F'loom Repertoire

Here's a selection of pieces from our large and ever-growing repertoire. Whatever can be spoken, sung, or imagined ... can be f'loomed.

(and so on.)
"he knew as a child that the opposite of life is not death but life. he dreams of crimson skies and ruby forests. he never dreams. he hates above all to walk alone in the woods. walking is his passion. (he's good folks.)"

(de)Nature(d) Boy
F'loomular de-interpretation of Eden Ahbez's gorgeous melancholic classic.

10 Possible Outcomes of Gnegg's Space-Time Paradox
A set of speculations on the potential dire repercussions of time-travel paradox violation.

At the Still Point of the Turning World
A distillation and three-headed polysemical cover of Eliot's Four Quartets.

Brickle
A primer in speaking F'loom.

Cable Ready
A darkly comical look at the consequences of watching TV.

Caedmon is Icumen In
A lovely Bess solo based on Caedmon's Hymn and Sumer is Icumen In.

Caravanaggio
A lugubriously warped cover of a tune by The Duke.

Compact Red Horseback Hood
A new, polylinguistic look at an old cautionary classic.

Der Panther
A sprechstimme version of Rilke's well-known poem.

Dick and Jane
A post-Freudian, pre-prandial romp through reading primers.

Dirty Stuff
Rick channels Tom Waits to a F'loom rhythm section.

Egg of Love  
An anatomically correct profession of gushing love. Great date piece!

Essay on Man
A musicolingual analysis of the state of contemporary homo sapiens sapiens.

F'loom  
Our beloved theme song.

Free Bun
A virtuosic arrangement of a rhythmic string of words. F'loom in its string trio mode.

Fuitfiat!
Rick and Robert do Joyce (James, that is).

Full Fathom Five  
The systematic de-composition of a well-known verse from Shakespeare's "The Tempest."

Ghi Terakita
F'loom as mouth percussion ensemble performing variations on a North Indian tabla theme.

Glossolalia
F'loom speaking in tongues. Catango, baybey!

Hey Mama Numina
F'loom possessed by polylinguistic celtic mouthmusicians.

Hlahla!
A wild piece of Zaum poetry, set to F'loom.

I'm So Excited
F'loom in dance mode.

Impressions de Québec
A maniacal looping obsession on five phrases of pidgin-Québécois.

Jolifanto Bambla
F'loom lovingly covers Hugo Ball's meisterwerk.

Just for a Few Minutes
A polyphonic gushing forth of non sequiturs all containing the word "just."

Lecture on Nothing
An excerpt from Cage's famed lecture as filtered through the sensibility of BeRiRo (Bess, Rick, Robert).

Logos
An ever-growing set of short 'n sweet wordplays.

Lullaby
A gentle nocturne engineered to calm feral infants.

Metcalf Triptych
Three excerpts from the great work of Paul Metcalf: Apalache, Megrim, Patagoni.

Millennium Mon Amour
F'loom's take on the much-hyped, much-hohum coming of the Next Millennium.

Mother Goose Études  
A set of studies that transforms the all-too familiar into the deliciously unknown.

naminedamine
An excerpt from Ulysses, performed in a deep Texas drawl ... (Don't tell JJ!)

Narcissus
A "3V spiral transform" journey through the head of a man in complex love.

Om Chi-Chi
A polyrhythmic, polymetric, polyheaded piece of mouth percussion.

OnLine:-)  
An affectionate doo-wop tribute to the World Wide Web.

Oy Channukah!
A klezmoF'loomular spin on a traditional holiday classic.

PostModern Dilemma
A cogent summing up of the postmodern condition.

Quantum Elementum
The calling forth of nature's five primordial elements: Earth, Air, Water, Fire, and Ice.

Seven Ways of Looking at "The Emperor of Ice Cream"
F'loomular variations on a classic Wallace Stevens poem.

squamous Double drab mojo  
A unison shout of idiot ecstacy!

starhums
A set of rarefied, abstract e. e. cummings poems performed by F'loom in its three-headed poet mode.

Taki Dom
Yet another adventure in polyrhythmic mouth-percussion. Listen for the extended improvisation halfway through.

The Girl from Iwo Jima
F'loom covers Antônio Carlos Jobim. Listen for the polymetry: 3/4 vs. 4/4 vs. 5/4.

The Postman-Hill Victory Correspondence
Neil Postman (contemporary media analyst) and Professor Harold Hill (of Music Man fame) butt heads in this crazed indictment of modern times.

The Second Coming  
F'loom covers W. B. Yeats' millennial poem.

This Just In!
Saturday Night Live meets Firesign Theater meets Marx Brothers in this exegesis on news broadcasts.

Western Wind
F'loom in a cappella mode sings cantabile callosum.

Who's on First
A new take on an old (Abbott and Costello) classic.

Ye Shall Receive
A scathing roller-coaster ride through the language and (un)ethics of advertising.

YesMiEl
A demented medley of three classic pop songs.