Rock Heals - NOT Lisa Jarnot and Neutral Milk Hotel

Three short poems from someone who is Not Lisa Jarnot and music from Neutral Milk Hotel's Airplanes Over the Sea -- now 10 and one of the best albums ever recorded. No, seriously.

Consume. Digest. Mobilize.

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(i.e. Series) Best Poetry Series (Baltimore City Paper)

Best Poetry Series

i.e. Reading Series

Michael Ball's i.e. reading series moved from Clayton Fine Books to Dionysus in the summer of 2006, and over the past year it has brought numerous noteworthy, high-profile language, flarf, and otherwise avant-garde poets to Baltimore., including Rod Smith, Chris Nealon, CA Conrad, Rachel DePlessis, Phyllis Rosenzweig, Jessica Grim, and M. Magnus, alongside locals Daniel Higgs, Chris Toll, and David Franks. In January the series held a memorial for poet Kari Edwards, who passed away last December, and this sustained level of activity has given the city a place in underground/academic poetry circles. The series moved again at the beginning of this month, to a lower Charles Village carriage house, to accommodate its growing audience.

http://citypaper.com/bob/story.asp?id=14510

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Ric Royer / narrow house - Best of Baltimore City Paper

Best Whatever it Is

There Were One and It was Two: Annotated Artifacts from the Doubles Museum, by Ric Royer


Nothing is ever what it appears to be in the performance art of Ric Royer. An expert in using a casual observation to turn an otherwise quotidian anecdote into a rabbit-hole digression into the uncanny, Royer applied his curiously perceptive mind to the genuinely odd for his Narrow House recording debut: the idea of doubling as it appears in both intellectual history and nature. And what he concocts is one of the most unusual artifacts to come out of Baltimore--no stranger to the outlandish--in some time. Part faux lecture performance, part experimental text, part spoken-word recording, and part experiential sound art (thanks to the sax noises of John Berndt on the CD), There Was One and It Was Two is and isn't a sound recording of a performance event, is and isn't an aural accompaniment to written text, is and isn't a visual artifact of a wild-hair idea. It's all of these and none of them, and somehow still manages to hold the attention throughout its meandering ride.

http://citypaper.com/bob/story.asp?id=14476

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Ric Royer - narrow house - City Paper

http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=13784

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There Were One & It Was Two

Ric Royer
sound by
John Berndt

There Were One & It Was Two

A book that you can hear, a cd that you can read. "There Were One..." uses items borrowed from The Doubles Museum, curated by Canadian artists Jill Millings and Dr. Armand Rudge, to examine the double in its uncanny manifestations. Learn about Klaus the Two-Person, hear the lonely cries of lovers afraid of loving, feel the mist of the mysterious Gemini Fountain. Includes a booklet and cd designed to be read/listened to simultaneously.


tracks -

1- "There Were One..."; Visiting relevant exhibits at the Museum of Unnatural History in Zürich, 1998.

2- "Introduction to the Museum"; Long electronic phase doubling with field recordings from Buffalo, Montreal, and Calgary.

3- "Obsidian"; Music composed for four Obsidian drills.

4- "The Two-Headed Nickel"; Selective application of the Ives-Stillwell time dilation effect to the signal. Thanks to Kate Porter for cello performance in Venice, Italy.

5- "Rural Autumn Interlude"; Mobile permutations of mirror-state material.

6- "The Bloomfield Coincidence"; All of the instruments of the modern studio perform a palindromic piece, "The Way of The World,"filtered through themselves both forward and backward.

7- "The Twins"; Sounds made with the Aleatron (an instrument invented by Q.R. Ghazala), with an application of "Berndt Delay Convolution" to the voice.

8- "The Redivider Box"; Both halves of the audio were designed around the inflection of a single pause in the middle of the text.

9- "Vera the Cats"; Sub-audible discourse streams amplified with special quack equipment.

10- "The Mountain and The Universe"; Ric Royer in duet with self, with the assistance of a ventriloquist dummy and a multi-speed tape recorder.




Ric Royer is a writer, performer and performer of writing. He tours regularly as a performance lecturer for the Performance Thanatology Research Society, a group dedicated to the advancement of higher histrionics since 1999. He is also a founding editor of Ferrum Wheel, an organizing member of the Transmodern Festival, and a frequent performer with Bufffluxus.


John Berndt, born 1967. Continuously develops his non-reductionistic sensibility in relation to thought and experience, interacting in a subversive and culturally straining way with major referencepoints such as philosophy, music, light, economy, and language. Seeks coherent novelty. Grew up as a member of the cultural vanguard of the West and today seeks benevolence without compromise as he attempts to recover from that experience. Becoming, not being.




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narrow house in the city paper

http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=11997

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NPR interview

http://www.justbuffalo.org/media/events/Audio%20Files/SA15narrow.MP3

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