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Our album “Victual Vittle Bottle Сunt” is out on @recitalprogram today. We’re happy it’s in the world & excited to play some release shows this winter (tbd, stay tuned). Big thanks to Sean @recitalprogram Katie @katievonschleicher Theo @theodore_c_schafer Maggie @okwatevr & Gram @gram20o21 by @ssspann

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Iris Our is the new surrealist duo of artists Kiera Mulhern and Sydney Spann. Recital is honored to present their debut album, Victual Vittle Bottle Сunt.

Both Mulhern and Spann have released celebrated solo works on Recital: Mulhern’s De ossibus 20 (2020) and Spann’s Sending Up A Spiral Of (2023). Close friends, they would meet up weekly on Saturdays to record; channeling their love, angst, and wit. The synergism of their friendship is evident: poems read in tandem, flanking each other’s syllables and breaths. Voice, synthesis, various electronics, and kinetic field recordings (often from their shared lives) form the material.

The album’s conceptual core is femininity understood through diffusion, imitation, and horror, alongside themes of debt, addiction, and inheritance. Vestiges of these can be heard in verbal intercourses through an industrial hiss emerging from the CD. As the artists write: “the obscene impossibility of having a mouth that sucks, eats and speaks, and of a voice that commands, soothes, and curses.”

Many of the texts began as hand-drawn concrete poems by the duo. “Urnshaped Murmuration” stages Spann and Mulhern reciting texts in the left and right channels, chasing each other in a lapping ocean of shadow sounds. The final track “Erections of Angels Directed at Me” is immense. A hushed This Mortal Coil-esque melody is sung, as flush oscillators churn autonomously. Smoldering flutes glow ahead of distant metallic havoc. Despite its condensed 26-minute runtime, the album feels dense, commanding, and total.

The result is an authentic, sharp mythology—visceral research into “the body as disposable, the body as the object of medicine, the body as etched with words, the body in revolt.”

Victual Vittle Bottle Сunt was engineered by Katie Von Schleicher, mixed by Theodore Cale Schafer, and mastered by Sean McCann. The pastel album cover by Maggie Fitzpatrick showcases a barren alley with a parked Tesla engulfed in flames. The release includes a booklet of concrete poems, artwork by the duo, and artist portraits by Gram Hummell.

• Glass-mastered gatefold CD edition of 200pc
• 12-page booklet

(Out 10/31) by @ssspann

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bandcamp Friday 🩻🪳❣️🪳🩻 you can pre-order my album on @recitalprogram bandcamp and listen to two tracks now and read an essay/manifesto of sorts by me contending with themes in my music over the past couple years. Full album releases on Sept 8th :) Thanks to those who pre-ordered already and who have listened ❣️ by @ssspann

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Playing some far away and close to you and I sounds tomorrow @pageantpageantpageant for @colortheorycolortheory Under the lights. A composition from the future and some work from years ago. by @ssspann

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Sydney Spann with Scott McCawley

July 19, 2026
Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago

Watch the full concert plus interview with Dorothy Carlos linked in bio and at ESS.org/archive

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@dorothycarlos taken in Experimental Sound Studio by @ssspann

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sunsations is starting to sell some pretty wild stuff! by @ssspann

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bel’s pic from Ende Tymes by @ssspann

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Kingston pain bag, grandad’s binoculars. @alymsoares took these photos. Life flows:) by @ssspann

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Sleeping infant underneath and behind my seat on the train back from Chicago. They woke me up with their hiccups and coughs by @ssspann

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I’m cooing and fluttering live @esschicago on July 19 with a duo version of my work Big Music Little Earth, for bagpipes, voice, fm radio baby monitors and electronics, featuring piper and piobaireachd teacher Scott MacCawley. Looking forward to chatting with @dorothycarlos in the garden after the performance. Photo by lovely @alymsoares by @ssspann

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Sunday May 24th at @sctrpc 6-10pm

al-ʻUzzā
Madeline Stepien & Sydney Spann
Negation
Two Weeks

very excited to have collaborated with @negation.nyc on putting this show together after having been admirers of each other’s work. This will be the debut performance of my and Sydney Spann’s new collaboration, with many more to follow. This is the very first performance of a new favorite project al-ʻUzzā. Last but not least, Two Weeks will be gracing us from Baltimore, who I am also very excited to finally be playing with.

big thanks to @kihclavok for doing sound for this

see you there by @ssspann

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