I have no clear idea what I have done. The work seems discursive to me - a swarm of schizo-singularities maybe, that exploits music’s ability to become, without logical (or restrictive) narratives. I suspect there is some affective goings-on, but it required local negotiation in a stuttering field of mystifying junk to find it.
Eldritch Priest is a composer and (currently) a PhD candidate at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University, where he is writing (about) musical nonsense and the aesthetics of failure in contemporary composition. His own compositions, which have been described as "resolutely weird" and "wondrously mundane," sometimes even "like good acid," concern themselves with the singular nature of failure and insufficiency, though they sometimes fail to satisfy these criteria. Recent publications include "A Sprawling Mess: The Poetics of Musica Residua," Radical Musicology (2009); "The Poetivcs of Non/Sense and the Aesthetics of Obscurity in the Writings of Raymond Roussel and Fernando Pessoa," Mosaic (forthcoming); "Listening to Nothing in Particular: Boredom in Contemporary Experimental Music," Postmodern Culture (forthcoming).
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