Plot
A man walks down the toilet with a portfolio, after urinating; a murderer opens the door and kills the man with one shot. A beautiful woman singing enters to the same bathroom, the murderer leaves the cubicle and embraces her, pressed against him, the murderer asks to her about the payment for the killing, the woman tells him it was deposited in the bank. The couple enters the cubicle and have sex, do not see, but listen, one shot, one dead again, will the same murderer?
A mask is an object normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance or entertainment. Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and practical purposes. They are usually worn on the face, although they may also be positioned for effect elsewhere on the wearer's body, so in parts of Australia giant totem masks cover the body, whilst Inuit women use finger masks during storytelling and dancing.
The word "mask" appeared in English in the 1530s, from Middle French masque "covering to hide or guard the face", derived in turn from Italian maschera, from Medieval Latin masca "mask, specter, nightmare". This word is of uncertain origin, perhaps from Arabic maskharah مَسْخَرَۃٌ "buffoon", from the verb sakhira "to ridicule". However, it may also come from Provençal mascarar "to black (the face)" (or the related Catalan mascarar, Old French mascurer). This in turn is of uncertain origin — perhaps from a Germanic source akin to English "mesh", but perhaps from mask- "black", a borrowing from a pre-Indo-European language. One German author claims the word "mask" is originally derived from the Spanish más que la cara (literally, "more than the face" or "added face"), which evolved to "máscara", while the Arabic "maskharat" - referring to the buffoonery which is possible only by disguising the face - would be based on these Spanish roots. Other related forms are Hebrew masecha= "mask"; Arabic maskhara مَسْخَرَ = "he ridiculed, he mocked", masakha مَسَخَ = "he transfomed" (transitive).
Jocelyn Pook (born 14 February 1960, Birmingham, England) is a British composer, pianist and viola player.
Jocelyn Pook’s distinctive style is a product of her diverse experiences in classical, commercial, and so-called world music. After graduating from London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she performed with many pop artists including The Communards and Massive Attack, and formed Electra Strings for whom she wrote original material. She has worked extensively with eminent dance companies such as DV8 and Shobana Jeyasingh, and in 2002 she was commissioned by the BBC Proms to write a work for The King’s Singers in collaboration with Poet Laureate Andrew Motion.
As one of the Leytonstone Contingent, Pook recorded on two occasions with pianist Jeremy Peyton Jones for Rough Trade and later for Century XXI. About a year later, she joined Anne Stephenson and Audrey Riley to accompany Virginia Astley both on stage and record. Session work followed and alternated with her co-founding of the Electra Strings with Australian violinist Sonia Slany and an album on the Village Life label. This neoclassical chamber quartet later transformed into the Brilliant Strings after she and Slany had gone their separate ways.
Masked
Who wears the title
Death masks anonymous
As breathing stops within this concrete holocaust
Carved inside
Carved inside
Carved inside
Ostracized for no crime
Textured deep with benefit
Idly take my breath my friend deftly place the roots upon the cellblocks
Poisoned offspring crawl upon the grieving carve me up and count the rings
Betrayal turns to blight
Darkness dims the days lost those holy nights wasted were those days
When blindness his weary eyes life's caustic charms
Now find pain
Justify, killing time
Feast upon the branchless limbs control turns to skill, my friend deftly place the roots upon the cellblocks
Poisoned offspring crawl upon the grieving carve me up and count the rings
Take away the pain
Take away the pain take away the pain take away the pain
As the hand languished to the matrix greed
Maul the obstacles, lost ability control is what you breathe, so