David Woodard

David Woodard
David Woodard
Woodard in 2020
Born
David James Woodard

(1964-04-06) April 6, 1964 (age 60)
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Citizenship
  • United States
  • Canada
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Conductor
  • composer
  • writer
Spouse
Sonja Vectomov
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(m. 2014)​
Children2
Musical career
Genrespostmodernism
Websitedavidwoodard.com
Signature

David James Woodard (/ˈwʊdɑːrd/ (audio speaker iconlisten); born April 6, 1964 in Santa Barbara, California) is an American postmodern writer and conductor,[1][2] and a descendant of prominent colonial families.[3]: 250  He invented the concept and portmanteau word prequiem, which designates a musical composition to be rendered as its beneficiary lay dying.[1][4][5]

Woodard invented a fictional psychoactive machine called the Feraliminal Lycanthropizer.[6] At the end of the 20th century he fabricated replicas of an actual psychoactive device called the Dreamachine.[7][8][9][10]: 142–146 

Woodard is also known for his work with Nueva Germania, a settlement in Paraguay.[2] His German book of correspondence Five Years, coauthored by Swiss novelist Christian Kracht, describes some of the humanitarian work performed there.[11]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Carpenter, S., "In Concert at a Killer's Death", Los Angeles Times, May 9, 2001.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Epstein, J., "Rebuilding a Home in the Jungle", San Francisco Chronicle, March 13, 2005.
  3. ↑ Finnell, A. L., The Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry: Lineage of Members (Baltimore: Clearfield, 1997), p. 250.
  4. ↑ Woodard, "Musica lætitiæ comes medicina dolorum", Der Freund, Nr. 7, March 2006, pp. 34–41.
  5. ↑ Rapping, A., David Woodard (Seattle: Getty Images, 2001).
  6. ↑ Woodard, D., "Feraliminal Lycanthropizer" (San Francisco: Plecid Foundation, 1990).
  7. ↑ Allen, M., "Décor by Timothy Leary", The New York Times, January 20, 2005. Archived from the original on April 22, 2015.
  8. ↑ Stirt, J. A., "Brion Gysin's Dreamachine—still legal, but not for long", bookofjoe, January 28, 2005.
  9. ↑ Bolles, D., "Dream Weaver", LA Weekly, July 26–August 1, 1996.
  10. ↑ Chandarlapaty, R., "Woodard and Renewed Intellectual Possibilities", in Seeing the Beat Generation (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2019), pp. 142–146.
  11. ↑ Kracht, C., & Woodard, Five Years (Hanover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2011).

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