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La Mari​é​e (for Marcel Duchamp)

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

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Marcel Duchamp (France, 1887-1968).

Duchamp was a French painter, sculptor, and writer, who also spent long periods of time in New York City. One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, two of his best known works are Fountain, (see Track 6), and La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même (The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even). Duchamp began as a painter, but was later a principal proponent of the readymade. He also created kinetic works (art with moving parts), made a film, and composed aleatoric music (music involving chance and randomness).

This track is named for Duchamp’s The Bride Stripped Bare, also known as the Large Glass (it is 2.7 meters, or more than nine feet, tall), in which he trapped various items between two large panes of glass, among them foil, wire, and dust. It has the appearance of a complex mechanism of uncertain purpose trapped between the panes of a large window. The original was broken during transportation, but Duchamp restored it, incorporating the shattered glass as part of the work.

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J’ai un corps de verre , j’ai un coeur mécanique
Je suis heureux, je suis heureux
Je suis plein de bonheur.

J’ai un coeur de verre, j’ai un corps mécanique
Je danse au soleil
Je suis si romantique.

J’écoute la chanson
Mais j’entends la ville.
J’écoute la chanson
Mais j’entends la pluie.
J’entends, juste à peine, ce que tu dis.

** Translation: The Bride **

I have a glass body, I have a mechanical heart.
I’m happy, I’m happy
I’m full of good humor.

I have a glass heart, I have a mechanical body.
I dance in the sun
I’m that romantic.

I listen to the song
But I hear the city.
I listen to the song
But I hear the rain.
And I hear, just barely, what you’re saying.

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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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