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A downtempo trip into the Dionysiac
depths of rhythm and rites
while time-traveling from postwar
Cologne to the Brazilian carnival
to vast empty seas.
Deploying minimalist ambient
structures the sound delves
into the white noise of history
whilst the visuals unleash
a phantastic voyage in the
church's basic architecture
of extasy and order.
Sight and sound form here a bridge
to a time gone by where the enigma
of life was still inscribed in the
ornament of faith.
Watching from behind Pope Paul VI.
giving his blessing to the crowd:
You can't get closer to the brink
of the pandemonium.
If you gaze for long into the abyss,
the abyss also gazes into you,
or in other words:
Pope meets Pop.
Philipp Lachenmann, 2005
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