Edric Mesmerplies trade as a poetry cataloger, taking stock of the serial, the canonical, the ephemeral. This is perhaps evident in his Of Monodies and Homophony, a collection out from Outriders Poetry Project, that skips the surfaces of collecting, observing, and itemizing before sinking into that pool music, where meaning dives to and returns from, breathy. Of Yellow Field, the small international journal he publishes, he calls himself collator—bringing together work by emergent, established, and undersung poets, artists, and composers from places as far afield from Buffalo as Melbourne, Orkney, and Saskatoon. At present he dwells on the poem called Strawberry Island.
KG Price does not beg, does not borrow, he steals. Lessons in Musicology, the project at hand, is thievery, pure and simple. Through the medium of 12, 10 and 7 inch vinyl, he turns other peoples’ typically copy written work into his own. Sometimes it is an unaccompanied vocal piece by Luciano Berio or drum solo by Frank Rosaly. Other times it is no more than a training record for Morse code that has had a red-hot screwdriver jammed through it to give it an elliptical spin as opposed to circular, thus warping the square-waves into an aleatoric line of glissandi Lieder. All of these together create a simultaneity representing SATB or the string quartet or a simple band of vocals, “guitar,” bass and drums. Classical in form, modern in content, the end result is a summation of and response to our documentation of organized sound. KG currently resides at Tritriangle in Chicago where he plays records, drums and piano and even sings for his chamber group, 'The Lucky Bikes.'