Day Zero Breakdown ft Dennis Hinrichsen, bioPrism, and Worm Moon

Wed, February 25, 2026 7:00 PM at RCAH Theater, Snyder-Phillips Hall, 361 Physics Rd.

This evening of poetry and experimental music features Dennis Hinrichsen, author of dementia lyrics (Green Linden Press), with ambient artist Worm Moon, and electronic artist bioPrism.

Reception and book signing to follow in the LookOut Gallery.

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Day Zero Breakdown (Bogue Street Records, 2026) is the title of an audio accompaniment to dementia lyrics, Dennis Hinrichsen’s twelfth full length collection of poetry and his fifth title overall from Green Linden Press. The poems are an exploration of systemic failure on multiple levels beginning with the diagnosis of two friends with very different forms of dementia, but then branching out to include the failure of late-stage capitalism to address the needs of the homeless in Hinrichsen’s hometown of Lansing, Michigan, as well as issues related to freshwater mismanagement and the death of aquifers on a broader scale. The running motif is water, the body as water, brain as water, body and brain as aquifer, all under extreme forms of stress.

Dennis, wearing a denim jacket, smiles at the camera with a park and trees in the background, Dennis Hinrichsen was born and raised in the Midwest, living in Iowa and Illinois numerous times before settling and completing his education in Michigan. Following a ten year stint working as a technical writer in the Boston area, he returned to Michigan and taught at writing and lit courses at the local community college. From May 2017–April 2019, he served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of the Greater Lansing area. dementia lyrics is his twelfth full-length collection. His other Green Linden titles include Dominion + Selected Poems, Flesh-plastique and schema geometrica (winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize) as well as a chapbook, [q / lear]. Other books include This Is Where I Live I Have Nowhere Else To Go, winner of the 2020 Grid Poetry Prize, Electrocution, A Partial History, winner of the 2015 Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Prize from Map Literary, Skin Music, the 2014 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press, Rip-tooth, winner of the 2010 Tampa Poetry Prize, Kurosawa’s Dog, winner of the 2008 FIELD Poetry Prize, and Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights, winner of the 1999 Akron Poetry Prize. Other awards include the 2016 Third Coast Poetry Prize and a 2014 Best of the Net Award.

Worm Moon uses a process that begins with the gathering of field recordings from natural and human-built environments. These recordings are used to cobble together imaginary soundscapes in improvised performances, along with various effects pedals and noise-makers. Influences include Welsh folklore, select tales of Clark Ashton Smith, the literary works of Maervyn Peake, and the Lansing experimental music community.

Brown-haired man wearing a dark green hoodie walksin a field with his hands in his jeans pockets. There are trees in the background. Josh Epperly is a Michigan-based electronic artist who releases under the name bioPrism. His work explores personal dimensions of loss, transformation, and hope in the face of climate crisis. His wide-ranging inspiration is evident in his compositions, which draw from ambient, experimentalism, techno, and modern classical.

Josh’s artistic path was unconventional and mostly self-taught. Other than piano and guitar lessons in his early years, he does not have any formal training in music composition. His academic background in environmental sciences informs the spiritual core of his music, which is distinctly communal and ecological. Inspired by Steve Reich’s minimalist masterpiece Music for 18 Musicians, he picked up his instruments again to build his own sonic ecosystems through looping and layering. His first two EP releases as bioPrism, Liminal Space (2023) and Anthropocene (2024), blend atmospheric techno with ambient soundscapes.

February 2026 brings the back-to-back release of two new projects: Day Zero Breakdown, a collaborative album with Dennis Hinrichsen and Worm Moon, and Let the Landscape Hold Your Grief, his debut album, both released on Bogue Street Records. Both projects showcase an exciting new direction with bioPrism’s sound. After attending the electroacoustic-focused Splice Institute in 2024, bioPrism became inspired to break away from meter and embrace improvisation with acoustic and analog instruments. On these new albums, bioPrism balances melody and noise, beauty and grief with compositions built from guitar, Moog synthesizer, field recordings, and human voices. bioPrism is delighted to have had the opportunity to work with Dennis - his next-door neighbor - and with Worm Moon, his fellow sonic adventurer.