by bruce conner
although youtube has removed the original ray charles soundtrack, with ingenuity you can do a rough rescore on the film by syncing up the record below with the start of the film …
With its montage of erotic dancers, fireworks, big guns, explosions, military destruction, and mushroom clouds, Cosmic Ray seems to be referencing the work of radical psychologist Wilhelm Reich , a writer whose books were burned by both the German Nazi party of the 1930s and the US government of the 1950s. We’ll be returning to Reich and his theories around orgasm in future entries on this page…