Snake Hiss is the inaugural CD from Immanent Audio, an imprint of Morningred Dot Com, produced by Debug & Co. The works on this disk were made by contributors to The Transcendental Friend as audio projects—works meant to be experienced as sound. From Anselm Berrigan's slanky sprechgesang with Edmund Berrigan on sprechguitar, to Laird Hunt's eerily driven Medeival tale to the accompaniment of 1000 humming Niebelungen, to Jen Hofer's spontaneous auto-lyricical-combustion on the Bay Bridge, to Heather Fuller's C-Wing Sub-Level 3 interrogation of a microphone, these works represent a wide variety of approaches to poetry & sound.


(Click on the links below for mp3 sound file samples.)
Alan Gilbert & Garrett Kalleberg present Pharmacality, a dialogic montage with Antonin Artaud, Roger Blin & Jacques Derrida.
Lisa Jarnot performs her Armadillo on the streets of Queens, NY.
Marcella Durand reads "Hunt" and "Tnuh" at the same time (some distortion cannot be avoided).
Jonathan Skinner performs his translation of Ghrasim Luca's 15 Min. Meta-physical. (Skinner reports that his arms were sore for days afterwards.)
Duncan Dobbelmann reads his translation of Paul Van Ostaijen's "Sur les Ponts de Paris", written in the aftermath of Great War Europe, against a sonic mediascape.
Daniel Machlin & Serena Jost perform 14 Days, 30 Seconds, a collaborative diary of the creative life of a poet, a musician, a cello, keyboard, bass, acoustic and slide guitar, and various household paraphernalia.
Jen Hofer improvises What I Mean to Say and Good Directions on the S. F. Bay Bridge.
Laird Hunt reads Huon le Roi's "The Vair Palfrey", translated from the Old French.
Cole Swensen's Maestà is presented as a montage of voices in counterpoint.
Jesse Glass reads P. M. Deshong's "A Dream", a visionary poem by an unknown 19th century Maryland poet.
Heather Fuller recorded stricken [from] with an unknown accomplice.
Anselm Berrigan performs Fortune's Drift, with Edmund Berrigan on guitar.
Heather Ramsdell & Garrett Kalleberg perform Send in the Clown, a piece for two voices and pratfalls.
There is a bonus track.



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