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Sonny Rollins |
The Freedom Suite |
The Freedom Suite |
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1958; piano-less trio, less acknowledged than Ornette Coleman's piano-less freedom occuring at the same time; Max Roach on drums |
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Paul Blackburn |
Listening to Sonny Rollins at the Five Spot |
Collected Poems; New Jazz Poets |
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Language art's attempted mimesis of music; interesting for its shortcomings and virtues |
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Marjorie Perloff |
Interview excerpt |
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http://mleddy.blogspot.com/ 2005/06/message.html |
Re: public acceptance of painting vs. poetry, abstraction in these mediums, art education |
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Karl Marx |
from Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital ''All general conditions of production, such as roads, canals, etc...'' (530) |
Grundrisse |
http://www.marxists.org/ archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ |
The great collage of concerns in the late notebooks of Marx; meditation on capital's relation to the state, especially interesting right now with the stimulus's attempt to bailout capitalism |
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Bruce Andrews |
Sun 5 |
Lip Service; Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, January 13, 1990 |
http://writing.upenn.edu/ pennsound/x/Andrews.php |
Many collage artists on today's show; Andrews' radical interrogation of love concerns |
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James Tenney |
Music for Player Piano |
Selected Works 1961 - 1969 |
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Radical formalism; player piano |
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John Ashbery |
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape |
The Double Dream of Spring; Appearing on BBC Radio 3, Contemporary American Poetry Program, July 24, 1999 |
http://writing.upenn.edu/ pennsound/x/Ashbery.php |
Traditional sestina form and Popeye |
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Joseph Jarman & Anthony Braxton |
CK7 (GN) 436 |
Together Alone |
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1974; curious album in both artists' discographies; foregrounds its constructivist approach in its use of production; sounds ahead of its time |
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Kurt Schwitters |
Die Sonate In Urlauten |
Futurism & Dada Reviewed |
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Better known for his visual art collages, also an early sound poet |
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Anne Tardos & Jackson Mac Low |
Refrigerator Defrosting-Pseudoglossolalia |
Doings: Assorted Performance Pieces 1955-2002 |
http://writing.upenn.edu/ pennsound/x/Mac-Low-Doings.html |
Mac Low breaks down the delineated barriers of mediums; brilliant compositional techniques; his work blows my mind |
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Cale / Conrad / Maclise / Young / Zazeela |
Day of Niagara |
Inside the Dream Syndicate Volume 1: Day of Niagara (1965) |
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Conrad is performing at the SF Art Institute on Saturday; also, Andy Warhol exhibit at the de Young Museum, SF until May 17 |
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K. Silem Mohammad |
False / Vodoun Democracy |
Deer Head Nation; Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, February 27, 2003 |
http://writing.upenn.edu/ pennsound/x/Mohammad.html - http://shampoopoetry.blogspot.com/ (great Bay Area poetry events calendar) |
Reading at Studio One Arts Center, Oakland on Friday; associated with ''Flarf,'' which uses Google to compose poems; Raoul Vaneigem called it when he wrote that something's power could be measured by the frequency of use of its signifier |
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Noam Chomsky |
Interview excerpt |
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http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=a13ZCHI2js4 |
Re: the Constitution; controversial thinker whose ideas are well worth interrogating |
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Kronos Quartet & Allen Ginsberg |
Footnote to Howl |
Howl, U.S.A. |
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Ginsberg's rhythmic feel; many memorable lines; Lee Hyla, composer |
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Rod Smith |
Poem Composed of AG and CB Suggested by SJ and Beginning with a Line from Duncan |
Protective Immediacy; PhillyTalks 8 - December 10, 1998 |
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/ pennsound/x/phillytalks/Philly-Talks-Episode08.html |
Collages of found materials interests me greatly these days |
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Charles Bernstein |
From Lines of Swinburne |
The Sophist |
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The first line is the last line of the Smith poem |
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Alvin Lucier |
I Am Sitting in a Room |
I Am Sitting in a Room |
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Interesting tension between speech's affirmation of presence and technology's effacement of it; piece demands the laborious effort of sitting thru it to fully appreciate it, but also very conceptually pleasurable |
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Steve Reich |
It's Gonna Rain |
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A more energetic tape experiment, samples a street preacher |
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Michael Davidson |
The Landing of Rochambeau |
The Landing of Rochambeau; Close Listening |
http://writing.upenn.edu/ pennsound/x/Davidson.html |
New on PennSound, a strong contribution to the small amount of available Davidson recordings |
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