Boring Formless Nonsense

eldritch Priest is a composer, writer and co-artistic director of the experimental music collective Neither/Nor. He completed his PhD at the Institute for Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University where he pursued research in the fields of the avant-garde, phenomenology, and philosophies of experience. eldritch was also a visiting researcher at Cornell University's Society for the Humanities where he studied with senior scholar in residence, Brian Massumi. eldritch's essays on musical aesthetics and avant-garde poetics have appeared in various academic journals including Postmodern Culture, Radical Musicology and Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature. In addition to his academic work, eldritch is active as acomposer whose works have been performed across North America and Europe.

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