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Home to a Literature of Non-Idiomatic Improvisation
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Horoscopes from the Oracle of Hebeloma
A daily invitation to a joint exercise in apophenia and introspection
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January 14, 2025
Final Illustrations for Hebeloma's Lament in a Dozen Denials
The staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House is happy to announce that the electronic version of Hebeloma's Lament in a Dozen Denials has been updated with the chapter heading illustrations. These illustrations were created by Julia K. Keffer of Bus Stop Art Show. The artwork is also collected in the Bus Stop Art Show gallery at the PPPH.
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January 4, 2025
A Survey of One Hundred Bestiaries
In June of 2016, the staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House began a survey of books cataloguing mythical beasts and fantastic creatures. The idea was to provide one example from each book, which represented the kind of text and graphics used to describe the creatures collected therein. There was explicitly no attempt at critical review. Variations in style as well as in production targets are an essential part of the appeal of the collection. At the time, we regarded A Survey of One Hundred Bestiaries as an ambitious title. In 2025, it is our plan to add a new entry to the survey on the first Saturday of each month. Today, January 4, 2025, we add the 348th volume. A link to the index of the survey is here.
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January 2, 2025
Henry Dagg & Evan Parker
Today we feature an excerpt from the liner notes to the album, Then Through Now by Henry Dagg & Evan Parker. The liner notes take the form of a conversation between the two musicians and Karen Christopher.
Henry: It's a bit like a trip through the forest, you're very unlikely to follow the same route twice, and there will always be unexpected things happening, things you didn't quite intend to happen, that either turned out terrible or far better than you could have imagined.
Evan: That's exactly the way my thing works, I'm trying to do something and then something better happens. It's a cliché to say, well, if you make a mistake, do it two or three more times, it will sound like part of the piece.
—Henry Dagg & Evan Parker, from the liner notes to the album Then Through Now performed by Henry Dagg & Evan Parker, False Walls, Faversham, Kent, United Kingdom, 2022.
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January 1, 2025
2024: The Year in Review at the Poison Pie Publishing House
In the year 2024, the staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House produced exactly one book. Hebeloma's Lament in a Dozen Denials, a post-existential musical score generated through a non-idiomatic, improvisational creative process, was serially published on a daily basis in 2024 on the blog of the Poison Pie Publishing House. The score is illustrated by Julia K. Keffer of Bus Stop Art Show ( ). Drafts of the artwork are posted in a gallery while we await the original artwork to be sent for scanning, pending the completion of the final piece for December. Hebeloma's Lament in a Dozen Denials recounts the adventure of Europe, one of the maidens offered to the minotaur by King Minos, immediately after she escaped from the labyrinth.
Also in 2024, the staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House generated a few music reviews. In doing so, we hope only to spread the word about hidden musical gems from the cultural margin. We shared a handful of quotes that struck us. We continued our on-going monthly update of A Survey of One Hundred Bestiaries. We continued to engage in our guilty pleasure of rendering characters and scenes from books into shrinky dink form, creating a mobile of the chapter headings from Hebeloma's Clockwise Cadenza (2023) as well as sundry images from other authors and illustrators.
The staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House is no longer setting annual goals. However, the daily blog will continue, with the intention of engaging in non-idiomatic improvisation. This work will take the form of a musical score and is titled, Hebeloma's Psalm of Absolution (2025).
To our readers, we, the staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House, thank you for your interest and support and we look forward to another mutually creative and unpredictable year.
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December 20, 2024
Review: Echolalia - Giovanni Di Domenico with Alexandra Grimal & Eric Thielemans
The staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House review Echolalia, a new album featuring the sublime playing of Giovanni Di Domenico in concert, separately, with the soprano saxophone of Alexandra Grimal and the percussion of Eric Thielemans.
Review Date: December 20, 2024
Reviewer: Poison Pie Publishing House Staff
Link to Review: review link
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December 4, 2024
Review: Chillar todo el día - Isabelle Duthoit & Ocnos Arkestra
The staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House review Chillar todo el día (an experimental opera, interpreting the last short story written by Franz Kafka) strictly using excerpts from the original story.
Review Date: December 4, 2024
Reviewer: Poison Pie Publishing House Staff
Link to Review: review link
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December 1, 2024
Review: Promise of Faithfulness - Ornella Noulet
The staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House review Promise of Faithfulness by Ornella Noulet. The solo saxophone release extends a sonic invitation to muse over the abstractions of fidelity and gratitude.
Review Date: December 1, 2024
Reviewer: Poison Pie Publishing House Staff
Link to Review: review link
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November 20, 2024
Review: Ten Records that Made the World a Better Place in 2024
The staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House take the opportunity to share their thoughts about ten records released in 2024 that brightened their day upon initial listening and through-out the days that followed.
Review Date: November 20, 2024
Reviewer: Poison Pie Publishing House Staff
Link to Review: review link
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October 13, 2024
The Clockwise Cadenza Mobile is Complete
The canopy of the mobile, depicting Melanippe's map from Hebeloma's Clockwise Cadenza (2023) has been added to the gallery. The update appears in both the exhibit of photos and the exhibit of scans. Some photographs of the completed mobile also appear at the end of the exhibit of photos
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