Davis Schneiderman's and Don Meyer's extraordinary avant-garde spoken word/sound collage is the first phase of a multimedia collaboration that suggests catastrophes in a world increasingly cordoned off by the representative fears of terrorism, bio-disease

11 MP3 Songs in this album (38:48) !
Related styles: AVANT GARDE: Sound Collage, SPOKEN WORD: With Music

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Davis Schneiderman and Don Meyer collaborate on this extraordinary sound collage combining spoken word, music and audio bites from appropriately diverse media sources. The result is a hip, hopped-up portrait of the the way we live now. Memorials to Future Catastrophes is the first phase of a multimedia project that starts with these suggestive catastrophes in a world increasingly cordoned off by the representative fears of terrorism, bio-disease outbreaks, and natural disasters. Additional video collaboration with Tom Denlinger can be found at www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhpa41iSwHE.

Davis Schneiderman (davisschneiderman.com) is a multimedia artist and author of Multifesto: A Henri d'Mescan Reader (Spuyten Duyvil 2006), as well as co-author of the novel Abecedarium (Chiasmus Press, forthcoming) and co-editor of the collections Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto 2004) and The Exquisite Corpse: Creativity, Collaboration, and the World's Most Popular Parlor Game (Nebraska, forthcoming). His creative work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and accepted by numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review Web, Exquisite Corpse, 3rd Bed, Other Voices, The Little Magazine, Gargoyle, and Happy. Dr. Schneiderman is Chair of American Studies and an Assistant Professor of English at Lake Forest College, a board member for &NOW: A Festival of Innovative Writing and Art, and a contributor to NOW WHAT: a collective blog of alternative prose writers and publishers.

Composer and musicologist Don Meyer (http://web.mac.com/emmeyer/Don_Meyer,_Composer/Don_Meyer.html) collaborates with choreographers, filmmakers, theater directors, and authors to create multi-media works that interweave these artforms with classical, jazz, electronic, and popular music. He is the author of articles on American cultural history and rock music, as well as the music appreciation textbook Perspectives on Music (Prentice Hall, 2003). He began teaching at Lake Forest College in 1995 and is now Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department.