Joshua Beckman—Some Mechanical Poems To Be Read Aloud

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1.	A1—Candy Read (composite) 02:12	buy track
2.	A2—Goons Rule (composite) 02:46	buy track
3.	A3—The Head Eats (composite) 01:49	buy track
4.	A4—Joshua's Explanation 01:52	buy track
5.	A5—Fixed Under Cut Knife (composite) 03:06	buy track
6.	A6—After Morning Oxidized (James Rushford) 01:54	buy track
7.	A7—Letters on Oratory Structure (Jen Hutton) 01:29	buy track
8.	A8—Fried in Righteous Sizzling Trance (Aaron Kunin) 02:24	buy track
9.	A9—Ice Floes Emptied (composite) 01:57	buy track
10.	A10—Bitten Right Or After (Joshua Beckman) 01:34	buy track
11.	B1—Story of Lost Afternoon (composite) 02:23	buy track
12.	B2—Trolling Here Entangled (Sara Roberts) 02:25	buy track
13.	B3—Ribbed Apricots (Joshua Beckman) 01:42	buy track
14.	B4—Fad Like Orange (composite) 02:21	buy track
15.	B5—Rats Under Sky (Pauline Gloss) 03:31	buy track
16.	B6—Steve Ordered Ray (composite) 01:34	buy track
17.	B7—Getting Earner Nod (composite) 02:44	buy track
18.	B8—"Against My Better Judgment"—Group Reading at Machine Project 03:56	buy track
19.	B9—Ick Flaws (Joshua Beckman) 01:35	buy track

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Some Mechanical Poems To Be Read Aloud read differently when read aloud by different people. The album is made from composites of multiple individuals reading the same work, so that the variants created by each reader can be heard extending and overlapping. In creating Some Mechanical Poems To Be Read Aloud Joshua Beckman traveled all over the U.S., introducing the project to different people from a multiplicity of backgrounds— some of whom were writers, some of whom were readers, and some of whom were neither of those things. Awash in disparate sounds, silences and modalities, the result is the innovation that is Some Mechanical Poems To Be Read Aloud.

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released May 28, 2020

The composite recordings in Some Mechanical Poems To Be Read Aloud were made and edited by Sara Roberts and recorded and engineered by Pauline Gloss. Artistic layout and design by Megan Magnum/Words That Work. All recordings for the album were made in Los Angeles in February 2017, with the group recording made at Machine Project on February 22, 2017.

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