Brought together by the sea, Geo Wyex and S*an D. Henry-Smith find themselves in affinitied exiles, addressing the under, what murks below sea level. As artists/poets/performers, vocalization, improvisation, and recorded sound are elemental to their practices. Breath begets all: a shared thesis between them. Recorded and dispersed speech intercedes an obliterative constellation of songs, sounds, shards, and signals from a real and imagined archive of black and trans belonging, enabling and encouraging listening: namely to the ghosts in their ears.

Together as Depth Address, the duo don the wandering cacophony-making characters they take on in their individual practices, coming together to investigate differing and shared practices in performance and poetry/performance-poetry/music and poetry/music and performance/sound outside of entertainment, in a world in which entertainment is a system predicated on subjugation. Playing together in ATM, Wyex’s studio in Rotterdam, the two convene in study and in honor of their absented forbearers, taking cues from Cecil Taylor and Akilah Oliver—not exclusively, but particularly—as guides who embodied their disciplines, expanding poetry, music, voice, theater, and collaborative practice.

Questioning with the tools in their hands—Wyex’s unprepared piano, jeweled with cowries, shells, screws, springs, bells, plastics, chains, his body, bells, coins, chimes, microphones, speakers, and other electronics creating an open feedback loop, and Henry-Smith’s semi-hollow guitar breathing in said feedback, speaking back in blues, glass, chains, syrup-thick overdrive, dub-informed delay, paired with an always listening looper that echoes back unexpected remnants of earlier voicings—and their emerging voices,

Depth Address

pursues something beyond the particulate -
old, composite, heavy, dense, funky, ill-fitting,
ongoing, indeterminate, and yet to arrive.
In a field of microphones, the artists activate and document the room.

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Geo - unprepared piano + electronics & engineering, voice

S*an - guitar + effects, voice, chains, glass

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Geo Wyex is an artist and educator who works in music, performance, sculpture, poetry, and sound. He often takes the form of various characters in his work, usually outcasts that counter an institutional narrative, and finds poetry in landscapes that are discounted. In doing so, he engages in processes of reclamation, re-envisioning communal experiences and invigorating them. His record, ATM FM, was released through Muck Studies Dept. in 2020. He is currently based between Rotterdam and New York.

S*an D. Henry-Smith is an artist working primarily in poetry and photography, and, by extension, vocal and sonic performance and publishing, engaging Black experimentalisms and collaborative practices. They are the author of Body Text (2016), Flotsam Suite: a strange and precarious life, or how we chronicled the little disasters & I won’t leave the dance floor til it’s out of my system (2019), Wild Peach (2020), the co-author (alongside Imani Elizabeth Jackson, with whom they collaborate as mouthfeel) of Consider the Tongue (2019), co-producer of twill split (2024) with Tavish Timothy, with whom they play as twill, and the director of Lunar New Year (2021).