GLOSSOLALIA

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Introduction

GLOSSOLALIA is a multimedia project by Brian Howe, including sound, video, and poetry.

GLOSSOLALIA has recently been revamped--again! The various sections are now as follows.

The videos in the GLOSSOLALIA VIDEO section are either standalone works, or videos for tracks from BLACK SAIL. All videos were made in collaboration with Ashley Howe.

Below the video section, you will find GLOSSOLALIA AUDIO, which contains six albums:

i. BLACK SAIL, an ongoing album of electro-poetics. Electro-poetics involves combining oral recitation with digitally manipulated instrumentation, field recordings, and appropriated material. GLOSSOLALIA is grateful to all the poets who've lent their words and voices to the project.

ii. SERENGETI, a sonic map of a strange world I discovered.

iii. SOUND WORLDS, an album of sound art that draws inspiration from ambient, noise, experimental, and modernist music. BLACK SAIL tracks also claim this influence, the difference is that BLACK SAIL tracks include orated poetry while SOUND WORLDS tracks do not.

iv. autobiography, an album of sound art distinguished from SOUND WORLDS by longer, more chaotic compositions, and a more personal slant.

v. DEPRESSIVE ETUDES, an album of digitally treated piano improvisations and minimal electronics.

vi. SECRET POP, a collection of remixes, curios, and loose ends.

GLOSSOLALIA is an audio/visual companion to the text-based poetry project, F7. Both projects involve the conceptual organization of technologically and procedurally mediated material; both are concerned with moving this material across different media; both exploit the tension between determined and chance operations. Some selections from F7 available online are linked in the right margin of this page.

There is no cost for streaming or downloading GLOSSOLALIA creations from this page, which will continue to be updated with new mixes and videos as they are completed.

GLOSSOLALIA may be contacted at brian.g.howe@gmail.com.

The creative, non-commercial re-use of GLOSSOLALIA materials is avidly encouraged.

Glossolalia video

YOU'RE DOING VERY WELL [currently unavailable]

[In the meantime, why not check out this low-quality but rather fun, "behind-the-scenes" dance party video from the making of YOU'RE DOING VERY WELL?]

YOU'RE DOING VERY WELL premiered at the Pinhook Arts Night on May 9, 2009.

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Music by Tikwid

Video by Brian Howe and Ashley Howe

UP premiered at the Pinhook Arts Night on May 9, 2009.

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MAYBE YOU HAD WOODEN FINGERS IN A PAST LIFE

By Brian Howe and Ashley Howe

MYHWFIAPL premiered at the minor/american reading series on October 6, 2007, and was subsequently shown at the Asheville Fringe Festival and SignalFest, the Southeast Electronic Music Festival.

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BALLET

By Brian Howe and Ashley Howe

Featuring CAConrad reading from Deviant Propulsion.

[Poems from Deviant Propulsion]

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ELLA FINDS HER VOICE

By Brian Howe and Ashley Howe

Featuring Ella Vowell

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SUDDEN SPIDER

By Brian Howe and Ashley Howe

Featuring Rod Smith reading from "The Spider Poems"

["The Spider Poems" from Fear the Sky, available from Narrow House and PENNsound]

[SUDDEN SPIDER in Idiolexicon]

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UNTITLED

Video by Ashley Howe, sound by Brian Howe.

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BONUS VIDEO: 2-19-09 Nightlight performance; 919 Noise collective night

Featuring Brian, Ashley, Wyatt, Wyatt, Ryan, Cam, Josh, etc.

shot by Justine

Monday, March 12, 2007

Glossolalia audio

GLOSSOLALIA

BLACK SAIL

The laureled clairvoyants tell our doom in riddles. Sewn in our robes are horrid tales, and the speakers-in-tongues enounce atrocious tidings. The prophet-birds seem to speak sagely, but are shrieking their frustration. The senselessest babble, could we ken it, might disclose a dark message, or prayer.
"Glossolalia" - John Barth

BALLET
Featuring CAConrad reading from Deviant Propulsion.

[Poems from Deviant Propulsion]

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THE POETRY FESTIVAL I
Featuring Ken Rumble reading "A Monologue for Voices"
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OWLS

Featuring Tim Van Dyke reading from "The Wolving Ritual"

["The Wolving Ritual" in Octopus Magazine]

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HEDGE MAZE
Featuring Allyssa Wolf and Jon Leon
[Original Allyssa Wolf audio in The Continental Review]
[HEDGE MAZE originally appeared in Spaltung #2]
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SUDDEN SPIDER

Featuring Rod Smith reading from "The Spider Poems"

["The Spider Poems" in the DC Poetry Anthology]

["The Spider Poems" from Fear the Sky, available from Narrow House and PENNsound] [SUDDEN SPIDER in Idiolexicon]

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IF I TOLD HIM
Featuring Gertrude Stein reading "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso"

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THE POETRY FESTIVAL II

Featuring Ken Rumble reading "A Monologue for Voices"

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KATOWICE
Featuring Marcus Slease reading from Godzeenie
[Godzeenie excerpts and original reading audio in Past Simple]
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MARTA E DAVIDE

["Marta E Davide" in word for / word]
["Marta E Davide" in Apocryphal Text]
[MARTA E DAVIDE in Idiolexicon]
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TIMBREL
Featuring Sabrina Orah Mark reading Walter B. Needs Some Time and Beatrice Takes a Lover
["Walter B. Needs Some Time" and "Beatrice Takes a Lover" in Typo]
[Mark's original recording taken from Spaceship Tumblers]
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BONG EGGS

Featuring Ken Rumble reading from "24 Hour Breakfast"

["24 Hour Breakfast" and "BONG EGGS" in Fascicle"]

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REAL WATER
Featuring Laura Carter reading Poem for Swans
["Poem for Swans" on the APG blog]
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Bonus Track: TECATE NOIR
words + voice: Tim Van Dyke
guitar: Tony Tost
drums: Ken Rumble
keys: Brian Howe
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SERENGETI

IN MY ROOM

I SAW GOD
AMID THE AVIFAUNA
FIRE, ELEPHANTS, AND WILDEBEEST
SWEEP THROUGH THE LONG GRASS

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