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a narrative of resistance. re-writing the language of american history, to translate the poetics of protest into the harmony of life. here, "New America" is a sound art exploration on the theme of visioning an "exit strategy" in the war for America, in de-institutionalizing and reclaiming the name of the land through the act of breath and proclamation.

using two frame drums (16 & 14 inch diameters) i recall the great conundrum of american life through the sound of modern frame drumming techniques together with a evocation, vocal sounding, on the re-history of colonial ecology into an awareness of self and environment, recognizing, respecting and regarding the singular devastations of american disunity in the wake of 500 years of ongoing struggle.

resistance is often most deeply traversed by artists, creative voices, purified in the air of one new proclamation of independence yet to be heard apparent on the pages of dominant history, and it will not be written, but vocalized, orated, and beaten from the face of a drum.

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a picturesque blare
in the growth attack spotlight
owning the North-coast

in a ruckus of jeering talk,
the bloated dish-turning gazes bleed fixedly
into a wide outpouring shore
still towering over an African haze
thawing the greedy

names tearing at the throat from the machete claw
breaking apart the vocal chord forests
dreamt in saw-cleared eyes
during the infamous winter of English settlement
from the prized mouth and stomach of burnt corn
and lacrosse pages, ruffling in the French-Canadian afternoon

who remembers with sterling grace
and an ease unbeknownst in the blank wilderness of Western memory,
the oral grave of intergenerational strife
digging itself extra corpses to save face in the final rain of time,
commanding the blind ruthless execution of the utmost,
the most fine,
coercing the black hawk’s smothered and festooned plate
sealed over the top of the asterisk helmet at noon-time email remorse,
to send negligent hate into the Muslim morning
and take advantage of war
while cursing the émigré poor
who climb the ladder to your third story bedroom
with a sharp quaking mind's eye

peering into the holy unknown,
a clear emotion
offered plainly to the free will of un-survived human freedom
in childless futures,
go forth!

http://districtcolombia.blogspot.ca/2012/02/new-america-go-forth.html

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from Evocations: district​.​Columbia, released June 18, 2013

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Rusty Kjarvik Brooklyn, New York

My ancestors are from the lands in and around what is now Norway, Poland, Germany and Greece. They lived above the Arctic Circle, spoke Yiddish, were Romaniote Greek, English settlers during the revolutionary war of America, and from Germany pioneered in 19th century Alberta, Canada where they also took Blackfoot names. They were buried in religious fame; and so I also go by Menachem ben Asser. ... more

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