Raven’s Reprise
w Rudi Zygadlo
Poem, Sound Piece & Performance, 20 mins, 2020-2021
Premiered on NTS radio in May 2020, featured on Generator Project's Radio Gen & Resonance.fm. Sections published in 'Becoming Feral' (Objet-a Creative Studio, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) & Subtexts. Performed at Empty Brain Resort, Vilnius & Group MŰTŐ Sandbox Festival, Budapest.
Limited tape run of 'Raven's Reprise / Bad Rhythm' by Sissy Fuss now available from Stay Awake
ORDER HERE
'Plughole' section published as part of 'Subtexts', a collection of geopoetic writingORDER HERE
Published in full in Deleuzine Issue 2: She Dogs
'as the wurld makes
& unmakes her bed
thinks of something clever to say
then leaves it unsaid'
A poem to be performed in pitch black.
Like a radio play but faster and louder. Verbal gymnastics & contrapuntal bubblegum do a dance with interspecies sex in Wallmart parking lots, punch-ups in Morley’s chicken shops & ancient myths dissolved into instagram memes. Inspired by the trickster origin myths of Northern Pacific cultures & the Coronavirus pandemic. Raven travels though the landscape of the 2020s, transforming herself, from toddler to teen to adult, battling her nemesis Lord Fatberg (who smells suspiciously like Trump & BoJo), hanging out with extinct species at a seaside resort & re-making the wurld to her better designs.
'This is what Radio Four might sound like if the commissioning editors were reared
on Finnegan's Wake and Cage's Indeterminacy'
Matthew Ingram, author of Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness (Repeater Books)