Every time i speak I shatter the worlds wholeness volume 2

Asa Horvitz, Carmen Quill, Ariadne Randall, and Wayne Horvitz perform “GHOST”(Amsterdam, NL), +Terra  Cotta +Jim Strong+ Honey-Drinking / Meditation / Journaling practice 

7 pm sharp we start drinking honey and recording our thoughts * Honey provided by Vox Populi Gallery Wolf Prize 

Asa Horvitz, Carmen Quill, Ariadne Randall, and Wayne Horvitz perform “GHOST” 

While setting out to create a vocal work about loss, Amsterdam-based musician Asa Horvitz was searching for something more than just the right words. The singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer’s father—jazz and experimental guitarist Bill Horvitz—passed away in 2017, with the death of several other close relatives coming close before and after. Asa Horvitz wanted a musical language to evoke our metaphysical and tangible experiences with loss and the weight of history that surrounds those who have passed on. He looked to the past for answers, assembling a dataset of over 150 pre-existing texts from throughout history that deal with grief, and towards the future for the tools to mine them, feeding them through a custom Natural Language Processing AI system (designed by Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant and Alejandro Calcaño). The piece that Horvitz and his ensemble built with the help of this material—full of strangely affecting non-sequiturs—was cryptic, singular, and emotionally unguarded: a stunning music-theater piece called GHOST. Part experimental opera, part neo-Medieval reverie, and part avant-pop song cycle, it is presented here as a streamlined album of standout recordings made throughout the project’s long genesis.

Terra Cotta 

terra cotta, as in “baked earth”. magnificent philadelphia based band - magical folk collective sometimes featuring puppets and actual magicians

Jim Strong will perform solo and voice works utilizing his homemade musical instruments and also will facilitate a honey-drinking workshop inspired by his fathers experiences as a young man living on a commune in the middle of Pennsylvania in the late 60's.  At that time, he and his friends would barter with local farmers to get massive quantities of honey.  they would listen to classical music and competitively drink as much as possible then meditate on their shifting consciousness in light of the experience.  That is what we will attempt.  Supplies provided by Vox Populi's wolf prize.