{Spoken word} {politics & poetry} {one night only Oct 25th,2016 in Vienna}
“Saul Williams’ current multimedia, multitiered MartyrLoserKing is not only his most ambitious piece of art to date – it also gives his fans a chance to watch him create and erect his art right in front of their eyes.”- LA Weekly
About a month ago, end of October I needed a break. I was feeling heavenly beaten up by the deepest techno beats I ever heard and after my arrival back in my hometown at the airport, I was crawling with my last reserve on energy. After 5 days and nights, I was so exhausted, the craziest electronic Dance Festival in Amsterdam was over but I still could not stop the music, yet so I jumped in the shower and subway and got going again.
Vienna subway station photographed by Mammasitta on the way to the concert
My friend Nina, George Clinton & The Parliaments Agent, obviously a music lover as crazy as I am, told me she got some tickets sorted out for the one and only Saul Williams Live at Brut in the centre of Vienna.
I was back in line, waiting patiently in the cold rain and it was well worth it.
I was so so excited! Artists like him don't just stop by in Bali for this kind of performance. I was lucky to be in Europe at the right time and place to make notes. I shot a few videos but still don't know how to add them here :(
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- Martyr Loser King deals with questions of hacking and surveillance, which are increasingly in the public consciousness.
- Every step upward will restore a step downward so that the dead will be delivered into freedom. - C.G. Jung
- I'm dreaming about the future for the first time in a while.
- Spit for the hated, the reviled, the unrefined. The no ones, the nobodies, the last in line
My Notes at the Performance
We paid for it all
Gregorians search engine
Hack into desperation and loneliness
Hack into masculinity feminist and sexuality
Punk rock
Of Gibraltar
Mthfck disease
Beliefs are the police of the mind
Hack into the database
Mthfck religious thought
Postwar heaven
What have you bought into ?
Hurrah for the lyrical departure
To imagine he'll is privilege
Hack into the effects
The slave ship was insured
Mthfck the king
Hack into superstition
The jury hung from every museum ceiling
Beneath the older ruins there is an older one
Everything is visible rhythm
The user is the root
Hackers as artists
Hack into ambition and greed
While you were sleeping
Hack into the database
Pattern against user
Mthfck the cancer killing bees
Hack into the history of revolutions
Save/delete/save/delete
Fuck this
Embrace yourself
Hack into violence fear and ignorance
Crush the binary
The answer to the question
Code of the streets
You can't unring the bell
Hack into God
Say her name , say her name !
Hack into infamous
Race is performative
I'm not inventing this
I owe the internet
I long for Atlantis
Hack into suffering and sufferance
The sad soprano of history !
Saul Williams:
"Initially, I would say that I was as interested as anyone else, yet as a witness of the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring, the Y’en A Marre movement in Senegal, and the social eruptions triggered by whistle blowers like Chelsea Manning, I began to believe that we have an opportunity to re-wire society and do away with some of the old school paternalistic ideologies that have defined much of our history. The fact that I started piecing these ideas together, specifically while living abroad and wandering the streets of places like Dakar, Senegal, watching kids devour the new tech while tightening the skin on homemade drums, it became fascinating to think of the fusion of the talking drum and handheld computer…."
Who is Saul Williams?
I recommend to read Saul Williams Is Going on a Tangent by Tobias Caroll who was talking comics & revolutions with the cross-media phenom
© Morgan Sorne - I am very pleased to announce that I will be illustrating the graphic novel Martyr Loser King with Saul Williams )
The book is being published by 01firstsecond books and due out in 2019. Saul is making a foray into comics, with a graphic novel in collaboration with the artist Sorne.
It will be part of a larger narrative encompassing works in several disciplines, including an album that was released earlier this year.
A film directed by Kivu Ruhorahoza- Editing and graphics by Antonio Ribeiro
Who is SORNE ?
Critics say -
"It's as if Freddie Mercury, David Byrne, an early David Bowie, Afrika Bambaataa, and the Cure's Robert Smith had gotten together and had a baby. He (Morgan Sorne) is an enigma, chanting like an ancient tribesman, stomping like he's dancing for rain, and whirling like a helicopter, while his voice scales the ranges of the mesmerizing and hypnotic, to almost unnaturally Edith Piaf high notes." - Stephen Macmillan Moser of Austin Chronicle
A metaphor for current events from 2011. houseofstone omnipotent secondsun
Seven highways
stretch out straight
from my pride and from my hate
seven highways stretch out across the land
going nowhere going nowhere
seven highways stretch out straight
from my house and from my name
seven highways stretch out across the land
going nowhere going nowhere going nowhere going...
America!
I know you
filled with blood eyes of blue
America!
© Morgan Sorne
TEA AT THE BEATRICE WITH GLENN O'BRIEN- SAUL WILLIAMS AT THE BEATRICE
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