment for a dance of the same title performed by my sister, Ingrid Reymers, and conceptualized by A Nother Lopez. It appeared in the program titled "Body Obstacles" performed at the Buffalo Infringement Festival, Buffalo, NY, July 30, 31 and Aug 1 2015.

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This is a piece written to accompany a modern dance movement. The prompt was to consider having/not-having, particularly with respect to the "father figure." In doing some research on this idea I discovered the book "Kristeva, Psychoanalysis, and Culture": "For Lacan, the father [played psychosexually by the phallus] represents a void between two irreconcilable truths, that he [Lacan] believes is played out in language production...Speech acts are an attempt at filling in the void between the subject and the phallus [father], an effort at possessing it. On the other hand, these speech acts can never reconcile the dichotomy having/not having, because to speak to oneself is also to speak to not-oneself [a long footnote then explains this sentence]. This very impossibility sets the phallus or dead father at the heart of human signification" (from https://goo.gl/bZ0utz). I believe you could easily substitute "dance" and/or "music" for the speech act, so I struck out to find themes of irreconcilability, dichotomy, self/not-self, and the "dead" father.

The music begins with an ambient soundscape from a Brian Eno app called "Audio Palette". I conceptualize this theme as "father." Entering soon are the voices of the others (iPad/iPhone apps called "Animoog" and "Morphwiz" were used for these sounds), be they wives, children, other relations, or whomever. Conversations ensue. A heartbeat very slowly and subtly develops into the middle of the song as the life forces intertwine, briefly. Another voice appears; it is father again in a different guise. (Actually, it's Slavoj Zizek lecturing about the Lacanian interpretation of Freud's classic dream archetype "Father, can you see I'm burning." Basically, he states that a stimulus that creates a dream, say, the smell of smoke, is less important than what the mind turns the dream into as a result of the external intrusion. Available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAkl4MvXUIc). This voice slowly fades, as does the audio palette, so father is gone. All that is left is the void and two sullen voices whimpering at the end signal a final encroaching silence. Yet the faded memory of father remains.

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from This Is Not An Album, track released August 5, 2015

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drummis New York

drummIs is an improvisational electronic musician. Most of what you hear on this site is played live in one track. Tools include the trapKAT MIDI controller, TD-5 drum brain, electric bass guitar, the RC-50 Looper, ME-25 effects, guitars, an iPad with too many apps, and a squeaky octopus. Located in upstate New York, he goes by Kurt Reymers, and is otherwise occupied as a professor of sociology. ... more

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