Anthem (Exorcism Chants)
This Anthem video is a post-industrial
lamentation, structured on the single piercing scream of a young
girl as she stands in the vast chamber of Union Station in Los
Angeles. The creator relates this structure to the form and
function of religious chants, particularly Gregorian chants
(using a harmonic scale in a resonant hall) and Tantric Buddhist
chants (ritual exorcism and conversation with demons). The
original scream is extended in time and shifted in frequency to
produce a scale of harmonic notes that comprises the soundtrack,
with images of materialism -- industry and the worship of the
body, giant oil pumps and the beating human heart, cars
streaming along a freeway and blood flowing through veins,
modern surgical technology and tree branches in an ancient
forest. The anguished scream cuts through the corporeality of
the body and contemporary culture as a living organism. This
piece is a ritual evocation of "our deepest primal fears,
darkness, and the separation of body and spirit."
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