Despite bright ideas is a piece based on a collaboration I did with poet Jill Battson in February 2006 at the Arthaus Performance Art Festival in Toronto. The work is composed using a short excerpt of Jill Battson’s reading of her poem You Make Me Feel So Jung.

This tape piece is the latest part of our work in progess, Linguaelastic, a crosspollination of spoken poetry and electroacoustic sound art. Linguaelastic will eventually be realized as a performance piece and sound installation. This project marks our second major collaboration, the first being a critically acclaimed operetta, Ashlike in the Cradle of the Wind, produced by Tapestry New Works Opera.