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.
Poetry
Five poems by Jamie Romanet
The urgency of our times and the dearth of hours in the studio while I was home with my children during Covid prompted me to begin writing poetry. I wrote the first poems as a response to some portraits I had painted, and, although I’m back in the studio now, I continue to write.