Open Channel
Press
Books that keep the line open.
Bentonville, Arkansas
Books that keep the line open.
Bentonville, Arkansas
Open Channel Press is an independent publisher publishing intellectually serious work at the intersection of art, perception, science, and meaning.
The name comes from a line near the end of our first book. The idea behind it is plain. The music we make and the words we leave stay open after we're gone, a channel that keeps a voice in the room long after the person has left it. A song can carry someone across decades. A book can do the same work on a slower frequency.
That's what this press is built to do, publish writing that keeps the line open. The catalog is small on purpose, and every title here has to earn the name on the spine.
a line that stays open
Resonance argues that music isn't entertainment or decoration. It's a physical signal the body reads in real time, closer to hunger or pain than to art, and it covers the full range of human feeling. Ron K. Miller writes as a lifelong musician and a synesthete, someone whose senses hand him a live readout of how a song lands in a body. The book is a grounded, curious look at why the right few bars can move someone to tears or pull a whole memory up from nowhere.
Ron K. Miller is a writer and lifelong musician based in Arkansas. He plays piano, guitar, cello, and ukulele, sings, and writes songs, and he experiences music as a synesthete, which means a song shows up for him as color and shape as much as sound.
He spent years circling the ideas in Resonance before he sat down to write them. Open Channel Press is his press, and Resonance is its first book.