Feel Recordings In The River Field: A Poetry Performance

This performance intermingles poetry with live music and recorded sounds to explore the climate's change upon us. Joining Edwin Torres will be the musicians; Sean G. Meehan on snare and dowel, Gryphon Rue on electronics and sound, Alex Waterman on cello.

Poetry's ability for a continually evolving language reflects the climate crisis as a human condition. By reacting to listening and feel, as an entry into nature and performance, these artists echo the turmoil and evolution ahead of us as a species.

Please join us for a presentation of this unique event at Scenic Hudson's beautifully sublime River Center. The performance is one hour, snacks and beverages will be served afterwards. Suggested Donation: $10-15, tickets through this Eventbrite page or admission at the door.

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This project is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

This event is hosted by Soon Is Now, Inc.

Use of The River Center for this event has been provided by Scenic Hudson (scenichudson.org). The leading environmental organization focused on the Hudson River Valley, it is dedicated to creating environmentally healthy communities, championing smart economic growth, protecting working farms, opening up riverfronts to the public and preserving the valley’s beauty and natural resources. Since its founding in 1963, Scenic Hudson has permanently protected 25,000 acres of irreplaceable landscapes and created or enhanced more than 40 parks.

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artist bios:
Edwin Torres is a Beacon resident and editor of The Body In Language: An Anthology (Counterpath Press). Poetry collections include; Quanundrum: i will be your many angled thing (Roof Books, which received a 2022 American Book Award), Xoeteox: the infinite word object (Wave Books) and Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press). Multi-disciplinary collaborations with a wide range of cultural nomads have contributed to the development of his bodylingo poetics. He has performed worldwide and received fellowships from Arts MidHudson, NYSCA, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The DIA Foundation, among others. Anthologies include; New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archives, American Poets In The 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement, and Aloud: Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Sean G. Meehan is a drummer who most notably plays a pared-down kit often consisting of a single snare drum and cymbal, creating sounds that range from the subtle friction of a fork rubbing against a drum to tones that seem electronically-generated. Meehan’s performances include the Amica Bunker series at ABC No Rio, the Instal Festival, Glasgow, The Whitney Biennial, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and Goethe-Institut, Hanoi. Meehan also makes music-related objects, intended to be used in the way recordings are, but within the listener’s imagination, rather than aurally. mee-han.com

Gryphon Rue is an artist, composer, and musician. Rue’s music, constructed of complex patterns derived from singing saw, harmonium, and custom synthesizers, discloses a fascination with mimetic potential—the ability to suggest biological actions, molecular events, possession, nourishment—and is above all, made with people’s pleasure in mind. The album A Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers (Not Not Fun) features percussionist Mustafa Khaliq Ahmed (Arthur Russell, LOLO), with ten videos made by intergenerational collaborators (Abigail Child, B. Wurtz, Keren Cytter, Robert Buck, Dante Lentz, Benton C Bainbridge, Taietzel Ticalos, DataSpaceTime). Rue is a recipient of a Roulette 2022-2023 Commission, made possible with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation. He has previously released on Not Not Fun, Astral Editions, Tiger Sushi, and Soap Library and the most recent album is 4n_Objx. gryphonrue.com

Alex Waterman is an artist, musician, archivist, and scholar committed to living more musically and exploring ways that the social body sounds. He is archivist at The Kitchen in NYC, has composed music for dance, film, installation works, and site specific performances, arranged for and recorded with rock bands and singers (The Walkmen, Florence and the Machine, Ghalia Benali) and produced and directed operas. He has also published a series of books with Will Holder on notation and poetics, made a science fiction film on Roosevelt Island, and performed as a soloist and collaborator with acclaimed ensembles internationally for over two decades. Including as an artist in the 2014 Whitney Biennial with the composer Robert Ashley. soundcloud.com/watercello