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 […]

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where to let time fly. is the night still weighing on the day.     school closed. your teachers jumped on and off stage like monkeys on a hot tin roof. hands banded behind their backs, they were kneeling down before a crowd that circled the school auditorium. a photo of the sick old great […]