O P U S M O R S ~ a sound work on four significant environments for the immediate post-mortem Four listening spaces for one of the existential and natural aspects of being alive, which is death. The project portrays four sound environments that the human body commonly will be surrounded by or exposed to in the immediate post mortem: a morgue, an autopsy, a cremation and the decomposition - events that no one will ever get to sense on their own bodies because of the very fact of death. The work is an immersive, intimate and powerfully detailed sonic meditation into the four significant death spaces O P U S M O R T U R A R I U M Two ambient recordings made inside two morgues listens within the deep tones from the facilities that keep the corpses cold O P U S A U T O P S I A Detailed near-field sound recordings of a full autopsy starting with opening the corpse, following the removal and slicing and cutting open all the organs and brain, to finally returning all the organs, closing and washing the corpse. This work demonstrates each unique sonic timbre of the human organs O P U S C R E M A T I O Coffin being rolled into the oven, the oven's different burning stages, the removal and relocation of the ashes to the ash cooler and then to the bone crusher. Finally, the ashes being poured into the urn. Vibration sensors placed on the surfaces of the oven reveals the sound environment of the oven as if heard from the inside O P U S P U T E S C O Sound recordings made at a forensic study facility where donated corpses are placed in an enclosed nature area to decompose while being studied. This work was made from near-field sound recordings of decomposing corpses recorded with measurement microphones placed 1 cm above - as well as with vibration sensors inside the corpses RECORDINGS OF 2 autopsies and 2 morgues were made possible with permission from professor in forensic medicine at the University of Southern Denmark Peter Mygind Leth, deputy chief forensic pathologist Peter Thiis Knudsen and forensic technicians Tonny Hansen and Jan Leth 2 cremations were made with permission from crematory operators Michael Hansen and Ole Pedersen at Odense Crematorium, Denmark 2 decomposing bodies were made possible with permission from Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University, USA Recorded, composed and mixed by Jacob Kirkegaard © 2019 OPUS MORS is released as an exclusive deluxe release of 4 LP set in 180g black vinyl. Packaged in archival handmade box, bound in linen and embossed, including five unique prints on Tyvek paper. Signed and numbered limited edition of 250 Click below to read more: Jacob Kirkegaard © 2019

HAPPY DAYS ° CASCANDO ° A PIECE OF MONOLOGUE
CASCANDO ° NO YO ° AQUELLA VEZ ° MONÓLOGO ° SOLO

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THE SELECTED WORKS OF SAMUEL BECKETT Vol III Dramatic Woks
Grove Press
New York. 2010. 505 pp

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TEATRO REUNIDO
Tusquets Editores
Barcelona. 2006. 573 pp

Pensaba en el papel de Beckett en el mundo actual y al no verlo tan solicitado ni tan reimpreso ni tan en los puntos visibles de los estantes de la librerías me respondía que seguramente era por algo así como la crasa dificultad que en no pocos torrenciales transcursos de su obra se ha de afrontar así como la escasa facilidad con que Casi que se ha de iniciarse Se percibe su obra teatral Su futuro

Pero también pensaba en su papel en la resistencia en plena segunda guerra mundial y su posterior proximidad con gente marginal socialmente Él mismo un marginado total Desde el sí mismo

La inmovilidad La configuración de un mundo quieto que es Happy days Cuando llega todo La creencia de la libertad al poder mover los ojos maquillarse las gafas un pálpito la osadía y la vida en recuerdos marchitos alejándose uno ni se da cuenta

La descreencia de la posibilidad El desorden La imposibilidad de liderazgo Esa compleja nada robustecida por la inmediatez del like que es Cascando

La lerditud al afrontar el vacío oscuro ciego negro nada de una muerte cercana y a partir de ahí la edificación de una sombra callada en su propio murmullo sin salir de sí que es el tiempo que se va a vivir sin esa persona querida que es Monólogo