2010: Reconnaissance Fly

Polly Moller’s collected and adapted spoetry texts form the basis for a new “spong cycle”—a song cycle based on spoetry. Entitled “Flower Futures,” this otherworldly ten-movement work shifts constantly in imagery and sound. Movements feature free improvisation, graphic scores, and full scored music, each with a spoem as its basis. Moller’s band, Reconnaissance Fly, will perform “Flower Futures.”

The brainchild of flautist/composer Polly Moller, Reconnaissance Fly features electronic artist Amar Chaudhary, bassist Tim Walters, and special guest percussionist and drummer Moe! Staiano in addition to Ms. Moller’s work on flute and voice. They’re a band of composers, whose mission is to interpret spoetry (a mix of spoken word and poetry)—the glorious gifts of the internet, designed to evade your spam filter, captured by them and set to music intermixed with electroacoustic music and multimedia art.

Polly Moller is a composer, improviser, and performance artist based in Oakland, California, USA. Her current obsession with found text, specifically “spoetry”—the poetry generated by the internet in its efforts to evade the spam filters of innocent netizens—drives the compositions she writes for her band, Reconnaissance Fly.

Artist (photo by Photographer)