HIST Soundtrack Excerpts On ANMLY /
Thanks to the wonderful people at ANMLY mag who have an awesome hybrid creative blog, “The Markings of Music.” The editor, Olivia Muenz, was kind enough to publish excerpts from the HIST soundtrack, “Canoe Chase on the Horican,” and “Narra-mattah,” my audio/visual collaborations with Matthew Klane. Our recordings are accompanied with an interview diving in to the process behind the book and the reasoning behind a soundtrack for it. There are so many wonderful things on the blog so check them all out!
HIST performance @ Fitz books & waffles! /
Matthew Klane and I performed some tracks from HIST with poets Julie Neely and Robin Lee Jordan on 2/3/23. Such a good turnout and amazing waffles! Thanks for the love Fitz and company!
Robin Lee Jordan
Julia Neely
Photo Courtesy of Robin Lee Jordan
Photo Courtesy of Robin Lee Jordan
“Thicket on the Prarie” Video Courtesy of Robin Lee Jordan
Hist Performance @ Endicott college /
The Center For Belonging was an excellent performance space.
Photos Courtesy of Michael Kilburn
Photos Courtesy of Michael Kilburn
We performed John Cage’s Musicircus with students from a course on Zen Buddhism, co-taught by Rocco Gangle, Daniel Sklar, and Michael Kilburn.
Randall Livingstone took us down to the ocean, which was across the street!
Photos Courtesy of Michael Kilburn
Photos Courtesy of Michael Kilburn
Hist premiere @ Unnameable Books, Amherst 10/22/22 /
Thanks to Unnameable Books for hosting the HIST soundtrack premiere!
Photo courtesy of Catherine Bresner
Excerpt from “The Rescue of Hist” courtesy of Catherine Bresner
Excerpt from “The Rescue of Hist” courtesy of Catherine Bresner
New Publication: Graphic Novel HIST in Diagram /
Check out a new excerpt from Matthew Klane and I’s graphic novel Hist in the new Diagram 22.1. The full graphic novel is forthcoming in Summer 2022 with Calamari Archive. We’ll be designing the cover and writing a score to accompany it in the coming months. Stay tuned!
New Review in Journal of Modern Literature /
Emerging Improvisations
A Review of Paul Jaussen’s Writing in Real Time | Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital
My review of Paul Jaussen’s Writing in Real Time is out. Enjoy it when you get a chance!
Writing in Real Time
Excerpt: In Writing in Real Time | Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital, Paul Jaussen reconsiders the formal idiosyncrasies of the American long poem through contemporary systems theories. Jaussen claims that the immutable architectures that support long poems from Walt Whitman to Nathaniel Mackey cannot be reduced to the play of lyric intensities, nor are they productively approached through extensive genre categorization. Instead of these two methodologies, he argues that their forms interactively emerge; they unfold in real time as adaptive systems with the capacity to critique, rework, and respond to their changing material environments. To read the diversity of the American long poem through systems theoretical discourse is to reveal what Jaussen calls “interactive emergence,” the poet’s sustained creative/critical improvisation with the material dynamism of time.
New Review: Writing In Real Time /
Writing in Real Time
Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital. Cambridge UP, 2017. 226 pp. $105.00 hardback.
I just finished a review of Paul Jaussen’s excellent Writing in Real Time | Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital for the Journal of Modern Literature. I highly recommend it! With the Covid Pandemic, I’m not sure when this will be published, but I’ll keep you posted.
Abstract
In Writing in Real Time | Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital, Paul Jaussen reconsiders the formal idiosyncrasies of the American long poem through contemporary systems theories. Jaussen claims that the immutable architectures that support long poems from Walt Whitman to Nathaniel Mackey cannot be reduced to the play of lyric intensities, nor are they productively approached through extensive genre categorization. Instead of these two methodologies, he argues that their forms interactively emerge; they unfold in real time as adaptive systems with the capacity to critique, rework, and respond to their changing material environments. To read the diversity of the American long poem through systems theoretical discourse is to reveal what Jaussen calls “interactive emergence,” the poet’s sustained creative/critical improvisation with the material dynamism of time.
New Audio: Green Kill Performance of Idiopathic /
Enjoy this performance from my performance of Idiopathic for voice, electronics, and found sound on 2/27/20 at Green Kill Performance Space.
Green Kill Performance of With Walden /
A great time reading with Ruth Danon at the Green Kill Performance Space on 2.13.20. Using Touchviz, I improvised video and read from an ongoing project titled With Walden. You can see other stills of the project here. I return to Green Kill on 2.27.20 to perform an except from a new sound poem called Idiopathic. Hopefully I’ll see you there!
Photo Courtesy of Bill Lessard
Photo Courtesy of Bill Lessard
Photo Courtesy of Bill Lessard
Photo Courtesy of Bill Lessard