Piece for a Ritual Beheading

Constanza Bizraelli’s Piece for a Ritual Beheading was originally composed for a collaborative performance created by Constanza Bizraelli and performer Piotr Bockowski  and presented several times between 2015 and 2016 in London’s underground music scene. The performance was originally developed as a symbolic deconstruction of the act of beheading oneself.

Drawing on ritual, ceremonial dynamics and feral embodiment, the performance  sketched processes and metaphors of  self-undoing and feral becoming, blurring the lines between the boundaries of individuation and the depths of animality.

 The live music piece originally consists of four movements or chapters that sonically narrate the mythic act of beheading. Drawing on erosive textures, subterranean atmospheres, a blend of evocative analogue sounds, watery synths and both ellusive and militant vocals reminiscent of early Coil, the piece sonically depicts the transformative act through an ecstatic journey into the telluric abodes of humanness.