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UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.

All materials on UbuWeb are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights belong to the author(s).

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Recent Additions:

Joseph Beuys Sonne Statt Reagan, (1982), 4mb, MOV

Glenn Gould Radio Broadcasts and Radio Plays, 1967-1981, MP3

Yoshi Wada Off The Wall (1985) MP3

Walter De Maria Cricket Music / Ocean Music (1964/1968) MP3

Furious Pig I Don't Like Your Face (1980) MP3

Michael Snow Sinoms (1989) MP3

Derek Beaulieu an afterword after words: notes towards a concrete poetic (PDF)

Group Ongaku Music of Group Ongaku, 1960-1961 (Takehisa Kosugi, Syuko Mizuno, Mieko Shiomi, Yasunao Tone), MP3

Öyvind Fahlström Manipulate The World! (1963) and The Holy Torsten Nilsson (1966) MP3

Yoshi Wada Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile (1982) MP3

UbuWeb | Winter 2006

FluxFilms (1962 - 1970): UbuWeb is pleased to announce the return of FluxFilms. Dating from the sixties and compiled by George Maciunas (1931-1978, founder of Fluxus), this is a document consisting of 37 short films ranging from 10 seconds to 10 minutes in length. These films (some of which were meant to be screened as continuous loops) were shown as part of the events and happenings of the New York avant-garde. Made by the artists listed above, they celebrate the ephemeral humor of the Fluxus movement.Films by Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins, George Maciunas, Chieko Shiomi, John Cavanaugh, James Riddle, Yoko Ono, George Brecht, Robert Watts, Pieter Vanderbiek, Joe Jones, Eric Anderson, Jeff Perkins, Wolf Vostell, Albert Fine, George Landow, Paul Sharits, John Cale, Peter Kennedy, Mike Parr, Ben Vautier. (MPEG)

Ferdinand Kriwet Hörspiels: Three unreleased legendary Hörspiels from the late 60s and early 70s, originally broadcast on German radio: Apollo America (1969), a sound collage of the events of Apollo 11, mostly recorded off of New York radio; and Voice of America (1970), a snapshot of American media at the beginning of the 1970s. Also included is an early work for mulitple voices, Jaja (1965). You can browse Kriwet's prescient visual works in UbuWeb's Historical section.

Aram Saroyan Feature: UbuWeb celebrates the groundbreaking 1960s concrete poetry of Aram Saroyan by hosting The Street, a film based on Saroyan's life during that period. Other works by Saroyan on UbuWeb include three full-length books of classic concrete poetry: Pages (Random House, 1969), Aram Saroyan (Random House, 1968), and Cloth: An Electric Novel (Big Table, 1971). Saroyan chronicles his making of these poems in his essay Flower Power and his historical postition is noted in Mary Ellen Solt's 1968 "Concrete Poetry: A World View : United States" in UbuWeb Papers. Finally, you can listen to some very rare audio recordings made by Saroyan in the mid to late 1960s.

Ethnopoetics Update: UbuWeb Ethnopoetics editor Jerome Rothenberg has supplied us with a fresh batch of poems and essays including: Yunte Huang's essay with visuals of poems inscribed on walls by Chinese immigrants at Angel Island, San Francisco; Dennis Tedlock's A Conversation with Madness (translation) from The Human Work, the Human Design: 2,000 Years of Mayan Literature; an essay by Greek artist Demosthenes Agrafiotis on traditional writing systems & art making (French); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's concrete poetry translation of an Ojibwa poem Song of the Owl; Dinita Smith on Incantations, a handmade book of original writings in Tsotzil by Mayan women; Ambar Past's Introduction to the Tzotzil Mayan Incantations book; and The People's Poetry Language Initiative -- A Declaration Of Poetic Rights And Values. Stay tuned for Ethnopoetic Sound updates including Ethel Waters’ "That Dada Strain" (1922) and "The Signifying Monkey: Two Versions of a Toast."

Primary Texts of American and British Conceptual Art (1965-1971): Dozens of documents, statements, interviews and theories of conceptual art by the first wave of artists. Including texts by Art & Language, Terry Atkinson, Robert Barry, Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Doublas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Morris, Sol Lewitt, Adrian Piper, Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, Lawrence Weiner and many others.

Steve Roden "Soundwalk" (2005) [MP3]: Recordings documenting a live five-hour performance by Los Angeles-based artist Steve Roden aka In Be Tween Noise. Roden writes, "On the evening of the event, the audience entered the space to find few old rugs covering the dance floor, and a couple of small lamps with low watt bulbs. From my windowless little cardboard shelter hidden in a corner, i had no idea what was going on in the space; and most of the visitors assumed they were listening to a pre-recorded installation... the piece was playing through speakers located roughly 10 feet above the audience and reflecting off a dome ceiling back down to the listeners below."

Real Audio Files Fixed: Following our server issues over the past six months, the RealAudio files sprinkled throughout our Sound section had disappeard. Finally, we've found them and hooked them back up again. They should all be now working but if there's still a few broken links, let us know and we'll fix them.

Henri Chopin Videos: UbuWeb is pleased to present four films of sound poet Henri Chopin (b. 1922): Henri Chopin at Home (13.9 mb, .MOV), Henri Chopin at The Garage (293.9 mb, .MOV); Henri Chopin Live at Espcace Gantner (204.3 mb, .MOV); Undated Henri Chopin Performance (19.3 mb, .MOV). Also see UbuWeb's vast collection of Chopin MP3s. All videos courtesy of Erratum

Roland Barthes: "Comment vivre ensemble" (1977) and "Le Neutre" (1978) [MP3]: Over 36 hours worth of lectures by Roland Barthes (1915-1980). The audio material available here represents the whole lectures given by Barthes during his first 2 years' teaching at the Collège de France in 1977 and 1978, and also his inaugural lecture about the question of power (and the way it is inscribed in the core of the language).

Samuel Beckett: BBC Radio Plays Eight full-length BBC radio productions of Samuel Beckett plays, broadcast between 1959 and 1991. Audio includes: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Ireland, 1958); A Piece of Monologue (UK, 1986); Cascando (UK, 1964); Cascando (Ireland, 1991); Embers (UK, 1959); Rough for Radio (UK, 1976); Words and Music (UK, 1962); The Old Tune (Ireland).

Jacques Lacan Hours of archival material from French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981). Includes his 1973 film Télévision (1973), the complete Radiophonie (1970), as well as numerous other lectures dating from 1966-1970. Also included are nine audio recordings of the legendary Séminaire. From 1953 to 1980, Lacan's Séminaire was the laboratory, the work-in -progress for his Return to Freud project. The Séminaire was a singular place and moment, almost weekly, every year from November to June. Without any connection with university, it was public and open to everyone. Curiously, despite Lacan's famous verve for grandiloquence and his matchless improvising oral style, none of the 500 sessions have been cleanly and officially recorded (neither audio nor video) until now, presented here on UbuWeb. (audio and video is in French)

Gertrude Stein MP3s In conjunction with our partners at PennSound, UbuWeb is pleased to host a number of audio recordings by Gertrude Stein made during the years of 1934-1935 with liner notes by Stein scholar Ulla Dydo. Selections include: "The Making of Americans: Parts 1 & 2", "Matisse", "A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson", "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso", "Portrait of Christian Bérard", "Madame Recamier: An Opera", "How She Bowed To Her Brother" and "Interview (1934)."

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New Additions:

Mauricio Kagel ACUSTICA for experimental sound-producers and loud-speakers (1971) [MP3]

Steve Benson The Ball // 30 Times in 2 Days (2006) [PDF]

Craig Douglas Dworkin Legion (II) (2006) [PDF]

Fluxus Anthology 2006 A collection of music and sound events assembled by Walter Cianciusi for Fluxlist (2006) [MP3]

Jelle Meander & Maja Jantar Maiandros Sonoros (2005); Live in Geneva & Brussels (2004) [MP3]

Momus Fakeways (2002), [MP3]

Adolf Wölfli Gelesen und vertont (1978), [MP3]

John Cage Mureau (1972), [MP3]

Mike Kelley Interview (1996) [PDF]

Jerome Rothenberg How We Came Into Performance: A Personal Accounting (2005) [PDF]

A.S. Bessa Vers: Une Architecture (on Stéphane Mallarmé) [PDF]