AERIAL VECTORS

AERIAL VECTORS (a visual EP) - out November 2023

AERIAL VECTORS is a visual EP or a short film made with the endeavor, simply, of looking up. All footage self-collected over the course of months and the course of travels across the country looking up at the sky. All audio self-produced. Historically, freedom dreams are of flight, of the aerial realm, the air. In these times where skies are polluted, clouds are created and destroyed, where people look up and see white phosphorus or smoke or drones or letters warning of impending strike– it is crucial to continue to look up and bear witness. Watch/Listen/Experience on Vimeo or Youtube.

 

BODYELECTRONIC

BODYELECTRONIC (audiobook) - out Feburary 2023

BODYELECTRONIC (audiobook) creates a glitchy soundscape for the words of their first poetry chapbook BODYELECTRONIC (Trouble Department, April 2022) to exist & expand. Poems are given audio backdrops of uncanny computer noises and autotune. The malfunctioning of the lyric “I” is on full display alongside the slipping subjectivity of the speaker who slides into generated text-to-speech voices or flangered and distorted pitches. The hope is for this audiobook to compliment the reading and provide a more interactive and experimental experience for readers/listeners.

 

S Y Z Y G Y EP

S Y Z Y G Y EP - out February 2022

S Y Z Y G Y EP is a poetry-music project made by phaentom[poet]. The project started as divination poems written from oracle card readings before the passing of my father. These poems spoke to me and asked me to stretch their form. Music arrived, visuals arrived. This EP is the result of an ongoing conversation with the universe/spirit. Features two visuals for the poem-songs “Sacrificial” and “Cosmologic” viewable on YouTube.

 

Sorrow Songs EP (a cappella demos)

Album cover for Sorrow Songs EP by phaentom[poet] aka Aerik Francis. The image is a brownish sepia tone. Half of my face is pictured but melts or combines into the sepia color.

Sorrow Songs EP - (June 2018)

Sorrow Songs EP is a demo a cappella EP of original music made by phaentom[poet] with subpar equipment: an iphone, an iphone earbud set with attached microphone, the audio looping app Loopy, and vocal sounds. The project is named after the chapter of the same name from Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B DuBois, and the opening track is a selection of passages from the Sorrow Songs chapter in the book.