We are back after the summer heat tried to melt us out of the world. Please join us this Saturday for a special evening of words and music by four beautiful people.
ZONOTOPE™music
EVAN REHILLwords
PHIL CORDELLI words
ANNIE CORREALwords
here.30 Maujer St. #2C
then.Saturday, August 27 doors at 8 | show at 9
FREE as always
$2 Beers of course
Hey Diamond Mouth Surprise,
We have decided to POSTPONE DMS toight because its like a bazill degrees and we can’t effing take it. I mean its hot, like hot hot. We love you too much. After an emergency security council meeting last night, we have pushed the red button and decided to postpone our…
Join Kyle from :<> and welcome our very own Megafortress and Jason Daniel Schwartz reading along with :<> alum Will Edmiston!
The second annual POPSICKLE Festival unites Brooklyn-based poetry and prose reading series for a monster day of reading, performance, and screenings as well…
FRIDAY, JULY 22nd at 9pm
WITH:
ZONOTOPE™ music
MEADOWLANDS music
JOSEPH CARDINALE words
ANNIE CORREAL words
And a DJ set by DJ MCG
The 8 extant fragments (trans. H. Read):
1. “Her skin was not white but a faint green shade, the color of a duck’s egg and of an unusually transparent tegument. Her veins were vivid green and golden, the nails pale blue. She smelled of violets…”
2. “As Diamond Mouth Surprise would discover, a progress from complexity to simplicity would require a non-human world.”
3. “Time and anguish were abolished. The water broke above their heads, and without having experienced any sense of reversal, they ascended in the middle of a pool in a large grotto filled with aqueous light.”
4. “The science we call crystallography was the most esteemed of all sciences in this subterrestrial country… The greatest aesthetic emotion was aroused by those crystals which transgressed most within the limits of probability.”
5. “The only living creatures there were the aforementioned birds, a species of blind-worm or snake, and an immense beetle, about the size of a tortoise…it was not possible, held the inhabitants, to conceive of a space that was not bound in every direction by solids.”
6. “The only beauty that was permanent was the order of the universe as revealed in the structure of natural crystals.”
7. “Diamond Mouth Surprise longed to find her again, to confirm his past impressions. But she seemed to be for ever separated from him. Our life, said the sage, is like a cloud that rises from the earth. Everything solidifies: that is the law of the universe.”
8. “The tresses of her hair, floating in the liquid in which they were immersed, spread like a tracery of stone across the still breast of Diamond Mouth Surprise.”
Diamond Mouth Surprise returns.
The crystalline sounds of ZONOTOPE™ and MEADOWLANDS.
The aqueous light of JOSEPH CARDINALE’s fiction.
The aforementioned birds of the words of ANNIE CORREAL.
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Zonotope™ is a collaboration between physical entity L. W. Nathan and inter-dimensional extra-vibrational being Jerry Paper exploring electronic timbres and romantic encounters in science-fiction settings.
http://zonotope.bandcamp.com/
Meadowlands is a solo venture exploring the shadows neath balsam pines and the shimmer of street lamps on vacant avenues through field recordings and improvised synthesizer movements.
http://meadowlandss.tumblr.com/
Joseph Cardinale is the author of The Size of the Universe (FC2, 2010). He grew up in Jamesport, New York and earned an MFA in fiction at UMass Amherst. He lives in Honolulu, where he teaches literature and composition at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Annie Correal is a writer and reporter based in New York, where she has covered crime and breaking news for El Diario and The New York Times, and contributed radio stories to NPR and WNYC. Her first radio documentary, ‘Kidnap Radio,’ about her father’s kidnapping in Colombia and the radio show her family used to send him messages, aired on This American Life, NPR, and internationally on the CBC and Radio Netherlands. She is currently starting a new story telling radio show in Spanish, Radio Ambulante, and working on her first book.
The Lingering Touch Of Bearded Men - Mixtape Mountain Mix
I am currently reading a book by Robert Anton Wilson titled, Cosmic Trigger 1. The book itself is an attempt to put the reader through a process of “deliberately induced brain change”. Within CT-I, Wilson discusses the possibility that Timothy Leary has been receiving extra-terrestrial messages about our species’s future, partially due to his deliberate alchemical mental conditioning. Additionally, Wilson goes as far to state that these messages have been received for centuries by a variety of conduits such as occultist Aleister Crowley and science fiction author Philip K Dick. Wilson believes that depending on your mental conditioning, background, and cultural pressures, these extra-terrestial beings will manifest themselves to you in different forms. Where as some might see the Blessed Virgin Mary ascending with bright light from heaven, others will see spaceships. Some talk to god, and others, to satellites. But let’s get to the point, Bill Gillim of Megafortress has provided me with a mix that reminds me of the controlled sound-loop experiments that Wilson preformed while under a deep meditative state. These experiments lead him to develop the skills necessary to contact the aliens/gods/satellites/microbes sending us messages from Sirius. So put on your headphones, turn off the lights, lie down, hit play on this mix, and try to communicate with the stars.
<3 sam
(Source: mixtapemountain)
logo artwork by El Sol 25
Supermachine reading series co-curator Michael Barron and Flying Object’s Guy Pettit have teamed up to form Unicorn Evil Records, a record label imprint of Flying Object book arts center. Unicorn Evil will be putting poets on both 7” and 12” vinyl.
The first…
SPILLING FORTH THE JUICES PECULIAR TO THE UNION OF DIAMOND MOUTH SURPRISE AND UNICORN EVIL RECORDS!!!!!
WITH:
ALEX PHILLIPS & BILL GILLIM poetry/music
MICHAEL BARRON, JAMES COPELAND
& WILLIAM RAHILLY poetry/music
SARA JAFFE fictionLUCY IVES poetry
CASIMIR KRUPINKSY photographs
And a DJ set by Pendu Disco/Fingered Media’s HARRISON OWEN
And thus the angel of spring risen dry and gleaming and bejeweled from the cold river that flowed from the dark heart of the holy mountain handed to Diamond Mouth Surprise her secret spring prayer. She told Diamond Mouth Surprise to revere the loud chant as the quintessence of the essences.
“The essence of things is the earth. The essence of the earth is the water. The essence of the water is the plant. The essence of the plant is the animal and person. The essence of the person is breath and speech. The essence of the speech breath is the hymn. The essence of the hymn is the chant. The essence of the chant is the loud chant. The loud chant underlies the earth the water the plants the animal. It is all that is inhaled. It underlies every exhalation.”
On Friday May 20th join yourself as Diamond Mouth Surprise and chant with you in honor of the angel of spring and her prayer. There will be music to chant over. There will be words to chant with. There will be beautiful pictures to provoke your own loud chant. And there will be extra microphones turned loud enough to get your voice to the heart of the holiest mountain. There the angel of spring waits and listens with her infinite ears.
THIS SPECIAL DIAMOND MOUTH SURPRISE DOUBLES AS THE NYC
RELEASE PARTY FOR THE FIRST OFFERINGS OF UNICORN EVIL RECORDS, AN IMPRINT OF THE WESTERN MASS INSTITUTION (AND DMS BUDDIES) FLYING OBJECT!!!!!!!!!!
FREE
Doors at 8pm, starting promptly at 8:30
$2 beer
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ALEX PHILLIPS is an Assistant Professor and Director of Assessment and Curriculum Development at Commonwealth College, the honors college at the University of Massachusetts. His book-length poem, CRASH DOME, was recently named one of the strongest books of poetry of 2010 by readers of The Believer.
BILL GILLIM sings in the band Tigercity and records and performs solo work as Megafortress. Many years ago he played in the band Bears with Alex Phillips. He lives, records, and prays in the Shy Girlz Doritos Dome.
Hot Face is a new collaborative work by MICHAEL BARRON, JAMES COPELAND, and WILLIAM RAHILLY. Michael is an editor at New Directions and a member of Supermachine (reading series & journal) and Holy Spirits (the band). James is Managing Director of Ugly Duckling Presse and the creator of miscellaneous print objects, most recently Fax II. William is an artist and musician and has made numerous videos, including the feature-length Blastulacon in 2010. This group of people has done performances like this before at different places in NYC and Baltimore, and collaborated on a 7” for Unicorn Evil records.SARA JAFFE is a writer, musician, and teacher currently living in Brooklyn. She plays guitar in the present-perfect-tense band Realia, and is an editor at New Herring Press, a brand new purveyor of prose chapbooks. She will miss you when she moves to Portland this summer.
CASIMIR KRUPINKSY was born on an outer ring of Saturn sometime during the 1980’s. Once, as a small boy, he put his head to the surface of the ring and watched a caravan of cowboys cross the horizon on horseback. He has followed them from a distance ever since. Casimir also enjoys taking photos.
LUCY IVES is the author of Anamnesis (Slope Editions 2009). She lives in NY and is a contributing editor at Triple Canopy.
HARRISON OWEN is the resident DJ at Pendu Disco, a regular Brooklyn party he helped start in the beginning of 2010 that features new electronic bands making music at the darker end of the dance spectrum. Harrison also makes videos for some of these bands, including Excepter, Indian Jewelry, and Psychic Ills. His video zine, FINGERED, has documented the art and music scenes in Montreal, Mexico City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. A little radiation won’t stop him from going to Japan.
One early spring day between thirty and sixty years ago diamond mouth surprise who was still very young lay on a raft in the swollen and still-icy waters of a large river. There was water all around diamond mouth surprise. Great swirling circles of it and peaking crests. Diamond mouth surprise saw how motion upon the water felt both languid and perilously swift. Since that spring day diamond mouth surprise has striven to live its life and carry out its business with the same swift slow danger and slow swift peace. But you have known this all your life. After all you are diamond mouth surprise. Join yourself on April 2nd as you welcome spring back to this cold place with slow swiftness you diamond fanged monk.
BLOOD REVENGE
DOUGLAS PICCINNINISTACY SZYMASZEK
MYNA JOSEPHSATURDAY, APRIL 2
30 Maujer, Apt. 2C Brooklyn, NY
FREE
Doors at 8pm, starting promptly at 8:30
$2 beer
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BLOOD REVENGE is Ben Felton’s love affair with guitar-generated drones and melodies. Through a heavily effected haze, emerge songs that could be the soundtrack to your underwater field trip into the abyss.
DOUGLAS PICCINNINI is the author of CRYSTAL HARD-ON (minutes BOOKS) and SOFT (The Cultural Society). He is also the founder of the CROWD Reading Series and, with Josef Kaplan, co-editor of Tea Party Republicans Press.
STACY SZYMASZEK is the author of the chapbooks Pasolini Poems (2005) Orizaba: A Voyage with Hart Crane (2008), Stacy S.: Autoportraits (2008), from Hart Island (2009), and many others. She also authored the book-length collections Emptied of All Ships (2005) and Hyperglossia (2009) both published by Litmus Press. Szymaszek’s work encompasses a variety of voices and personas, eros, and queer identity. Szymaszek is currently the Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church.
MYNA JOSEPH completed her M.F.A. in film at Columbia University. Her thesis short MAN was an official selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, SXSW, and New Directors/New Films. The film received the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short at numerous festivals including Florida Film Festival, BostoHin Independent Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival and CineVegas. Joseph is a 2010 Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Directors Lab Fellow and has received grants from the Sundance Annenberg Feature Film Fellowship and the Sundance Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship. Currently, she teaches in the Department of Media Communication Arts at The City College of New York.
THIS RECORD IS GOING TO BE AMAZING.
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