Tag: Music

Scented wearables for Other Senses description: Six irregular, finger-sized forms rest on richly embroidered dark fabric. Pale yellow, creamy material clings to and envelops thin, translucent brown flakes, creating surfaces that seem simultaneously waxy, papery, scaly, and crumbly. Beneath them, thick curling embroidery in crimson, orange, and gold gives the whole image a lush, tactile warmth.

Other Senses * Performance & Gathering * September 26, 2026

Other Senses is a seasonal, multisensory performance and gathering in Brooklyn… Hosts/house band: Ivy Meadows – Sound/Music Lauren Race – Touch/Taste Leona Godin – scent/Text Fall guest artists: Alabaster Rhumb – Music/Poetry Samantha Sea Sea – Performance/art Bonita Oliver – Vocals/art Saturday, September 26, Doors: 7pm. Performance: 7:30pm at the Sunview Acropolis 257 Nassau avenue, Brooklyn Free but space is limited! Please RSVP to OtherSensesNYC At gmail.com. You can also email with any access needs. BYOB, my friends! …

Two photos (curtesy Anna Novakov) of women having a sensory experience in the gallery. They are smelling scent strips with misty vertical bands of the 7 colors of the spectrum behind and suffusing through them.

Sensory Transposition: A Triadic Exchange Between Ron Hutt, Andreas Keller and Anna Novakov

aromatica poetica May 12, 2023

Sensory Transposition: A Triadic Exchange Between Ron Hutt, Andreas Keller and Anna For the past several years, composer Ron Hutt and olfactory artist Anna Novakov have worked together in a collaboration they call Provisional Art Space (PAS). Through a process of sensory transposition, they create performances that bridge sounds and scents. Inspired by a palette of seven chromatic hues, they compose fragrances and movements that, when performed together, shapeshift between sensory associations. Their performances, hosted in 2023 by Andreas Keller, …

A retro Christmas tree with popcorn, gingerbread men, colored balls, and a gold star on top, surrounded by beat up marching-band instruments -- bass drum, tuba, snare, trumpet, flute, clarinet, and a couple tarnished cymbals – sit on ugly blue-green shag carpeting with wood paneling behind. By Alabaster Rhumb.

A Country Christmas * Fiction * David P. Stewart

aromatica poetica December 22, 2021

Businesses in Canton shuttered early on fall Fridays as the high school drum major marched a mile of black and gold uniformed musicians round the Courthouse Square. The proud city folks followed the band in a joyful procession to Ben Roberts Stadium. Even hard workin farmin families finished their laborin ways before the sun went down so they could make their way to the famed field. The mighty Canton Panthers were consistent champions in the Choctaw Conference. Daddy mostly told …

Fourth of July marching band with the author, Liz Charlotte Grant, front and center , wearing a half-smile and high ponytail.

“Chlorinated” * Personal Essay * Liz Charlotte Grant

aromatica poetica July 1, 2019

I. Chlorine (KLOHR-een): Cl on the table of elements, in the halogen family; extremely reactive, strips color from whatever it touches, heavier than air; discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1774 when he poured hydrochloric acid over pyrolusite (which resembles a lava rock) and, surprise, a yellow-green gas smoke evaporated, filling Scheele’s nostrils with the bright-white smell of bleach. Chlorine was put to use in the cleaning industry for deodorizing and disinfecting; also used to clean human wounds. Then it …

“Honeysuckle: The South’s Favorite Weed” an essay by Gretchen Gales

aromatica poetica August 24, 2018

As a child, my grandfather showed me how to pick and drink the nectar from the honeysuckle that grew on the outskirts of the woods. After plucking it from the bushes, he showed me how to pinch the green ends and draw the nectar out. I always loved finding the blossoms with the most nectar and pouted in disappointment when I would find duds, tossing them to the ground. As an adult, I still reflect on honeysuckle’s influence on southern …