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by John Oswald

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windstorm 01:44
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aye aye, i dry my eye, try to cry, my dry eyes fly, sky high while i, sigh a small sigh, sigh a small sigh, a sigh, small lies, lies i try to hide, why i cry, i [repeat]
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wounded 23:23
00:00:00:00 - 00:00:32:14 And this you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you me me me me me me me me me me. Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo. 00:00:32:16 - 00:00:40:25 It's happening. 00:00:40:27 - 00:00:54:05 Again. The president has expanded. Before us was darkness. Mountains on either side. 00:00:54:08 - 00:01:03:12 Of the head of the plain. 00:01:03:14 - 00:01:34:25 Stretched. Researchers researching search light searches. Three were search searchers searching. Scanning down the raised causeway. Round and round. And the way they sometimes feel there, they see them and they see it. Now you don't. And on either side. 00:01:34:27 - 00:02:11:26 This mist. Vapour curled, and there were dead armadillos littering the road. We bump up and sometimes bump, bump and suddenly I'm very calm, and it filled the air with a flurry of white wings, and its wings and its breath spread its wings and whirled up in and before we even knew what had happened, it was up over our heads and and looking at. 00:02:11:28 - 00:02:24:26 And it filled the air and looking at and it filled the air and looking at and it filled the air with a dry, cracked riverbed. And. 00:02:24:28 - 00:02:35:06 It's my, And it's my body. 00:02:35:08 - 00:02:43:27 It's floating in space. 00:02:44:00 - 00:02:53:04 And. It's just a section. 00:02:53:06 - 00:03:31:09 And it has the contours of. My torso. With waist and hips and breasts. Little hollows. And at the same time, it's the contours of her dry, cracked riverbed. 00:03:31:12 - 00:03:40:21 And then if I look at it. The ground starts to. It's my heart. 00:03:40:24 - 00:03:48:04 And. Crack open. 00:03:48:07 - 00:03:58:22 At the place where my heart would be. I know that. Something is. 00:03:58:24 - 00:04:10:15 Pushing its way. And. Then I know without even looking at you. 00:04:10:17 - 00:04:17:22 That it's a black rock. 00:04:17:24 - 00:04:53:05 It's a fist. It's my heart. About to. Show. Woo woo woo woo woo woo. And I want to see this I know how to get out of it. You know I don't. I was not keeping well this one maybe pulled it. Just pulling one. Maybe pulls it. You know, maybe once once and maybe. No no no no nothing here. 00:04:53:06 - 00:05:24:24 No now once once be separate well nothing now once well no now nothing and here now once once nothing nothing no now once once no nothing and… here now once one was my body prone… nothing. Pull the tr… be separate once once nothing here my bow be separate now once once sounded like a, be separate, a red gash — you take my pull once my wound nothing, pull the tree bee separate be say say nothing — you take my b'wound, be set nothing, pull the would be separate, be be and wool and dead. 00:12:26:09 - 00:12:31:22 I am the smartest person in the world. 00:12:31:24 - 00:12:37:26 I am the smartest person in the world. 00:12:37:28 - 00:12:47:27 My brain. Is so big. 00:12:48:00 - 00:12:55:00 I have to keep the bulk of it. In. 00:12:55:03 - 00:13:01:08 A vast climate controlled vault. 00:13:01:10 - 00:13:35:12 On Baffin Island, I only use small portions of my brain at a time. I employ. Highly specialized technicians to maintain the optimum conditions of my brain. These people are kept busy round the clock, maintaining the optimum conditions of the brain matter, as well as in the shipping and receiving areas, sending out specialized portions of my brain to me wherever I may be in the world, on whatever project are involved in at the time. 00:13:35:13 - 00:14:40:29 Foreign. Meanwhile, also on occasion, I have been known to lend out powerful portions of my brain to leaders of state and great artists of my time and ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ooh ooh ooh ooh 00:14:41:02 - 00:15:16:18 Oh Here. She remembers you. We need to feel the need to dig their own little graves. And here he is, sitting on his shoulders. Could shoot the moon and fall in. Oh, how about if I scoot over here? Oh, again? No. Heavenly beings, children forced to dig their own a like more. 00:15:16:19 - 00:15:41:25 And me now considering how you know, this could shift the mood for you. But if I stayed over here, how do we continue? Okay, I'll stay here by the egg. Okay, so this could also stand here by the egg. I'll stand on you. Okay. Here. Now stand here. And now I'll stand on the chicken and followed by the chicken. 00:15:41:28 - 00:16:02:06 Now pull the trigger too. Oh, for you to do a little aggressive position. Pull the trigger, pull the trigger, pull the trigger. Pull the trigger. Foreign, foreign. All foreign. 00:16:02:09 - 00:17:34:10 Okay, now. 00:17:34:13 - 00:18:16:19 Wounded. 00:18:16:22 - 00:18:42:23 She remembers seeing. The idea. Looking past into the dark. 00:21:01:07 - 00:21:36:20 I, I try my I try to cry. My dry eyes fly sky high. While ISIS all sigh, sigh a small sigh, a sigh. Small eyes lies I try to hide. Why I cry. 00:21:36:22 - 00:23:23:07 I, I try my, I try to cry. My try I fly. I sigh a small sigh, sigh a small sigh. Sigh. Small eyes lines I try to hide why I cry. I, I try my, I try to cry. My dry eyes lost us by my side. Sighs. I.

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released May 1, 1988

created by Holly Small and John Oswald
narratives thought as spoken by Holly Small
edited and multiplied by John Oswald
tunes by John Oswald
lyrics by Holly Small and John Oswald
initial singer is Mary Margaret O'Hara
final singer is Felicity Williams

Wounded was first mounted in Toronto in 1988

photo of Sonia d'Loréns Juste by Cylla von Tiedemann

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John Oswald

Oswald is best known as the the creator of the Plunderphonics genre, an appropriative form of recording studio creation which he began unfolding in the late ’60’s. This got him in trouble with, and also garnered invites from major record labels and musical icons. ... more

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