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                                                                               z'ev : praxis : 1976-2008

                                       BOOK OF LOVE BEING WRITTEN AS THEY TOUCHED
                                                                                                        the 40320 permutations of this sentence, 640 computer generated pages
                                                                           10 copies were produced in1974 by the computer science department at L. A. Pierce College, Winnetka CA
                                                            Wheels On Fire #’s 1 & 2 (Based on Shakespeare’s King Lear)
                                                                                 Published in 'Ratio:3 volume 2 Trans:Mediators' By Temple Press 1992
                                                             #1 is a 13 scene monologue version written for Kain, performed in 1990 in Amsterdam.
                #2 is a five act Quartet version using Gloucester [as a woman], her two sons Edmund and Edgar and Regan, one of Lear’s daughters.

                                                           The 3-Fold Ear and the Energies of Enthusiasm
                                                          published in the anthology ARCANA: Musicians on Music, edited by John Zorn and published in 2000.
                                                                                               3000 word article on the mytho-poetics of the physiology of the ear
                                                                    Face the Wound
                                                                                               Face the Wound was released on CD by Soleilmoon in 2001
                a 'SpielOper', (Spoken Opera), blending rhythm with a stark melodic conception to orchestrate a 4000+ word vocal libretto developed from cut-ups drawn from approximately 30 audio cassette tapes collected from thrift shops, garage sales and flea markets
                regarding the title, Face The Wound, the 'wound' in question is that wound in the societal and cultural psyche which resulted from the Witch Trials
                and specifically from the genocide of the 9 million women burned as witches between the mid-1400’s to the end of the 1700’s
                compositionally Face The Wound is a Tragi-comedy which shares with ancient Greek Drama the reliance on the dialog between 2 characters
                in this case the male and female voices
                i also adapted the Wagnerian device of leitmotif, but applied it to verbal rather than harmonic motifs and phrases
                                                                         METAPHORS, MYTHOS AND METAPHONICS
                11,000+ word article commissioned for Arcana V: Musicians on Music, Magic & Mysticism. Edited by John Zorn and published in 2010
                according to their traditions, Chinese Alchemy was developed utilizing three elements: Principles, Myths, and Techniques
                Metaphor was the Principle on which this article was developed
                Mythos (Myths) reveals a universal depth of being the world over
                and Metaphonics is the word i am coining/suggesting for the major Trance Induction Technique on the planet
                that is, music/sound that is most concerned with transition/transportation. 
                that is, whose intent is to alter consciousness or to transpose between states of consciousness and/or levels of reality / ies
                and this would be in contradistinction to secular musics that seek but to distract or entertain

                and I am indebted to the prowess of my most gracious cousin, Felice Catena, the Goddess of the supernal Edit for her contribution to this one
                                                                                                                                              THE CALLS
                                                      Commissioned for The Fenris Wolf #4. Edited by Carl Abrahamson and published in 2011
                                                                              translated from the solomonic text more commonly known as ECCLESIASTES
                this piece was based on the first two chapters of ecclesiastes
                however, the common arrangement of chapters and verses has been replaced with a continuous sequence
                so whereas ecclesiastes has 2 chapters with a total of 44 verses, THE CALLS has 86 stanzas of tantric ritual verse