Limited Fork Music

Artist Statement for "Mother's Day," a graphic prose poem in eight 20x30 panels, part of the Place.Mark exhibition opening on 7 March 2008 at the Work Gallery on State Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The music is a remix of "Environmental Experiment 109" by Strexx, and is available, with other environmental experiments, from strexx.com A small slideshow of the panels may be experienced in the Limited Fork podcast.

The author, Thylias Moss, reads her picture book I WANT TO BE with music by the 2002-3 version of Ansted (when he was ten). This audio file is For Janice H. and Talisa J., a mother and a teacher to whom this book has become important. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the book, thoughts that extend what the book accomplishes. I am glad to have you as collaborators in expansion. This sound file is also for Janice's daughter and for all of the children in Talisa's learning space in Georgia.

Sound poam treatment of "Maudell's Moon," a print poem by Thylias Moss, dedicated to Kevin Clark who provided the occasion for the recording of this version that differs from the print object necessarily for not occupying the same form of space, and for needing to adapt to the forms of occupancy possible in the different host landscapes (I'm thinking also of Zachary C. --thanks for being in this landscape, too).

Part of the project to distill the soundtrack of HEAT DOZENS (a video poam available in the Limited Fork podcast) into some of its composite sonic constituents. This unit of composite sonic constituency focuses on the "Elements of Damage" isolate. The designation of "damage" for this isolate may depend in part upon the cooperation of visual damage cues, and feedback loops between the sound and the visual to reinforce a "damage" contract (which may be broken or strengthened in a number of ways, by either partner or by other arriving parties). Even if this sonic isolate retains an association with damage based upon sonic elements only, the nature of the damage may be perceived differently without the corroboration of visual damage to help define intensity and duration of damage.

A sound poam version of the "Me and Bubble Went to Memphis" print poam that is part of the "Bubbling to Memphis" print, sound, and tactile poam group. Other group members are in this podcast and in the Limited Fork podcast. For Primus.

Complete soundtrack poam of the "Bubbling to Memphis" video poam (in the Limited Fork podcast). Features "Neptunian Studio" composed and performed by Ansted Moss. The a capella version of the soundtrack is in this podcast. Look for "Neptunian Studio" on Ansted's "WinslowSpeak" album coming soon to a music download location. For Primus.

Soundtrack of the "Bubbling" video poam (in the Limited Fork podcast) with all of the vocals and none of Ansted's music. The complete "Bubbling" soundtrack is available in this podcast.

soundtrack of the LFMK video poam made for the SAPAC (Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center & SafeHouse Center) "rEVOLUTION" show in the Duderstadt Center Gallery to launch the LFMK brand. LFMK (Looking for My Killer) is a (type of) PSA that hopes to call attention to the vulnerability of humanity through an extreme selfless act, that of a woman using herself to attract the attention of an attacker in order to protect other women the attacker might pursue if she were not willingly available. Because she enters into her humanitarian mission joyfully, the music is spirited, the colors of the embedded ads (by Ansted Moss of abstract-projections.com) are vivid. Look for LFMK T-shirts, mouse pads, mugs, picture frames, tote bags. Read some of the LFMK print poams in The Canary, Callaloo, NOR, and the Oleander Review. The LFMK video poam is available in the Limited Fork podcast.

Soundtrack poam of Shaelyn Smith's video poam exploring (some of) the nature of what contains & (some of) the nature of what is contained through an investigation of the changing nature of the Frieze building during its time of demolition. See Shaelyn's video in the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast.

Soundtrack poam of the "In Your Face" video poam available in the Limited Fork podcast. Contains sound effects from various sound banks.

Sound poam iteration of "Accidental Culture," a print poam in TOKYO BUTTER that was also featured in Poetry Daily. This sound poam is for Don and Diane. Thanks for your interest in the print form.

Detonated (short) sound poam soundtrack from the "Monday Aardvark DETONATED" video poam in the Limited Fork podcast where the full "Monday Aardvark of Laundry" video poam is also located. Thanks again, Evie of MiPO where the print "Ardvark" poam is.

A sound poam version of the Valentine's Day prose piece "Verde" made for POETRY. The prose piece may be read at poetrymagazine.org. This sound poam is for John. Thanks, Danielle, for asking me to write it. A video poam version is coming soon. Thanks also goes to "Somnambule Ballad," a poem by Federico Garcia Lorca, the source of the Spanish in both the sound poam and the prose piece in POETRY.

Sound poam version of the print poam appearing in MiPO and dedicated to Evie at MiPO. This sound poam is also for Jim Cogswell as it comes out of my thinking about an alphabet of socks, and is for Winter 2007 student forkers who are working on their own poams exploring containment and war. "Monday Aardvark of Laundry" contains a quote from herbsnhoney.com

Main soundtrack poam composed in collaboration with the "Pleasurable Complexity" video poam that concludes with the sound poam "Glassy Implications of the Lattice" composed for the mirroring sequence, and available in this podcast. "Pleasurable Complexity" is a video poam that debuted at the collaborative poetry event and concurrent Duderstadt Center Gallery show that featured photography by John Chervinsky in September 2006 at the University of Michigan. The "Pleasurable Complexity" video poam is available in the Limited Fork podcast where other materials, including pdfs, related to lattices (including lattices in TOKYO BUTTER, a collection of print poams by Thylias Moss) are available.

Sound poam composed in collaboration with the mirroring sequence in the "Pleasurable Complexity" video poam that debuted at the collaborative poetry event and concurrent Duderstadt Center Gallery show that featured photography by John Chervinsky in September 2006 at the University of Michigan. The "Pleasurable Complexity" video poam is available in the Limited Fork podcast where other materials, including pdfs, related to lattices (including lattices in TOKYO BUTTER, a collection of print poams by Thylias Moss) are available.

Soundtrack Poam of "Pi Complex," a video poam short available in the Limited Fork podcast. This soundtrack poam is related to "Pi Song" and to video and audio versions of "Tornado Pi" available in Limited Fork and Limited Fork Music.

Soundtrack poam of "Rush Hour," a video poam available in the Limited Fork podcast.

This sound poam is for Phoebe and Kathy of Symphony Space and for the adult literacy students who used "Rush Hour" in their program. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to revisit a poem from my first book.

Soundtrack of the video poam "Birdletters" (available from the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast) by a practitioner of Limited Fork Poetics.