New film directed by Christopher Bren, depicting Soundwalk preparations and performance of Death Must Die at Soho’s Broome Street Temple on March 1st.
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BROOME STREET TEMPLE BENEFIT CONCERT TONIGHT
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
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Tonight, the Soundwalk collective will assemble at the Broome Street Temple for the live premiere of Soundwalk’s Death Must Die, a soundscape created from original recordings collected in Varanasi, India, the sacred Hindu city of Shiva and cremation. ”Whereas love for God leads to the death of death, to Immortality. Forget the forgetting, Death Must Die” - Shree Anandamayi Ma. Photo Maciej Kobielski
DEATH MUST DIE LIVE PREMIERE + BENEFIT FOR BROOME STREET TEMPLE
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tuesday March 1st, 7:30 PM Soundwalk will be recreating the sonic landscape of Varanasi, India using custom cut records of original field recordings from Soundwalk’s Death Must Die in a live performance to benefit the Broome Street Temple. Video preview created by Christopher Bren.
SOUNDS OF VARANASI
Monday, February 7, 2011
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Extract from Soundwalk’s Death Must Die, a sound piece set in Varanasi, India, reproducing the cycle of a day in this sacred city of Shiva where cremation rituals are held along the banks of the Ganges river. On March 1st, Soundwalk will re-create Death Must Die as a live turntable performance, for a fundraiser to benefit the Broome Street Temple, an authentic Hindu shrine located in Soho.
TRANSMISSIONS | DEATH MUST DIE
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
This week’s transmission is an extract from Death Must Die, which, like La Brulure, is one in a series of limited-edition Soundwalk releases with custom-designed letterpress packaging.
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“Death Must Die is a sound piece that begins before the rising of the sun and reproduces the cycle of a day in Varanasi… Benares, Kashi; a sacred city, where death is everywhere, bathed in light. It is here that the 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.
The sound intoxicating as death itself, it is a hammering song of the dead, playing until one is transfixed. It’s the murmuring of the Ganges… the power of silence.
[Death Must Die] revisits the cycles between life and death, using sound as a metaphor: the laughter of children playing, dogs barking – it contrasts the extreme accumulation of bells, the infernal trance of religious songs, the peculiar sound of bodies burning upon wood… the voice of a young nun coming from an ashram in the silence of the night.”
We hope you enjoy this second installment in the summer Transmissions series.