live
recording on CD from the performance: Knots System in Miami at Music Subtropics
Festival 1998
Myster
Shadow Sky puts
in music
Ronald David Laing's
Knots
to
offer
live
recording on CD from the performance: Knots System in Miami at Music Subtropics
Festival 1998
track 1 Knot 1 [page 38] _dowload mp3_ 09 : 10 track 2 Knot 2 [page 5] 06 : 45 track 3 Knot 3 [page 9] 09 : 57 track 4 Interlude 06 : 32 track 5 Knot 4 [page 15] 07 : 39 track 6 Chao Miami _download mp3_ 14 : 07
download CD artwork: bookletoutlet, bookletinlet, CDlabel, trayinlaycard
"The first time I red in 1981 the text of Knots, I just thought to put them right away in music. 17 years later I got this opportunity to create that project in Miami, thanks to Gustavo Matamoros who invited me to perform at his Music Subtropics Festival in 1998. The next step of that project is to create Knots Opera with speaking choir and different protagonist non professional musicians playing with acoustic-boxes and my eclectic orchestra like I was conducting myself playing every instrument."
Myster Shadow-Sky
"A long time ago Myster Shadow-Sky wanted to join Ronald David Laing 's KNOTS poems with his music. Unfortunately Ronald D. Laing will never listen the result: he died the 23rd August 1989 of a heart attacked while playing tennis in St Tropez, France. The Myster Shadow Sky's Knots System in Miami is a marvelous trip around the world of acting people, trapped by Myster and composed in this huge fresco of Human Vibration we call music. A start for an opera."
This April 10, 2003 there is still no proposition to Myster Shadow Sky to start the creation of Knots Opera.
Pascalina Pica
Here you can read
two poems, Knot
1 [page 38]
and Knot
3 [page 9]
chosen among
the others by Cheryl for the Miami performance:
I want it
I get it
therefore I am goodI want it
I don't get it
therefore I am badI am bad
because I didn't get itI am bad
because I wanted what I didn't getI must take care
to get what I want
and want what I get
and not get what I don't want
"Knot 3 [page 9]" text:
My mother loves me
I feel good.
I feel good because she loves me.I am good because I feel good
I feel good because I am good
My mother loves me because I am good.My mother does not love me.
I feel bad.
I feel bad because she does not love me
I am bad because I feel bad
I feel bad because I am bad
I am bad because she does not love me.
She does not love me because I am bad.
LIVE PERFORMANCE
WITH
2 costumed speaking voices playing badminton
20 INFLATABLE 30 METERS
WHITE
LONG ARM TUBES BUILDING THE EPHEMERAL-ARCHITECTURE.
Maritza
Right light voice - playing badminton in
WHITE
overall &
hood with
Cheryl
Left deep voice - playing badminton in
WHITE
overall &
hood [You
can talk to Cheryl
and be charmed by her voice calling University of Miami]
Myster Shadow-Sky Composition performing sampler, analogue synthesizer
Korg MonoPoly, 1 CD, 4 cassette-tapes, 9-tone electric guitar, pvc-sax, percussion
for tourist, voice, electronic MIDI keyboard for non professional, mixing table,
scenography, costumes and stage design - in
WHITE
overall & hood.
Live
recorded at the Ambrosino Gallery & Mastered @ Le Centre de la Bombe in
Miami
Mathius-Shadow-Sky-Unexpected-Waves-Production
Here 6 pictures of the 1998 Miami performance
Here
4 movies of the 1998 Miami performance 1mb
Florida
alligators knoted
Knots is a series of dialogue-scenarios, which can be read as poems or plays, describing the "knots" and impasses in various kinds of human relationships.
"In his earlier work Laing guided the reader to understanding. In Knots he compels him to experience.... To grasp this dense and difficult book one must be willing to follow Laing in his spirals of descent. If Knots is to yield, one must yield to the knots." James S. Gordon
"Dr. Laing's gentle determination to unpeel the bottom motive, the most inward secret of the heart, produces a curious combination of intensity and compassion....The heartbreaking ironies...belong to an artist rather than a psychiatrist.... "The voices of known demons rise from these pages: demons of guilt, demons of self-justification; demons of perverse will, demons of self-destruction. All the enemies of the human spirit are arrayed here as vividly, as warningly as in a medieval morality play. Those who believe that to unmask the enemy is a first step toward confounding him will find this a practical as well as a moral book." Melvin Maddocks
Laing, R. D. (Ronald David Laing), 1927–89, British psychiatrist. Born the 7th October 1927 in Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland. After studying at Univ. of Glasgow (M.D., 1951), he taught there (1953–56), later moving to the Tavistock Clinic and Institute of Human Relations (1956–89) to conduct research on schizophrenia. He directed the Langham Clinic in London (1962–65), and founded a therapeutic community in which the hierachical distinction between physicians and patients was essentially eliminated. Laing maintained the controversial position that schizophrenia was a culturally conditioned, internal conflict, a reaction particularly to poor relations among family members. His works include The Divided Self (1960) and his autobiography, The Making of a Psychiatrist (1985).
1971: Knots is published by Penguin in Britain and Pantheon in the US.
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Get for free all albums of Myster Shadow-Sky
included Knots System in Miami in 1998.
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myster shadow-sky is looking for a commissioned work to create the KNOTS Opera
To know more about Myster Shadow-Sky
• myster shadow-sky's story in music
To know more about
Ronald David Laing,
here there are some links outside le centre de la bombe web site
•
the Unofficial R.D. Laing Website
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http://www.marco-cavallo.de/psidem/menschen/laing.html [in german]
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How a rebellious introvert grew up to become an iconoclastic psychiatrist, and
how he ultimately fell from grace. By Perry Meisel
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http://www.fusionanomaly.net/rdlaing.html
