A murky ambient composition I created with the Digitakt, 100music Blackbox, Hologram Microcosm, Korg MS-20 mini, and the Soma Lyra 8. Effects pedals/devices used were the Zoom MS-70CDR, Korg NTS-1, and the Pro Co RAT2. All samples used in the DT and BB were acquired by a Zoom H4n. (I particularly like the cow I recorded on an aspen-shaded mountain in Colorado who has been sequenced to sing along with the MS-20 in a short passage.) DAWless performance recorded on the Zoom L8. Additional mixing and final mastering on Ableton. The audio-reactive visuals were generated in real time via Resolume Arena which I programed so as to mangle a random series photos I shot.

A promotional video I produced for author Julie Anne Stratton’s novel, The Witches of Riegersburg.

This was my offering to the 36th annual Jump-Start Performance Party. Saturday January 9, 2021 was the first time this yearly fundraising event was presented in a virtual fashion, via Zoom. Those who participated had only two minutes. Some performed live, others (like me) sent in videos. I made this experimental film with a close-up extension tube attached to my camera, as well as a motorized slider. The soundtrack was some noodling I did on a couple of Korg Volcas.

Yet another iteration of the Invocation project Laurie and I have been doing for a few years. This is one of the few times we’ve used older material. Our main goal here was to test out our ability to do live streaming. It worked out very well. We need to do some more.

Invocation in Quarantine from Erik Bosse on Vimeo.

This performance piece was created by me and Laurie for National Poetry Month. That’s April, if you didn’t know. We submitted it to URBAN-15’s annual Mega Corazón poetry presentation. It has always been an online program of live poetry reading streamed from their San Antonio studio. This year, because of the pandemic, most of the material had been prerecorded. Anyway, our “Topical Duet” (a multi-media poetry video thing) was added to the broadcast. It played on April 6th, as well as several other evenings during that month. What an honor!

Click on the image below to experience “A Topical Duet.”

A Topical Duet from Erik Bosse on Vimeo.

Laurie Dietrich and I created a site-specific performance piece for the 2019 New Orleans InFringe Fest which was held during November. Our friend Kurt provided the venue, a small school bus. For our four performances the bus was parked in three different locations. We were able to seat a small audience of 8 people (10 if no one took deep breaths).

The concept was that we were tour guides taking our audience on a strange journey across an only vaguely familiar landscape. We did not have the opportunity to document the show, but afterward we recreated it as a sort of radio drama.

Click on the image below to hear it.

REROUTING: A Road Trip from Erik Bosse on Vimeo.

Book number three in the Cucuy Club Chronicles. I may write more of these. I do like the characters and the setting. At the moment, this is all I have. Three novels written, edited, published. I’ve learned a lot from the process. And I’m happy with the final products. They all look great. Raul Servin’s art adds so much to the aesthetics of the books.

To see the paperback on Amazon, click HERE. Or click on the photo below.

The third in my series, The Cucuy Club Chronicles. I try to have some sort of social issue lurking in the back of each of these books. Here it’s immigrant farm workers and the problems with industrial agriculture. The cucuy this time is the famed chupacabra.

Here’s my blurb:

Juan Esparza and Richard Taylor investigate stories of the usual and the fantastic for their blog, The Cucuy Club. When they are given access to the archives of infamous Texas billionaire and chupacabra hunter, Baphomet McPherson, they follow the trail to Parnassus, Texas. There they find themselves deep in the dirty world of small town politics, murder, genetic experiments gone awry, and rumors of magical Mesoamerican entities no taller than a toddler.

To find the ebook on Amazon, click HERE (or on the photo).

My author copies arrived of the second book in my Cucuy Club Chronicles series. Looks even better than the first.

I guess I really need to begin getting my head wrapped around the marketing aspect of self-publishing. And I know I’m way behind on that. If only it was just writing. That’s damn difficult, but less daunting than the thought of promoting my own work.

Buy it from Amazon by clicking HERE.

My previous book, Tunnels Under the Tower, is the first book of The Cucuy Club Chronicles series.

The new title, The Mattress Devil, continues the series. It features the same two lead characters from the previous book. Johnny Esparza and Rich Taylor run a blog in San Antonio, Texas that is devoted to the folktales of the region. The lines between the rational and the supernatural blur during their investigations. The murder and the humor is very much real. The monsters? That’s not so clear.In Tunnels Under the Tower, the story takes Johnny and Rich to the Chihuahua Desert. In The Mattress Devil, the duo find themselves chasing a tale of the Devil himself down to the Rio Grande Valley and points beyond. Following a series of encounters with a punk rock dominatrix, a hard-boiled reporter, a Mexican moonshiner, and a sharp-dressed mattress salesman who dances the Tango, they find themselves overwhelmed with diabolical forces beyond their comprehension armed with little more than their limited wits and a piñata named Buford.

I released The Mattress Devil via Amazon on the last day of 2018. To get the book click HERE. Or click on the image below. (Please note the lovely cover art by Raul Servin–who did the art for the previous book, as well.)