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TRAUMACHINETRAUMA // MACHINETRAUMA:Eng,trau·ma/troumə,ˈtrômə/noun a deeply distressing or disturbing experience.TRAUM:Ger.nountrans. dreamPARTICIPANTS:PoplurXClayton WestmeierEthan CumminsJonny Negron(?)TRAUMACHINE represents an interdisciplinary and dynamic space of emergent performative revolutionary freedom amidst the reality of a waking American Nightmare. The concept of the American Dream is inexorably connected to the alienating, psychologically colonialist enterprise of the culture industry as made manifest by the status quo. By reinterpreting the mythological narratives of contemporary American popular culture PoplurX, Clayton Westmeier, Ethan Cummins, and Jonny Negron will engage in an immersive genre-bending performance at the crossroads of music as an evolution of the interpretation of intonation for means of survival, and the body (heartbeat) as the first instrument of sonic measurement (metronome). By utilizing aspects of dance, ritualistic improvisation, a