David Woodard

David Woodard
David Woodard
	Woodard in 2020
Born	David James Woodard; April 6, 1964 (age 60); Santa Barbara, California, USA
Citizenship	United States; Canada;
Alma mater	The New School; UCSB;
Occupations	Conductor; composer; writer;
Spouse	Sonja Vectomov (m. 2014)
Children	2
	Musical career
Genres	postmodernism
Website	davidwoodard.com
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David James Woodard (/ˈwʊdɑːrd/ (listen); 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

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

Other websites

Media related to David Woodard at Wikimedia Commons

David Woodard at Kiddle
David Woodard at Library of Congress Authorities

[Carpenter-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Carpenter, S., "In Concert at a Killer's Death", Los Angeles Times, May 9, 2001.

[Epstein-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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