Earlid | Languido – spring 2026

A half-dozen poets-sound-makers-performers-vocalizers comprise the Electroacoustical Poetical Society (EAPS). Monikers such as The Poets, sometimes The Electricians, defy genres and categories.

EAPS is the invention of American sound artist Marjorie Van Halteren. Since 2021, she’s gathered a corps of artists evolving to the current sextet. From her studio in France, she reaches participating artists in Italy and in the Eastern/Midwest/Western U.S.

Twice a year the groups’ ears collectively tune to one word to guide or intrude creative proclivities. Cobbled together, its broadcast compels further mystery. The edges of each artist’s work blur as all edges do in artistic radiophonics.

When the pieces are banged together, a resonance is generated.
—Marjorie Van Halteren

This human-made artistry without gatekeepers is a hunger we don’t always know we need. Language and sound act as cue and plummet and propulsion.

The ‘word’ is languido. The artists are: Ilaria Boffa; Tony Brewer; Brian Price; Joan Schuman; Marjorie Van Halteren; Gregory Whitehead.