Creators
Daniele Del Monaco
Daniele Del Monaco is a composer and multi intrumentalist. For more than ten years he was the youngest member of Nuova Consonanza (Ennio Morricone, Domenico Guaccero, Franco Evangelisti, etc), an association of musicians and composers established in Rome in the late 1950s, where he immersed himself in the creation and promotion of experimental, electronic and avant-garde music. He has developed personal research that converges experiences of radical improvisation, intuitive music, the influence of rock and songs, and collaboration with creative improvisers and musicians from around the world.
In 2007, he became a founding member of the multidisciplinary collective LCP, producing multimedia live shows at the crossroads of music and performance art, involving classical musicians as well as improvisers.
Among LCP's productions, one should mention Psicosusina Turboaccelerata (LCP 2013), an interactive multimedia storytelling for video and instruments. The show had several developments in the following years both in Italy and in the USA (Psychoplum!) thanks to the artistic partnership with the Marco Cappelli Trio (Ken Filiano, Satoshi Takeishi, and Marco Cappelli).
Some of the more recent works include the Capelli / Filliano / Takeishi trio in Brooklyn NY, Ensemble Dissonanzen in Naples, a trio with the singer Maura Guerrera and the sitar player Bert Cornelis, Nicholas Isherwood's VoxNova Italia and, of course, The Zone.
Denver Butson
Denver Butson has published two books of poems, triptych (The Commoner Press, 1999) and Mechanical Birds (St. Andrews College Press, 2001). His poems also appear in grace by Pietro Costa (Luquer Street Press, 2003), in Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (edited by Billy Collins for Random House, 2002), in Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English (edited by the late Agha Shahid Ali for Wesleyan, 2001), and in numerous journals. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Deanna Pickard
In 2003, Luquer Street Press published Deanna Pickard’s first collection of poetry, In Dreams We Kiss Ourselves Good-bye. Pickard’s poems have also appeared in Poetry, Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, New England Review, The New Republic, and other journals. She has received two Ohio Arts Individual Artists Fellowships, two Montgomery County Individual Artists Fellowships, and four nominations for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems are included in two anthologies: Passages North Anthology, A Decade of Good Writing (Milkweed Editions, 1990) and I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio (University of Akron Press, 2002). Pickard was named Ohio Poet of the Year in 2003, and her poems have been twice featured on Poetry Daily’s popular poetry website. In 2004, Vincent Brothers Review will publish a new chapbook of hers. Pickard lives in Bellbrook, Ohio.