Ode to Fire
GoldFaceMoneyWatch and Heide Aungst
Artist: GoldFaceMoneyWatch (GFMW) is a solo psychedelic trap musician, music production engineer, artist, animator, beat creator, and lyricist. He has been part of groups including DO$EMONEY and The Worms and has collaborated with solo artists, such as Ariel Pink and Grammy winning producer Nate Fox. Author Walter Kirn featured him in the introduction to his Easy Chair column in Harper’s Magazine called Psychedelic Trap. His work can be found on SoundCloud and all streaming platforms – though the visual accompaniment to his Sonic catalog is painstakingly crafted on his Bad Trip Productions YouTube Channel. There, you can find animations, artwork, and videos he has worked on not only for himself as a solo artist, but also numerous colleagues and collaborators -- or just ask your smart speaker to play GoldFaceMoneyWatch.
Poet: Heide Aungst is a science writer, journalist, and poet. She has been published in national, regional, and trade publications, including Brain Child, Cleveland Magazine, Drug Topics, and Daily Word and has contributed chapters to several books, including Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications. She has won awards for writing, including for the Cleveland Magazine story “Georgianna’s Choice” about a woman pregnant with a Trisomy 18 baby that won the Ohio Press Club’s Best Healthcare Writing and which also was named a National Finalist from the City & Regional Magazine Association. She has a bachelor’s in journalism from the University of Missouri and a master’s in Bioethics from Case Western Reserve University. She currently serves as Marketing Director for the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.