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Featured Resources:
September 2008
Selected by Rick Moody
1. Komar and Melamid & Dave Soldier, "The Most Unwanted Song"
2. Jacques Derrida, "On Religion" Part 1, Part 2
3. Assorted Street Posters
4. William Carlos Williams, "Danse Russe."
5. Beth B., "Stigmata"
6. James Joyce, "Anna Livia Plurabelle"
7. Tellus #14, "Just Intonation"
8. Hugo Ball, "Karawane," performed by Marie Osmond
9. Gregory Whitehead, "We All Scream Alone"
10. John Cage Meets Sun Ra
Rick Moody is the author of four novels, three collections of stories, and a memoir, THE BLACK VEIL. He also plays music with The Wingdale Community Singers.
Featured Resources:
August 2008
Selected by Ben Rubin
1. Erik Saite - A Day in the Life of a Musician
2. Richard Leacock - For an Uncontrolled Cinema
3. William S. Burroughs - The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin
4. Claude Cloksy - The first thousand numbers classified in alphabetical order
5. Robert Smithson - A Heap of Language
6. Vito Acconci - RE
7. Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage, Side A , Side B
8. Raphael Rubinstein - A Brief History of Appropriative Writing
9. Marjorie Perloff - The Music of Verbal Space
10. Steve Reich - Pendulum Music (score)
Ben Rubin is a media artist based in New York City. He has been a frequent collaborator with artists and performers including Laurie Anderson, Diller+Scofidio, Ann Hamilton, Arto Lindsay, Steve Reich, and Beryl Korot.
Featured Resources:
July 2008
Selected by Zach Feuer
1. Paul McCarthy - Painter (1995)
2. Pipilotti Rist - Video Works (1986-1999)
3. Richard Kern - My Nightmare (1993)
4. Bas Jan Ader - Fall I & II (1970)
5. Lynda Benglis - Female Sensibility (1974)
6. Sophie Calle & Greg Shepard - No Sex Last Night aka Double-Blind (1992)
7. Kembra Pfahler - Cornella; The Story of a Burning Bush (1985)
8. Robert Morris & Stan VanDerBeek - Site (excerpt) (1964, .mov)
9. Carolee Schneeman - Meat Joy (1964)
10. Dan Graham - Rock My Religion (1982-84)
Zach Feuer owns the creatively named Zach Feuer Gallery in New York City.
Featured Resources:
June 2008
Selected by Ron Silliman
1. Frank Film (1973), Frank and Caroline Mouris
2. The Name (1973), Robert Creeley
3. Recollections of Grande Apachería (1973), Edward Dorn
4. Reading at Goddard College (1973), Robert Creeley
5. Carnival The First Panel: 1967-1970 (1973), Steve McCaffery
6. Black Tarantula Crossword Gathas (excerpt) (1973), Jackson Mac Low
7. A Vocabulary for Sharon Belle Matlin (1973), Jackson Mac Low
8. Heavy Aspirations (1973), Charles Amirkhanian
9. Armand Schwerner (1973), Phil Niblock (real video .rm file)
10. High Kukus (1973), James Broughton
Ron Silliman was once a slow left-handed second baseman. Now he lives in a faux forest in what was once the Biddle Estate.
Featured Resources:
May 2008
Selected by Christian Bök
1. Claude Closky: "The First Thousand Numbers Classified in Alphabetical Order" (1989) [PDF]
2. Derek Beaulieu: "Flatland" (2007) [PDF]
3. Darren Wershler-Henry: "The Tapeworm Foundry" (2002)
4. Claude Simon: "Properties of Several Geometric and Non-Geometric Figures" (1971)
5. F. T. Marinetti: "Dune, Parole in Libertà" (1914)
6. Survival Research Laboratories: "Virtues of Negative Fascination" (1985-86)
7. Seth Price: "Video Game Soundtracks 1983-1987" (2001)
8. Trek Bloopers
9. Anton Bruhin: "Rotomotor" (1976-77)
10. RACTER: "The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed" (1984)
BONUS TRACK:
IBM 7090: "Music from Mathematics" (1962)
Christian Bök is the author of Eunoia.
Featured Resources:
April 2008
Selected by Laura Beiles
1. Anita Feldman and Michael Kowalski, Riffle (1985)
2. MoMA: Writing in Time (2007)
3. Piotr Kamler, Films (1960s-90s)
4. Fortunato Depero, Verbalizzazione astratta di signora (1916)
5. Penelope Umbrico, All the Dishes on Ebay (2002-03)
6. Catherine Jauniaux & Ikue Mori, 'Smell' (1992)
7. Abbie Hoffman Makes Gefilte Fish (1973)
8. Mary Lou Green on Andy Warhol's Hair (1963)
9. Sophie Calle and Gregory Shephard, Double Blind (1992)
10. Cioni Carpi, Three Short Films (1960-62)
Laura Beiles is an associate educator in the Department of Education (Adult and Academic Programs) at The Museum of Modern Art, where she has organized programs with artists, poets, scholars, architects, and designers for seven years. In May of 2007, she received her MA in Art History from Hunter College, and received the Shuster Award for her thesis, "Creating National and International Identities: The Futurist Exhibitions at the Venice Biennale under Fascism, 1928-1942". Prior to coming to MoMA, she worked at NYU's La Pietra in Florence and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
Featured Resources:
March 2008
Selected by Seth Price
1. Tessa Hughes-Freeland "Baby Doll" (1982)
2. Marie Menken "Glimpse of the Garden" (1957)
3. Robert Barry "Interview (1969)"
4. Ethyl Eichelberger "Jocasta (Boy Crazy) or "She Married Her Son" (1986)
5. Lytle Shaw "Low-Level Bureaucratic Structures: Principles of the Emeryville Shellmound
6. Taj Mahal Travellers "Taj Mahal Travellers on Tour" (1973)
7. Asger Jorn "Pataphysics: A Religion in the Making"
8. Racter "The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed" (1984)
9. Tristan Tzara "A Note on Negro Poetry" (1918)
10. I.B.M. 7090 "Music From Mathematics" (1962)
Seth Price is an artist.
Featured Resources:
March 2008
Selected by Stephanie Strickland
1. Maya Deren, "Divine Horsemen"
2. "Concrete!" Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive
3. Jason Nelson, "Poetry Cube"
4. b. p. Nichol, "White Text Sure"
5. Yoko Ono, "Snow Is Falling All the Time"
6. Dick Higgins, "Horizons" [PDF
7. Ketjak: the Ramayana Monkey Chant
8. "Concrete Poetry: A World View" Mary Ellen Solt
9. Raphael Rubinstein, "Gathered, not Made: A Brief History of Appropriative Writing"
10. Kenneth Goldsmith and Conceptual Poetics
Bonus
11. Glossolalia: Speaking in Tongues
12. Caroline Bergvall, "About Face"
Stephanie Strickland is a poet. Her latest collaborative hypermedia work is slippingglimpse first shown at e-Poetry 2007 in Paris and published in hyperrhiz: new media cultures. Her latest book, Zone : Zero (with digital poetry CD) will appear from Ahsahta Press in fall 2008. She recently published "Quantum Poetics: Six Thoughts, in Media Poetry: An International Anthology," edited by Eduardo Kac, co-edited The Iowa Review Web issue, Multi-Modal Coding: Jason Nelson, Donna Leishman, and Electronic Writing, and also co-edited the first Electronic Literature Collection, published by the Electronic Literature Organization.
Featured Resources:
February 2008
Selected by Alan Licht
1. Derek Bailey Interview by Henry Kaiser
2. Richard Foreman MP3 loops from Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty
3. Bruce Nauman "Record"
4. bpNichol -- all sound works
5. Cornelius Cardew "Stockhausen Serves Imperialism"
6. Philip Guston/Clark Coolidge "Poor Richard"
7. Lou Reed "the View from the Bandstand"
8. Jack Smith "Buzzards Over Baghdad"
9. Richard Meltzer "Barbara Mauritz: Music Box"
10. Adrian Piper "Untitled 1968"
Over the past two decades, guitarist Alan Licht has worked with a veritable who's who of the experimental world. He has released five albums of compositions for tape and solo guitar, and his sound and video installations have been exhibited in the U.S. and Europe. His new book Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Media, the first extensive survey of the genre in English, was published by Rizzoli in fall 2007.
Featured Resources:
February 2008
Selected by Bettina Funcke
1. Harun Farocki, Inextinguishable Fire (1969) and How to Live in the German Federal Republic (1986)
2. UbuWeb Hall of Shame
3. Robert Frank, Energy and How to Get It (1981)
4. J. G. Ballard, Shanghai Jim (1991)
5. Pandid Pran Nath Ragas of Morning and Night (1968)
6. Hrabanus Marus De adoratione crucis ab opifice / De Laudibus Sanctae Crucis Augsburg (ca. 845)
7. Jacques Lacan, Télévision (1973)
8. Joan Jonas "The Anchor Stone" (1988)
9. Inuit Throat Singing, from Ethnopoetics
10. Assorted Street Posters (1985-present) from Outsiders
Bettina Funcke is the Senior U.S. Editor of Parkett Magazine.
Featured Resources:
January 2008
Selected by Alex Ross
1. Robert Ashley "She Was a Visitor"
2. Kurt Schwitters "Sonata in Urlauten"
3. John Cale "Loop"
4. The Films of Mauricio Kagel
5. Charles Amirkhanian "Dog of Stravinsky"
6. Bernd Alois Zimmermann "Musique pour le soupers de Roi Ubu"
7. Pauline Oliveros "Sound Patterns"
8. Ezra Pound "Sestina: Altaforte"
9. John Cage "4'33""
10. Robert Ashley "The Wolfman"
Alex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. His work has also appeared in The New Republic, The London Review of Books, Lingua Franca, and The Guardian. From 1992 to 1996 he was a critic at The New York Times. He has received two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for music criticism, fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin and the Banff Centre, and a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center for contributions to the field of contemporary music. He played keyboards in the noise band Miss Teen Schnauzer, which gave only one public performance, in 1991. His first book, "The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century," a cultural history of music since 1900, was published in October 2007 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Featured Resources:
December 2007
Selected by Alejandra & Aeron
1. The Films of Toshio Matsumoto (all, especially Weavers, Mothers, Ki, and Sway)
2. The Films of Jack Goldstein (all, especially MGM, Bone China, and the 7" Records with Sound Effects.)
3. Marie Mencken "Glimpse of the Garden" (1957)
4. Peter Campus "Three Transitions" (1973)
5. Edgard Varêse and Le Corbusier "Poême électronique" (1958)
6. Kristin Oppenheim "Selected Audio Works 1994-1997"
7. David Grubbs' Soundworks
8. Pandit Pran Nath "Ragas of Morning and Night"
9. I.B.M. 7090 - Music From Mathematics
10. "Tagasode" Edo period, 17th century
11. Hidatsa: Lean Wolf's Complaint
12. Penelope Umbrico (especially Arrhythmia (All The Dishes On Ebay) and Your Choice)
Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas are artists whose work meets aesthetics and politics. They currently live and work in Oslo where Bergman is head professor of the digital department at the Art Academy of Oslo, Norway, and special advisor to the Nordic Sound Art Master program, a joint program between the major Scandinavian art academies. The artist duo have done major installations at art centers such as Centre d'Arte Santa Monica in Barcelona, Taipei Fine Art Museum, ICC Tokyo and the Serralves Museum in Porto; and sound performances around the world such as the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Knitting Factory in New York, and the CCCB in Barcelona; as well as running the sound art publisher Lucky Kitchen.
Featured Resources:
November 2007
Selected by Christof Migone
1. Brion Gysin "I Am" Machine-poem (1960)
2. Janet Zweig "Mind Over Matter"
3. Gregory Whitehead "Pressures of the Unspeakable"
4. R. Henry Nigl "Shout Art"
5. Sam Taylor Wood, from "Stoppage"
6. François Dufrêne, "Tenu-tenu" Crirythme (1958)
7. John Giorno "I Don't Need It, I Don't Want It, and You Cheated Me Out of It"
8. Georgina Dobson & Cupboard Simon "The Message"
9. Louis-Ferdinand Céline "Television Interview" (1961)
10. Adrian Piper "Here and Now"
Special Offsite Bonus: Kelly Mark "I Really Should" (Audio CD)
Extra, offsite: Santiago Sierra "11 PEOPLE PAID TO LEARN A PHRASE"
Christof Migone teaches graduate seminars on sound, silence, performative writing, and failure at Concordia University in Montreal. He co-edited Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (Errant Bodies Press, 2001). His first book, la première phrase et le dernier mot (Le Quartanier, 2004) synopsized his library. The second, Tue (Le Quartanier, 2007) obsessed over the second person singular pronoun. His audio, performance, and video work is documented in Sound Voice Perform (Errant Bodies Press, 2005), and Trou (Galerie de l'UQAM, 2006).
Featured Resources:
October 2007
Selected by Joshua Clover
1. Guy Debord "In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni"
2. Guy Debord "Howlings Against Sade"
3. Yoko Ono "Snow Is Falling All The Time"
4. Tadanori Yokoo "Three Animation Films"
5. Susan Sontag "The Aesthetics of Silence"
6. Gertrude Stein "The Making of Americans"
7. Xu Cheng "050414"
8. Patrizia Vicinelli "Seven Poems"
9. Shaker Visual Poetry
10. Apollinaiire "Le pont Mirabeau"
Special Offsite Bonus: Marc Lavoine "Le pont Mirabeau"
Joshua Clover teaches poetry, poetics, film studies and theories of postmodernism at University of California at Davis; his book on The Matrix for the British Film Institute is currently being translated into Russian and Czech. He has been a DJ both on the radio and in clubs; poetry books include The Totality for Kids (California, 2006) and Madonna anno domini (LSU, 1997). All the new thinking is about money; in this is resembles all the old thinking.
Featured Resources:
September 2007
Selected by Juliana Spahr
1. Learn to Say Penis
2. Germaine Dulac "La coquille et le clergyman"
3. Maya Deren "Ritual in Transfigured"
4. Carolee Schneeman "Fuses"
5. Monique Wittig, Les Guérillères
6. Carolee Schneemann, "Fuses"
7. Janet Zweig "Mind Over Matter"
8. Caroline Bergvall "About Face"
9. Barbara Cole, "Situation Comedies: Foxy Moron"
10. Pierre Coulibeuf and Marina Abramoviç "Balkan Baroque"
BONUS: Emma Hedditch "The Making of Her Noise"
Juliana Spahr's most recent book is the Transformation (Atelos P, 2007)
Featured Resources:
Summer 2007
Selected by Wayne Koestenbaum
1. Robert Desnos, "Description of a Dream" (MP3, 1938)
2. Adolf Wolfli, "Gelesen und vertont" (specifically either Der Fluch (MP3) or the Trauermarsch 599 Lied (MP3) [1978])
3. Ketjak, the Ramayana Monkey Chant (MP3, in Ethnopoetics Soundings)
4. John Cage and Morton Feldman in Conversation (1967)
5. Dieter Roth, "Berliner Dichterworkshop" (1973)
6. Carolee Schneemann, "Fuses" (film)
7. Mauricio Kagel, "Ludwig Van..." (film)
8. Jack Goldstein, "MGM" and "The Knife" (films)
9. Antonin Artaud, "Pour finir avec le jugement de dieu"
10. Severo Sarduy, "Big Bang"
BONUS: Joseph Cornell, "Rose Hobart"
Wayne Koestenbaum has published five books of poetry: Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Model Homes, The Milk of Inquiry, Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender, and Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems. He has also published a novel, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, and five books of nonfiction: Andy Warhol, Cleavage, Jackie Under My Skin, The Queen's Throat (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Double Talk. He wrote the libretto for Michael Daugherty's opera, Jackie O. Koestenbaum's new book, Hotel Theory, will be published in June 2007. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center, and currently also a Visiting Professor in the painting department of the Yale School of Art.
May 2007
Selected by Adalaide Morris
1. Billie Whitelaw, "Not I" (1973)
2. Jonas Mekas - Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997)
3 Agnes Varda - Black Panthers, Huey! (1968)
4. John Cage Meets Sun Ra, Side B" (MP3)
5. Henri Chopin - Le Ventre de Bertini, Audio-poème (MP3)
6. Philip Glass - Score of "1 + 1 for One Player and Amplified Table-Top."
7. Christian Bök - Eunoia, Chapter u
8a. Cecil Taylor - Chinampas 1987 (MP3)
8b. Fred Moten on Cecil Taylor's Chinampas
9. Peter Greenaway - Four American Composers: Meredith Monk (1983)
10. Gregory Whitehead, "What Words Want"
Adalaide Morris is John C. Gerber Professor of English at the University of Iowa, where she teaches courses in modern and contemporary poetry and poetics. Her publications include How to Live / What to Do: H.D.'s Cultural Poetics (Illinois, 2003) and two edited collections, Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies (North Carolina, 1997) and, with Thom Swiss, New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories (MIT, 2006). Her current project is a book with the tentative title What Else Can Poetry Do? With Alan Golding and Lynn Keller, she co-edits the Contemporary North American Poetry Series at the University of Iowa Press.
April 2007
Selected by Anthony Huberman
1. Art by Telephone 1969 (MP3)
2. Richard Prince with Bob Gober, "Tell Me Everything" 1988 (MP3)
2.5 John Armleder, "16 Great Turn-Ons" 1988 (MP3)
3. Jack Goldstein, "Soundworks" (MP3)
4. Roman Opalka, "1 to Infinity" 1965 / 1977 (MP3) (MP3)
5. Seth Price, "Dispersion" [PDF]
6. Erik Satie, "A Day in the Life of a Musician"
7. Ian Baxter "Statements" (1970)
8. Robert Smithson "Hotel Palenque Bootleg"
9. Richard Serra, "Verb List Compilation: Actions to Relate to Oneself" (1967-1968)
10. Robert Rauschenberg "Portrait of Iris Clert"
Anthony Huberman is Curator at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He has curated several group exhibitions in New York and in Europe, many special projects with emerging artists, as well as a broad range of performance, radio, and music events. "Grey Flags," a group show co-curated with the artist Paul Pfeiffer, was recently on view at the CAPC contemporary art museum in Bordeaux, France.
March 2007
Selected by Caroline Bergvall
1. Augusto de Campos' "Dias Dias Dias" spoken by Caetano Veloso 1979 (MP3)
2. Robert Ashley, "In Sara Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women" 1972 (MP3)
3. People Like Us, "The Sacred Erm" 2002 (MP3)
4. Beth Anderson, "Ocean Motion Mildew Mind" 1979 (MP3)
5. John Cage, "excerpt from Silence" 1969 (MP3)
6. Meredith Monk "Rally" 1977 (MP3)
7. Miya Masakoa, "Ritual with Giant Hissing Madagascar Cockroaches" (excerpt) (MP3)
8. John Ashbery, "A Blessing in Disguise" 1966 (MP3)
9. On Kawara, "One Million Years" 1993 (MP3)
10. Roland Barthes, "Inaugural lecture at the Collège de France" 1977 (MP3)
Caroline Bergvall is a poet, performance writer and critic, loosely based in London. She works internationally and is involved in page-based as well as off-page and collaborative poetics. Latest book: FIG (Salt, 2005). Latest text-recordings: "Shorter Chaucer Tales" hosted at PennSound. She was the Director of Performance Writing, Dartington College of Arts (UK) and is currently co-Chair of Writing, Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College (NY).
February 2007
Selected by Charles Bernstein
1. Kevin Davies, "Pause Button" [PDF]
2. Craig Dworkin, "Legion II" [PDF]
3. Deanna Ferguson, "The Relative Minor" [PDF]
4. Marjorie Perloff, "Concrete Prose: Haraldo de Campos Galáxias and After"
5. Yunte Huang, "Angel Island and the Poetics of Error"
6. George Kuchar, "The Kiss of Frankenstein" [PDF]
7. Ron Silliman, "Sunset Debris" [PDF]
8. Aram Saroyan, "Aram Saroyan"
9. Brian Kim Stefans, "Alpha Betty's Chronicles"
10. Hannah Weiner, "Little Books/Indians"
Bonus Track: Gertrude Stein, from Five Words in a Line
Ubu is justly famous for its extraordinary collection of audio and movie files and historical sound and visual poetry. For this list, however, I mostly chose from UBU's contemporary selection of poetry books and essays. - Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein's most recent book is Girly Man. With Al Filreis he directs PennSound and with Loss Pequeño Glazier the Electronic Poetry Center, where he has a web log.
January 2007
Selected by Mónica de la Torre
1. Caroline Bergvall "Via: Dante Variations" (MP3)
2. Softpalate: Gertrude Stein's "For the Country Entirely" (MP3)
3. Henri Chopin "Definitión des lettres suivantes" (MP3)
4. Samuel Beckett "Not I" (Video)
5. Charles Amirkhanian "Radii" (MP3)
6. bpNichol "Pome Poem" (MP3)
7. Mauricio Kagel "Hallelujah" (Video)
8. Alvin Lucier "I Am Sitting In a Room" (MP3)
9. Emmett Williams "The Last French-Fried Potato and Other Poems" (PDF)
10. Brion Gysin "Three Permutations" (MP3)
11. María Sabina "Sacred Mushroom Chant" (MP3)
12. Gertrude Stein "Interview" (MP3)
Mónica de la Torre is the author of the poetry books Acúfenos, published recently in Mexico City, and Talk Shows, forthcoming from Switchback Books in February 07. She translates poetry from the Spanish and frequently participates in collaborative book projects, one of which was Appendices, Illustrations and Notes, co-written with artist Terence Gower. She is the poetry editor of The Brooklyn Rail.
December 2006
Selected by Raphael Rubinstein
1. Clark Coolidge, "I Kicked into Precise Space Without Touching"
2. Frank O'Hara, "Adieu Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul" (MP3)
3. Susan Howe, "There is No Good on Earth and Sin is But a Name" (MP3)
4. Leevi Lehto, "Google Poem"
5. Christopher Logue, "This is the Final Statement" (MP3)
6. Tan Lin, "The Edge of Summer Cleans Autumn"
7. Gherasim Luca, "Son Corps Leger" (MP3)
8. Nicholas Moore "Spleen: Thirty-one versions of Baudelaire's Je suis comme le roi..."
9. Ara Shrinyan "2005 Resolution: I Promise to Write Better Poetry" [PDF, 5.2 mb]
10. Louis Zukofsky, "Julia's Wild"
11. Ogden Nash "Word About Winter" (MP3)
12. Charles Bernstein reads "The Yellow Pages" (MP3)
13. Patrizia Vincinelli "Sette Poemi" (MP3)
14. Gertrude Stein "If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso<"/a> (MP3)
15. Guillaume Apollinaire "Le Pont Mirabeau" (MP3)
Raphael Rubinstein is a poet and a senior editor at Art in America. He has just edited an anthology titled Critical Mess: Art Critics on the State of their Practice (Hard Press Editions). A book of poems, The Afterglow of Minor Pop Masterpieces, is forthcoming from Make Now Press.
November 2006
Selected by Ingrid Schaffner
1. Aspen Magazine, No. 3: The Pop Art Issue
2. Charles Bernstein "The Ballad of the Girly Man" (MP3)
3. Christian Morgenstern: Sound Poems
4. Bern Porter "The Last Acts of St. Fuck You" (MP3)
5. William S. Burroughs "Origin and Theory of the Tape Cut Ups" (MP3)
6. Patti Smith "Parade" (MP3)
7. The Free Jack Ads
8. Salvador Dali "Apoth du Dollar" (MP3)
9. The Signifying Monkey in Ethnopoetics (MP3)
10. Ethel Waters "That Dada Strain" (MP3)
11. Paul McCarthy "Boston Bay" (MP3)
12. Marcel Broodthaers "Interview with a Cat"
(MP3)
Ingrid Schaffner is a writer and curator. She is currently working on 2 exhibitions steeped in collage: "Karen Kilimnik" (with the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) and "Jess: To and From the Printed Page" (with Independent Curators International).
October 2006
Selected by Nick Currie (aka Momus)
1. John Cage "Mushroom Haiku, excerpt from Silence" (1972/69) (MP3)
2. Vito Acconci "The Bristol Project", 2001 (MP3)
3. Mike Kelley, Excerpt from "Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile" (MP3)
4. Todd Dockstader "Interview" 1963 (WRVR, Riverside Radio, New York City) (MP3)
5. e.e. cummings, Let's From Some Loud Unworld's Most Rightful Wrong [PDF]
6. Piers Plowright "Radio Radio, Program 11" (MP3)
7. Ernst Jandl "What you can do without vowels" (MP3)
8. Scanner / Jean Cocteau "The Human Voice" (MP3)
9. Laurie Anderson For "Electronic Dogs/Structuralist Filmmaking/Drums" (MP3)
10. Momus and Anne Laplantine "Summerisle Horspiel" (MP3)
Nick Currie, perhaps better known as Momus, is an "electronic folk singer" with twenty albums to his credit. Born in Scotland in 1960, he has lived in London, Paris, Tokyo, New York and Berlin. More recently he's diversified into writing and art. He appeared in the 2006 Whitney Biennial as an "unreliable tour guide". LINK: Click Opera.
September 2006
Selected by Damon Krukowski
1. George Brecht, "Chance-Imagery" [PDF]
2. Bob Brown, "1450-1950"
3. John Cage, "Memogram Correspondences"
4. Cornelius Cardew, "Stockhausen Serves Imperialism and Other Articles"
5. Robert Filliou, "A Filliou Sampler" [PDF]
6. Yves Klein, "Selected Writings, 1928-1962" [PDF]
7. Alison Knowles, "By Alison Knowles" [PDF]
8. Aram Saroyan, "Pages"
9. John Barton Wolgamot, "In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women" (introduction by Keith Waldrop) [PDF]
10. La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela, "Selected Writings" [PDF]
Damon Krukowski is a writer and musician. He is the publisher of Exact Change and teaches at Harvard University.
Summer 2006
Selected by David Grubbs
1. Craig Douglas Dworkin, "Unheard Music" [PDF]
2. Henry Flynt Interview by Kenneth Goldsmith on WFMU
3. John Cage and Morton Feldman in Conversation
4. Luc Ferrari France Culture Tributes and Documentaries
5. Marcel Broodthaers, "Interview with a Cat"
6. Dan Graham, "Performer/Audience/Mirror"
7. Marjorie Perloff, "The Music of Verbal Space: John Cage's 'What You Say'"
8. Mike Kelley, "The Peristaltic Airwaves"
9. Erik Satie, "Pieces pour Guitare"
10. Hanne Darboven, "Opus 17a"
David Grubbs is known for his solo work, as well as for collaborations with Stephen Prina, Susan Howe, Tony Conrad, Angela Bulloch, Will Oldham, and many others. He is a professor of Radio and Sound Art at Brooklyn College. David Grubbs Wikipedia Entry
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