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Martha Rosler Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975) Pipilotti Rist Video Works (1988-1999) Wim Delvoye Sybille II (1999) George Kuchar Films 1965-1986 Toshio Matsumoto Experimental Film Works, 1961-1987 Richard Foreman Strong Medicine, 1981 Jean Epstein La glace à trois faces, 1927 Segundo de Chomón Selected Works, 1902-1914 Carlfriedrich Claus Menschliche Existenz als Experiment, 1997 Willard Maas Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations, 1966 Marie Menken Glimpse of the Garden, 1957 Jarrod Fowler Recent Audio Works Bruce Andrews & Dirk Rowntree Prehab (2005) (MOV) Laurel Beckman Beatbots Beth Anderson Audio works from Peachy Keen O, 2006, MP3 Guy Debord Films Brian Kim Stefans Kluge (2006) Softpalate Gertrude Stein 3 New Interpretations of Stein's "Geography & Plays" by Robert Quillen Camp, [N]+Semble (Talan Memmott), and Ergo Phizmiz Cinema of Transgression Early 1980s Lower East Side Films: Kern, Moritsugu, Pfahler, Wojnarowicz, etc. Walerian Borowczyk Short Films, 1957-84 Jerry Tartaglia Ecce Homo, 1989 George Landow (aka Owen Land) Three Films, 1965-70 Erik Satie Pièces pour Guitare, (played by Pierre Laniau, 1982) (MP3) Penelope Umbrico Recent Web WorksStefan and Franciszka Themerson Films, 1937-1944 David Rimmer Surfacing the Thames, 1970 Cornelius Cardew "Towards an Ethic of Improvisation" (1971) Bernd Alois Zimmermann Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu (1968) (MP3) Hermann Bohlen Gekaut!! (Bis es von alleine herunterläuft) (MP3) Eric Rosolowski WMD (2006) Ghérasim Luca Radio France Broadcasts: Passionnément & Une vie une oeuvre (2005) [MP3] Phil Niblock Hannah Weiner, 1975 (Real Video) Phil Niblock Armand Schwerner, 1973 (Real Video) Guy Debord Hurlements en faveur de Sade 1952, 128.5 mb People Like Us & Felix Kubin Molaradio, 2004 [MP3] Elana Mann & Adam Overton Conversation Pieces: February 13-17, 2006 [PDF] Kenneth Goldsmith & Conceptual Poetics Essays by Perloff, Dworkin, Bök and others (2005) 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] Jean Genet Le condamné a mort, 1952, [MP3] Abraham Lincoln Gillespie: 1895-1950 [PDF] Antony Balch (with William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin) The Cut-Ups, 1966, 212 mb (MPEG 4) Maya Deren Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, 1947, 121 mb (MPEG 4) Henry Miller reads from "Black Spring" and "Colossous of Maroussi" (both 1949) (MP3) 40 Years of Polish Experimental Radio from Studio Warsaw (MP3) Craig Douglas Dworkin Unheard Music (extended version) (PDF) Extended Voices Works by Lucier, Oliveros, Ashley, Ichiyanagi, Feldman, Cage (1968), MP3 Luc Ferrari France Culture Tributes and Documentaries (MP3) UbuWeb | Fall 2007
Selections from FILM CULTURE Magazine (1955-1996) 24 seminal articles from FILM CULTURE, which served as a forum for the New American Cinema, discussing the works of pioneering filmmakers like Maya Deren, Ron Rice and Paul Sharits, and providing important context for largely unseen films through its essays on film history, contemporary art and poetry. Authors and subjects include Hollis Frampton, Luis Buñuel, Stan Brakhage, Tyler Parker, Donald Sutherland, Rudolf Arnheim, Taylor Mead and many others. Selected and edited by Kareem Estefan. Presented in partnership with Anthology Film Archives.
COLAB: All Color News Sampler (1978) & Colab Compilation (1980) Two rarely seen compilations from the New York-based Collaborative Projects (aka COLAB) formed in 1978. All News Color Sampler is a remarkable collection of clips from the feature news program for cable TV. Hard, gritty, this is the early political and socially oriented work by artists now well-known as sculptors and filmmakers. Potato Wolf, Colab Compilation was an artists' cable TV show produced by Collaborative Projects from approximately 1979-84. Artists include John Ahearn, Tom Otterness, Scott and Beth B, Kiki Smith, Peter Fend and many others.
Mary Ellen Solt: An Appreciation & Flowers in Concrete Mary Ellen Solt (1920-2007) became known in academic and poetic circles worldwide after the publication in 1968 of her influential book Concrete Poetry-A World View. Included here is an appreciation by critic A.S. Bessa and the full cycle of her influential and beautiful concrete poems Flowers in Concrete (1966).
Salvador Dali - Impressions de la Haute Mongolie - Hommage á Raymond Roussel (1974-1975) Salvador Dalí's romance with film and the visual arts is a relatively well-known chapter in the life of the original and controversial Spanish (Catalan) artist (1904-1989). However, his explorations of video art with the production of the "documentary" Impressions de la haute Mongolie. Hommage a Raymond Roussel (1974-75) remain an episode of his long and successful creative career only acknowledged by the specialist. The "videografía", narrates the exploration of Dalí to the remote land of Mongolia in search of the Great White Mushroom. Salvador Dalí, a consummate expert in media manipulation, invites the spectator to become his accomplice and partner in what it seems a drug-induced "trip" to a faraway and distant land where wonderful treasures are hidden. By means of advanced technology in film and the visual arts of the time (video, electronics, macro photography), Dalí strives to reveal optically the metamorphoses of matter with the purpose of revealing a new artistic reality.
UbuWeb Radio Listen to a 24-hour continuous stream from UbuWeb's MP3 archives. All avant-garde, all the time. Thanks to the Center for Literary Computing for providing technical support.
The 365 Days Project, Part 2 (2007) UbuWeb is pleased to be co-hosting and archiving the second installment of Otis Fodder's magnificent 365 Days Project. The first project was completed in 2003 and can be accessed here as well. 365 days of cool and strange and often obscure audio selections. Some words to describe the material featured would be... Celebrity, Children, Demonstration, Indigenous, Industrial, Outsider, Song-Poem, Spoken, Ventriloquism, and on and on and on. The best thing to do is to simply listen. UbuWeb's archive will be updated monthly. For day-to-day updates, be sure to visit UbuWeb's partner WFMU's Beware of the Blog.
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About UbuWeb An in-depth sit-down interview with UbuWeb founder Kenneth Goldsmith on Archinect tracing the history, breadth, philosophy and scope of UbuWeb.
Shirley Clarke - Shorts (1953-1982) A survey of short films by American independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke (1919-1997). Films include, "A Dance in the Sun" (1954), a portrait of dancer Daniel Nagrin; "A Moment in Love" (1957); "Bridges Go-Round" (1959) with two alternative soundtracks, one electronic music by Louis and Bebe Barron, the other jazz by Teo Macero; "A Scary Time" (1960) produced by UNICEF with a soundtrack by Peggy Glanville-Hicks; "Savage / Love" and "Tongues" (1981-82), a collaboration with Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaiken.
Alejandra & Aeron A survey of audio and film works from the collaborative team of Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman. Wildflowers is a series of video text-animated portraits showing citizens of Detroit rejecting politics, opting instead to work on changing concepts of "common sense". The sound works range from found Riojan folk sounds to a study of the social, political, formal and aesthetic properties of sound environments in Porto, Portugal and Northern Spain.
No More RealAudio We've been threatening to do this for some time and that time is now: we've stopped serving RealAudio files in our Sound and Ethnopoetics sections. However, it's going to take some time to replace them with MP3s, most likely it'll all be converted by the end of the summer. Until then, please enjoy our vast (and ever-growing) MP3 archive. Sorry, but this is our decision. Complaints will not be answered.
Stan Brakhage: The Test of Time (MP3) A series of 20 half-hour long radio broadcasts by Brakhage recorded at KAIR, Univeristy of Colorado in 1982. Includes long passages of Brakhage musing on subjects such as film, poetry, theater, and other arts. Includes music, lectures, readings, and sound pieces by Edgar Varèse, Peter Kubelka, Kenneth Patchen, Charles Ives, Kurt Schwitters, Robert Duncan, Ed Dorn, Glenn Gould, James Joyce, Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein, Olivier Messiaen, Louis Zukofsky, William Faulkner, Charles Olson, Henry Cowell and many others. You can also read The Brakages Lectures (1972) and view the short film Legendary Yarns and Fables: Stan Brakhage on UbuWeb.
Her Noise: Women in Experimental Music (2007) A video documenting the development of the Her Noise project between 2001 and 2005 and features interviews with artists including Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether, Peaches, Marina Rosenfeld, Kembra Pfhaler, Chicks On Speed, Else Marie Pade, Kaffe Matthews, Emma Hedditch, Christina Kubisch and the show's curators, Lina Dzuverovic and Anne Hilde Neset. The documentary also features excerpts from live performances held during the Her Noise exhibition at South London Gallery by Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether and Jenny Hoyston (Erase Errata), Christina Carter, Heather Leigh Murray, Ana Da Silva (The Raincoats), Spider And The Webs, Partyline and Marina Rosenfeld's 'Emotional Orchestra' at Tate Modern. Her Noise celebrates the occasion of Electra, the London-based arts agency, new partnership with UbuWeb.
/ubu Editions, Third Series (Spring 2007): Edited by Danny Snelson UbuWeb is pleased to present the latest installment of our ongoing series of full-length e-books. Titles for this series include works by Steve Benson, Maurice Blanchot, Mairéad Byrne, Terence Gower & Mónica de la Torre, Dick Higgins, Bernard Nöel, Severo Sarduy, Claude Simon, Rosemarie Waldrop, Robert Wilson, and Monique Wittig. This new series of /ubu editions presents eleven out-of-print works from 1957 to 1994 - and also includes three newer titles (1999-2007). Of the historical republications, there are three works of poetry, three works of prose, one opera libretto, one work of critical theory, and one manifesto - though each piece blurs these genres. Seven were written in English, four appear in translation, and one is bilingual. Two authors could be considered language poets, two are associated with Tel Quel, one arguably initiated Fluxus, another arguably initiated the new novel. Four are women, nine are men. One title was changed for its /ubu publication.
Peter Rose: Vox 13 Eleven films created between 1983 and 2000, Vox 13 offers a grand circumnavigation of the subject of language. These films consider what it means to read, what it means to listen, when it is that we speak, how words acquire meaning, what it means to write, who we listen to, how we listen, what speaks, other ways we can speak, what the voice is, where language can be found, what words do to time, what holds stories together, and how light shapes language.
Francis Bacon - The South Bank Show (1985) Part of The South Bank Show series, David Hinton directs this BBC documentary about British painter Francis Bacon, known for his horrifying portraits of humanity. The program consists of a series of conversations between Bacon and interviewer Melvyn Bragg, starting with commentary during a side-show presentation at the Tate Gallery in London. Later in the evening, Bacon is followed through various bars hanging out, drinking, and gambling. In another segment, Bacon provides a tour of his painting studio and a glimpse at his reference photographs of distorted humans. The artist discusses his theories, influences, and obsessions. This title won an International Emmy Award in 1985.
David Schafer: Audio Works (1999-2007) A survey of Schafer's oeuvre, from his radically altered plunderphonic pieces -- including densely layered remixes of easy listening, pop, soft and classic rock records -- to his geeky "General Theory Expo", a continuous play of a reading by a female voice actor of a Jacques Derrida lecture from 1966. Schafer conceptually explores ideas about how the structures of space and sound data, controls, oppresses, stimulates, or enlivens the listening subject. On these tracks, Schafer works with voice actors and with various degrees of superimposition that border on, or fully engage, the noise side of things.
The Films of Irene Moon and the Begonia Society Irene Moon has been creating music, film and musical lectures since the mid-90s. Her films are head- ing combinations of completely factual information with neo-Dada homemade New Wave music, insect sound samples, microphotography, animations and so much more. Included here are her Films of the Auk Theater, a touring theater that performs absurd, classical and heavily stylized theater in rock clubs and music venues. All of the short Auk plays are from 2004-2005. Also: The Super 8 series: Early films from Moon with soundtracks created from field recordings of insects and equipment commonly found in a laboratory environment.
Samuel Beckett - Audio Works (MP3) New additions to the UbuWeb Samuel Beckett archive: France Culture Radio Broadcasts (L'IMAGE par Denis Lavant, MALONE MEURT par Jérôme Kirchen, LE DEPEUPLEUR par Serge Martin, L'expulsé (Roger Blin), Actes sans paroles, 01.10.63 (Roger Blin), Bing, 1965 (Roger Blin), CENDRES (1966, Seyrig, Blin, Martin, Seminoff); A Swedish version of Embers; Cette fois (Jean Bollery); A Piece of Monologue (English version, David Warrilow), Solo (French version, David Warrilow). Also see Samuel Beckett in UbuWeb Film.
Igor and Gleb Aleinikov - Five Films (1984-87) The brothers Igor and Gleb Aleinikov belonged to the first generation of independent filmmakers in the Soviet Union, who no longer worked within the studio system, but founded the 'Parallel Cinema'. Their films, like Western experimental film in the 60s, deliberately refused to conform to professional standards, and were thus rejected not only officially, but also by many filmmakers.
John Cage - For the Third Time (1978) John Cage speaks with a laryngitis-ridden Richard Kostelanetz about the techniques he used in "Writing Through Finnegans Wake" (1977) and "Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake" (1977). Kostelanetz whispers the entire interview, as Cage describes his work in full volume. Several other Cage videos can be viewed here and numerous Cage MP3s & audio files are available on Cage's page in Ubuweb Sound. See Cage's score for his Songbooks (1970). Listen to his Norton Lectures (1988-89).
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - Boots! (2006) (MP3): These recordings document a collaborative research and development process between People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz culminating in a live performance using vintage turntables and vinyl dubplates, a CDr album ("Boots!"), a 10" vinyl record ("Honeysuckle Boulevard"), and a CD album ("Perpetuum Mobile"). Using the internet and file sharing as our primary means of communication and collaboration, we experimented and explored our collaborative practices over a period of almost a year. The files available here constitute the research sketches, the CDr, and the live performance. We would encourage others to use the dubplate files to create new juxtapositions and recontextualisations.
Avant-Garde All the Time: The UbuWeb Poetry Foundation Podcast (2007) (MP3) A short (11 minute) interview with UbuWeb founding editor Kenneth Goldsmith introducing the site to a general listenership, with a specific focus on UbuWeb's sound archives. Full MP3 recordings of the excerpts featured on the podcast include: bpNichol 060173; Marie Osmond performing Hugo Ball's Karawane; Guiallme Apollinaire Le Pont Mirabeau; Gertrude Stein The Making of Americans: Parts 1 & 2; The Dial-A-Poem Poets; Patti Smith Parade; Ogden Nash Word About Winter; Charles Bernstein 1-100. The podcast was produced by Curtis Fox for The Poetry Foundation.
Peter Whitehead - Wholly Communion (1965) The film "Wholly Communion" captures the historic event at the Royal Albert Hall on 11 June 1965 where an audience of 7,000 witnessed the first meeting of American and English Beat poets. Among the performers featured are Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso and Ernst Jandl. The event was viewed as the inaugural moment of the mass counter culture of the '60s. Despite being organized in a matter of days, a press conference announcing the event the previous week guaranteed an estimated audience of 7,000 inside the venue, who had been invited to: "Come in fancy dress"; "Come with flowers," and "Come!" Many more were turned away at the door, and, according to the press coverage the next day in The Guardian, those unable to enter were "clamouring to get in", with the event being described by many as the "biggest poetry-reading meeting in the English-speaking world"
Rick Moody - Audio Works (1999-present) (MP3): These pieces represent a small sampling of Moody's audio work that he's done over the years, mostly for radio. Collaborators include Kurt Hoffman, Sherre Delys, Chris Abrahams, Hannah Marcus, Tianna Kennedy, Sharanu Pardeet, Anna M. Saxon, Amy Dissanayake, David Rakowski and John Lurie. Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer best known for The Ice Storm (1994). His most recent book is The Diviners (2005).
Music Overheard (MP3): An audio response to the exhibition Super Vision at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, December 10 2006 to April 29 2007. Editor Damon Krukowski says, "In constructing an audio response (you could call it a soundtrack) to Super Vision, I followed this lead. Rather than look to the latest computer-based electronica-the futuristic sounds of tomorrow-I wanted to gather work made by traditional means, which would not have been possible outside today's digital audio environment. Thus CD 1 (curated by Bhob Rainey) poses the question: What happens to the sound of acoustic instruments, once musicians are familiar with the tools and techniques of electronic music? And CD 2 (curated by Kenneth Goldsmith) asks a related question about our ur-instrument, the body: How do we hear the body's sounds, now that technology has given us superhuman ears?" MP3s include Greg Kelley, Sean Meehan, Charles Curtis, Bhob Rainey, Taku Unami, Chris Corsano, Liz Tonne, Ellen Fullman, Gregory Whitehead, Language Removal Services, Henri Chopin, Matmos, John Duncan, Caroline Bergvall, Paul Dutton, Lauren Lesko, Christof Migone, Miya Masakoa, Jim Roche, People Like Us and Leif Elggren & Thomas Liljenberg. Presented in collaboration with The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and PennSound.
4 American Composers: Directed by Peter Greenaway. Feautring John Cage, Meredith Monk, Robert Ashley and Philip Glass. Based on London performances under the aegis of the New York/Almeida Festival, this set of four one-hour documentaries, originally produced in 1983, introduced these avant-garde composers and their music to a general public. It is a tribute to the filmmakers' accomplishment (and a sorry comment on how we honor our own prophets) that the set provides no less valuable an introduction for audiences over two and a half decades later. Rarely seen and out of print, Greenaway's films make a perfect companion to Robert Ashley's set of composer portraits Music With Roots in the Aether, produced in the mid-70s.
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New Additions:
Arthur Lipsett 21-87 (1963), A Trip Down Memory Lane (1965) & Fluxes (1968) Ken Jacobs Blonde Cobra (1963) & Little Stabs at Happiness (1960) Nobuhiko Obayashi Experimental Films (1960-68) Maja Ratkje Live in Paris, 2005 (video) William S. Burroughs French Television Interview (1990) Hy Hirsch Come Closer (1952) Cheryl Donegan Refuses (2007) Jean Rouch Cimetieres dans la falaise (1951) & Les Maitres fous (1955) Carpi Cioni Three Short Films (1960-1962) Alexander Hammid Bezucelna Prochazka (Aimless Walk, 1930) & Na Prazskem Hrade (At Prague Castle, 1932) Shuji Terayama & Shuntaro Tanikawa Video Letters (1982-83) Sidney Peterson The Lead Shoes (1949) Nicole Dextras Frozen Words (2007) Lance Wakeling SIC, NOTES FRMDELOM A KEYLOGGER (2006/2007) Joseph Nechvatal viral symphOny (MP3) Andy Warhol Warhol's Cinema: A Mirror for the Sixties (1989) J.G. Ballard Shanghai Jim (1991) Taj Mahal Travellers On Tour 1973 (16mm film) Robert Kramer Ice (1969) Kay Rosen Sisyphis, 1991 (video); Interview, 2007 (video & MP3) Peter Weiss Was machen wir jetzt (1958) Contemporary Chinese Experimental Music 1997-2007 (MP3) Alec Finlay: Assorted Visual Poems and Bookworks Orson Welles: The One Man Band (1995) The Itchy & Scratchy Orchestra Harvard Concert: pieces by Cornelius Cardew and Christian Wolff (2007) Joseph Cornell Rose Hobart, 1936 Joseph Beuys Abstract Energy LP, 1985 (MP3) Luigi Russolo Selection of Historical Audio Works (MP3) Pandit Pran Nath Ragas of Morning and Night LP 1986 (MP3) Wolf Vostell De/Collage LP, 1980 (MP3) Sonic Arts Union Ashley, Lucier, Mumma, Behrman - LP, 1971 (MP3) Lautpoesie: An Anthology 1974-1986 (MP3) Jacques Derrida On Religion (MP3) Tadanori Yokoo 3 Animation Films (1964-65) Piotr Kamler Animated Films (with Bernard Parmegiani, Francois Bayle, etc) (1969-93) Werner Nekes & Anthony Moore Hynningen (1975) Jacques Lacan Télévision (1973) MoMA: Writing in Time Fitterman, Goldsmith, Bergvall & Byrum (2007) Banksy The Punking of Paris Hilton (2006) Anton Corbijn Some YoYo Stuff: An observation of the observations of Don Van Vliet (1993) Abagail Child Mayhem, Mercy, Perils (1986-1989) Jean Cocteau Autobiography of an Unknown (1983 - French language) Robert Frank Energy and How to Get It (1981) Larry Jordan Carabosse (1980) Maya Deren The Complete Films (1943-1958) Joseph Beuys Filz TV (1970) Lawrence Weiner Nothing to Lose (1976) Alexander Kluge Selection of Films (1963-1977) Yves Klein Anthropometries of the Blue Period and Fire Paintings: Two Film Performances (1960) John Cage The Norton Lectures (1988-1989) Marcel Duchamp Interview (French, 1961) Marcel Duchamp Les Mémorables d'Marcel Duchamp (French radio broadcasts, 2005) Edgard Varése Les Mémorables d'Edgard Varése (French radio broadcasts, 2005) Pierre Guyotat Progenitures (2000) Dieter Roth The Music of Dieter Roth (1973-1991) Berliner Dichter Workshop Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm and Oswald Weiner (1973) Racter The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed (facsimile edition, 1984) John Cage Songbooks (Score, 1970) Clausfriedrich Claus Geran Radio Feautres (2000) Derek Bailey On the Edge: Improvisation from Around the World (1992) Tim Hecker Pluie (1994) [MP3] Takahiko Iimura On Eye Rape (1962) Robert Frank Me And My brother (1969) Paul Glabicki Films (1978-84) Julian Beck Interview (1984) [MP3] Eiríkur Örn Nordahl Recent Sound Poems [MP3] Concrete Mass Art and Money Broadcasts (2006) [MP3] R. Henry Nigl Shout Art [MP3] Mairead Byrne SOS Poetry (2007) [PDF] Jas Duke Poems Of Life And Death By Jas H. Duke (1977-1990) [MP3] Unamunos Quorum Strange Visitors (2006) [MP3] Pierre Coulibeuf Balkan Baroque (1999) Seth Price Stay at Home/Go Home (2003) [PDF] Martina Pfeiler Sounds of Poetry: Contemporary American Performance Poets (2003), PDF (3.3mb) Haroun Farocki Inextinguishable Fire (1969) Scott MacDonald Introduction to "Avant-Garde Film" (1993) Ron Rice The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man (1963) Allen Ginsberg Face to Face: An Interview (1995) Andrew Lampert #6 & #4 Okkyung (2004) Stephen Montague John Cage at Seventy: An Interview (1985) Werner Schroeter Der Tod der Maria Malibran (1972) [German language] Situationist Documentary On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972 Louis-Ferdinand Céline Television Interview (1961) (French) & "Un siècle d'écrivains" Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Un diamant noir comme l'enfer
(1998) René Viénet Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973) Gilbert & George The Ten Commandments of Gilbert & George (1995) Hollis Frampton Zorns Lemma (1972) Jean Genet Un Chant d'Amour (1950)
Featured Resources:
Fall 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.
Featured Resources:
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.
Featured Resources:
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.
Featured Resources:
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).
Featured Resources:
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.
Featured Resources:
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.