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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 14h

The song is a Spanish song originally.
Galás wanted very much to honor the original composition.

Thanks to deesurfinjay for the information.

Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 17h

Tengo que Subir al Puerto (from 'The Cleopatra Set')

This Portuguese song is deeply loved by Diamanda, who sings it in Spanish.

“One day I will learn the original Portuguese, which uses exquisite ornamentation that is distinctly Portuguese.”

Stream the full song: diamandagalas.com/media/videos/

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 14h

The song is a Spanish song originally.
Galás wanted very much to honor the original composition.

Thanks to deesurfinjay for the information.

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 17h

Tengo que Subir al Puerto (from 'The Cleopatra Set')

This Portuguese song is deeply loved by Diamanda, who sings it in Spanish.

“One day I will learn the original Portuguese, which uses exquisite ornamentation that is distinctly Portuguese.”

Stream the full song: diamandagalas.com/media/videos/

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 2d

Diamanda Galás announces three performances in Portugal for February, 2026, taking place at some of the country’s most prestigious venues.

11 Feb – Lisbon, Culturgest
14 Feb – Braga, Theatro Circo
18 Feb – Porto, Casa da Música

Tickets & info: dub.sh/portugal26

Diamanda Galás, photo by Kristofer Buckle

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 11d

Design and development by Everywhere at Once - everywhereatonce.com

Research, archival assistance, and support by Garth MacNeil

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 11d

Intravenal Sound Operations is proud to announce the launch of the new official website of Diamanda Galás → diamandagalas.com

Her music, performances, writings, and projects will be available here.

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 24d

(2/6)
InSEkta’s references to state-mandated expendability and perceived insignificance were echoed in the sound design by Blaise Dupuy and Eric Liljestrand, at times reminiscent of the dipterous chittering of unseen vermin.

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 24d

(3/6)
To allow for Galás’s mobility within the cage, her naked chest was fitted with “a double gun holster made of leather,” to which two personal wireless microphones were attached, further reinforcing the insectile aesthetic.

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 24d

(4/6)
Lighting designer Dan Kotlowitz, who had worked with Galás on Vena Cava and Plague Mass (1990), recalled that she originally wanted to unleash a thousand cockroaches onto the deck during InSEkta.

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 24d

(5/6)
The request was ultimately vetoed, considered unviable for Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.

Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 24d

(6/6)
To read the entire work go to
thekitchen.org/on-mind/anon...

ON MIND: Anonymous Populations: Diamanda Galás’s "InSEkta" Thirty Years Later

The Kitchen is one of New York City’s oldest nonprofit spaces, showing innovative work by emerging and established artists across disciplines. Our programs range from dance, music, performance, and th...

thekitchen.org

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 24d

(1/6)
Anonymous Populations: Diamanda Galás’s InSEkta Thirty Years Later
Second excerpt by Kamikaze Jones, Artist
The Kitchen Archives 2023

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 25d

To read the entire work go to
thekitchen.org/on-mind/anon...

ON MIND: Anonymous Populations: Diamanda Galás’s "InSEkta" Thirty Years Later

The Kitchen is one of New York City’s oldest nonprofit spaces, showing innovative work by emerging and established artists across disciplines. Our programs range from dance, music, performance, and th...

thekitchen.org

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 25d

2/4) “during the course of the piece her [Galás’s] voice shook the cage and her body started the cage swinging and tilting and shimmering to the modulations of her musical ascents. Because the cage was motorized, we could tilt it to form extremely steep slopes which she had to ...

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 25d

3/4) climb, hanging from chain link.” (4) The artist deployed this volatile mise en scène to amplify the parameters of both institutionalized and psychospatial entrapment, creating an abstract taxonomy of helplessness—one that alluded to imagery of frenzied lab rats, ...

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 25d

4/4) disassociated rape victims, and faceless casualties of biological warfare, each clambering to escape captivity.

Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · 25d

Anonymous Populations: Diamanda Galás’s "InSEkta" Thirty Years Later
Excerpt by Kamikaze Jones, Artist June 27, 2023
The Kitchen Archives 2023

In her essay “On Concert Theater,” *InSEkta* director Valeria Vasilevski wrote that

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · Sep 9

(2/4) "Scalatron Music," which Galás used to open her 'Wild Women with Steakknives" performances in the 80's, was recorded by her in 1982 in the basement studio in UCSD, where she would go at midnight to improvise and record. There, as she recalls, she would "sing/shriek" ...

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · Sep 9

(3/4) while playing the instrument-a carny freak show considered radical by the art and film students who worked in other studios. Improvising on the Scalatron, a microtonal organ designed by Herman Pedtke and admired by Harry Partch, Galás kicks up a storm ...

Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · Sep 9

(4/4) leaving the 70's, a tumultuous decade of experimentation, in the dust.

Bill Perrine

All selections made by Willie Stewart
Compiled by Bill Perrine and Willie Stewart

Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · Sep 9

Diamanda Galás SCALATRON MUSIC
The Alien Territory Archives: A Collection of Radical, Experimental & Irrelevant Music from the '70's San Diego
NYAHH RECORDS

Available now on Bandcamp: dub.sh/scalatron

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · Sep 5

(2/4) "Scalatron Music," which Galás used to open her 'Wild Women with Steakknives" performances in the 80's, was recorded by her in 1982 in the basement studio in UCSD, where she would go at midnight to improvise and record. There, as she recalls, she would "sing/shriek" ...

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Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · Sep 5

(3/4) while playing the instrument-a carny freak show considered radical by the art and film students who worked in other studios. Improvising on the Scalaron, a microtonal organ designed by Herman Pedtke and admired by Harry Partch, Galás kicks up a storm ...

Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · Sep 5

(4/4) leaving the 70's, a tumultuous decade of experimentation, in the dust.

Bill Perrine

All selections made by Willie Stewart
Compiled by Bill Perrine and Willie Stewart

Diamanda Galás @diamandagalas.com · Sep 5

Diamanda Galás SCALATRON MUSIC
The Alien Territory Archives: A Collection of Radical, Experimental & Irrelevant Music from the '70's San Diego
NYAHH RECORDS

Available now on Bandcamp: dub.sh/scalatron

The Alien Territory Archives: A Collection of Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music from 1970s San Diego, by Nyahh Records

24 track album

dub.sh

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