Yoshi Sodeoka has released the latest installment in his long-running video art project Sibyl, a collaboration with musician Daron Murphy, which was inspired by the psychedelic excesses of prog-rock and Sibyl of Cumae, an Apollonian priestess prophet from ancient Greece. Accordingly, the pieces often sport epic-sounding titles that wouldn’t be out of place on the back of a Hawkwind album, this latest work is called A Wind God's Passage to the Funeral Games.Starting off with a candle, we’re treated to some blue skies before lightning and a countdown signal the video’s collapse into a color-saturated kaleidoscopic meltdown. It’s easy to lose yourself in the piece as entrancing sounds and visuals catapult you off into illusory shamanic realms.From his site:"…Passage to the Funeral Games" captures the immersive, primordial experience of ancient prophecy and brings it to our present day, where imagination manifests in pixels and binary code, the purity of the natural world has been compromised, and magic has been made literal by technology (The piece was conceptualized during the Japan earthquakes and its nuclear meltdown of 2011). As "Passage" progresses, geometric forms move through space, like otherworldly calibrating devices, working to correct humanity's violence against nature. We are taken into a dreamlike escape from the dread of a polluted Earth, where even apocalyptic events can yield visions of hope.@stewart23rd
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