POET MECHANIC
An ongoing project exploring the fluid and potent poetry of the mechanical. A prosthetic totem grown on the vinyl disk, the Poet Mechanic repurposes the vinyl player into a living, ritualistic sound sculpture. Within an ever-growing series of transformations, a culturally-rooted medium becomes a primitive mechanical instrument that addresses relations between the human and non-human, the mechanical and the poetic. The Poet Mechanic is.
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P O E T M E C H A N I C XIX : SUN KING POET
| POET, GRAMOPHONE | 07/2019 | BERGERAC |P O E T M E C H A N I C XVIII : KODAK POET
NEW CONCEPT POET [1] | FOR COLIN ROCHE | POET, FILM, PURE BLACK PHOTO FILM, 33 PURE WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS | 06/2019 | SAINT ETIENNE |P O E T M E C H A N I C XVI+XVII : RICHARD ANTHONY
| NEW CONCEPT POET [2] | POET, GoPRO CAMERA | 06/2019 | SAINT ETIENNE IP O E T M E C H A N I C S VI - XV
PART OF “CONTACT RESULTS IN CONTAGION ” EXHIBITION | MOSCOW | 03/2019

P O E T M E C H A N I C - V
SOLO SOPRANO & COMPOSER | TWO LAPTOPS | PREPARED RECORD PLAYER | SOUTHAMPTON. 02/2019 |FOR JULIET FRASER
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P O E T M E C H A N I C - IV
SOLO RECORD PLAYER | CAMERA + POET OPERATOR | SELSEY NOV. 2018 | ‘ BLEAK POET ’ : FOR JOHN & PETER< SCORE >
P O E T M E C H A N I C - III
TROMBONIST | PREPARED RECORD PLAYER | SWITZERLAND OCT. 2018 |MADE FOR TROMBONIST JON ROSKILY |
P O E T M E C H A N I C - I & II
I: PREPARED RECORD PLAYER | KENT, U.K 2017 |I & II : PREPARED RECORD PLAYERS | OPEN ENSEMBLE | ORANGE TREE GALLERY SEILLANS FRANCE AUG. 2018 |