You can see the sounds her voice makes. The literal depiction of this, a photograph of Michele Mercure with an eyeball in her mouth, is removed in the updated album art. The original graphic elements are left to suspend, speak, and sing across time. In the absence of the decade-specific portraits, the redesigned edition is dislocated from a particular or linear history. Our initial point of encounter is artifactual; a trace in place of a scar. Accordingly, Michele’s true image and body is sound. Eye Chant, as a whole, offers meditations of sound as material. Her instruments are voic… read more
You can see the sounds her voice makes. The literal depiction of this, a photograph of Michele Mercure with an eyeball in her mouth, is removed in th… read more
You can see the sounds her voice makes. The literal depiction of this, a photograph of Michele Mercure with an eyeball in her mouth, is removed in the updated album art. The original gra… read more
In the early 80's with a background working as a cell animator and hailing from a mid-sized industrial town, Harrisburg, PA, Michele Mercure was embedded in the the town's visual arts community but suffered for lack of decent music - a familiar whinge from anyone who grew up outside of the big cities - so she made her own wickedly inventive and expressive sound using synths, effects, tape loops and vocals. Her visual and musical worlds first gelled in a 1983 soundtrack for Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, followed by three self-released cassettes which built on tha… read more
In the early 80's with a background working as a cell animator and hailing from a mid-sized industrial town, Harrisburg, PA, Michele Mercure was embedded in the the town's visual … read more
In the early 80's with a background working as a cell animator and hailing from a mid-sized industrial town, Harrisburg, PA, Michele Mercure was embedded in the the town's visual arts community but suffered for lack of decent… read more