The track "georgiana" is an homage to the poet and linguist Georgiana Peacher, using combinations of text from her book-poem, "Mary Stuart's Ravishment Descending Time," with her Joycean language buried under my distant phonetic accents, propelling the composition.
A unique aspect of these collaborations is that we shift in and out of the voice being primary, and sometimes allow it to be the source, with the processing still driven by the language. The call and response between voice and what propels it through the music creates an ongoing narrative between sublingual perspectives.
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Edwin Torres
Edwin Torres is a multidisciplinary artist from New York City and the author of 14 books of poetry, including; Quanundrum: i will be your many angled thing (Roof Books, 2021 - American Book Award 2022), Xoeteox: the infinite word object (Wave Books, 2018) Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press, 2014) and editor of The Body In Language: An Anthology (Counterpath Press, 2019). He has received fellowships from Arts MidHudson, NYSCA, The DIA Foundation, and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among others. Anthologies include; New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archives (Nightboat Books, 2022), The Difference Is Spreading: 50 Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems (UPenn Press, 2022), American Poets In The 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement (Wesleyan Press, 2018), Angels of The Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath Press, 2014) and Aloud: Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Henry Holt, 1994). He is currently an Adjunct Poetry Professor at Columbia University.
Stephen Vitiello
Stephen Vitiello is an electronic musician and media artist. His sound installations and multi-channel works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon. Recent exhibitions include a site-specific project for a space built in the 4th century in Poitiers, France as part of the exhibition, Traversées – Kimsooja. CD and LP releases have been published by numerous labels, including New Albion, Sub Rosa, 12k, and Room 40. Over the last 25 years, Vitiello has collaborated with such artists and musicians as Pauline Oliveros, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Taylor Deupree, Joan Jonas, Tony Oursler, Dean Moss, Steve Roden and Jule Mehretu. Vitiello has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for “Fine Arts,” a Creative Capital grant for “Emerging Fields” and an Alpert/Ucross Award for Music. Originally from New York, Vitiello is now based in Richmond, VA where he is a professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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