Music

Music Poetry

Conor Gannon’s sculptural tone poems

Contributed by Liz Scheer / On Harmonious Regulations, released on Bandcamp on January 6, Bronx-based poet and musician Conor Gannon interlaces disparate mediums and genres to develop what he terms “tone poetry,” which uses electronic music to establish and maintain meter. Born of Gannon’s preoccupation with the shapes of audio waves, his tone poems have a sculptural quality in their use of sample-based repetition to structure metered verse.