60 A re-imagining of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. http://cathedral.monroestreet.com/ipo20/ en-us ℗ & © 2006 Monroe Street Music A re-imagining of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The Cathedral Project clean The Memory Theater presents a re-imagining of the myth of Orpheus, The Chronicler, and Eurydice. The Cathedral Project cathedral@monroestreet.com flash, animation, opera, Cathedral, community, video, storytellers The Cathedral Project clean It started in the desert, and he began to walk. It started in the desert, and he began to walk. The walk itself was long, through the gates of the city. Up steep passageways, past alleys. He heard a racket. And he walked underneath the heroic door of heaven. His footing was legendary. There was something paradoxical about all this, or maybe just moronic. One thing was certain. There were unseen patterns that kept everyone dreaming. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p01.mp3 Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:00:09 GMT 2:19 flash, animation, opera, Cathedral, community, video, storytellers The Cathedral Project clean One thing was certain. The Chronicler, an ageless figure, appears and hints at re-imagining the myth in which music has magical powers. It is the story of Orpheus, who conquered the Underworld with music, and Eurydice, his beloved, whom he lost, regained, and lost again. The Chronicler, himself an acquaintance of both and the only witness still around, begins the tale. HE, SHE, and The Chronicler. It makes sense. It’s a love story. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p02.mp3 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:34:56 GMT 3:02 flash, animation, opera, Cathedral, community, video, storytellers The Cathedral Project clean He never doubted that love was possible. He plays a song in praise of his father. He never doubted that love was possible. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p03.mp3 Mon, 01 May 2006 15:00:00 GMT 1:36 politics, red, blue, state The Cathedral Project clean I have no heart within me. I have no heart within me. With thine 'tis beating in unison of loving. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p04.mp3 Mon, 15 May 2006 15:05:06 GMT 4:55 politics, red, blue, state The Cathedral Project clean His walks are always music. His walks are always music. He is never without the band. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p05.mp3 Mon, 29 May 2006 10:00:00 GMT 2:56 politics, red, blue, state The Cathedral Project clean It's important to remember. It's important to remember that for most of civilization, people talked to themselves. And they learned many different ways to hold inner speech. To create music. To see, and speak, and balance. To capture many stories at once. It's not that he understood how this connection was made, or even if the languages they used explained anything. He did know that at one point the trees spoke, the birds spoke, the wind itself informed the rustle of language. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p06.mp3 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:59:46 GMT 1:59 politics, red, blue, state The Cathedral Project clean The music itself kept enveloping him There are magical studies and possibilities. Things are too complex. He can't quite grasp them. However, there is a sense of music that's extraordinary. A sense of being in touch with a wide world and beyond. A sense that things are both present and timeless. The music itself kept enveloping him, and suggesting expansiveness and knowing. A rhythm, a dance, dance, dance. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p07.mp3 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:59:59 GMT 4:48 politics, red, blue, state The Cathedral Project clean Never doubt love, but don't think love is easy. Shadows in the afternoon became close friends, and taking a walk was just a joy. Laying down in the field was like being caressed. It's like the sun is exploding a million times a second, and the next thing you know, we're all, Wow, Pop, Boom, yoyo, my-my, la-la-la-la. It's all over the place. I'm telling you, I can't stop. Things are changing so fast. So fast. And we can do it. I'm falling in love again. Never doubt love, but don't think love is easy. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p08.mp3 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:02:01 GMT 0:46 Wow, Pop, Boom, yoyo, my-my, la-la-la-la The Cathedral Project clean We're all caught up in this. Too many things are going on, and the world is changing. But you know about that. We're all caught up in this. I know. I know. There are problems out there. There's something about death and men in dark suits that's very serious stuff. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p09.mp3 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:19:53 GMT 3:50 We're all caught up in this. The Cathedral Project clean I don't know where you are right now. All at the same time. I'm telling you. There's too much going on. I don't know where you are right now. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p10.mp3 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:21:00 GMT 2:01 the end of an era The Cathedral Project clean It was a mystery and it took him through time. Strange. How did this happen? Is this some cruel joke? It was a mystery, and it took him through time. He took another step. He didn't know which way to go, but it didn't seem to matter. "Dreams," he said to himself, "what a way to think." He had no idea where it was leading him. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p11.mp3 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:00:00 GMT 1:17 red, blue The Cathedral Project clean He studied all the signs. He studied all the signs. He started counting. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p12.mp3 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:19:49 GMT 3:31 I start counting. The Cathedral Project clean It is a time of darkness. Devastations. It's a time of darkness. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p13.mp3 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:59:59 GMT 2:17 black, white, grey The Cathedral Project clean Music keeps going on. And his talking was like singing. I wish I could describe it. It wasn't as if he had a melody, but he phrased his sentences, and rounded out each sound so carefully that it made it seem as if he were more of an old bird, than a person. Don't try to figure everything out. Music keeps going on. Listen. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p14.mp3 Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:00:00 GMT 3:41 Music keeps going on. Listen old bird. The Cathedral Project clean To stop time. To stop time, and to slow down, he realized, was a practice, and required meditation; required an unthinking. He called it a process of slow poetics to come to an understanding of himself, and of great time, in a land where time and dream and the earth wove together in real and fantastic walkings. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p15.mp3 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 03:46:25 GMT 2:29 red, blue The Cathedral Project clean In the mist, he saw himself walking. In the mist, he saw himself walking as others had walked. And he also saw himself connected to ways in which language wove itself into a music. He wasn't even sure if it was something he could grasp. He wasn't even sure whether it was something that could lead him to an understanding, or yet more questions. The sense of not being himself and being himself. The sense of desire propelling him across time. The sense of time propelling him across his desire. It all revolved itself around. It all informed itself around. It all spun itself around. It all illuminated itself around. It all became itself in the music. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p16.mp3 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:43:02 GMT 3:19 revolve, inform, spin, illuminate, become The Cathedral Project clean The gift of imagination creates dialogue. The gift of imagination creates dialogue. Walking is part of its music. He talks about walking and love. He says that he is forever wearing out shoes. There's something sad about him, but pleasant. There are five moments in the Chronicler's time, and there is a need, on occasion, to provide certain explanations of them. At each moment, he says, the writing in the five moments was indecipherable. On the earth, in the skies, in monuments of architecture, in clouds. There was something scientific, something personal, something vast. It was a synchronicity of all times and temporalities. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p17.mp3 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:00:00 GMT 1:19 earth, skies, architecture, clouds The Cathedral Project clean The time of dislocation, time of loss. The time of dislocation, time of loss, time of sadness. Time of revelation, time of joy. Time of grace, a time of love, a time of wonder. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p18.mp3 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:36:06 GMT 2:23 The time of dislocation, time of loss, time of sadness. Time of revelation, time of joy. Time of grace, a time of love, a time of wonder. The Cathedral Project clean He started to panic. He started to panic, but there was a calmness around him, and a soft light that made him feel safe. "I'll just keep my feelings to myself," he said. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p19.mp3 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:33:33 GMT 5:55 He started to panic The Cathedral Project clean He looked over his shoulder. He looked over his shoulder. A couple held hands. They look at each other, somewhat aware that they have been given gifts. He walks. Music is wind and echo, something trees know. He thinks of funerals, he thinks of returning, and a return. The trail through the forest, the paths through the desert, and the alleyways and boulevards of the cities. The lines in his dreams. The air cascading in waves that only musicians hear. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p20.mp3 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:01:03 GMT 3:32 music, wind, echo, trees The Cathedral Project clean Dream and vision are other forms of knowledge. As always, he hears the voices that have been speaking through him and around him for all of human history. He's puzzled, but seems on the verge of understanding and discovering something. There's always been writing and walking. He knows that, but why, and toward what end? In the great walk across the plains, and in the ghost dances, ancestors were present; so was the future. Dream and vision are other forms of knowledge. There's another music and knowledge close by. What can it mean? Is the future hopeful? Okay, go figure it out. You can either walk around in circles forever, or think about life in another way. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p21.mp3 Mon, 1 Jan 2007 13:00:00 GMT 2:07 Go figure it out. The Cathedral Project clean Every walk is time itself. Every walk is time itself. He's been on walks that never end. And he's worn out many pairs of shoes. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p22.mp3 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:00:00 GMT 4:01 water, walk, clock, wind, air, shoes The Cathedral Project clean It's not as sad as you would imagine. It's not as sad as you would imagine. There are gifts, and beautiful landscapes. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p23.mp3 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:01 GMT 2:55 imaginary landscape The Cathedral Project clean Lovers apart. And together. Writing, and walking, and ways of revealing love. The first letters were walking,the first walking writing. They're like letters, and the spaces between them. Lovers apart. And together. It was a sense of mystery and visions, grace, awe. A web of infinite possibilities, a world, a wide sense of light and love. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p24.mp3 Mon, 5 Feb 2007 15:02:07 GMT 3:33 letters, the spaces between them, lovers apart and together The Cathedral Project clean Vast projects order space and time. Vast projects order space and time. They require forms of power, but their meaning is elusive. Think of someone who has walked around the world. Think of music that has no ending. Think of writing, even a single letter. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p25.mp3 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:34:00 GMT 2:50 space, time The Cathedral Project clean He takes to the skies, as the world dances on. Nature is its own vast project. It includes space and great time. Writing is a vast project. Love. He takes to the skies, as the world dances on. http://www.echolog.net/media/ipo20/ipo20_p26.mp3 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:02:01 GMT 4:31 home