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Sound Mess + Other Poems

The Be Blank Consort was born in June 2001 at The Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smyrna Beach, Florida) when all of its members were part of a literary residency convened by Richard Kostelanetz. We are all writers, but we all use language in greatly expanded and often completely new ways and contexts. The Consort was formed to perform various kinds of texts, many of them created collaboratively, in ways that would reveal new resonances and possibilities in them. Some of the pieces are poems written by one of us and scored for multiple voices by another. A few are entirely written and scored by one person. Many more were written in collaboration between two or more of the performers and others. Scott Helmes, in January 2002, initiated the first poems specifically designed for performance by The Consort.

42 cuts. Poetry by Al Ackerman, C. Mehrl Bennett, John M. Bennett, Josh Carr, K. S. Ernst, Ficus strangulensis, Scott Helmes, Jim Leftwich, Carlos M. Luis, and Michael Peters. Performed by John M. Bennett, Josh Carr, K. S. Ernst, Scott Helmes, Carlos M. Luis, and Michael Peters.

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Flag Sleeping
John M. Bennett & Rotcod Zzaj
1. FORMACION DEL SING
3:00
7. IN THE STINKING ROOM
4:13
13. THE FLOOR STEAMS
5:47
2. RESOLUTE
3:12
   8. NEAR THE SLOPPY TABLE
4:32
   14. SOME KINDA’ FAINT MIST WHIRL
5:07
3. THE GRITTY FLOOR
2:50
   9. IN THE FINAL AIR
3:01
   15. LISTENING IN THE PEARLY SKY
2:47
4. IN’S BLUR
3:16
   10. THE ENDSTREAM CHANGES
4:09
   16. JAWBREAKER
11:42
5. HIS SILTY HAIR
2:49
   11. EDDY
2:20
   17. CHURNING THE LIGHT
2:57
6. WHAT’S REAL
2:51
   12. BEFORE THE DARK SPOON
3:09
   18. AFTERFLOW
2:52

ZZAJ PRODUCTIONS • 5308 65TH AVENUE SE., LACEY, WA 98513
John M. Bennett - All poetry, cover art. Rotcod Zzaj - All music

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