Introduction Readers of the New Explorations Weblog may be, via the glowing review posted by Robert K. Logan (which has been subsequently re-posted across a variety of social media), already familiar with the latest publication by the provocative NYC-based poet, professor, and public intellectual, Adeena Karasick: Massaging the Medium: Seven Pechakuchas, published by the Institute
Upon the onset of winter, secluded in the wilds of Northern Ontario, I was inspired to revisit Glenn Gould’s contrapuntal radio composition The Idea of North (1967). This sonic artwork places the voices of various interviewees in a disjunct and non-narrative counterpoint, discussing their experiences of ‘north,’ meanwhile unified by the steady rumble of a
Salomé: Woman of Valor is a collaborative multimedia artwork—a multivalent and multisensory experience—crafted by poet and professor Adeena Karasick and composer and musician Frank London which de- and re-constructs the popular mythos of Salomé through a self-referential nexus of the printed word, visual art, and music. As Karasick notes in her introduction to the 2017 University