August 1, 2012 Meeting Recordings

Two takes of a rehearsal of an improv polyphon we performed at Athica on August 17 of this year called "Integration Redisintegration": Take 1 and Take 2.

STARTOVER

July 11, 2012 Meeting Recordings

JLO read Brace for Impact, Maybe is the way, oder Durchgang durch, Staggering to propose at all and Not me

Erika read Cunning and implacable like Denmark

Mark read several pieces (all in this single sound file): Mutilated tasking, Rollicking huckster, Free streaming rights, Sample shooting script, The political economy of poetry, Bone runner, Scare quotes (social origins of the idea), and Poet X: a treatise re: verse(d), Essay 356

James did Shade at Night

June 27, 2012 Meeting Recordings

JLo read Dance music,   Where the weather wanes, aburptly and  Flesh conceptions, if

Mark read Jazzbo in a gazebo and Chase to the cut

Zac read an untitled piece beginning "That an external wrinkly. . ."

The group did two semi-improvised pieces in a serial quartet, one monosyllabic only and the other multisyllabic

June 13, 2012 Meeting Recordings

Zac read My summer with the backward 3s

Erika read Cats taught to weed

Mark reads a bunch of studies, a Loss Lieder and more…

John reads Sorted sonnets for the month of June, Week one (word), Week two (syllable), Week three (character).

3 folks each time perform 4 poems by John (these are just audio links....)

high fiber - continuity - ass

languid - perky - the bomb

spandex - ennui - pastel

love - dark matter - the void

(...if you would like to read them while you hear them, try these each in turn)

high fiber - continuity - ass

languid - perky - the bomb

spandex - ennui - pastel

love - dark matter - the void

Updated: Folks performed a large-as-yet-untitled lattice by James, an iteration in an ongoing work that consists of covering and recovering a painting by David D'Agostino (here is a previous iteration, or at least a picture of the painting (the recordings were on SoundCloud)

June 6, 2012 Meeting Recordings

JLo read Night-stretch, cat-like, Other Fantasies during Sex, Imp, Grunt Work on O-rings, and The History of It (you can find "studio" versions of these elsewhere on the blog)

Mark read Crooked number, Burst inlaid, Nag sing, Poet X: a treatise re: verse(d): essay 38, and swig flat judo

Nika was at this meeting and she read four untitled poems, 1, 2, 3, 4

May 30, 2012 Meeting Recordings

Zac does Sped and toddles

JLo does Tankgle and You break the blank into bite sized bullets

Erika does Who killed Bambi?

Mark does 2 Loss Lieder, Macro and The mumble core
and he does 353 & 354 from Poet X: a treatise re: verse(d)
and  Block form #5 in yellow and green
and Adaptive control of optical beam jitter

The group does Petrophobia  This polyphon was spontaneously composed. Mark and Erika ran out of gas on the way to the meeting, so like that's where it "came from". Three of us were improvising and one was typing (you can hear it in the background). The textual by-product is below.

petrophobia

dire falls in the milling, and degrees of counter-institutions

imagistic and rent-focused and someone yelling, slapping at

other professionals and who had left office in the silence

arrival urged in the sense of fear for amplitude as troped

across the broken express file and containing the queens'

intro to the island and passage to others which would foster

the mainframe and compu-bombadiering and fairly machine halts

though generations are on the way, planning to break breath

slope time in the transfer, foaming in the black of cleavage

fever down in the going and I will now attempt to draw a map 

different from the flanking spaces of porous passages, so

foaming at the mouth curtain exceed the exercise from naked

and selected genders for fortunate coils and displacement

like clorox soaped the phage for tits and pleading with a mask

mismanagement of brusque allure pokes an archaic elevator

spigot me for once a dozen communities of steel lifeblood 

in addition to quiet hill country doors on the gold mean limit

truce for intersection and droid frugal deterioration scanner

BART more is fragment bankrupt and socialist for the speedo

counterinsurgency beyond the experiments of parts for parts

cine come the mysterious endrust and skins clip singing

peed parties: the slow pace of geddy and has ontic lenses,

in other words all the times in which large portions of the foam

with third-person hospitality chasm that appears to snuggles over

some remnant where we know clearly burls already in the 

typset pleasure--or anhedonia only spoken released while small antlike atoms whisked crunch

sine space ptomaine blob methane not a cactus but having hooked tarsi catching 

nothing but painfully letting you know the body has been penetrated and can't

heal itself oddly enough

without bleach rococo or baroque infections flies

May 16, 2012 Meeting Recordings

 
The group did Mark's Sound assembly #7

Mark read 2 of his studies: 56 & 61

He also read 3 of his Loss Lieder: "epee", "observations on tenor", and "gimp oh but insist"

He also read 351 & 352 from his Poet X: a treatise re: verse(d)

And Alphabet on it

JLo read some of his sorted sonnets from April 15-April 21

Zac read an untitled poem beginning "parlay cusp. . ."

Erika read a poem beginning "a bunch of people in the lab and on the street"

The group did an iteration from an untitled polyphon project by James

May 1, 2012 Meeting Recording

We were practicing our paper presentation for the Emergent Communities in Contemporary Experimental Writing conference that we attended at the University of California Santa Cruz on May 4-5, 2012.






So here is a little snippet of the syncytium in action.

April 18, 2012 Meeting Recordings

Erika performed The mind's desire an oak box

Mark performed Lapidaric 3 (and you can hear a little discussion on the end about some of the ghosts of Skype or whatever JSelv may have been doing on the other end)

He also did several from his Studies series: 35, 36, 37, 44, 45, 46 (sketch of hearsay), 47 & 48 [unsegmented]

I don't know what the others of us were doing that night.

PS-- the image above turned up when I searched the first line of Erika's piece in Google images.

April 11, 2012 Meeting Recordings

Erika read Science says

James read Days (0:16) (5:14)

Mark read Studies 30-34 & Lapidarics 1-2; essay 347 from Poet X: a treatise re: verse(d); and three Loss lieder

April 4, 2012 Meeting Recordings

Erika read Nots

Mark read several from Poet X: a treatise re: verse(d):
    Essays 344-346

    Deadbolt and Essays 123-125

He also read another group, including Dysfunction, Study 27 and Paranarrative Experiment #223

John read the week of April 15-21 from his Poems for Today series

The group did Unlashings

March 28, 2012 Meeting Recordings

Erika read This band could be your index.

JLO read two sets from his Poem for Today series, April 1 thru April 7 and April 8 thru April 13.

Zac read Unself Unportrait #2.

March 14, 2012 Meeting Recordings

James read Plants (0:16) (0:15) (0:05) (0:14)

Mark read from his Poet(X) series, Essays 115 through 121

He also read Thrower floor choreographies

Zac read Unself Unportrait #1

JLo performed an improvisation Missing monkeys returned shaved

The group performed a text from David D'Agostino The vinyl chair

March 7, 2012 Meeting Recordings

Mark read a series of Leap Day poems, Livewire with a dead line, Paranarrative Experiment #222 and three from his Poet (X) series: 111, 112 and 114

JLo read two sets of his Poems for Today: March 1-March 7 and March 8-March 13.

The group performed Mark's Mr. Potatohead and here is a snippet of Mark giving us some performance instructions beforehand.

Zac did an improvised poem.

February 15, 2012 Meeting Recordings

Mark read a series of Studies:
Study 1
Study 2
Study 3
Study 4
Study 5
Study 6

He also read Fabulous Mosaic Log and When a man's verses can't be understood and the group did a realization of his polyphon, Roots Musics

JLo read two chunks of his Poems for Today, 2.8.12 through 2.14.12 and 2.15.12 through 2.21.12

James read Days (2:08) and he and JLo did his White or oral rainbows

Erika read Sabermetrics

February 1, 2012 Meeting Recordings

So, JLo read some Poems for Today: February 1, February 2, February 3, February 6 and February 7

Mark read Light mumbling into the dark and Wake Up Apes a Depot Slipsslopein (Acrossword

Zac read an untitled piece beginning "The entelechy button nose. . ."

James read Miniphytoharmonium: yall or you guys

JSelv remoted in a reading of an three untitled harmonia

and then the group did a polyphonic realization of the same (treating them as three stanzas of a single harmonium)

January 4, 2012 Meeting Recordings

happy you near

JLo did a stretch from his Poems for Today series: January 1, January 2, January 3, January 4, January 5, January 6 and January 7

Zac did Dectet for January 4. Here are his notes for the piece.

Mark read Giant magical insects on the prowl (the title comes from a Rauschenberg dance title mentioned in Carolyn Brown's memoir, Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham)

James and Mark performed James's Untitled ("your eyes tuck coke") and James and Zac did James's  plants in which the ordinary, familiar, or mundane aspects of life are represented in a straightforward or matter-of-fact manner that is presumed to reflect life as it actually is

Here is an outtake from group collaborative improv (sort of called "Lattice iced")

December 7, 2011 Meeting Recordings

Zac read Westbound

 Mark read Off topic and Screwy polity

JLo read Rene Char's Enough

We (Erika, Mark, James, Zac and JLo) did a realization of Mark's Scherzo Rag

We did a realization (we being Erika, Mark and JLo) of Erika's Boustrophedon: for 3 voices

November 30, 2011 Meeting Recordings

The last track is Zac discussing his improv, one which he performed into a Skype session with JSelv using post-it notes (they were ripped up after the performance and collaged together as the above). "Continental crossdraft" was a polyphon improv (Jselv again skyping in).


November 30, 2011 Meeting Recordings by Atlanta Poets Group

November 16, 2011 Meeting Recordings

This week: two improvs and a polyphonic realization of a large (45" x 15") lattice by James titled Tableaux vivant, a piece responding (and covering) a painting by David D'Agostino (a rough photo of it is below.)

November 16, 2011 Meeting Recordings by Atlanta Poets Group