Feel 1 & 2: Seventeen Weeks

On the brink of autumn and winter, things are still heating up here, as Feel 2 secures six weeks at #1 on the Soundclick Minimal Electronic chart.

Between Feel 1 and Feel 2, we have a total of seventeen weeks spent in a #1 position on a Soundclick chart. Feel itself is, lookin' real good, like Natalie Wood.

Feel (I saw) remix: The Labyrinth Continues

Continuing to map the Eris Temple: at the top of the stairs from the studio/DIY performance space, where Feel was recorded, turn due left and this large front room space is what you will see, which can also be used as a performance space, and where the two Apparition Poems videos were shot, in 2010 and 2011, respectively. The window facade at the end faces out into 52nd Street. The neighborhood is a racy, or spicy one, giving the whole enterprise of the Temple a sort of rogue, maverick tinge. As you will see, turn due right from the studio and more steps lead up to a living room space, followed by a kitchen.   

P.S. Something worth saying about Acid Dropping, Mixter Riders, and the singles.

Feel (I saw) remix: public debut of Feel

The first time I ever read Feel aloud was here: Molly Russakoff's bookstore in the Italian Market in South Philly. This was in the spring of 2005, and under the aegis of the Philly Free School. It was April, I recall, and a rainy night, and it was mostly just us: myself, Hannah Miller, Nick Gruberg, Mike Land, and Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum. The poem wasn't finished yet, but I read what I had. 

Feel 2: Living in Stereo

 

For the ultimate nerve-shattering experience, try listening to Feel 2 on good headphones, preferably from a hard drive. Connoisseurs will see what's of interest instantly: it was recorded in stereo. Thus, the ricochet effect of tracks back and forth, and the physiological experience they create for the listener, become an experience beyond the standard listen. CC Mixter manages to take us fifty years into the future (2072) and fifty into the past (1972) simultaneously. Kudos. 

Feel (I saw) remix: Square Space

 

Matt Stevenson's recording of Feel, as read by me, was made at Eris Temple, at 52nd and Cedar in North-West Philadelphia, in the August aughts of 2006. I've already shown some of what the Eris Temple studio looked like. In these two shots, you can see two halves of the square space where I actually sat, reading the poem. The square space, as is evident, was also used as a DIY performance area, while the crowd usually lingered in what doubled as a control room space, a few steps below, and where Matt mixed what I had done.