Consonant Collective is very excited to announce its newest collaboration, On the Record Poetry, a series of poetry chapbooks and accompanying records curated by Katie & Joe. We will put out 6 record/chapbook releases this year, with the full roster to be announced very soon. The projects are deeply rooted in collaboration between the collective and the authors.
Dark Nature, a horror story told through poetry from Joe Carlough, is the first release in the series.
About the Poems
What would you do if you found yourself alone in the woods and everything seemed just a bit...off?
That's the story of Dark Nature. The story-in-poems follows a person who's warned not to go into the woods, but their curiosity proves too much, finding themself watched, stalked, and eventually driven mad by the woods themselves, more-so through their own carelessness than that of any of the myriad odd occurrences and creatures they encounter.
The beautifully-rendered chapbook, presented with the poems imposed on full-color, high-resolution plant images, was designed by Joe and printed by Fireball Printing right here in Philadelphia. Accompanying the chapbook is a leaf-shaped 7" record with a 5 minute reading of the full chapbook by the author, recorded on vintage analogue technology to match the dreamy, lost nature of the poetry. The B-Side of the record features a reinterpretation of the reading by Icelandic sound artist and composter Íris Thorarins.
About the Record
The audio of the poetry was recorded directly to cassette using a late 1960's Sony F-98 Reel to Reel Cardioid Microphone with a mid-1980's Panasonic RQ-2709D tape player. The cassettes were then digitized and the audio lightly mastered. The records were embossed using a sapphire stylus on polycarbonate using a 1937 Presto 6DSP record lathe.
The record and chapbook can be purchased here.
