Limited Edition black vinyl LP with Wave the Ocean Cassette, TMIARF chapbook, and The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk (Bloomsbury Academic). The Mouth is a Resonant Field was mastered for vinyl by Geoff Saba and pressed by Smashed Plastic in Chicago. The chapbook was constructed by Tanline Printing in Tucson (with Amanda Beekhuizen and Jeik Ficker). Edition of 15. Download included after purchase.
Bundle includes:
The Mouth is a Resonant Field LP
Wave the Ocean Cassette
The Mouth is A Resonant Field Chapbook
The Poetics of Noise From Dada to Punk (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 paperback)
The Wave the Ocean cassette was made by A to Z Media. It was mastered by Geoff Saba and Mark Gergis with graphic design by Cecyl Ruehlen. This is meant as a companion piece to The Mouth is a Resonant Field.
Recorded in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
and Tucson, Arizona USA 2020-2022
The Mouth is a Resonant Field:
A broken telephonic call to the future’s past, The Mouth is a Resonant Field combines solo voice, intuitive free improvisation, minimalist endurance, and noisy accident in order to reimagine the sonic palette of American folk song.
Through the filter of consumer grade pedal electronics, old songs become sites where new worlds can emerge. Always with an ear toward the vast, oceanic sonic confusion of these unknown spaces, Algae & Tentacles works in the undersound of traditional song.
Algae & Tentacles is the sound work of John Melillo. It is an umbrella for an eclectic set of sonic outputs that often hover around song, including verse-chorus-verse constructions, digital sound art, sound poetry, and electro-acoustic improvisation. A&T’s first—self-titled—album was released by Lightning Records in 2015. Melillo has released collaborative albums with Cecyl Ruehlen (Where Tremble Heart, Unsilent Desert Press, 2022) and Geoff Saba (Dry River, FREAKS, 2017). Based in Tucson, Arizona and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Melillo is a writer, teacher, and researcher, and his first book—The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk—was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2020.
Recorded at Exploded View, Tucson, AZ
February 2020
Engineered by Igloo Martian
Mixed by Geoff Saba and John Melillo
Mastered by Geoff Saba at Itinerant Home Recording
Photo of Artist by Paul McNeill
Cover Design by Ryan Wade Ruehlen
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