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"Steven
B. Smith is founder of the underground zine 'ArtCrimes.'
[He is] an outspoken poet and inveterate artist
[whose] transgressive art works [are] collected
by renegade art enthusiasts and mainstream corporations
alike. His magnetic style has extended to the
web with his Agent
of Chaos site, featuring an impressive
archive of his art and poetry" Tisha Nemeth,
senior editor. Cool
Cleveland 1/7-14, 2004. Amy Sparks
observed: "If Cleveland ever celebrates its
eccentrics, Steven B. Smith will be in the top
five." "Surreal
Thing: Eccentric Artist and Collector Steve Smith
Bares All," FreeTimes.
March 15, 2000.
Peter Conklin
Ball has been making music on synthesizers for
over twenty-five years, writing and recording,
playing and singing on countless original songs.
Some of his musical highlights include playing
giant raves; throwing rock concerts on the high
bluffs overlooking Lake Erie; and opening a show
for Dr. Timothy Leary. Although Ball has recorded
dozens of albums with his band Apartment One,
none have ever been released. He is almost totally
underground and unknown. He knows that the music
business can be a bitter mistress. Still, he carries
on. In the meantime, he is having a good laugh
at his website: Ball
and All.com.
These
two icons of Cleveland's underground art scene
- one excelling in art and poetry, the other in
music and performance - have finally gotten together.
According
to Smith's account: "Peter’s been urging
me to record for 20 years. In January 2004,
in my 2nd year of no employment benefits, I gave
it a try – to my great dismay. Took
6 months for me to loosen up enough to start making
a serious fool of myself; but that is when the
fun began. I write
the words -- take them to Peter. Peter's place
is floor to ceiling keyboards, theremins, synthesizers,
microphones – all run thru his computer for
recording. He starts playing music, not knowing
what I’m going to say, and I start saying,
not knowing what he’s going to play.
When done, he burns me a cd of the day’s
jam. For one time thru unrehearsed impromptu jams,
we do okay.
"Side
benefits – my public poetry reading style
has improved from boring to enthusiastic; and
I’ve written 10 times more poems than before,
just to feed the music machine."
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