Manifesto Of A Consciousness Factory Reset

I’m proud to return the pages of the excellent experimental literature journal D.O.R. with my short text piece Manifesto For A Consciousness Factory Reset. Author Lachlan J McDougall has put together another stellar issue of mind bending poetry and prose, as always a print edition is available to purchase, while it is also free to download. Enjoy!

Of Noise And Cut-ups

My new cut-up piece combines the futurism of Luigi Russolo with modern noise and sonic weaponry as performance art in a Luigi Russolo Jukebox over at Don’t Submit. I hope you will check it out. I’m proud of the piece and of course am happy to return to an awesome venue such as Don’t Submit.

A Few Random Thoughts On Cut-ups

I’ve quipped in the past that I am not as much a writer as I am a literary archeologist, because sometimes it doesn’t feel like writing at all but more like I am digging down deep. Instead of dirt, it’s digging down deep past the conscious layers. Instead of some ancient artifact or relic, I’m coming back up with some shard or fragment of thought. It’s like that certainly with automatic writing, spontaneous prose, etc. but likely more so with the cut-up… which it’s no secret, I use a great deal.

Derrida’s theory of deconstruction and the cut-up method made famous by Brion Gysin and William S Burroughs have served me well. Of course, Burroughs has been a huge influence both literary-wise and sonically. I’ve written not so secret letters to Brion Gysin in space or wherever he is. Cut-ups are very integral to my work. I generally don’t cut-up other material, I have, but I prefer to cut up my own writing, it just means more. I cut-up a lot of my own straight writing, journal entries and even some old poems. Obviously, there is the literal conscious meaning of a piece of writing, but when you cut it up it’s amazing to see a new meaning take shape, like you’re digging down into your subconscious and you wonder was this subconscious meaning there the whole time? Burroughs talked about cut-up as a means of cutting up space and time, and it is certainly true to an extent. He also knew that language is a form of control, and of course that is true and not just control from the control machine, but just the word lock in our everyday lives and the control words have over us. Words are powerful things. Words uttered to you as a child can mess you up for life. Words are natural agents of control.  Cutting up is certainly a way to subvert that. And it just makes for cool art, doesn’t it? At any rate, it is cheaper and possibly more effective than therapy, as I have learned so much about myself from the simple practice of the cut-up.

In the end, I suppose I am much more concerned with taking things apart rather than creating… Merz, deconstruction, collage, cut-up, etc. It brings me closer to the essence and the true subconscious meaning of things… which in most cases, is my own inner space. Remember, Burroughs stated that life was a cut-up. It is, and it is now more than ever. So again, I feel more like a literary scrap man, an archeologist more than a writer. Certainly, many people would likely agree to that assessment.

Final Chance To Reboot

I’ve sad to announce that the exceptional Beir Bua Press is closing at the end of this month. In a short time the press put out a stellar catalog of experimental poetry, and this is your final chance to pick up these titles. I am hoping you will take this final opportunity to pick up my book, <Reboot> More So… Disconnected. I am very proud of this one and still feel it is likely the best book I have put out.

July Updates

Many thanks to fellow author Lachlan J McDougall for including me in the fascinating 3rd issue of D.O.R. which is another dizzying array of experimental writing. It is available from the publisher as a free download, and you can also snatch the print edition over here!

It features:

Excerpt from Thee Black Book by COYOTE_23
A Poem by Rus Khomutoff
Five Poems by Rose Knapp
Analysis Paralysis by Jerome Berglund
{Bup} Mrs. Rikkidon Lakewaves’ Son by Jim Meirose
Hollow by Erin Jamieson
Four Poems by Damon Hubbs
Carl and the Cosmonauts by Lachlan J McDougall
Five Photographs by Petro C. K.
Lady Chatterly’s Free Speech Without Pronouns by Noah Berlatsky
Five Poems by Christopher Peys
Four Poems by Joshua Martin
Five Poems by Petro C. K.
Four Poems by Vernon Frazer
Three Poems by Keith Higginbotham
A Poem by Clive Gresswell
Five Paintings by Lachlan J McDougall
Sleepy Octopus Society (I-XIII) by Andrew Arnett
Three Poems by Kushal Poddar
Five Poemsby Allen Seward
Four Poems by Michael IIgoe
Acoustic Digital Moaning by Wayne Mason 
Three Poems by Madelaine Culver
Two Poems by Noah Berlatsky
Four Poems by Kristopher Biernat

Also, I have re-released last years Roaring Through The Endless which is still available from Church Of The Noisy Goat, but now it is also available on Spotify, Apple, and most anywhere else you can stream music.

A Few Things

I’d like to start this belated update by giving a big thanks to fellow author Lachlan J McDougall for this wonderful review of my book <Reboot> More So… Disconnected that you can read right here! After that, make sure to check out more work from McDougall, who is very prolific and putting out a lot of cool stuff.

Hyper-Annotation, the new post-human journal of experimental literature and art edited by Kenji Siratori is out now, and it is a massive volume. Contributors include alan sondheim, d.m. mitchell, ellie chou, made in dna, francisco borges, giselle bolotin, bec lambert, n.casio poe, sophia yung, tom bland, dan macneil, callum leckie, kirill azernny, david roden and many, many more. From cut-up to glitch to ascemic, futurist, and post-human writing, this one has it all. I’ll update when it’s available.

Lastly, but certainly not least, this April I’ll be a part of St Augustine PoetFest, a huge celebration of the spoken word in the ancient city. I’ll be featured as part of the Florida Poets Showcase. There will be more details as April approaches. For now, feel free to check out the event page over at Facebook for more info.

Electronic Voice Phenomena & Feedback Loops

It’s an exciting publishing day here with two new pieces out today for your reading pleasure. Here I continue to riff on the concept of mashing up EVP with sound manipulation.

First up, my newest text piece titled Dead Voices Feedback Looping. is up over at the always interesting don’t submit!, it’s very much a continuation of the Divination And Magnetic Tape For Dummies that was published a little while back. Meanwhile, my new poem Ectoplasm Air Piece Radio is up over at The Pixelated Shroud, a mysterious little project I just recently discovered.

And while I am updating, I encourage you to please check out my Soundcloud, where there are at least three new tracks up including Paranormal Circuitry, Meditations Multiple Voices In Error, and Espace Interieur Noir. The latter two are also up on all major streaming platforms if that is your thing.

New Anthology From Beir Bua Press

I’m very proud to be featured in An Experimental Poetry Anthology- Beir Bua Press 2022. This amazing anthology features extracts from works published by Beir Bua Press in 2022. Last years anthology was easily one of my favorite books of the year and this book promises to be just as great! If you have been curious about my new book or any others from this extraordinary press, this is the sampler for you. It features an excerpt from my book <Reboot> More So… Disconnected along with work by these talented artists:

The Nothingness Kit By John W. Sexton
Book of Inversions by Kit Fryatt & Harry Gilonis 
Cartouche! By Dylan King & Michelle Moloney King
Encomium: Cento Paradelles by Matthew Schultz 
&there4 by Mike Ferguson 
NEXT TO NOTHING & THIS WAS MEANT TO BE A STORY by Mark Lindsey
The State of Moving by Lucia Sellars 
Elephants Sleep in Bunk Beds by Carl Burkitt 
pressed specimens - prose poems from the Medicinal Plant Herbarium, 
Southern Cross University by Moya Costello 
Impression by Owen Bullock 
Waterworks by Ashley Bullen-Cutting 
TERRACES: a choreography by Scott Thurston 
THE FABULOUS OP by Gary Barwin & Gregory Betts 
AMERICAN EPIC: ON PATERSON by Ciarán O'Rourke 
The Boy with the Radio by Cormac Culkeen 
Fabric by Anthony Etherin 
YOUNG IN THE NIGHT GRASS by Tim Murphy 
Edible by Jane Ayres 
The Most Natural Thing In The World by Desmond Traynor 
BRITISH P(oe)Ms by Dave Drayton 
Two Plays by Carl Oprey 
STILL, WE SING by Martina Collender 
The Voice Without by Richard Capener 
IMPLODE EXPLODE by Naoise Gale

New Cut-up

I have a new cut-up piece up over at the excellent Overground Underground blog. The piece is a surreal intersection of tape manipulation and electronic voice phenomena. I was a little more playful than I usually am, and am quite pleased with the results. Hopefully, you will be too.

Cutting Up Russolo

My cut-up poem They Burst Out Of Themselves (A Cut-up Of Luigi Russolos’ Art Of Noises) is featured in this music themed collection alongside a whole lot of talented artists!

Psalms of the Alien Buddha: Part 2 from Alien Buddha Press is now available in both a b&w edition and a color edition and is 180 pages of music themed writing and art from over 50 very talented contributors.

Alien Buddha has been making some pretty cool stuff, and I’m stoked to finally be a part. Check them out!