DC's: The Dreadful Flying Glove presents ... The International Language Of Screaming

Saturday, June 27, 2009

The Dreadful Flying Glove presents ... The International Language Of Screaming

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Song is not theatre is not cinema is not poetry is not lyrics is not speech is not doggerel is not words is not writing is not cleverness is not blind intuition. But all of these things have their limits. To soft-shoe along those limits is to feel something of the vertigo of the dreams we climb, the ache of the loss and the depth of the joy. As richly-sewn with marvels as the reams of Stuff & Nonsense that dwell within those limits can be, when speech and words fail and there's nothing left for either of 'em, what then?

Screaming is an expression in defiance of language, an expression of something that demands to exist. Dedicated to you, but you weren't listening.

Die Männer nicht wissen, aber die kleinen Mädchen verstehen.

The neuropsychiatrist Dr. Louann Brizendine, author of the bestseller The Female Brain, says the release of dopamine in a screaming teenage girl's brain upon seeing her pop idols is like "injecting heroin." Being with other screaming girls, she says, only makes the effect wilder.

"There's a thing in biology we call synchrony," Brizendine says. "Basically, one girl affects another affects another, and it becomes a domino effect building up to that level of hysteria. They are getting all these brain hits of dopamine, and also oxytocin, which is a love-and-bonding hormone. Teenage girls have so much estrogen, which just catapults the level of dopamine and oxytocin in the brain, creating this sort of ecstatic rush in themselves and others. It truly is a state of ecstatic love." (link)

CaptainGringopants on how to scream (2009)

Blixa Bargeld, screaming, (2007)

Isabelle Adjani in Andrej Zulawski's "Possession" (1981)

Kingsize Taylor & The Dominos, "Stupidity" (1964)

Diamanda Galàs sings "The Thrill Is Gone" (1999)

Patty Waters, "Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair" (1965)

Mars, "Helen Forsdale" (1978)

Tim Rose, "Morning Dew" (1967)

Alan Bates & John Hurt in Jerry Skolimowski's "The Shout" (1978)

Little Richard, "Rip It Up" (1956)

Pink Floyd's "Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up", as featured in Michelangelo Antonioni's "Zabriskie Point" (1970)

Cradle of Filth, "Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids", live (1998)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins, "Frenzy" (1957)

The 13th Floor Elevators, "You're Gonna Miss Me" (1966)

Diamanda Galàs with John Paul Jones, "Do You Take This Man" (1994)

The Plastic Ono Band, "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For A Hand In The Snow)" (1969)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, "Didn't It Rain" (1964)

Suicide, "Harlem", live (c. 1980)

Robert Ashley, "The Wolfman" (1964)
"'The Wolfman' was composed in early 1964 and first performed on Charlotte Moorman's festival of the avant-garde in New York in the fall of the same year, gaining considerable reputation as a threat to the listener's health."