Hook, Scalpel, Clamp, Hole
I am sitting at my kitchen island, my hands floating like two pale moths over two sheets of printing paper. Atop the sheets is a standard hospital logo printed in jeweled tones. On the first sheet falls clearly numbered post-surgical instructions, the phone number of a physician. On the second, there is a series of […]
THE FENCE/EXPERIMENTAL SOUND STUDIO ARTIST-IN-THE-ARCHIVE EXCHANGE PROJECT: ALYSSA PERRY from Fence 41
⇒ 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 […]
A Tribute to Spencer Hutchinson
Photo of Spencer credit Alex Inglizian/Experimental Sound Studio. You can read Spencer’s obituary here. Spencer and I, working together on editing his introduction to his ESS/Fence project, bonded most strongly over our love of electronic music. He burned CD’s for me, sent them by US mail, and was an extraordinarily vast trove of knowledge across […]
THE FENCE/EXPERIMENTAL SOUND STUDIO ARTIST-IN-THE-ARCHIVE EXCHANGE PROJECT: Spencer Hutchinson from Fence 41
⇒ 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 […]
THE FENCE/EXPERIMENTAL SOUND STUDIO ARTIST-IN-THE-ARCHIVE EXCHANGE PROJECT: ALYSSA PERRY
⇒ 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 […]
Selections from ** *******
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 […]
Dolly
DOLLY The original copy. The first cloned mammal, grown from the mammary glands of a Finn Dorset. Now on display in a glass box at the National Museum of Scotland. Specimen form: mounted skin and skeleton. Materials: organic material. Looking into your tired eyes, what do I hope to see? Nothing: an exact replica, […]
Pseudo-Sonnet (We, They)
They construct spaceports inside our scaffolded jaws Holy spears blast through our skulls with ion thrusters We try to clutch our fleeing ghosts with banded claws We spasm and shit diarrhetic star clusters They huff nozzled volcanoes to their nitrous core They snort lines of crushed hopes off my charred mermaid breasts They rinse their […]
Mommies All the Way Down
Annie and Daniel lived in a brick house at the end of the street. He was 36 and she was 27. It was their culture for girls to marry boys who were just a little bit older than them. He went to work during the weekday, she made his coffee in the morning then cleaned […]
