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Inside a darkened viewing chamber on the top floor of Paris' Centre Pompidou, visitors peer at what looks like a psychedelic astral storm, raging to a soundtrack of electronic bleeps and retro '70s rock. In a 45-minute video loop, a twisting cloud vortex is projected onto a long rectangular screen, morphing through the colors of the rainbow while meteorite showers and 3-D computer incrustations drift across the foreground. "I'd like people to look at it like they'd look at a sunset," says Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, the artist responsible for Exotourisme. "I wanted to blur the boundaries...
According to shocked and baffled friends and classmates, Helder was also a visionary given to muddled, passionate harangues on immortality, astral projection and other esoterica. "He was definitely not one to conform. He would not settle for just any old explanation," says Amanda Dolan, 19, who took a college religion class with Helder and was charmed and impressed by his accounts of out-of-body experiences. "He said death is an illusion," Dolan continues. "He would also say, 'You are the same person after death...
...letter sent to the university newspaper, Helder characterized himself as "spiritually well rounded" and wrote of a conspiracy to enslave the masses, pillage the environment and suppress human potential. It was not your usual antigovernment rant but something mistier and more sweeping. "Whether it's logic, meditation, channeling, astral projection or ghosts, all are ways of knowing," he wrote...
...With Patterson’s guidance, Kraft began an exploration of the outer boundaries of western music. The duo discarded musical notation whenever it hindered their music. Sometimes they would play from scores that replaced staves and notes with astral charts and nature paintings...
...Astral bodies drip like wiine (kiss me) (I'm in a trance) like a bird...