David Woodard

David James Woodard (; born 1964) is an American conductor and writer known for his controversial performances. Through the 1990s and 2000s, Woodard constructed and sold replica Dreamachines, or stroboscopic light devices. He also coined the term prequiem, meaning preemptive requiem, to describe musical compositions that he made “for the soon-to-be-deceased”. He created prequiems for people such as baseball player Joe DiMaggio and terrorist Timothy McVeigh. He also wrote music for neo-Nazi activist William Luther Pierce and attempted to memorialize the 9/11 hijackers. Woodard is interested in Nueva Germania, a district in Paraguay founded by German settlers. He stated that he was drawn to the settlement as what he called “an Aryan vacuum in the middle of the jungle”, although he has denied being a white supremacist. Early life Woodard was born in Santa Barbara, California, Woodard claimed in 2001 that his interest in death stemmed from the fact that, when he was a teenager, his girlfriend was mysteriously found dead; in another instance he said that she had killed herself and her parents had blamed him. Woodard studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, before he moved to