www.johneckhardt.de

John Eckhardt is a hunter-gatherer of all things bass and one of the most versatile bass artists in a wide field of today's music. As acoustic and electric bass player, he features on over 40 recordings and in solo and ensemble performances around the globe. He has published a series of internationally acclaimed solo releases as one of a kind art editions, and employs bass instruments to probe room acoustics, landscapes and histories in sound installations. His Basswald DJ podcast is dedicated to experimental sound system culture. In addition, his passion for photography has fed into his work as well.

sound poetry, body, text, architecture, performance.
member of barba cosini: https://soundcloud.com/barbacorsini

two records with bradien:
escala (2015): https://spark.bandcamp.com/album/escala-2
pols (2012): https://spark.bandcamp.com/album/bradien-eduard-escoffet-pols

Eduard Escoffet (Barcelona, 1979) has worked in different facets of poetry (visual and written poetry, installations, oral poetry, poetic action), but he has focused his interests on sound poetry and poetry readings. Apart from being involved in Barcelona's counter-culture scene, he has also performed in poetry festivals and events all around Europe, in China, the United States, South Africa and many countries in Latin America.
He was co-director of Barcelona Poesia (Barcelona Inetrnational Poetry Festival) between 2010 and 2012, and director of PROPOSTA, a festival of sound poetry and contemporary poetry at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (2000-2004).
He has published the poetry collections "Gaire" (2012), "El terra i el cel" (2013, published in Spanish in 2018 as "Suelo y cielo") and "Menys i tot" (LaBreu, 2017), as well as the artist’s book "Estramps" with Evru (2011). Has published two records with the electronic music band Bradien, "Pols" (2012) and "Escala2 (2015). Also curated with Eugeni Bonet the film series "Coming Soon on This Screen: Letterist Cinema, between Discrepancy and Revolt" at the MACBA, Barcelona (2005). In 2019 he curated the exhibition "The Net in the Forest", about experimental poetry in Europe and America between 1946 and 1980. Professor of Sound Poetry at the University of Barcelona.

An Internationally acclaimed, award-winning poet/revolutionary/activist/screenwriter/playwright/PhD student (Specialising in metaphysical parapsychology)
/artist/visionary/spiritual+physical+trance medium/clairvoyant/former hypnotherapist, PLR/psychovisual therapist/biofeedback analyst. Her poetry is in the South Bank Centre Poetry Library, London, and has been featured on BBC Radio and regularly on the discerning: www.audiobookradio.net. She has been widely published in poetry magazines and gained outstanding reviews for her challenging, innovative poetry. She was always seeking to bring her beguiling poetry to an audience in ways that overlook outmoded, traditional, conventional forms. She collaborated with composers, DJ's and artists online. Often referred to as: "The Underground Poet Laureate", she developed her own Literary and Poetic Style known as: "Graphorrhoealism", which, once again, defies traditional forms in the most innovative way, with an insatiable, unbridled lust for language she explores confessional and political landscapes that often collide. Her work has been hailed as works of "genius" by Honorary Professors. Cassandra has also worked with Turner Prize nominee artists Jake and Dinos Chapman and Sam Taylor-Johnson in the 1990s in work subsequently featured in Saatchi exhibitions and international venues. Her couture standard hand embroidery has been exhibited in Fine Art Galleries and her controversial performance art exhibition staged in London. Cassandra has composed 2 major Poetry Collections and 2 Slim Volumes. She had interest from film Producers to write 4 Screenplays and had a Director/Producer for her true story, and these productions were destined to include her raw and powerful poetry which tells her story but her health is unlikely to manage this huge undertaking at this time. Her recordings are Selected Poems 2006 and her Tribute to her muse and mentor in spirit, Vladimir Mayakovsky "The Panjandrum of Quondam (The Epic Grenade)" 2005. "The Warring Harridan" 2005. "Candy Cotton Kid and The Faustian Wolf" 2000/1 a theory on the life and suicide of American poet Sylvia Plath.  Cassandra had some of her shorter soundtracks in pre-production as short films, but COVID - and her own health - annihilated all collaborations. She was also chosen to collaborate  with an international ballet academy - online -  from the USA to choreograph a ballet based on her epic poem about Sylvia Plath, but the pandemic struck and that collaboration was also destroyed by the choreographer's mother's death and his continued long Covid. She had interest from another ballet academy for a choreographed performance based on her Russian themed epic poem about Russian poet, Vladimir Mayakovsky, but this was also destroyed by the pandemic and a change of management. 

She wrote a 300-page memoir about many controversial experiences that remains unpublished by choice at this stage.

She was invited to perform her tribute to Mayakovsky in Russia, but her failing health would not permit that journey.

QUOTE:

"Did you know that a poet can die of a lack of exposure? It comes with a WARNING: POETRY KILLS"

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