About the Artist

Intertextual
SPHEREICAL
Craig Caudill as FM R IZ has delivered hours of diffuse and floating melodic electronic music in this release Chill Crate Rouge. Distant landscapes, from slow windswept wintry expanses to more urban clouds of rust, drifting orchestral tones sketching meandering harmonies.

Gentle, slightly brooding, softly edgy at times, never static but changing constantly and slowly, it reminds me pleasantly of some of my early work (like Trances & Drones) but with its own personal sonic palette and an even more elongated sense of time. It could be a stimulating soundtrack to creative mental activities like reading, writing, or visual arts. Thumbs up.

– Robert Rich

FM R IZ (Ephemeris) is the brainchild of Craig Caudill, an artist and dabbler of all things creative. He is a former installation artist who turned author and electronic recording artist. He is most at home, concocting sounds to inspire his literary endeavors. His latest release is “Green Neon Nights”. To stay creative he quickly shifts from music to writing dark fantasy noir to avoid the creative blocks and pitfalls that stifle a creative person’s momentum.

Recently he was made his radio playlist debut on Dice Radio on March 24th. This was a 90-minute’s playlist which was played four times in a row.

In the early ’90’s Craig Caudill has been behind the scenes of art and literature. His first garage band was “Thought Lords” which finally grew into “Slughead”, which was an expanding project. In this project many members joined
in when necessary, depending what instrument they were playing. But mainly the core band was Craig Caudill

Craig Caudill is a self-employed video artist and poet active since 2001. He creates experimental video installations that blend electronic sound, visual texture, and imagery, often working with modest resources to film, edit, and compose his own audio. His work has been exhibited internationally in Germany, Japan, and the United States. As a writer, his poetry has appeared in journals and magazines including Poetry Salzburg Review in Austria, Front in Canada, Parameter and Poetry Nottingham International in the UK, as well as Borderlines, Orbis, Envoi, Stride Magazine, and The Journal. His chapbook Four a.m. Writings was published by One-Legged Cow Press in 2005. He continues to develop projects that merge video, sound, and text for gallery installations and digital platforms.

As a writer, Caudill’s poetry has appeared in journals and magazines including Poetry Salzburg Review in Austria, Front in Canada, Parameter, Poetry Nottingham International, Borderlines, Orbis, Envoi, Stride Magazine, and The Journal in the UK. His chapbook Four a.m. Writings was published by One-Legged Cow Press in 2005. Alongside his work in poetry and video, he has also developed longer-form writing, including work on a first novel.