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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 Type:
Subject:
Sounds
Subject Type:
Subject:
Reynolds, Philip C. (Philip Caswallon), 1890-1966
Subject Type:
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:
This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Date:
1980
Format Medium:
audio/mp3
Language:
English
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Talk on church architecture and readings about Caswallon