Axial Music follows a principle of spontaneous interpersonal composition without the intention of honoring precedent or previous patterns, guided instead by radical following of actual sounds generated in an intentional field. When successful the sound event has a life independent of the musicians and may generate an altered state of listening. In addition to sound events, the performance sometimes has visual and language components. Language and music become difficult at times to distinguish, like listening to strange tribal sounds in the distance and being unclear about what one is hearing. Of course all this happens in life anyway.
Charles Stein (born 1944 in New York City) is the author of thirteen books of poetry including a new verse translation of The Odyssey (North Atlantic Books) and From Mimir’s Head (Station Hill Press), The Hat Rack Tree (Station Hill Pres). His current poetic project: Views From Tornado Island can be sampled at his website. His prose writings include a vision of the Eleusinian Mysteries, Persephone Unveiled (North Atlantic Books), a critical study of poet Charles Olson’s use of the writing of C.G. Jung, The Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum (Station Hill Press), and a collaborative study with George Quasha of the work of Gary Hill,An Art of Limina: Gary Hill's Works & Writings, Ediciones Poligrafa. He holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Connecticut at Storrs and lives with guitarist, choral director, and research historian, Megan Hastie in Barrytown New York. Website : www.charlessteinpoet.com
George Quasha is an artist, poet, and sound artist working across mediums to explore principles in common within language, sculpture, drawing, video, sound, installation, and performance. Solo exhibitions of axial stones and axial drawings include the Baumgartner Gallery in New York (Chelsea), the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, and at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. This work is featured in the published book, Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance, Foreword by Carter Ratcliff (North Atlantic Books: Berkeley, 2006). In 2006 awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in video art.
Video installation & single-channel work art is (Speaking Portraits) records over 900 artists, poets, and composers (in 11 countries and 21 languages) saying what in their view art is. This ongoing work (art is/music is/poetry is) has been exhibited at the Snite Museum of Art (University of Notre Dame), at White Box in Chelsea, at the Samuel Dorsky Museum (SUNY New Paltz), and in several other countries (including France and India), and has been featured in several biennials (Wroclaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Kingston, New York). Further extensions of this work in speaking portraiture include myth is and peace is.
Other work in axial video (including “Pulp Friction,” “Axial Objects,” “Verbal Objects,” “Axial Landscapes”) has appeared internationally in museums, galleries, schools, and biennials. A 30-year performance collaboration (video/language/sound) continues with Gary Hill and Charles Stein.
About Two Heads reading series:
Knowledge and language are constantly shifting networks of relations. There is nothing we perceive separately from these networks. That is why we best perceive a thing by counterposing it with something else, noting not only contrasts and likenesses but also how both things change in light of and in connection with each other. The Two Heads reading series aims to underscore, foment, and revel in collaborative alchemies between poets, to bring forth that sparkling je ne sais quoi. Two Heads is hosted by Nada Gordon.
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