F'loom Categories

F'loom defies easy classification ... To help you get a sense of its warp and woof, here's a small subset of our repertoire organized into ten F'loomular categories.

Extended Vocalisation

Explorations of the sonic potential of the human voice, of the larynx as an instrument of vast extension and possibility.

F'loom
Full Fathom Five
m'ood Music

Extreme Covers

Radical (de)interpretations of well-known poems, stories, monologues, songs, etc. Making the familiar unfamiliar; reimbuing that which has grown trite with its original mystery. Some of our favorite covers:

Beatle s'Medley
The Second Coming
Who's on First

"Incomprehensible speech in an imaginary language, sometimes occurring in a trance state, an episode of religious ecstasy, or schizophrenia. Speaking in tongues." (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

Glossolalia
Impressions de Québec
Trialogue

F'loom's native soil. There exists pure language (semantics, meaning) and pure music (syntax, sound). Language music occupies the fertile and mysterious cresent between.

Mother Goose Études
Jolifanto Bambla
Quantum Elementum

A catchall for pieces that don't seem to fit comfortably in any other F'loom categories. Outré F'loom (is that a redundancy?).

10 Possible Outcomes of Gnegg's Space-Time Paradox
Caravanaggio
Logos

F'loom as polyrhythmic, polymetric, tongue-driven percussion ensemble.

Ghi Terakita
Om Chi-Chi
Taki Dom

F'loom speaks its mind regarding the oh-so-strange world of people, things, and ideas which it inhabits. One part Firesign Theater, one part Marx Brothers, and a healthy dash of premillennial Angst.

OnLine ;-)
This Just In!
Ye Shall Receive

Song

F'loom does its take on three-part a cappella singing.

(de)Nature(d) Boy
Hey Mama Numina
Western Wind

Three-Headed Poetry

F'loomified poems. F'loom as single, three-headed, musicolinguistic organism: Three heads in one.

Egg of Love
squamous Double drab mojo
starhums

The simultaneous rendering of two or more distinct verbal lines; three people saying different things at the same time. This technique calls for F'loom and the audience to perform aural/semantic multitasking.

Compact Red Horseback Hood
Just for a Few Minutes
Dick und Jane