COLLECTION NAME:
Stan Brakhage Collection
Record
Identifier:
narv_brak_CAHspeech_caswallon1980_84.mp3
Title:
Talk on church architecture and readings about Caswallon
Description:
The first half of this recording is a lecture on aspects of church architecture, space, and spirituality. The second half comprises a number of readings about Caswallon and the invasion of the British Isles by the Romans, with electronic music and sound effects.
Description Type:
Abstract
Description:
00:00 Speaker begins to read on topic of space and spiritual experience 05:45 Gives examples of Martin Luther's attitudes 07:00 Contemporary architecture for churches 14:45 End of talk. Music plays 15:30 Electronic sounds and voices reading poetry 20:30 Voice (Brakhage) talks about war in the media 24:00 A voice reads about Caswallon, with electronic and gun fire sounds 27:00 Reader: Druid custom of embalming heads 31:45 Caswallon's cousin's instructions to keep his head for 87 years 33:00 More readings of Celtic/Roman battles with electronic sounds 46:45 Reading: Caesar's conditions for the Roman retreat 51:15 Reading: After the British Islands were conquered and occupied 54:00 Electronic sounds to end 01:02:45 End
Description Type:
SegmentSequence
Subject:
Church architecture -- United States -- 20th century
Subject Type:
local
Subject:
Space (Architecture)
Subject:
Sounds
Subject:
Reynolds, Philip C. (Philip Caswallon), 1890-1966
Subject:
Cassivellaunus
Subject Type:
local
Subject:
British Isles -- History
Subject Type:
local
Source:
narv_brak_CAHspeech_caswallon1980_84
Creator:
Brakhage, Stan
Creator Type:
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82017258http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82017258
Rights:
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Date:
1980
Format Medium:
audio/mp3
Language:
English