Artist
Armand Schwerner
Armand Schwerner is a U.S. avant-garde artist creating poetic sound artifacts that blend ancient inscriptions with experimental audio.
About
Armand Schwerner's artistic voyage takes the form of reconstructed echoes, where ancient Sumero-Akkadian inscriptions meet the avant-garde on fragile tape spools. The Tablets, a series of poetic sound artifacts, unravel linguistic mysteries through fractured syntax and deliberate lacunae. These pieces exist not just as textual relics but as auditory experiences, recorded on cassettes and reels that pulse with the resonance of ancient voices. Schwerner traverses the liminal space where poetry, sound, and archaeology converge. His work, particularly the 1980 edition of the Tablets I-XVIII, challenges the listener to inhabit a space between languages, where meaning shimmers and fades. Releases like Philoctetes (1977) and his eponymous C60 album (1977) testify to his interdisciplinary approach, using the medium of tape as both canvas and chisel. Schwerner's collaborations with Edition S Press and New Wilderness Audiographics further underscore his commitment to process-driven exploration, where the physicality of sound becomes sculptural.
