The musical works of
eldritch Priest are
exemplary models of artistic investigation for their depth of
engagement with the grey areas of artistic practice and fine
attention to the subtle crevices through which intensely
concatenated meaning can be wondrously glimpsed. His work
jumps selflessly into the figural problematic, setting up
aesthetic conjunctions that cannot be absorbed into reductive
categories but which resolutely unlock the floodgates of a
critical listening ethic. It is the listener in his/her
capacity as co-creator wherein eldritch’s progressive ethics
can be gleaned: art as open dialogue, subversion,
dehierarchization—a means of returning the listener’s sense
of the world to one imbued with wonder and amazement. His
eccentrically inventive forms and reconfigurations of idioms
are but two acute indicators of an unerring ability to muddy
the waters of easy semantic sailing, drawing the listener
into a convulsive, rhizomic zone of inquiry.