Davis Scheiderman was good enough to send me a copy of his and collaborator Don Meyer’s CD, Memorials to Future Catastrophes.  This is sound-work to create to.  Davis’s words are distracting me as I write this.  I’ve been drawing to it all week.  I’ve just started yet another collaboration, and I’m ready to draw some really ruined drawings for this one, but I needed new stimuli to do that in a new way. What better than a series of sound collages that describe a series of catastrophes yet to come? Work that honors a tragic foregone conclusion? Davis’s poems are narratives, and Meyer’s music is rhythmic and suggests goofiness, makes you just comfortable enough to get slapped by the world they’re describing – sometimes by the words, sometimes by the sounds.

It works nicely with the comics I’m drawing too, they are a series of long-story atrocities, that I’m referring to as “The Origins of the Genius Child Orchestra.”

You can listen to most of the collaboration here.

You can buy it here.

And keep an eye for these two on Apostrophe Cast later this year.  We’re going to feature their further collaborations.