I have always loved exchanging art with other artists in my own country and around the world because it makes it possible for us to share our creations without having to do it through the gallery system. It stimulates self-expression and creates community while giving us all a way to get our art into the world.
My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail)
Carla Cryptic
PO Box 1274
Berkeley, CA 94701-1274
USA
Hmmmm. Hummmmm can certainly be a problem as it is very disturbing when listening to the voice. It is best to try to find out where it is coming from and eliminate it rather than record with it then try and remove it.
When recording poetry I have two hints, rehearse the reading well before going to recording and listen carefully to what has been recorded several times to make sure the sound/reading is what you want people to hear. You would be surprised at how many recordings I receive which are so bad I am unable to restore them and I am an expert in sound restoration.
Of the 49 CDs VEC audio has published about half are spoken word/audio drama/sound poetry. All my poetry is written to be spoken. Poets were speaking their poetry for thousands of years before the development of paper! At your request I will send you a CD or two of some VEC words.
Were you aware that the Mail-art Dada Skank song on my page has a link to the original recording? It's in red at the top of the song.
Thanks for your contact.
Best greetings
Carla that sounds good. Your reading is perfect. I suspect that if you hadn't been busy removing the hum there would have been more cream in your voice, a meatier sound, but the clarity of sound has a character most acceptable. One of the horror trips for me at the moment is that often people are listening on laptop computer loudspeakers or cheap little headsets, but in this case the sound you have produced is probably perfect and will survive such treatment! I have my computer connected to a Denon amp running Auratone monitors (I think Auratone is made in your neck of the woods) It's late and I didn't dare give your poem a loud test but I will tomorrow.
I dropped some CDs in the post for you today, please let me know when they arrive.
I'll come back when I've had another listen.
I played the poem again today only this time I gave it some welly (English expression for bloody loud) and the sound is good, however I do miss a little of the warmth of lower frequencies. Considering your success you should get the sound system sorted out and record more... I sense a CD in the offing.
greets
Ciao CARLA, thank you! I'm very sorry I've been very busy in the last few days and a bit tired as well... that's why I couldn't follow you on Facebook...
Have a nice weekend!
Lancillotto
Dear Carla, am sorry you can't sleep enough... I take some pills every night to sleep good... be patient... I know how it is bad not sleeping well and enough... I've lots of palpitation after chemotheraphy...we are fighting against illness and I think we finally win!
Have a nice evening. here is 8:57 p.m. ...
Lancillotto
Thanks Carla,
I take EN 1mg/ml against anxiety and I sleep all night long...but ask your doctor... I've been ill since 1992... so be hopeful...
Besos,
Lancillotto
Hi Carla, Thank you very much for that wonderful postcard. Loved it! I will be down in the Bay Area at some point in the Summer and I really would love to say hello and hang out for a little while. I am getting ready to drive to Chicago now for a little adventure, but after that I will be down in your area to visit my folks and friends and I will let you know when that is. Test
hi carla
thanks so much for the beautiful wooden atc...did you get any mail from me? i hope the post didn't lose the package i sent a few weeks ago! i have another too, but i need to get stamps and i've had a sick puppy and i've been in a mood.....wahh! anyhow, i'm trying to get going again and hope to see you soon!
<3
xti
oh good! i am glad you received this one! i have some others too. email me about when it is convenient for you to get together....
=) hope to ttyl
<3
xti
Hello Carla to publish our works of Mail Art or Stamp Art, times that to participate of some project of the Friend Peter küstermann. I am passing a project of it you to participate.
MAILART & PERFORMANCE-FESTIVAL„LA VIE EN ROSE“in Minden/Germany 31.July – 2. August 2009
with MAIL ART POST OFFICE in the market squareand an official festival postage stamp by German post Deutsche Post.Our event is part of the citywide mega-event „FOREVER FRIENDS IN EUROPE“to celebrate the peace after the famous „Battle of Minden“ 250 years ago. Plus performance nights on 2 stagesplus several exhibitions: „eMANcipation“, „No War in MY City“, and more…for details see: http://www.schlacht-bei-minden.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=40&Itemid=64&lang=en Free hostel accomodation, or hotel rooms with culture discount.Rich meals for 3€. Book your travels now yourself!Reserve your beds with us! Angela + Peter NetmailP O Box 2644D 32383 Mail Art Mekka MindenGermoney UtdMobile 0049 178 761 763 7 -- hallo vielen dank für die mail. mit besten grüßen peter küstermann vorsitzender des kulturvereins wolkenstein e.V.herausgeber des kulturmagazins oswaldgalerist im kulturzentrum BÜZ poetry-slammaster im kulturzentrum BÜZ mail art mekka mindendozent am bildungswerk und forumdozent an der bundeswehrfachschule berlin postfach 2644D 32383 MINDENGermoney Utd. mobil 0178 761 763 7www.netmailart.de mobile 0049 (0)178 - 761 763 7 www.netmailart.de Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger01 -- hallo vielen dank für die mail. mit besten grüßen peter küstermannvorsitzender des kulturvereins wolkenstein e.V.herausgeber des kulturmagazins oswaldgalerist im kulturzentrum BÜZ poetry-slammaster im kulturzentrum BÜZ mail art mekka mindendozent am bildungswerk und forumdozent an der bundeswehrfachschule berlin postfach 2644D 32383 MINDENGermoney Utd. mobil 0178 761 763 7www.netmailart.de mobile 0049 (0)178 - 761 763 7 www.netmailart.de
that sounds good, that way there is no pressure for either of us trying to rush it in. thanks again for your beautiful woodprint/eraser carving, its lovely. if you get confused my email is listed on my profile page
mmeri.sol@gmail.com
Hello Carla, I Thought that I had already told you as much as I have liked your sheets, they arrived to month principle. Do I believe that I left you a note in some blog..? I am not sure...
I adore your stamps, I like the xylography and that Hispanic or Mexican air that you gave him... Thank you thank you for your stupendous and erotic sheets
¡¡¡ you make great stamps. !!!
Yes. Your music is good and the person who made the comment that you could do better with better recording equipment was correct. You obviously have the touch and you sure as mushrooms are fungus have the voice. I'm impressed Carla. Go forward.
Hi Carla,
I'm glad my envelope arrived at your place and you liked it. (I was a bit worried because they took quite a long time, and I thought it might have something to do with the ancient stamps I used; I even got an envelope returned to my house without any obvious reason).
As you say, both lino and eraser cutting have their (dis)advantages. I like the erasers for the small stuff.
Thanks for the link to your songs. At the moment of writing I listen to your singing the Valentine song. Your really a multitalented person :-)
Regards, greetings, Jan-Willem
hi carla
i replied to your message on fb...this thursday the 7th of may works out for me. just let me know. i left my phone if you want to call and confirm or i will just look in my inbox(es) here and at facebook.
hugs!
xtina
I have a load of friends up there, and have visited the country 17 times, if i get the money together i intend to buy a small house there and spend more time there in the land of Ice and fire. If you look at my videos on Youtube (search vecdor) you will see that i also make art there! best of all I have friends who have a sheep farm in the most remote area of Iceland so I get fantastic isolation and solitude each year.... good for the soul! Iceland is a paradise for bird watchers and geologists and the Vikings are the coolest race i know. I'll leave some space in my backpack for you to ride along with me OK? Photo is from my bedroom on the sheep farm. best greets
Dear Carla, I am also glad to meet you and your fine work here! I read your words on your page. Yes, (cognition and)
communication are the beginning of all human life...
Greetings HeMi
You are welcome, but please don't wriggle the back-pack is heavy and awkward enough as it is! I was considering a blog but where I will be there are no telephones or Internet cafes. The photo is by Karli of me with Maggers (Magnús Pálsson) on a bright May day two years ago.
Of course I will take the cameras with me so sing sweetly for me Carla and I'll send you a CD when back here.
Hi Carla,
this side is working well. I wanted to see pictures from "Day of Dead" but now I read that the administrator had canceld something. Sorry for my english. Have a nice day - Wolfgang.
I think the poem is very good.
Mood above perfection every time.
I would have knocked a few db off the music or perhaps added a gentle echo to it, the reading is A1 fine, any slower and it could have become tacky, right now it is true.. The purpose is correct.
Thanks for the link, you're doing real good Carla. Touch my soul again any time you want.
thanks so much for coming last night, your support meant the world to me, you are a special special wonderful-filled human being, and i feel so lucky to have you in my life...and please thank the teddy graham for bringing you down from the north side =0)
hugs
xtina
Carla that is really very good, I have downloaded it.
I'm still mulling over the 'half-blood'reason for hatred! How bloody sad.
Last night I watched a documentary on the Beatles and saw Americans burning their albums when John mentioned that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Spare us!
I can't listen to the Beatles since John was shot to death, So sad for all that we have lost.
I watched the several hours of documentary and went to bed with very mixed up feelings, glad to have lived through those times, sad that they slipped by.
Come see Pierpaolo Limongelli's video
which is about his art, including mail art, and which is accompanied by one of my recent collaborative songs (with Drakonis). It's really cool and I'm glad to have been a part of it indirectly. :)
Hi Carla, I was sorry to hear about your Sis-in-Law and Godfather. I have been there myself and know how it is. I made both of them a card and am sending those off tomorrow morning. It's a rough road - I feel for 'em.
Send 18 works of size 14.8 X 21 cm (A5 vertical), numbered and signed,
for making up a series of volumes with different artists in each. Each
volume will contain a minimum of 14 artworks, one per artist. Modify
each copy in order to make them unique originals. All techniques:
printings, drawings, paintings, photographs, collages...
Each participant will receive a volume.
Deadline: october, 2010.
Send your art works to:
Carlos Botana
General Sanjurjo, 62 - 2º
15006 A Coruña
Galicia - España/Spain
LIMITE, SCAMBIO, SEGNO
LIMIT, EXCHANGE, SIGN
A tribute for the city of Portogruaro through a project involving art through mail. The keywords chosen as the theme are the motif of its foundation, joined in a common flow.
Limit
border between earth and water,
the river harbor and the trade routes,
the channels and the gardens of the palaces,
a constant reference to a change in system, material and colour.
Exchange
not only of goods but also of colours and scents,
artistic and architectural influences,
mutual knowledge, therefore culture.
Sign
a condition of consent expressed in gesture, the conclusion of an agreement,
a trace superimposed on many others:
whose meaning is beyond the sum of the parts.
Project by Rizoo Group, Tiziana Baracchi and Pro Loco di Portogruaro
Format and dimension of work:
square of maximum size 21 X 21 cm
No e-mail
Hail Carla, I like it, in fact I like it a lot. Your reading is supreme, the bass is perfectly complimentary, I did not like the sax, you could have left that out for me.
Fine, you handle the raw emotion extremely well and the effect filter again is perfectly complimentary. I love the fact that your vocalisation renders musical instruments totally unnecessary. Thanks for cutting me in on it.
Lancillotto Bellini
Have a nive weekend!
Take care,
Lancillotto
Mar 26, 2009
Judy Skolnick
Mar 26, 2009
Rod Summers / VEC
Hmmmm. Hummmmm can certainly be a problem as it is very disturbing when listening to the voice. It is best to try to find out where it is coming from and eliminate it rather than record with it then try and remove it.
When recording poetry I have two hints, rehearse the reading well before going to recording and listen carefully to what has been recorded several times to make sure the sound/reading is what you want people to hear. You would be surprised at how many recordings I receive which are so bad I am unable to restore them and I am an expert in sound restoration.
Of the 49 CDs VEC audio has published about half are spoken word/audio drama/sound poetry. All my poetry is written to be spoken. Poets were speaking their poetry for thousands of years before the development of paper! At your request I will send you a CD or two of some VEC words.
Were you aware that the Mail-art Dada Skank song on my page has a link to the original recording? It's in red at the top of the song.
Thanks for your contact.
Best greetings
rod
Mar 28, 2009
Gik Juri
Mar 30, 2009
Rod Summers / VEC
I dropped some CDs in the post for you today, please let me know when they arrive.
I'll come back when I've had another listen.
Mar 31, 2009
Rod Summers / VEC
greets
Apr 1, 2009
Rod Summers / VEC
Thank you for marrying a Brit, my wife did the same!
greets
Apr 2, 2009
Alexandre Gomes Vilas Boas
On Wednesday, post here in Brazil, my mailart for you.
I hope you enjoy.
Fraternal greetings from Brazil!
Apr 7, 2009
Lancillotto Bellini
Have a nice weekend!
Lancillotto
Apr 9, 2009
Lancillotto Bellini
Have a nice evening. here is 8:57 p.m. ...
Lancillotto
Apr 9, 2009
Lancillotto Bellini
I take EN 1mg/ml against anxiety and I sleep all night long...but ask your doctor... I've been ill since 1992... so be hopeful...
Besos,
Lancillotto
Apr 10, 2009
Test Tower
Apr 11, 2009
Alexandre Gomes Vilas Boas
are already on the way.
Greetings from Brazil!
Apr 13, 2009
Xtina Solano
thanks so much for the beautiful wooden atc...did you get any mail from me? i hope the post didn't lose the package i sent a few weeks ago! i have another too, but i need to get stamps and i've had a sick puppy and i've been in a mood.....wahh! anyhow, i'm trying to get going again and hope to see you soon!
<3
xti
Apr 17, 2009
Xtina Solano
=) hope to ttyl
<3
xti
Apr 18, 2009
Celestino Neto
MAILART & PERFORMANCE-FESTIVAL„LA VIE EN ROSE“in Minden/Germany 31.July – 2. August 2009
with MAIL ART POST OFFICE in the market squareand an official festival postage stamp by German post Deutsche Post.Our event is part of the citywide mega-event „FOREVER FRIENDS IN EUROPE“to celebrate the peace after the famous „Battle of Minden“ 250 years ago. Plus performance nights on 2 stagesplus several exhibitions: „eMANcipation“, „No War in MY City“, and more…for details see: http://www.schlacht-bei-minden.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=40&Itemid=64&lang=en Free hostel accomodation, or hotel rooms with culture discount.Rich meals for 3€. Book your travels now yourself!Reserve your beds with us! Angela + Peter NetmailP O Box 2644D 32383 Mail Art Mekka MindenGermoney UtdMobile 0049 178 761 763 7 -- hallo vielen dank für die mail. mit besten grüßen peter küstermann vorsitzender des kulturvereins wolkenstein e.V.herausgeber des kulturmagazins oswaldgalerist im kulturzentrum BÜZ poetry-slammaster im kulturzentrum BÜZ mail art mekka mindendozent am bildungswerk und forumdozent an der bundeswehrfachschule berlin postfach 2644D 32383 MINDENGermoney Utd. mobil 0178 761 763 7www.netmailart.de mobile 0049 (0)178 - 761 763 7 www.netmailart.de Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger01 -- hallo vielen dank für die mail. mit besten grüßen peter küstermannvorsitzender des kulturvereins wolkenstein e.V.herausgeber des kulturmagazins oswaldgalerist im kulturzentrum BÜZ poetry-slammaster im kulturzentrum BÜZ mail art mekka mindendozent am bildungswerk und forumdozent an der bundeswehrfachschule berlin postfach 2644D 32383 MINDENGermoney Utd. mobil 0178 761 763 7www.netmailart.de mobile 0049 (0)178 - 761 763 7 www.netmailart.de
Apr 18, 2009
Xtina Solano
mmeri.sol@gmail.com
<3 sweetie!
xti
Apr 19, 2009
El Taller de Zenon
I adore your stamps, I like the xylography and that Hispanic or Mexican air that you gave him... Thank you thank you for your stupendous and erotic sheets
¡¡¡ you make great stamps. !!!
Apr 20, 2009
Rod Summers / VEC
May 2, 2009
Alexandre Gomes Vilas Boas
I am glad you enjoyed the work.
I will be happy to receive your work too!
Greetings from Brazil!
Alexandre
May 4, 2009
Jan-Willem Doornenbal
I'm glad my envelope arrived at your place and you liked it. (I was a bit worried because they took quite a long time, and I thought it might have something to do with the ancient stamps I used; I even got an envelope returned to my house without any obvious reason).
As you say, both lino and eraser cutting have their (dis)advantages. I like the erasers for the small stuff.
Thanks for the link to your songs. At the moment of writing I listen to your singing the Valentine song. Your really a multitalented person :-)
Regards, greetings, Jan-Willem
May 5, 2009
Xtina Solano
i replied to your message on fb...this thursday the 7th of may works out for me. just let me know. i left my phone if you want to call and confirm or i will just look in my inbox(es) here and at facebook.
hugs!
xtina
May 5, 2009
Test Tower
May 13, 2009
Rod Summers / VEC

I have a load of friends up there, and have visited the country 17 times, if i get the money together i intend to buy a small house there and spend more time there in the land of Ice and fire. If you look at my videos on Youtube (search vecdor) you will see that i also make art there! best of all I have friends who have a sheep farm in the most remote area of Iceland so I get fantastic isolation and solitude each year.... good for the soul! Iceland is a paradise for bird watchers and geologists and the Vikings are the coolest race i know. I'll leave some space in my backpack for you to ride along with me OK? Photo is from my bedroom on the sheep farm. best greetsMay 16, 2009
Ruud Janssen

The Sea from above..... (flying from the insel to the main-land in Greece) 2008May 17, 2009
Judy Skolnick
May 19, 2009
Henning Mittendorf

Dear Carla, I am also glad to meet you and your fine work here! I read your words on your page. Yes, (cognition and)communication are the beginning of all human life...
Greetings HeMi
May 20, 2009
Rod Summers / VEC

You are welcome, but please don't wriggle the back-pack is heavy and awkward enough as it is! I was considering a blog but where I will be there are no telephones or Internet cafes. The photo is by Karli of me with Maggers (Magnús Pálsson) on a bright May day two years ago.Of course I will take the cameras with me so sing sweetly for me Carla and I'll send you a CD when back here.
May 20, 2009
Rod Summers / VEC
nudity study by rod
May 20, 2009
Mail Art Martha
May 20, 2009
Mail Art Martha
May 21, 2009
Judy Skolnick
Jun 8, 2009
Wolfgang Skodd
this side is working well. I wanted to see pictures from "Day of Dead" but now I read that the administrator had canceld something. Sorry for my english. Have a nice day - Wolfgang.
Aug 4, 2009
Rod Summers / VEC
Mood above perfection every time.
I would have knocked a few db off the music or perhaps added a gentle echo to it, the reading is A1 fine, any slower and it could have become tacky, right now it is true.. The purpose is correct.
Thanks for the link, you're doing real good Carla. Touch my soul again any time you want.
Aug 5, 2009
Rod Summers / VEC
Aug 31, 2009
Xtina Solano
hugs
xtina
Sep 6, 2009
Rod Summers / VEC
I'm still mulling over the 'half-blood'reason for hatred! How bloody sad.
Last night I watched a documentary on the Beatles and saw Americans burning their albums when John mentioned that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Spare us!
I can't listen to the Beatles since John was shot to death, So sad for all that we have lost.
I watched the several hours of documentary and went to bed with very mixed up feelings, glad to have lived through those times, sad that they slipped by.
Sep 6, 2009
Fast Eyes
Sep 16, 2009
Carla Cryptic
which is about his art, including mail art, and which is accompanied by one of my recent collaborative songs (with Drakonis). It's really cool and I'm glad to have been a part of it indirectly. :)
Sep 22, 2009
Jennifer Kosharek
Oct 28, 2009
Test Tower
Oct 30, 2009
Carlos I. Botana
Collective book of mail art.
Send 18 works of size 14.8 X 21 cm (A5 vertical), numbered and signed,
for making up a series of volumes with different artists in each. Each
volume will contain a minimum of 14 artworks, one per artist. Modify
each copy in order to make them unique originals. All techniques:
printings, drawings, paintings, photographs, collages...
Each participant will receive a volume.
Deadline: october, 2010.
Send your art works to:
Carlos Botana
General Sanjurjo, 62 - 2º
15006 A Coruña
Galicia - España/Spain
Greetings.
Carlos Botana
Nov 7, 2009
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
May all go well: "PERASTIKA" as we say in Greek,
Katerina
Nov 10, 2009
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, Carla,and get well wishes for Jesica.
Hope all is well.
Katerina
Nov 26, 2009
James Chester
I'm not Berti. ;-)
James Chester
aka CBJames
Dec 9, 2009
Judy Skolnick
Jan 19, 2010
Carla Cryptic
Jan 20, 2010
TIZIANA BARACCHI
LIMIT, EXCHANGE, SIGN
A tribute for the city of Portogruaro through a project involving art through mail. The keywords chosen as the theme are the motif of its foundation, joined in a common flow.
Limit
border between earth and water,
the river harbor and the trade routes,
the channels and the gardens of the palaces,
a constant reference to a change in system, material and colour.
Exchange
not only of goods but also of colours and scents,
artistic and architectural influences,
mutual knowledge, therefore culture.
Sign
a condition of consent expressed in gesture, the conclusion of an agreement,
a trace superimposed on many others:
whose meaning is beyond the sum of the parts.
Project by Rizoo Group, Tiziana Baracchi and Pro Loco di Portogruaro
Format and dimension of work:
square of maximum size 21 X 21 cm
No e-mail
No returns, no jury, no fee, no sales
Exhibition in Portogruaro, 2010
documentation online: www.rizoo.altervista.org
info: daliobaracchi@hotmail.com – aurogentile@tiscali.it
Deadline to be received March 31, 2010
Send to:
Proloco di Portogruaro
via Cavour 33
30026 Portogruaro (VE) - ITALY
Jan 22, 2010
Rod Summers / VEC
hugs
Jan 28, 2010
Rod Summers / VEC
Feb 2, 2010