Paul Richmond - 2019 -2020 National Beat Poet Laureate of U S, was Beat Poet Laureate of Massachusetts by the National Beat Poetry Foundation for 2017 to 2019. Paul's work is best described as political and deadpan, delivered wryly humorously in his own style.
He has been called Assassin of Apathy – power of words / humor - on the unthinkable, the unsolvable, to analyze to digest to give birth to creativity and hope
Richmond has performed nationally and internationally on stages from the Austin International Poetry Festival, in Austin TX, to Gödör Klubban at the Jazzköltexzeti est in Budapest, Hungary. His work has been published in four books, in many journals, magazines, anthologies and poetry collections. 
He runs Human Error Publishing which promotes Word events and festivals and publishes books

With the release of two new works  (Choral Soliloquies I & II) falling coincidentally on Easter 2017 I decided to keep all downloads free at Amazing Tunes. To order CD containing tracks from this page via VISA or PayPal please visit http://stephenmeadmusic.weebly.com/

A resident of NY, I am a published artist, writer and maker of short collage-films.  Please google my name for links to both my work and available merchandise. In addition to instruments and sounds recorded around the house, all music here is collaged from free collaborative downloads.



Jonathan Penton from Unlikely Stories writes:  


It's appropriate that Stephen Mead has named this double-album Whispers of Arias, because despite the layered, operatic music and big dramatic themes, these recordings, ultimately, sound very little like arias: The vocals are so tortured and quiet that one can't help but think of a ghost in a symphony hall, desperately trying to impress something upon the listeners, something dire, something unbelievably tragic. Stephen Mead sings his poems over Kevin MacLeod's complex and sophisticated classical intepretations, and the effect is transformative—on the rhythm of the poems, on the meaning of MacLeod's recordings, and ultimately, on the listener.


radiowildfire.com writes:  Stephen's work with voice and soundscape continues to intrigue us and, we think, set a benchmark for recording spoken word.

// sound work // picking up the remainders of the collision of language / field recording / music 

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