Maria Sabina was a Mazateca curandera (medicine woman) whose family had passed down the ancient traditions of the Mazateca people in secrecy for hundreds of years of Spanish suppression.
Her introduction to R Gordon Wasson in 1955 led to his recording and involvement in the practice of the Velada ritual, a ritual of psychedelic mushroom consumption that takes place in a totally dark room.
The audio of the Revelation of Maria Sabina uses the source material of Maria Sabina singing her invocations (recorded by Wasson) that are manipulated and mixed in conjunction with the creation of the video content. Both are analogues to the experience of the Velada ritual itself.
The video was created without using a "source" by circuit bending signal feedback to create the colour and light seen here. Much like the visual experience of the Velada the light comes from the darkness fed into an infinite loop.
This piece was created specifically for the Ambulante Festival in Oaxaca Mexico.
Maria Sabina was a Mazateca curandera (medicine woman) whose family had passed down the ancient traditions of the Mazateca people in secrecy for hundreds of years of Spanish suppression.
Her introduction to R Gordon Wasson in 1955 led to his recording and involvement in the practice of the Velada ritual, a ritual of psychedelic mushroom consumption that takes place in a totally dark room.
The audio of the Revelation of Maria Sabina uses the source material of Maria Sabina singing her invocations (recorded by Wasson) that are manipulated and mixed in conjunction with the creation of the video content. Both are analogues to the experience of the Velada ritual itself.
The video was created without using a "source" by circuit bending signal feedback to create the colour and light seen here. Much like the visual experience of the Velada the light comes from the darkness fed into an infinite loop.
This piece was created specifically for the Ambulante Festival in Oaxaca Mexico.
By viewing a video file as text and then editing that text by hand I am capable of purposefully corrupting the data in a way that utilizes the form of the original video content without actually showing that content. Much akin to video circuit bending the data is warped before playback and then presented to the viewer as something outside its original intent.
Language Virus is a multi channel video and sound collaboration between Raymond Salvatore Harmon and Philippe Petit, French sound abstractivist and Bip_Hop records proprietor.
This is an excerpt form the forthcoming dvd.
Released in 1982 by mail order only the First Transmission of The Temple ov Psychick Youth, the fictional cult of Psychic TV progenitor Genesis P.Orridge is often described as "brutal" and "unsettling". It was banned in several countries for its graphic depictions of ritual self mutilation and body modification.
The First Corruption utilizes the source material of the First Transmission pushed through a process of hand manipulating the data of a video file in order to create eruptive patterns of video distortion and corruption.
Violent and obscene footage is rendered into organic abstractions of color and form. Arrhythmic and twitchy these shapes evolve, bloom and disintegrate under the unfolding mathematics of the video codec.
directed by
Raymond Salvatore Harmon
Raymond Salvatore Harmon is a cross genre media artist, filmmaker, sound artist, and record producer whose work has defied categorization for the past decade. As a new media artist and experimental filmmaker his work pushes at the boundaries between anthropological study, philosophic discourse, and contemporary art. With a CV extending from performance based 16mm and 8mm film to video circuit-bending and analog feedback installations
Raymond Salvatore Harmon is a cross genre media artist, filmmaker, sound artist, and record producer whose work has defied categorization for the past decade. As a new media artist and experimental filmmaker his work pushes at the boundaries between anthropological study, philosophic discourse, and contemporary art. With a CV extending from performance based 16mm and 8mm film to video circuit-bending and analog feedback installations as well as sound and visual conceptual installations and guerrilla media actions.
Over the course of the past ten years Harmon has been developing and evolving the theoretical and practical applications of transcendental cinema. Utilizing new media, web based content and interactive architecture in coordination with public performance, graffiti style ad bombing, and web based social engineering Harmon's work strives to replace the dogmatic principles of contemporary spirituality with the freedom of experiential transcendence.
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