⇒   Watch the video of Alyssa’s and Spencer’s live performances at ESS.   ⇒   Read Alyssa’s ESS-Archive-inspired writing as published in Fence issue 41.  ⇒    Listen to and see the audio/image supplement to Alyssa’s writing and performance from Malachi Ritscher’s Notebooks and two recordings of live concert performances by Xiu Xiu.   ⇒   Read Spencer’s […]

⇒   Watch the video of Alyssa’s and Spencer’s live performances at ESS.   ⇒   Read Alyssa’s ESS-Archive-inspired writing as published in Fence issue 41.  ⇒    Listen to and see the audio/image supplement to Alyssa’s writing and performance from Malachi Ritscher’s Notebooks and two recordings of live concert performances by Xiu Xiu.   ⇒   Read Spencer’s […]

ACT 1, SCENE 1 Very little is happening. In fact, look around you. It’s like this every day.  Put your deodorant where you use it, not where you put it. That’s what I always say. It’s all so consequential, always leading to something else. It’s like this string that holds up the shower curtain, which […]

In early spring of 2023, the Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) and Fence invited visual and sound artist Spencer Hutchinson and poet and writer Alyssa Perry to participate in the first of an ongoing series of cross-disciplinary exchange and collaboration between our nonprofit arts organizations. ESS and Fence suggested opening their sound and text archives to […]

Séance So-and-so with your arms at your side — tiny bits of mercury in your mouth. true crime is never as disturbing as the podcast claims. so, someone doesn’t get out alive; big deal. I have an app on my iPhone that alerts me when there’s gunfire — West 4th and whatever – my stomach […]