"We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next."
Max More, On becoming posthuman.
The Worm Songs cradles the belief that life will expand systematically throughout the universe through technology and creative thinking. The composed music combs the centuries for a language to express this theme, touching often on practices such as religious intoning and spoken-word. These practices are internalized to create an original vocal and computer language that drives this book of songs and its message.
The Worm Songs book 1
Light code
Sermon on files and vile springs *
Sleep
Breath
Do not **
* text : Georg Hobmeier
**text : Maria del Carmen Montoya
In this book the voices presence is felt throughout the performance although with differing roles, discovering a slightly different character and degree of meaning to the voice in each song. Sometimes the level of meaning can be direct as with "Do Not" where Montoya's text reads out like a guidebook of unsaid rules of engagement. In Hobmeier's "Sermon on files and vile springs" a processed reading of the text begins the piece to allow a slow unraveling of each word while it is being read at a very fast pace; half way through the piece the pure unedited text is blasted to the audience. The oposite can be said of the opening song "Light Code" where the voice is heard pulsating as it anounces the genesis of the worm analogy to man.
