Visitation (NPM re-vision 4/12)

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An official visit for inspection or supervision – the commissioner made visitations to all the precinct stations – the recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese … Any disaster or catastrophe – a visitation of the plague … An annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event – his mother-in-law’s visits were a great trial for him – life is full of tribulations – a visitation of the plague … Trial, tribulation – and/or – affliction, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, fire, tragedy, visit … The act of visiting, or the state of being visited – access for inspection or examination – ‘Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.’ -- Shakespeare. The act of a superior or superintending officer who, in the discharge of his office, visits a corporation, college, etc., to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed; as, the visitation of a diocese by a bishop … The object of a visit – ‘O flowers, … my early visitation and my last.’ -- J. Milton. The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually coupled with the right of search, visitation being used for the purpose of search. Special dispensation – a communication of divine favour and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance - retributive calamity - retribution; judgment – ‘What will we do in the day of visitation?’ -- Isaiah. A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July. The Order of Visitation of Our Lady – a religious community of nuns, founded at Annecy, in Savoy, in 1610, and in 1808 established in the United States – in America these nuns are devoted to the education of girls ...

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Another short experimental associative-voodle by moi & b.k. featuring a powerful visitation occurring every now and then in Oslo, Norway - 2008.02.17. Work commissioned by the norwegian jazz-musician Nils Petter Molvær. Soundscape 'visitation' from the album 're-vision' (Nils Petter Molvær 2008).

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moi & b.k.: video 006 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 02'08''

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