Tuxedomoon - Ghost Sonata (segment)
(Scene w/ Winston Tong and Nina Shaw)Staged and filmed by Winston Tong and Bruce Geduldig in 1982.Description: "An Unsigned Postcard" - Nina, attended by an already dead Winston, sees her death in a vanity mirror beckoning her, she slashes her wrists with lipstick.a death by loss of blood.***** About "Ghost Sonata" ******Early in 1982 Tuxedomoon, then featuring the classic lineup of Steven Brown, Blaine L Reininger, Peter Principle, Bruce Geduldig and Winston Tong, were invited to perform by friend Velia Papa at the Polverigi Theatre Festival in Italy.Geduldig expands: "We imagined creating a body of music and at the same time shooting an episodic story on video...then transfer the video to 16mm film for large live projection, and add taped musique concrete and an orchestra. I don't exactly recall the inception, except that Winston liked the title 'Ghost Sonata'... Late one night before we'd actually started Winston and I were driving and he said something to the effect of letting each member write his own suicide, and that would be the text. I liked that immediately. At some point we all decided to do 'an opera without words', an idea that seemed pretty reasonable at the time, and only much later struck me as being strange."