Voiceprints & Aircuts: Sound Poetry By Other Means
(Adhuman) CD $14.00
From a distinctly leftfield position relative to the gnarled, textural tape noise works of Nothing New Under the Sun cassette (Gift of Music, 2022), that guy from Melkings, Zwangsbeglucktertum, and Association Copy offers an obscure, bloody-minded take on Sound Poetry and voice-based sound art. “According to Enzo Minarelli, the Italian pioneer of Polypoetry,” says DeAngelo, “Every poet needs a theory. With pince-nez tilted towards nothing less than the failure of the avant garde to realize itself, Sound Poetry By Other Means utilizes the strategies of audio poems circa-mid 20th century as a vehicle for this virtual history tour. The various deficiencies, missteps, gear fuck ups and general atmosphere of ‘Why?’ all bleed into the smudged margins to reinforce the cart-before-horse nature of producing art indifferent to, nay, incapable of commodification within a cratering Marketplace of Ideas. While the message is by no means optimistic it is voiced in an unaffected, at times even joyous register befitting the paradox of post-End of History déclassé unfreedom. Although intended to be taken as a whole, the disc provides plenty of meat in the purely sonic form of alienation for audience members antagonistic to such prescriptive formalities.”