THE LAST ONE IS DEAD
LP 1998
Cut-Up-Contrsuctions Rec.
300 numbered copies

BLACK-GREY-WAVE
The idea for the object THE LAST ONE IS DEAD was born in 1993 during cutting process of an extensive video part, in which a man is tom to pieces by a crocodile. In order to compile a installation-video we had to transform a one-minute scene into a video of half an hour length --- through ping-pong-copying the VHS-tape --- while the image on the screen only showed a black-grey wave. More or less - black in black. Only a faint rustling and moaning could be heard.

After repeatedly playing the tape we fell into something like a state of trance & the image on the screen disappeared in infinite repetition. The rustling and moaning remained detached, absurdly trapped in a kind of death comedy. You could smell it.
A moment of lucidity & confusion.

Is it necessary to make reality & its constructed being tangible?
As a weapon against the self-consuming symbolism of art, ego and one's own organs of perception. Yes!
As part of the poetry of life.

A path with different results /// with different goals.

33rpm LP
side A
the reality of death in the media (...including mental projection or transformation) ...the ability to represent death?
1. the last one is dead part 1 (based on a live recording / Wroclaw 1997)
2. the last one is dead part 2 (based on a live recording / Mainz 1996)
3. the last one is dead part 3

side B
the reality of death in the media (...in which we had to fall back upon material from the media) ...the ability to experience death?
1. the last one is dead part 4 (based on unaltered sound recordings)
original sounds:
starting time 00:00 The sound of a knife when it opens a corpse.
starting time 01:00 A woman screaming just before her death... in a road accident.
starting time 07:10 A politician shoots himself in his mouth & head in front of a running camera.
starting time 13:00 The leader of a religious community bites in the flesh of a dead human & speaks the words: We are free, We are there & We are beautiful.
starting time 15:00 In the national park a father of a family gets out of his car in order to film a bear. His wife asks him to be careful. But the bear tears the man to pieces.
2. the last one is dead part 5

for the realization of this project column one was
Eyn Lump
White Rabbit
Uwe Röhner
Daniel Lifeson
Andrew Loadman
Aurika Kaja
Jürgen Ploog

material in use: Lars von Trier, Jürgen Ploog, Robert Schalinski, W.S.Burroughs & some dead people.
produced 1997 - Berlin, Mainz, Wroclaw by Rabbit Schinalzki & Column One.
All music by Rabbit Schinalzki & Eyn lump except Part 3-5 by Rabbit Schinalzki
Cover by Mr. Brainbridge & Rabbit schinalzki ... human blood, urine, hair, dust & shit.
pictures in use: Sarajevo, Nyarubuye church (back cover) / Carlo Maratta - painting & maybe-baby (front cover)

thanks to: Urk Giten, Aurika Kaja, H.J.Schalinski, Uwe Röhner, Wojcek Czern, Daniel Löwenbrück, Annibale Piccici...

Cut-Up-Constructions Rec. 1998