Patripassian

from Digital Portfolio by Lee Todd Lacks

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In the summer of 2016, CCRMA PhD candidate, Alex Chechile kindly asked me to collaborate with him on this rendition of “Patripassian,” by Nick Cave and Current 93. An austerely minimalistic piece for electronic sound and spoken word, “Patripassian” features excerpts from Blaise Pascal's The Pensées, which reference the Biblical account of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Alex and I had performed this piece several years prior at a mixed-media concert in Brooklyn, New York, and thus, he had already digitized and processed the haunting formant soundscape. Per his request, I overdubbed a spoken word track at my home studio in South Portland, Maine. Alex’s pacing of the piece underscores the stark imagery of the text, and Pascal's depiction of solitary suffering. This deliberate pacing challenges me to be patient with my recitation of the text.

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The rivers of Babylon flow
And fall
And carry away

Jesus is alone on earth
Not merely with no one to feel and share His agony
But with no one even to know of it
Heaven and he are the only ones to know

Jesus is in a garden
Not of delight
Like the first Adam
Who there fell and took with him all mankind
But of agony
Where He has saved Himself and all mankind

He suffers this anguish and abandonment in the horror of the night

Jesus will be in agony until the end of the world
There must be no resting in the meantime

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from Digital Portfolio, released October 23, 2018
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Alex Chechile................ music
Lee Todd Lacks............. voice

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