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Hembree: Ouroboros (2015), Mvt. 1

Paul Hembree: Ouroboros (2015), Movement 1 for ensemble and audio-visual media May 17th, 2015 – 7 pm Conrad Prebys Experimental Theater Rachel Beetz, flute Curt Miller, clarinets Drew Ceccato, saxophones Rachel Allen, trumpet Dustin Donahue, percussion Stephen Solook, percussion Todd Moellenberg, piano Eric Moore, cello Matt Kline, bass David Medine, conductor Paul Hembree, computer Tina Tallon (SALT Arts Documentation), cameras Paul Hembree, video editing Text (collage of E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman," Heinrich von Kleist's "On the Marionette Theatre," and various other works): I. --Unknown Material-- In a way, individual scientists, scientific movements, tribes, nations function like artist or artisans trying to shape a world from a largely unknown material, Being. Working on this material, they build a variety of manifest worlds that they often, but mistakenly, identify with Being itself. – Paul Feyerabend, “Theoreticians, Artists and Artisans.” --Secret Alchemy-- secret alchemical experiments a fallacious desire after higher wisdom a blue flame began to crackle upon the hearth all sorts of strange utensils lay around With red-hot tongs the sculptor exercised skill taking glowing masses out of the thick smoke, which afterwards were hammered carving a form, as Nature could not with its art compare a marionette with the right specifications without any eyes, but with deep holes instead Never guilty of affectation joints cracked the limbs, hands, and feet, screwed off, afterwards putting them back again, one after the other, would be just what they should be, lifeless, pure pendulums, governed only the the law of gravity. all around became black, a sudden cramp darted through bones and nerves The human spirit can't be in error when it is non-existent. --Figure Sculpture-- We may look upon the long tradition of figure sculpture and the brief interlude of formalism as an extended psychic dress rehearsal. The Greek obsession with 'living' sculpture will take on an undreamed reality. – Jack Burnham, Beyond Modern Sculpture --Spectacles-- Spectacles glisten and sparkle A thousand eyes stared and quivered and all those flaming eyes leapt in wilder and wilder confusion, shooting forth their blood red light Pleased with the idol, the sculptor admires, adores, and desires. Never had a glass rendered objects so clearly and sharply wondrous beauty yet with eyes singularly still and dead Nevertheless, It caught the carver in its deceit looked more keenly through the glass, moist moonbeams rising flashing with constantly increasing life Fire penetrates the inmost soul clutching with burning arms, and hands as cold as ice; a pulse began to beat life's blood flows flushed with blood the dream breaks with humming and scraping