Our guest this month, Franklin, says:

Painting is like love bites on my neck when I was 19 at the gay bar. I miss gay bars. Dried up urine on the urinal that I wipe off on my opening bar shift. Bad tattoos. Family friendly means censorship. There is a huge and pulsating veiny darkness lying beneath that which we believe to be the real world. We do not acknowledge it but it affects our every action. There is an endless hysterical laughter from unseen angels, too divine to hear. There is a light vibrating in our heart connecting us to every atom in every universe. These are the subject matters I hope to paint and to write about. I paint tits and nobs. I write songs solo ((FRANKLIN ANSELM)) and for the electronic duo G4YB0Y with Nana Arthole with songs such as ‘Ellen Degenerous Piss Kink’ & ‘First they came for the catboys and I said nothing’.

-----

"unknown sounds" is intended as a radio archive of experimental artists’ interior worlds, these that are externalized through their work, and the interchange through artist communities. This is an contemporary archive of experimental art-making in communities around the world, the inherent politicism of art, and the social change this may or may not represent. In short, it is intended mostly as a look into these small worlds, with the idea of generating more thought on both human fallibility and potential, and how art can engender hope. Each section here is meant as a studio visit, but also a glimpse into the doings of a wider community and the cultural, political repercussions of experimental sound and art-making.

"unknown sounds" is produced by Elena Botts and organized by the unknown sound collective, an experimental international multimedia collective.

Elena Botts has lived many places in the northeast and abroad. Elena's poems and writings have been published in over a hundred literary and scholarly magazines. Elena has been the winner of four poetry contests and has had many books published. Elena's visual artwork has won numerous awards and has been exhibited in various galleries. Elena has collaborated on, released, and installed sound and moving image artwork, as well as multimedia and conceptual art, and has organized a multimedia collective for this purpose, while pursuing graduate school and academic, policy, and activist work and projects.