David Woodard

David 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]

Woodard in 2020

Woodard invented a fictional psychoactive machine called the Feraliminal Lycanthropizer.[5] At the end of the 20th century he fabricated replicas of an actual psychoactive device called the Dreamachine.[6][7][8][9]^:98–101

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.[10]

References

Carpenter, S., "In Concert at a Killer's Death", Los Angeles Times, May 9, 2001.
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.
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.
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. 98–101.
Kracht, C., & Woodard, Five Years (Hanover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2011).

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

[Epstein-2] 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] Rapping, A., David Woodard (Seattle: Getty Images, 2001).

[5] Woodard, D., "Feraliminal Lycanthropizer" (San Francisco: Plecid Foundation, 1990).

[6] Allen, M., "Décor by Timothy Leary", The New York Times, January 20, 2005.

[7] Stirt, J. A., "Brion Gysin's Dreamachine—still legal, but not for long", bookofjoe, January 28, 2005.

[8] Bolles, D., "Dream Weaver", LA Weekly, July 26–August 1, 1996.

[9] Chandarlapaty, R., "Woodard and Renewed Intellectual Possibilities", in Seeing the Beat Generation (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2019), pp. 98–101.

[10] Kracht, C., & Woodard, Five Years (Hanover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2011).