A B Series #4

Mathew Timmons (Los Angeles) & j.s. makkos (Cleveland)

Introductory set & hosting by Max Middle (Ottawa)

3 February 2008

The Mercury Lounge
56 Byward Market
Ottawa

The A B Series thanks The Mercury Lounge, Sara Ainslie & Lance Baptiste for being such excellent hosts.

Photos by Pearl Pirie + more here

+ Pearl's blog report on the event here


Timmons

makkos & Timmons

makkos & Timmons

Timmons, Middle & makkos

Mathew Timmons is guest editor of Trepan, co-edits Insert Press, co-hosts LA-Lit, and co-curates Betalevel's Late Night Snack. He has performed the sound poetry of Hugo Ball, Kurt Schwitters, Christian Bok and some of his own compositions in at least four different states. His writings appear in Manufactured Inspirato, Greetings, Disaster, Sleepingfish, P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets Vol. 2 and PSBooks. He is the Program Coordinator of CalArts MFA Writing Program, and teaches interdisciplinary arts and media writing workshops for CalArts School of Critical Studies.

j.s. makkos in one sense can be defined as an experimental composer of visual & audible design-poetics. While his educational background makes him a writer, his aesthetic is in forward moving art. He currently resides in Cleveland, OH, where he operates a nexus space called the Language Foundry, which is dedicated to hybrid performance arts & music, as well as a book press, that is centered around design & poetics. He is currently arranging a large tome of his own work titled: Vagaries, which will contain original works in the territories of text and type, ranging from constellated language to concrete/representational/visual pieces. in late 2007 He released a sound/language collaborative/album titled: "computer is a room" that explores the internal range of a fragmented, yet carefully distilled lexicon and addresses the concept of transplanting the ego from the self into a virtual and weightless landscape. He has performed in numerous venues around the country and is due to be published in a variety of formats and publications this century.

See The Language Foundry's web site for more on makkos:

The Language Foundry

http://www.languagefoundry.org/

link for Timmons' sound recordings:

http://anathematas.blogspot.com/2007/11/sopoco.html

Other Timmons related links:
http://la-lit.com

http://insertpress.net

http://betalevel.com

Photo of Mathew Timmons by Harold Abramowitz