The Riot of The Rite//what rights does spring have in the fall of global winters:none.
The dissonance of the people, and obo
‘O, boo’ who who
Squealed higher than supposed
The presupposed position of where they were to be
And did the dancers forgo
trained civility
Barbaric barricades broken boughs
That they themselves should cut
Razored.
And the crowds
Jarring.
Uproar. chaos hubbub hoo-ha brouhaha
A dissonance to rise above the
Monotone.
Provoke another wave
How dare they break
the facade
delicate
between our separate stations
Of human qualities
Shattered before our eyes see
The eve of (which/this) war
Borders shuddered in their nations
Shattering our mirrors
Of who we thought
We to be
Are we still to trust ourselves
When we can no longer note
Foretale the next play
next stanza
Dead. whose mans, huh?
Baboons stealing kazoos
Tattooing grapefruits in basements
The perversity peering through
As the musiczoologist noted:
They’ve got eyeholes of buttons
Buttons of fuck
Doing botanical arrangements
While contemplating
Dentists in distant space
Our contemporary Astrobotnia
Constellated in constellations, the
Jumeaux d’Aphex
Stravinsky, Nijinsky
Discordance in discordia is the
Only form of orderly
The only way to stand
( .incite a riot. )
Infect disorder in
Facades of false order
*Notes: This pieces inspired By Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, written and performed with the Choreographer Nijinsky on the eve of WWI. During its opening night, many folks were astounded, some upset, some offended, and some in awe of something absolutely new. Either/or, the consensus seems to be that it broke the presumptions of what people expected in music and movement. I find that breaking form and contrived regulations, rules, structures, scaffoldings, neural pathways, rote exercises, is a form of freedom. That to create something different then normality leads to evolution and progression, maturation in its highest form.
A few artists/ musicians of this contemporary time ( 2010-2017) are noted in this piece of ‘prose/ experimental writing’ as I feel they also exemplify what Stravinsky was expressing in some ways with his Rite of Spring. They are: Fuck Buttons, Astrobotnia, and Aphex Twin. I've really enjoyed the movement towards ‘Noise’ “music”, because I get a similar sensation in my body that I do when listening to Stravinsky's music post Rite of Spring. It's almost a dissolution of formal molecular boundary, and the creation of new neural pathways. It shakes you up in some way, and I appreciate that. It's good to feel alive, when our society and colonization continues to provide ‘opium for the masses-i.e.’ anxiety&apathy’ as it wages its wars to continue its consumptive sickness. We will never be full until we are whole.
CASSANDRA KIKI AMI IS A NOMADIC RESEARCHER