Paul Sharits (1943-1993)

Passages of outraged against

Condemnation of King George’s                                                               his “repeated injuries of usurpations”

Abuses of power

(Include the passage concerning the denunciation of the slave trade, which the Congress of the time deleted from J’s orig text.

Red & Blue-fade-struct=white

                (Recurring motif)                             Color heightened by animation off of video

30-40 minute

                So complex, preceded by scores and tests—necessities immerse concentration and the help at each stage by an assistant who would understand the nature of the period—D. Held—research, score work, shooting, editing.

Sound: 

                From sense of primal potentiality (computer articulated variations of phonemes from the text D. of 2) to the gradual emergence of morphemes to the final coherency of the unmodified text itself—the visual structure in an aesthetic counterpoint, moving towards an ecstatic level of color-light pulsation.

Reaffirmation of America’s basic principles, in a time of the Nation’s shattered trust, insecurity, and aimlessness reconsideration of

Pulsation- (oscillations of about 5 cps- most fundamental fade wave cycle possible in cinema is associated, by psychophysical, with certain neuron why these during expansive, inspirational states of mind.)

(exstatic-‘sic’)