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bIoGrApHiE

notes on a multidisciplinary practice

Malik Ameer Crumpler is a poet, musician, and visual artist whose work braids experimental sound, glitch imagery, and stage presence into a single shifting practice.

This page sketches the through-line of that work — from early albums and chapbooks to radio pieces, residencies, and collaborative opera.

Artistic background

Across poetry, recorded music, and glitch-driven film, the work keeps returning to a few recurring preoccupations: language under pressure, voice against texture, and the live body inside the recorded frame.

Selected threads

  • Music: albums with The Madmen, Seven Divine, and a remix for Leron Thomas's Role Play EP.
  • Poetry: chapbooks and street readings, including a paperback of Little Everywhere and a feature at Spoken Word Paris.
  • Film & glitch: visual work and residencies, framed around Inevitable Mutations Act II with Alex Deforce.
  • Stage: improv, readings, and sound actions — from Happy Time in the East Village to Gambazine and Berkeley Books of Paris.
  • Broadcast: conversation pieces across Radio Free Brooklyn and Very Bad Words on the N-Word.

ColLABorAtionS & cIrCle

Long-running partnerships include the experimental opera DREAMPOP DYSPHORIA with Reverse Bullets, the now-classic cut of AARA# feat. Malik Ameer with Zito Mowa, and tracks with Thatmanmonkz. Editorial and label work has appeared on Maintenant 14, Kirsty Allison's Independence Now, and Pan Amsterdam's HA CHU Dinked Edition.

For a fuller list of dates and credits, the Writings and Albums pages collect the discography and bibliography in chronological detail.

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