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researching plague

from Threnody for a Forgotten Plague by Stephen Mead

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From "Threnody for a Forgotten Plague", work-in-progress dealing with the early days of the AIDS pandemic, specifically the fracturing of voices which literally and emotionally occurs during any such outbreak throughout time: the medical, political bureaucracy vs. the voices of humans fighting for their health and well being.

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Researching Plague

Glass (the slides) falling (the click)

lives, each (to read) a lens (interpret)
microscopic to (& plan) magnify

(a strategy, a) ours (route) ours

What is your standpoint? (Power)
& yours? (is yet) & yours (power)
"Well, quoting the experts..." (& that)
"The statistics say..." (means)
"All evidence, biblical, social (personalities)
reference shows..." (slogans)

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH

Go into the meat (politics) emotion (writes lists)
beyond bones & (agendas) this outbreak (mostly)
spreading (to play) though localized (for time)
in the crux of (& juggle) mitochondria (votes)
living the way (while trying) we exist with (not to)
it (step on) even while death (too many)
boasts there's nothing (toes) else though
(so research) I know (regulations) transmigrating
(must) the soul is (a fine line) prescribed
(of intense) to speaking (science) still with those
(& hope) hands we must (monitored as) hold
(footnotes)

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from Threnody for a Forgotten Plague, released December 24, 2014
In addition to instruments and sounds recorded around the house, and samples from MusicCreator5, the following sites also provided royalty free sounds and music:
SoundDogs.com, SoundBible.com, MP3Skull.com, InternetArchive.org (Various Unidentified Choral Chants before "tweaking"*), and FreeSound.org
*Ofert.Deprofundis, Sanctus Mass Viii, Kyrie-MassXviii

Particular FreeSound users (Cormi, Kerri, Setuniman, Suburban-Grilla, Pryght-One, ERH) provided

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Stephen Mead Albany, New York

A resident of NY, Stephen Mead is a published outsider artist, writer, maker of short-collage films and sound-collage downloads. If you are at all interested please place his name in any search engine in conjunction with any of the above-mentioned genres for links to his multimedia work and merchandise. To order CDs via VISA or PayPal please visit stephenmeadmusic.weebly.com ... more

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