I don't recognize
what we call reality.

+Glitch spoken.word poetry+

No Escape (Start Running)

'We haven't yet distanced ourselves far enough from winter...'

Sunrise

'Your curtain sway in the rattled breeze of an empty house...'

Marked for Demolition ftg Natalie Briggs

The full audio/visual piece can be found on my website.
http://travisfranks.com/2017/05/21/bliss-ignorance/

Bliss & Ignorance

This is an experiment in using "found sound" to create a rhythmic, percussive backing track for a spoken word piece. Just to see what happens.
The percussion uses - among other sounds - banging my foot in the shower, scratching at my bedroom door, dropping keys and rifling through pages of a book. Literally, all home-made sounds (as in, sounds I made at home).

Return Journey

An audio/visual poem about the space between anger and acting upon anger. 
Visuals found here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DllQBaH3gcQ

Staggering (this Halfway House)

My first foray into creating electronic music and combining it with spoken word poetry. 
Blank Cassette tells of a personal voyage to self-realisation, and learning to forge your own place in a world that won't make it for you.

Blank Cassette

The Blue Hour

Earlier this year I put out an open call to creatives interested in contributing to a sound art collaboration for the Open Spaces Arts Festival at Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne. It could be anything: your voice, a sound, poetry, prose, singing, a musical composition … as long as it was related to the theme ‘constellations’. After receiving sound files by email, I mixed them together with my own original work to create a new piece of sound art. An Ordering of Chaos: Scorpio is part one of a suite of collaborative sound poems.

A big thank you to contributors to An Ordering of Chaos: Scorpio – Jared Franks, Natalie Briggs, Rachel Malone, Georgie Young, Kate Ellis and Luke Franks.

01. An Ordering Of Chaos: Scorpio

Earlier this year I put out an open call to creatives interested in contributing to a sound art collaboration for the Open Spaces Arts Festival at Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne. It could be anything: your voice, a sound, poetry, prose, singing, a musical composition … as long as it was related to the theme ‘constellations’. After receiving sound files by email, I mixed them together with my own original work to create a new piece of sound art. An Ordering of Chaos: Cancer is part two of a suite of collaborative sound poems.

02. An Ordering Of Chaos: Cancer

experimenting with the spoken word. 
indie electro playlists

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