F0NO6 // Annelyse Gelman and Jason Grier – About Repulsion (EP)
$2.95
Release Date: November 19, 2019
Run Time: 30:00
Description
Where I end is not where you begin / Am I more myself or am I not myself letting you in?
About Repulsion, a collaboration between poet Annelyse Gelman and programmer Jason Grier, is a suite of six songs exploring intimacy, power, and vulnerability. Two songs, Maxes and Does It Make You Feel Alive To Sing, are featured on the actual record and a digital download card for all six songs is included with each EP purchase. Alongside samples from poets Max Ritvo, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, and Carl Phillips, each track on About Repulsion has been wrung through an intensive production mechanism: lead hooks sung by algorithms, rattled ice, overloaded CPU chips, and field recordings from everywhere from a strip mall Guitar Center in Texas to a remote seaside church in Arnis, the smallest town in Germany.
The songs in About Repulsion were written by Annelyse Gelman, with production by Annelyse Gelman and Jason Grier. Additional instrumentation by Clare Monfredo (cello on Maxes). The album was mastered by Calyx in Berlin.
Excerpts from About Repulsion—included with permission—are from Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s “Song” (in Does It Make You Feel Alive to Sing?), Max Ritvo’s “Poem to My Litter” (in Maxes), and Carl Phillips’ “Monomoy” (in Fog).
Purchase of About Repulsion includes an EP insert, as well as a download card for the entire 6-song album. About Repulsion can also be found digitally on Spotify. The record itself is not black but clear.
About the Author
Annelyse Gelman and Jason Grier met in Berlin in 2016, after Gelman moved to the city on a Fulbright artist grant to work on multimedia poetry with the Haus für Poesie. Grier’s expertise in programming and Gelman’s background as a poet has yielded a collaboration with a unique sonic sensibility, approaching emotionally-charged subjects—what visual artist Jenny Holzer calls “hot language”—from a highly technical and conceptual perspective. The pair continue to work together long-distance, both as a musical duo and as the founders of Midst, an interactive digital literary journal and writing app.
Annelyse Gelman’s work has appeared in BOMB Magazine, the PEN Poetry Series, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, and she is the author of the poetry collection Everyone I Love Is a Stranger to Someone (2014) and the director of Midst, an experimental platform for archiving and sharing the writing process. Her language-based projects often draw on several disciplines at once, incorporating aspects of publishing, installation, and performance. Gelman has been the recipient of fellowships from the Deutsch-Amerikanische Fulbright-Kommission, New Zealand Pacific Studio, Fondation Jan Michalski, and the Michener Center for Writers. She currently lives in Austin, TX.
Jason Grier is a media producer and sound designer. His work exploits artistic research, political theory, and software development. He releases sounds and soundmaking tools as architectures for mass collaboration via Ableton and Human Ear Music (HEM), a label he founded in 2006 which now counts Ariel Pink, Julia Holter, Michael Pisaro, Lucrecia Dalt, and Ekkehard Ehlers, among many others, as participants. Grier maintains an inquisitive, adventurous attitude toward the intersections of social practice, materiality, and mediated being, mainly via off-the-grid collaborations. He is active in a number of places, primarily Los Angeles, Berlin, Austin, and Copenhagen.
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Track List
SIDE A
1. Maxes
SIDE B
2. Does It Make You Feel Alive to Sing?
DOWNLOAD CARD TRACKLIST
1. Maxes
2. Rain
3. Does It Make You Feel Alive To Sing?
4. Fog
5. Nausea
6. Kafka