GPS Poetics

by Simon Pomery

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“Hit record and mixed tracks from 2017-2018. Turns out I made an album, by mistake. old school BM guitar-&-drum machine, a Linn-Drum & a Fred Moten sample, Serge drone, FM synth kicks & a YMO interview & a robot, ‘shut up and listen to him play’, 808 acid funk, 280bpm Gescom memories, a taiko ramen break rounded & a just intonation poem - abc, the whole alphabet: performance from within fugitive study. I like to enjoy myself.” – Simon Pomery, London, 28 December 2018.


Blood Music is Simon Pomery: London-based, Irish-born producer, musician and maker of the “infinity-poem”. The name Blood Music is one English translation of the Japanese word “Kodo”: “mind-before-thought”, “children of the drum”, “music heard in the womb”, or rather, “blood music”. He has two 12”s on Diagonal Records – “Blood Music EP” (2013), and “Chicks/Badgering” (2015) – digis on dingn\dents and self-released works.

“GPS Poetics” is influenced by Pomery’s research into poetics and ethics: Fred Moten’s writings on poetry and improvisation from “In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition”, Joan Retallack on Gertrude Stein, John Cage and aleatoric composition in “The Poethical Wager”, and Édouard Glissant’s “Poetics of... more
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releases January 11, 2019

Live mix. Produced and performed by Simon Pomery, 2017-2018, Blood Music Studio. Slainté: Henry Rodrick and Swim. AD&D: Don Wyrm. EP: The Restless Worm. WHO#13.

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released January 10, 2019

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Simon Pomery London, UK

Blood Music (founded in London, 2007) is the name of Simon Pomery’s project for examining the internal, through physical and psychological processes. His works for drums, percussion, guitars, strings and electronics have crossed genres such as post-punk, no wave, modern classical, techno, electrocoustic, text-sound composition, and free improvisation. ... more

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