Mooring the Vaast Bin

Michael Peters

Artist Statement

This work is companion to the 2007 poem-book, .
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The poem-book, a "score," consists of three components that cannot be extracted as an initial source. These three components, with all of their overlappings, are: book—with static images and words; sounds—voice and in amplification, the play of sound material that begins the procedural opening in all pores with the cognizance; and kinetic images—no less a visual poetry exploring inceptions of rolling contiguities up, abeyance via the volume and amplitude. The kinetic sound and image elements that are available for viewing, here at Hyperrhiz—“Kinetic Soundscape for Vaast Bin” and “Vaast Kinetic-Stills” from the same kinetic images of that soundscape—belie the sounds in “the poem-book” and the visual aspects, both static and kinetic, of “the poem.”

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Biography

The “writing” attributable to “Michael Peters”—his poetry, his visual poetry, his fiction, his critical writing—has appeared in numerous places such as SleepingFish, Word for/Word, Lungfull, Xtant, Spell, Tool a Magazine, Rhino, Spinning Jenny, Posted, Generator Press, American Weddings, and a forthcoming anthology on the prose of Charles Olson, as well as Kostelanetz's Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes. Throughout the 1990s, Peters worked for the Avant-Garde composer, Petr Kotik. His visual poetry has also appeared in numerous galleries and exhibits, and can be found in the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, as-well-as in the Special Collections/Avant-Garde Libraries of both The Ohio State University and the University at Buffalo, among other, more private collections.

As a musician and a sound-text performer, most notably in the musical group Poem Rocket, Michael Peters has released recordings on a number of independent labels. In 2007, Atavistic (the avant jazz and rock label based out of Chicago), released Poem Rocket's fourth full-length recording, a double-CD titled Invasion! Peters also performs and records with the sound-text performance group: The Be Blank Consort, with a CD that is available through Luna Bisonte Prods. In 2005, he performed at the Subtropics Experimental Music Festival in Miami both independently and as a member of the Consort. In April of 2006, he read from his text-image-sound-work-in-progress (Vaast Bin) at the &Now Festival of Experimental Literature. Vaast Bin; n Ephemerisi (Calamari, 2007) is his first book.