Michael Basinski - The Works

Just outside of Buffalo, New York, Michael Basinski lives a little past the airport. In 2018 he published Opems (Burchfield Penney Art Center), which documents his large scale visual, sound, and performance poem exhibition titled Opems: Verbal-Visual Combines, https://www.burchfieldpenney.org/exhibitions/exhibition:03-09-2018-06-24-2018-opems-verbal-visual-combines/

Other books include: Unexplained Noises, (Buffalo Ochre Papers), Lot Sa Nots O http://xexoxial.org/is/lots_sa_nots_o/by/michael_basinski, and with Ginny O’Brien, Combings http://www.redfoxpress.com/dada-basinski2.html Combination of the Two, an exhibition of O’Brien’s and Basinski’s cooperative visual work and visual poems opened in early January 2019 at the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative. His most recent books of poetry are Tub Bunny, (Spuyten Duyvil) http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/tub-bunny.html

And Salvage (BlazeVOX[books])

http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/Poetry/salvage-by-michael-basinski-557/

Among the spots his work has appeared are: Blazing Stadium, Peach Mag, Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, Angry Old Man, Journal of Poetic Research, Word/For Word, Fell Swoop, Kenning, Rampike, Filling Station, Ur Vox, Damn the Caesars, Nerve Lantern, Mimeo Mimeo, Vanitas, Talisman, Vort, and Poetry.

Comment: “Ode Daphne” and “Five Eclipses in Under 12 and Half Minutes”

are performative sound poems for voice and instrument ensemble. Voice sound and instrument sound are interchangeable. Individuality is significant in recitation. Each poem offers some parameters.

Yury Zavadsky - "ea"

 

Dr. Yury R. Zavadsky (Ukr. Юрій Завадський; official transliteration: Iurii Zavadskyi), poet, translator, literary critic, performancer, noise artist, PhD in Theory of Literature. 

Born in Ternopil, Ukraine in 1981. In 2006 completed his postgraduate studies at the Department of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature of the Faculty of Volodymyr Hnatiuk Ternopil National Pedagogical University. 

Worked as an assistant to the Journalistic Department of the Philological Faculty of Volodymyr Hnatiuk Ternopil National Pedagogical University. Today is CEO of Publishing House “Krok”. Currently is an editor of scientific almanac “Studia methodologica”. 

Yury published 5 books of poetry and has a number of publications in Ukrainian and Polish periodicals. Author of one of the first hypertextual poems in Ukraine “Cyharky”. 

In 2010 Yury Zavadsky recorded the album with band “ZSUF” (electronica, experimental, psychedelic music) under the title “zsuf yuryzavadsky” representing the first recorded Ukrainian project of such kind of music with sound poetry. 

Nowadays plays noise with band SUBPRODUKT. As translator and publisher, he works with authors from Poland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Fiji, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Russia, Belarus, Georgia. Yury translates from Polish contemporary Polish poetry.

Here's his album EA. Recorded and mastered by DJ Kapusta

Jurij · ea - sound poetry album

Stephen Bett - The Works

Stephen Bett is a widely and internationally published Canadian poet with 24 books in print. His personal papers are archived in the “Contemporary Literature Collection” at Simon Fraser University. His website is stephenbett.com

Vernon Frazer - 5 Pieces

 

Vernon Frazer’s new poetry collection, Gravity Darkening, has just been released.

Charles J. March III - Crisis Scrawlings

 

Charles J. March III is a Navy veteran currently living in Orange County, CA. His works have appeared in or are forthcoming from Evergreen Review, Atlas Obscura, Litro, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, Lalitamba, Ligeia, 3:AM, Ink Sweat & Tears, Fleas on the Dog, Problématique, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, The Recusant, Sulfur “Surrealist Jungle”, RIC Journal, tragickal, Taco Bell Quarterly, Nauseated Drive, Storm Cellar, Terror House Magazine, Harbinger Asylum, Mycelia, Young Mag, Madness Muse Press, Mantis, Maudlin House, Joyless House, Misery Tourism, BlazeVOX, Blood Tree Literature (prize), The Babel Tower Notice Board, Bareknuckle Poet, Heroin Love Songs, Anti-Heroin Chic, Synchronized Chaos, swifts & slows, The Beatnik Cowboy, Points in Case, Black Scat Review, Expat Press, Poetry WTF?!, Stinkwaves, Young Ravens, The Writing Disorder, Defenestration, Versification, Seiren, Literary Orphans, Centre for Experimental Ontology, Otoliths, Oddball Magazine, et al. 

Links to his pieces can be found on LinkedIn and SoundCloud. 

About the pieces:
These obfuscations are my way of trying to make sense of all the suffering, while trying to transcend such on my way to finding surreal joy and humor in the absurd.

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Christian ALLE - The Works

Since the 90’s, Christian ALLE, painter, collagist and photographer is active in the networks of mail art as a participant on the various projects, but especially as publisher and animator of Nada Zero, information magazine and free participation in the spirit of FLUXUS.

https://nada-zero.jimdosite.com/

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Szilveszter Botond - Perspiration of Incision

Szilveszter Botond was born and raised Berlin, but his life got way more interesting after he moved to London. An active participant in local conceptual art and culture jamming scenes, he strives for excavation of the unknowable within the thickness of content.

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About the works - I'm using FineReader text recognition tool for various heavily compressed images. Due to compression artifacts, the text is harder to recognize and thus there is room for creativity. I'm applying math notation recognition to get the raw text and then edit the text document so that it looks more comprehensible. 

Why math notation? The symbols are purely functional and suggest definite relations between subjects. But what if you put them as content itself and explore the narrative the juxtaposition generates? That's interesting.