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Twin Peaks song

Holy Shit! Over at the Twin Peaks Archive (which I didn't even know existed until today) they've just released 4 previously unreleased songs, which are downloadable today only.

CHECK OUT THIS CLIP -- it features so many of the elements we've been toying with, like:

- dark haired twin-like girls singing backup
- an 'alien' or unexpected voice coming out of someone's mouth
- wierdly nostalgic yet creepy home-like environment

And it's also a lovely, understated song. I'm not suggesting we use it in the show, just as inspiration:

2 comments:

Maesie said...: It's like an alien/others love song! If the aliens/others have a musical number, I could see it being heartbreakingly tender a la Marc's song with some of the elements you identified above.; April 9, 2010 at 1:02 PM
Scott said...: Love it! I am a huge fan of Twin Peaks (and Julee Cruise). If we want to hear any music like this in rehearsal, I have a ton of it on my laptop.; April 11, 2010 at 4:29 PM

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Let’s play with the audience’s memories and with our own memories, and use the mechanism of live theatre to identify and explore memory as the very essence of what makes us human.

Theatre is a time-based art, a memory machine, let us use it not to show or tell, but to strive for the impossible goal of manipulating and inhabiting memories on stage with an audience. Let us do this to spark our own memories, and to trigger those of the audience, in order to provoke reflection about the slipping away of time, and the relishing of present moments that will soon become past memory. Let us do this in a kickass psychological, sonic, poetic, and physical way that can only be done onstage via song and spectacle.

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