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Forthcoming experimental bilingual avant-poetry/ sound work

March 5, 2022July 12, 2022
Albwm cyntaf gan avant-gardists Eingl-Gymreig. Debut album by Anglo-Welsh avant-gardists
GGLEC A1. disoedd

Alffa… Brafo… Charlie.. Delta… [ ..] Allffa… numeric

So begins the first album by Anglo-Welsh avant-gardists GGLEC. Its maelstrom of surface noise, throbbing drones, linguistic miscommunication and computational error continues with a scratchy vinyl sample from a 1962 record teaching the international Morse code – a long-passed American male voice informs us..

“Those who know code have a peculiar and often invaluable ability to communicate. Especially in time of war or other serious emergency the need for code takes on an added significance…"

Amidst CV controlled tape hiss and acousmatic sound design, avant-bard Rhys Trimble’s visionary and fractured poetics strive to articulate the tensions of the contemporary experience in a failing miasma of dysfunctional communication technologies.

The response to the historicised call for the need for code is rendered throughout the remainder of the 40 minutes – cultural and technologised code-making / breaking.
A1 .- - - - disoedd
da.da / single dots / four to seven words a minute da / combinations /
dah da dah out of reach
(d)a for one side / and the b, superimposed
A2 ..- - - gainiwr
bored strangers / politics similar to sibling culture
a signifier / to the beekeeper no signifier / to the bees
A3 ...- - semiadur
out to me / out to sea oh yeah / or no
heart / heart / hearts rusted steel waters
A4 ....- gyrofa (featuring Apo33)
alffa, beta, gamma
human nether-goals / a lost voice
grooming span moves elsewhere
this last space for walking / but not the last spot for butti
rogal spire / phantasm / hot-wire / formative islamabad
all of, or for, connotations / space of, holding sixties spaces inside
spatiality.
balls dropped / archaic plunder rocks / glossy audible
ghosting christmas / in time they’ll imagine [inaudible]
fine / finding conversation in condensation worm sign / ready in the grass
[inaudible]
passed us rainbow / not often on it / joyful thanks
llawen
A5 ..... rebarbiaeth
hi hi hi / no no no
bards barbs rebarbed
woo woo woo/ all of it / all of it oh no / oh no / oh yeah
ahh ahh ahh
B1 -.... cofiment
alffa.. brafo... charlie... delta
i recall much surface noise / i remember much spatial posturing “chicky clicky dye-oh” / they sang
reaching for washed out grains of musics past / and failing
voices shifted into unnatural registers / these - we spectres of humanity
B2 - -... duwography 
[inaudible]
diagramming the electronic godhead
[inaudible]
channelling the circuits / our bent power / zeta / scanty / shit-scared

zone / zone / zone
witnesses to its accidental installation
B3 - - -.. lloxy
nano-drifting in oceanic currents of bloodstream
limbs reduced to 2 dimensions / as if in a charity shop comic-book panel
B4 - - - -. ffosination
the nation huddled deep in trenches / cowardly and complicit
alfa nömaïc
in my opinion / things are best inefficient
patient patient / illegible from her
gripping tweed Rochdale curse
i demand reparation get someone through
automation / stagnation pray that they sent output
butti
following our miasmic crowd / frills off-hand chills
that always fails
looking / avoiding / larding up the ladder break buy contact / moving office-world
this inescapably red tape, green tape, orange tape
Biden, E.C., and release in hill backpacker / the fact of what i am there can be common folk (foe?)
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