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Purveyor of extended vocal techniques on the radio: country yodels, khöömei, Xhosa throatsinging, Yma Sumac glassbreakers, avant garde weirdness, backcountry eeephing, beatboxing &tc &tc. Listen on demand: http://wfmu.org/playlists/VF

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Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 1d

Based in Mexico, @paratextos.bsky.social publishes poetry weekly in English, Spanish, French & Portuguese w/editor's notes on connections & context, "prioritizing the soul rather than technical perfection" but "wishing for exhaustive readings & genuine passion for poetic resources."

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Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 1d

I have a poem about the longest day of the longest month. It's called February fool's day, out today in the excellent journal @paratextos.bsky.social at www.paratextos.com/semana-diez

Semana diez | Paratextos

Paratextos es un proyecto mexicano, sin fines de lucro, de curaduría y difusión de poesía. Conoce nuestra décima entrega.

www.paratextos.com

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Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 1d

Swans at Brooklyn Steel on 10/7 before Michael asked us to please put our phones away.

Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 2d

I saw Swans last night + it was a combo of searing, white-hot wind underlaid by two basses & two drummers raining beats so powerful I could feel my heart vibrating from it. I kept thinking of this post. It was both together.

Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 2d

Starts next week, including Meredith Monk (who will receive the Golden Lion lifetime achievement award), Moor Mother, Sunn O))), Laurie Spiegel, Éliana Radigue, Wm Basinski, Asa-Chang & Junray, Actress & Suzanne Ciani, Fennesz + more. www.labiennale.org/en/music/2025

Biennale Musica 2025 | Homepage 2025

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Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 2d

Catarina Barbieri is curating the Venice Music Bienniale, bringing in a great variety of music unlike prior years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/a...

At a Bastion of Classical Music, She’s Amplifying the Experimental

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Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 3d

If you see this, QTP w/a gif of a powerful woman

Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 3d

Fryers! @wfmu.bsky.social has arranged for your minds to receive correct & disciplined messages tonight from @jimthepoet.bsky.social while I am re-educated. Remember: Vocal Fry comrades ALWAYS report suspicious or treasonous content that does not glorify our Dear Leader (i.e., me) or our Workers!

a red flag is flying in front of a drawing of a clock tower

ALT: a red flag is flying in front of a drawing of a clock tower

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 3d

Good black metal sounds like the wind; good doom metal sounds like the rain

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Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 6d

Found a full image of that Neck Face piece: artinthestreets.org/media/fdf09a...

Art in the Streets

Art in the Streets was the first extensive survey of the history of graffiti and street art to be presented in an American museum. The exhibition took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Ange...

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Dave “the Spazz” Abramson @davethespazz.bsky.social · 6d

See ya in the pit!

TONIGHT! Sea Monkeys, The Stones, The Gaylord Fields All-Star Revue + DJ Rex! WFMU Benefit! Monty Hall, 43 Montgomery Street, Jersey City doors at 7:30, show at 8 @wfmu.bsky.social

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Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 6d

So I get to spend dinnertime on my birthday sitting at this lovely spot.

Silver grate and sidewalk with gum and other detritus staining them

Neckface, partially obscured by an intervening rooftop

Ad for a co-working space above a Spanish restaurant and a white cargo van

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Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 6d

Today in Terrible Tales of Teslas: picking up car at parking. Only exit is blocked by a Tesla - driver left & they can't move it. Why? It won't start w/o a pin code. Honestly no idea how long before I can get my car. At least the Tesla isn't on fire w/people autolocked inside.

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Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 8d

if you're gone
at least i can smell you
on your underwear.

God Bless Laika, God Bless Poetry, and most of all, may God Bless America! Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 8d

4.
humans are weird
they sneeze like i do
but don't lick their crotches

5.
empty couch seat
i look with honest yearning
for the okay

6.
if you're not going to
you could leave it on the floor
I would finish it

7.
pick it up
or leave it to turn to dirt
i poop regardless

Finally, her magnum opus:

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Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 8d

The haiku of Laika McBodahberg, D.Ph.,dog of philosophy:

1.
smelled hot food.
i begged for an hour, but
got a walk instead.

2.
the door shut
they'll be gone all day and
left the butter out

3.
my face is itchy.
good thing my hind leg reaches
all the way up there.

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Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 8d

In her mature years, she took up haiku. Her keen eye for the hierarchies of American democracy, her contentment with her lot in the American social order, her commitment to the menial job she worked at every day (using only her chin to hold the floor to ensure it stayed down) - I give you:

Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 8d

In that tradition I would like to offer the words of a humble American who sadly passed away 16 years ago. She was born in Staten Island in 1996 & raised with her 12 brothers & sisters. It was crowded in her childhood enclosure, where she often found comfort snuggling between the fridge & the wall.

Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 8d

...and we all know that American poets writing abt America have always stuck to deeply patriotic themes that uplift our national spirit. One's mind immediately turns to Allen Ginsburg's book America as an exemplar but the same is true farther back to Walt Whitman too.

Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 8d

Today is National Poetry Day in the UK. Because of the historic connections & ruptures betwixt the USA & UK, celebration of NPD is permitted (for now) in the USA so long as the poems are first & foremost American poems...