THE MUSIC TOUCHING ITSELF
by ARIEL ABERG-RIGER AND NOAH FALCK
SHE IMAGINED A FUTURE CUT FROM STONE
by ARIEL ABERG-RIGER AND NOAH FALCK
Behind the Work
“We both have a big love for Ray Johnson, and in the summer of 2024 we started sending each other art in the mail and called it the Buffalo Correspondance School. Poems, collages, found objects — the only rule was that it had to have an opening — be somewhat unfinished — so the other person could respond and keep the correspondance growing.
The film stills are one series that grew out of the correspondance. Noah wrote poems at dawn in his attic in a long rambling shared Google Doc. Ariel pulled out lines as the poems were mid-process, and paired them with found photographs from the archive. As she matched them, she sent them back to Noah, who would then write more lines for the imaginary films that emerged.”
Ariel Aberg-Riger is an artist and author whose debut book America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History met with critical acclaim (2023 Kirkus Prize, 2024 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist). She’s created visual stories in magazines (The Atlantic, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Teen Vogue), performed them at Carnegie Hall, projected them onto the side of an abandoned grain elevator, exhibited them in galleries, painted them throughout towns as murals, and mailed them across the country as the co-founder of the Buffalo Correspondance School. She lives with her wife and two kids in Buffalo, New York.
Noah Falck is the author of Exclusions (finalist for the 2020 Believer Book Award for poetry) and the co-authored collection Prerecorded Weather (winner of the 2022 James Tate Poetry Prize). His work has appeared in The Baffler, Beloit Poetry Journal, Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Poetry Daily, Poets.org, The Slowdown, and anthologized in Poem-A-Day 365 Poems for Every Occasion. In 2013, he founded the Silo City Reading Series, a multimedia poetry event series that takes place inside a 120-foot-high, 100-year-old abandoned grain elevator. He lives in Buffalo, New York.
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