Matthew Klane

HIST at House Poets in Philly | 2/24/23 /  by James belflower

HIST Soundtrack Excerpts On ANMLY /  by James belflower

Thanks to the wonderful people at ANMLY mag who have an awesome hybrid creative blog, “The Markings of Music.” The editor, Olivia Muenz, was kind enough to publish excerpts from the HIST soundtrack, “Canoe Chase on the Horican,” and “Narra-mattah,” my audio/visual collaborations with Matthew Klane. Our recordings are accompanied with an interview diving in to the process behind the book and the reasoning behind a soundtrack for it. There are so many wonderful things on the blog so check them all out!

Hist Performance @ Endicott college /  by James belflower

The Center For Belonging was an excellent performance space.

Photos Courtesy of Michael Kilburn

Photos Courtesy of Michael Kilburn

We performed John Cage’s Musicircus with students from a course on Zen Buddhism, co-taught by Rocco Gangle, Daniel Sklar, and Michael Kilburn.

Randall Livingstone took us down to the ocean, which was across the street!

Photos Courtesy of Michael Kilburn

Photos Courtesy of Michael Kilburn

Canyons: Shout out in At Buffalo /  by James belflower

At Buffalo, the magazine for alumni and friends of SUNY Buffalo gives a shout out to Canyons. Matthew Klane is '03 Buffalo alumni.

Canyons
James Belflower and Matthew Klane (MA ’03) 
In this challenging collection of poetry and visual art exploring the legacy of Manifest Destiny, Klane and Belflower blur the boundaries between the two art forms. Each poem is spread over multiple pages—interspersed with topographic map visuals, full-color collages and a series of imagined letters from the wife of William Gilpin (the first governor of the Colorado territory and a businessman of questionable repute)—providing an idiosyncratically layered trip through the history of the American West. (Flimb Press, 2016) 

We appreciate the mention, however, the description incorrectly states that the letters in the text were written by Mrs. William Gilpin. In fact, the letters were transcribed by Mrs. William Gilpin, but written by an unknown person.

Fence Digital Book Design /  by James belflower

Recently I launched Fence Digital, the electronic imprint of Fence Books. Working with Rebecca Wolff, we are planning to release as many books as possible as often as possible. We are in the process of looking for new books suited to a digital environment, so find us over at Fence Digital.

If you missed my editorial note that went out a few days ago, here it is. 

The idea that we coevolve through intimate interactions with our virtual media is both joyous and terrifying. Here at Fence Books, we choose to bedevil this evolution further by launching Fence Digital, a new electronic publishing imprint that reinserts materiality into the digital.

To that end, our projects reevaluate the boundary between the virtual nature of digital information and the viscerality of text. When designing books, we think of the project in print, but we also consider how digital extra-textual qualities (video, image, animation, hyperlinks, etc.) might contribute to its textualization. In short, we design with attention to how a reader’s swipe interacts with a digital book as something that happens rather than something that exists.

So, with the first three books from Fence Digital, we encourage you to coevolve with us: swipe across the rubber typed pages of Michael Leong’s Who Unfolded My Origami Brain?, the handwritten postcards sent on Brian Young’s road trip in Moonie, and the floating feather through Matthew Klane’s My.

Download all these books and more at Fence Digital or on iBooks.

Enjoy!

James Belflower

Editor

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Canyons Tour Audio from Just Buffalo Literary Center Available /  by James belflower