Featured in The Small Machine Talks Episode 61

Great news! Amanda Earl of AngelHouse Press and Experiment-O Magazine got me featured on her podcast Small Machine Talks. The other contributors are Joel Chace (who is always cool), Marco Giovenale, Pearl Pirie, James Sanders, and Steve Venright.

http://smallmachinetalks.com/index.php/podcast/the-small-machine-talks-episode-61-experiment-o-readers-part-iii/

Here's my feature. It is a poem mostly made out of spelling experiments culled together from different Spongebob Squarepants voice synthesis tests. Yes, it sounds ridiculous but why not.

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pus sea seal eel elk!

glumly daisy flavor - shadow fragile
frown

pffft pffft XY? 4:16
La La La La Lo
ayu yu Tsuu A Xie Xie

("paa", "fuku", "chiki")

No No No Ha! Ha! Ha!

Blaze beep chug - tart rictus
– Ever-Roving Eye
jamais vu elk yowl

Iko Iko - Nzznzzzznnznznnn
Fifi o - Uum Ni-Ni- Budub
PPPPPP - XXOO Go Go Go Go Go

Gash, Gloria:
Ear Spin; Smile
Oww rrrrrrsssssstttttt O

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New work in Revenance 8

Great news! Got a piece in the new issue of Revenance #8. It is a piece spawn from my long and winding translation of Vasilisk Gnedow's Death to Art.

The link https://monoclelash.wordpress.com/2020/06/13/revenance-no-8/

Thanks, Olchar.

Henry - Eraserhead Alternate Soundtrack by Cat Temper

Check out this thing - an alternate soundtrack for David Lynch's seminal midnight movie classic Eraserhead composed by Cat Temper. The original Eraserhead sound track is one of the progenitors of then-emerging Dark Ambient genre.
Now things come full circle and we get full-on dark ambient interpretation of the music for the film. It reminds me of Lustmord's alternate soundtrack to Tarkovsky's Stalker.

https://cattemper.bandcamp.com/album/henry-an-electronic-soundtrack-to-eraserhead

Let's Be Cosmonauts

 

Check out this piece of vintage propaganda nonsense. It's a children's book about space titled "Let's be Cosmonauts". Because that's a career you really want to have despite it totally being lame. 

The book consists of some zany lyrics and sheet music, because why not. Here's the title song "Let's be cosmonauts". It is insane in its innocuous straightforward primitive vibe. It doesn't really build up being a cosmonaut, it doesn't even try to make it anything but a nondescript adventure. Which is weird because space mission are anything but nondescript. Anyway, if Ad Astra had this song on the soundtrack - i would have liked it much more.

Oldschool flarf up on Internet Poetry.

Oldschool flarf up on

Internet Poetry

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https://internetpoetry.co.uk/image/616769902997618688

AC/DC - TNT Sheet music aka The most beautiful thing in the world

Some types of merchandise are not like anything else. Case in point - this thing. It is a promotional booklet for AC/DC fan club. It features some cheeky illustrations, questions for hardcore fans, and also some sheet music. Because that is what you are looking for when you are looking for AC/DC merchandise.

The thing is - AC/DC is probably the last type of music you would expect to be transcribed into sheet music. It just doesn't combine that way. AC/DC is too awesome for this antique concept of sheet music. Writing it down is like freezing a breath so that you would have a document of a breath. It is an interesting concept on paper, but it just doesn't really work beyond an entertaining thought.

AC/DC is all about willing the cool into the realm of real - it is not carved in stone like sheet music, you don't need to learn to play exactly like it was recorded by the band - if you really want to appreciate AC/DC - you need to go the other way - it is like catching the wind and doing aeolian things.

But this particular piece of sheet music is really cute. Looking at TNT as sheet music got some sort of morbid curiosity factor. It feels like one of those Martin Creed artworks - totally counter.

My works in new Maintenant

 

Great news! Got featured in the new issue of Three Rooms Press' premier magazine Maintenant. Lots of cool folks are there too. There's even Bob Holman, who did United States of Poetry many years ago.