This month's episode is a departure from the typical Specific Objects format. I invited two artists to the studio to share their work. What differed this time is that none of us had had prior exposure to the work in question; we were all encountering it for the first time. A meandering conversation ensued.

Evan Lindorff-Ellery is a sound and visual artist based in the Hudson Valley, and he is the owner and curator of Notice Recordings. His most recent albums are Cymbals and Night, on Aloe Records from Beijing, and Church Recordings from Monhegan, on Full Spectrum Records. You can find his personal work at evanlindorffellery.bandcamp.com and his work with Notice Recordings at noticerecordings.bandcamp.com.

Jeff Benjamin is an archaeologically inclined writer and artist, living and working in the gently eroded Silurian and Devonian plateau known as the Catskills. He is a member of several art/archaeology collectives, including The Hub for Speculative Fabulation Upon Incidental Observations (Copenhagen, Denmark), NanaDomain (Serifos, Greece) and The International Society of Antiquaries (Beacon, N.Y.) and Pebble in My Shoe Research Collective (Helsinki, Finland). He has a PhD in Archaeology from Columbia University, New York City and a Masters in Industrial Archaeology from Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan. To find out more about his work, email him at jeffreybenjamin@gmail.com.

"Specific Objects" is a monthly freeform discussion hosted by Miriam Atkin that invites artists from a variety of disciplines to describe, ponder, interrogate, interpret, and celebrate their current projects. The focus is on guests who live and work in the Hudson Valley/Catskills region, though people will occasionally visit from farther afield. Tune in to learn what artists in your neighborhood are thinking and making right now.

Miriam Atkin is a Catskills-based writer whose work concerns the possibilities of poetry as a medium in conversation with avant-garde film, music, and dance. She is cofounder of Pinsapo, an international publishing collective, and teaches writing around the Hudson Valley region, at Bard College and the Otisville Correctional Facility.

Intro music: "Sing Out" by Joanna Mattrey