VISPWOERMDS

Description

Text and Typeset by mIEKAL aND, April 2016 for 2016 International Powered Writing Month.

CD of sound/text performed by Bob Marsh and David Samas in the summer of 2018.

Recorded by Bob Marsh in Pueblo, Colorado and by Bryan Day at Public Eyesore Studios in San Francisco, California 

43 visual pwoermds — each one a single English word collapsed onto itself, letterforms stacked & interleaved until the word stops reading & starts looking: robot, sexes, xerox, education, deedeye, ismismist, each piece a typographic compression you can sometimes still recover the source from, sometimes not. David Samas & Bob Marsh performed the glyphs as graphic score in summer 2018, issued by Xexoxial Editions. Lineage runs through Aram Saroyan & Geof Huth & the InterNaPwoWriMo archive on one hand, pansemic writing & concrete poetry on the other — letters treated as material before they are message, & performed as a score.