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Cathedral (It Is Moral If You Can Dance To It) (for Baroness Elsa von Freytag​-​Loringhoven)

from Avant (​+​2 Digital Booklets) by Nas Hedron

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Elsa Hildegard Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (Germany, 1874-1927).

Elsa Hildegard Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven was a German artist who worked in collage, performance, and assemblage, as well as writing poetry. She did much of her important work while living in New York City, and she is often referred to as the first American dadaist. She was widely known for the elaborate costumes she would create and then wear in public, made from everyday objects, and for creating many readymade artworks (objects that already exist, which the artist finds and designates as art). Some historians have claimed that Fountain, the readymade urinal attributed to her friend, Marcel Duchamp, was actually her work. A collection of her poetry, Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, was published in 2011.

This track is named for her readymade sculpture, Cathedral (1918), which consists of a found fragment of weathered wood with a spire-like shape.

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It is moral if it is richly flavored, urgent with life
It is moral if it asserts the future and perfects enjoyment
It is good if it is graceful, quick, and unsentimental
It is good if you can dance to it.

The new commandment is: thou shalt.
Thou shalt.

It is good if you can dance to it.
It is moral if you can dance to it.
It is good if it is colorful.
If it is richly flavored.
If it is urgent with life.

It is good if you can dance to it.
Dance to it.
Dance to it.

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from Avant (​+​2 Digital Booklets), released September 28, 2018

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Nas Hedron Toronto, Ontario

“An artist who gives a fresh new and startling meaning to the word interdisciplinary.”
-- Donald Brackett, author of "Back to Black: Amy Winehouse's Only Masterpiece" and "Fleetwood Mac: 40 Years of Creative Chaos."

Nas Hedron divides his time between his native Canada and Brazil. ... more

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