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UbuWeb Featured Resources, April/May 09: David Toop & Pauline Oliveros

UbuWeb Featured Resources, May 2009
Selected by David Toop

1. Henri Michaux: Images du Monde Visionnaire
2. Yves Klein: Anthropometries of the Blue Period & Fire Paintings
3. Jacques Lacan: Télévision
4. Yukio Mishima: Rite of Love and Death
5. Chris Marker, John Chapman & Frank Simeone: Junkopia
6. Ethnopoetics: Canntaireachd - Earl of Seaforth's Salute
7. Ethnopoetics: Slim and Slam - 'African Jive'
8. La Monte Young: Drift Study 31 1 69, Aspen 8, item 5.
9. J.G. Ballard: Shanghai Jim
10. Group Ongaku: Automatism

David Toop is a musician/composer, writer and curator. More here.

 

UbuWeb Featured Resources, April 2009
Selected by Pauline Oliveros

1. Billy Bang - "Daydreams"
2. Guy Klucevsek - "Clairvoyant"
3. Mauricio Kagel - Antithese
4. Tehching Hsieh (b. 1950) - One Year Performance, No. 2 (1980-81)
5. Her Noise - The Making Of
6. Terry Fox - Children's Tapes
7. Glenn Gould - Karlheinz Klopweisser Promo for CBC
8. Sainkho Namtchylak - Roulette TV
9. John Baldessari- Baldessari Sings Lewitt

Pauline Oliveros (b. 1932) is an accordionist and composer who was a central figure in the development of post-war electronic art music. Oliveros was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, and served as its director. She has taught music at Mills College, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Oliveros has written books, formulated new music theories and investigated new ways to focus attention on music including her concepts of Deep Listening and "sonic awareness". More here.

The Inaugural Poem Remix

By all accounts, Elizabeth Alexander's Inaugural Poem, uh, sucked. We think you could do better. So, here's the deal. Take her poem. Remix it, shred it, speed it up, slow it down, reconstruct it, deconstruct it, warp it, bend it, twist it, scream it, rock it, set it to noise, obliterate it. You get the idea. And I'll play it on my show next week, Weds afternoon, Jan 28, noon-3 pm. I'll also post 'em here on this blog.

Note: sincere recitations will be discarded. Please send MP3 audio only!

Send an MP3 via YouSendIt to kg at wfmu dot org or post a link in the comments.

Here's the video:

Here's the link to the text.
Here's an MP3 of the reading for you to mangle (Thanks, Rokhausen!) LISTENER VERSIONS


People Like Us "An Induction Is A Draft Is A Gust Of Air" (video version)

1. PLU + RIAA "A Golden Induction"
   
2. People Like Us "An Induction Is A Draft Is A Gust Of Air"
   
3. People Like Us "Adjournment-Poem"
   
4. Fatty Jubbo "Histrionic Inaugural Poem"
   
5. Fatty Jubbo "Elizabeth Claire Prophet Inauguration"
   
6. Fatty Jubbo "Riveting Inaugural Poem"
   
7. Fatty Jubbo "A Precious Poem"
   
8. Cy Kottick Channels Jackie Mason Channelling Elizabeth Alexander
   
9. Nick The Bard "Heavy Metal Inaugural Poem"
   
10. Volunteer Gordon "Pathetic Inaugural Poem"
    
11. Reverend Hellbound Alleee "Inauguration Poem"
    
12. Rokhausen "Praise-Song For Tomorrow"
    
13. Sick To The Back Teeth "Take Out Your Boom"
    
14. Sick To The Back Teeth "All at Once"
    
15. Jonathan Wall "Some Someone Someone Someone Something Somewhere"
    
16. Dogwater "Praise Song All About Us"
    
17. Suzie Crews "Inaugural Poem"
    
18. Big Kitty "Praise Sawng"
    
19. DJ Bidet Spret and Rokhausen "Praise Songsmith Slumber Ball Mix"
    
20. The Ubu Orchestra "Inaugural Poem Revisited"
    
21. Nat Roe "Song of a Praise"
    
22. James Urbaniak "What If"
    
23. Giant Pygmy "Inaugural Poem (This National Grievance"
    
24. Raging Horn "The Swearing in Poem (Burnt Bacon Right Remix)"
    
25. Babs Toyfish "I Need to See What's On The Other Side or Inaugural Cough"
    
26. Godxiliary "0 Cliffnote-Sum"
    
27. Godxiliary "1 Cassettegirl-Ko"
    
28. Godxiliary "2 Mikrosophst and Cassettegirl Make Love"
    
29. Godxiliary "3 Cliffnote Synopsis"
    
30. Godxiliary "4 Robot"
    
31. Godxiliary " 5 Cliffnote Selections"
    
32. Gwilly Edmondez "Inaugural Poems One"
    
33. Gwilly Edmondez "Inaugural Poems Two"
    
34. Gwilly Edmondez "Inaugural Poems Three"
    
35. Paid in Puke "Inauguration 4 The Beat Generation"
    
36. DJ Man Rich "Praise Sitting in a Room"
    
37. Tommy Mackay "Everybody's Heard About The Words"
    
38. Babs Toyfish "Reconsider A Widening Pool of Light"
    
39. Pflaphpschoen "Sparklesharp"
    
40. Pflaphpschoen "All About Us Is Noise"
    
41. norelpref "Wait A Minute"
    
42. norelpref "Someone is Trying to Make Music Somewhere"
    
43. norelpref "A Side of Ham is Love"
    
44. I Am A Robot "Poem"
    
45. Easy EW "Praise Song Praise Song"
    
46. Dogwater "Last Minute Speechwriter"
    
47. Daniel Konig "Elizabeth Alexander = Log Lady from Twin Peaks"
    
48. Brian Joseph Davis "The First Ten Words"
    
49. Webhamster Henry "Roses"
    
50. Nosnibor "Lettuce"
    
51. TriFocal "Praise Song For The Day (Cinderblock Dumbbell Mix)"
    

Full text after the jump...

UbuWeb :: New Addtions, Spring 2008

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Tellus Audio Cassettes (1983-1993)
http://www.ubu.com/sound/tellus.html

UbuWeb is pleased to present the entire run of the legendary New York-based Tellus audio cassette magazine. Originally a subscription-based bimonthly publication, the series took full advantage of the popular cassette medium to promote cutting edge music, documenting the New York scene and advanced US composers of the time. Highlight issues include: All Guitars! (1985), The Sound of Radio (1985), Just Intonation (1986), Audio By Visual Artists (1988), The Voice of Paul Bowles (1989) and Flux Tellus (1990). Featuring hundreds of artists including Marcel Duchamp, Alison Knowles, Sonic Youth, Joan Jonas, George Brecht, Pauline Oliveros, John Zorn, Richard Prince, Glenn Branca, Harry Partch and Mike Kelley. Tellus cassettes were edited by Joseph Nechvatal, Claudia Gould and Carole Parkinson. This UbuWeb feature is presented in conjuction with Continuo's Weblog. Produced for UbuWeb by Steve McLaughlin.


Dada Magazine, Issues 1, 2, 3 (1917-1918)
http://www.ubu.com/historical/dada/index.html

Attempting to promulgate Dada ideas throughout Europe, Tristan Tzara launched the art and literature review Dada. Appearing in July 1917, the first issue of Dada, subtitled Miscellany of Art and Literature, featured contributions from members of avant-garde groups throughout Europe, including Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Delaunay, and Wassily Kandinsky. Marking the magazine's debut, Tzara wrote in the Zurich Chronicle, "Mysterious creation! Magic Revolver! The Dada Movement is Launched." Issue 2 appeared in December of 1918. Issue number 3 violated all the rules and conventions in typography and layout and undermined established notions of order and logic. Printed in newspaper format in both French and German editions, it embodies Dada's celebration of nonsense and chaos with an explosive mixture of manifestos, poetry, and advertisements - all typeset in randomly ordered lettering. Included is Tzara's "Dada Manifesto of 1918," which was read at Meise Hall in Zurich on July 23, 1918, and is perhaps the most important of the Dadaist manifestos. See also Helmut Herbst's film Deutschland Dada (1969), Hans Richter's films and Tristan Tzara's sound poems in UbuWeb Sound which is strewn with historical and rare recordings from dozens of Dadaists.


Dinner With Henry Miller (1979)
http://www.ubu.com/film/miller_dinner.html

Dinner With Henry is a rare, 30-minute documentary about Henry Miller. It is exactly what the title implies: footage of Henry having dinner. With him at the table is the film crew, and actress/model Brenda Venus, to whom Henry was enamoured in the final years of life. Henry - at age 87 - spends the majority of his time speaking on a number of subjects, the most persistent of which is Blaise Cendrars. Occasionally, he complains about the food. That is all: a curious "slice of life" for any Miller fan who likes to imagine being at the table with him.


David Cronenberg on Andy Warhol (2006)
http://www.ubu.com/sound/warhol.html

A guided tour of the "Andy Warhol / Supernova: Stars Death and Disasters, 1962-1964" exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario, conceived and narrated by renowned filmmaker David Cronenberg. Cronenberg says, "Andy was making underground films when I was making underground films. And I was more inspired by him than by Hollywood. He created himself: He was an outsider, a Slovakian, Catholic, gay, an artist, poor; an outsider in his own family, a triple outsider like Kafka, with his nose pressed against the New York window. And, he became the ultimate insider, the center of his own world, and drew people to him. He became a huge example of the invention of an identity." Commentary by David Cronenberg, Mary-Lou Green, Dennis Hopper, David Moos, James Rosenquist and Amy Taubin.

UbuWeb - New Additions : Late Fall 2007

UbuWeb

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Ronald Nameth - Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable with The Velvet Underground (1966)

Hans Arp - Soundworks (1913-1961)

Doron Golan Four Films (2007)

Alvin Lucier -  The Only Talking Machine of its Kind in the World (1969)

Tony Oursler -  Sucker (1987)

René Viénet  - Chinois, encore un effort pour être révolutionnaires a.k.a. "Peking Duck Soup" (1977)

Dan Graham -  Rock My Religion (1982-84)

Harun Farocki -  Schnittstelle / interface (1995)

Survival Research Laboratories -  A Plan for Social Improvement (1988)

René Clair -  BBC Documentary

The Kitchen Presents Two Moon July (1986): Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Dara Birnbaum, David Byrne and others

Kenny G Meets John Zorn -  Kenneth Goldsmith & Jonathan Zorn (2007)

Jonathan Zorn -  All Talk (2003-2005)

François Girard -  Le Train (1985)

Mona Hatoum -  Measures of Distance (1988)

Sara Sackner -  Concrete! (2006), A documentary about the Sackner Archive for Visual and Concrete Poetry

Glenn Gould -  Karlheinz Klopweisser Promo for CBC

David Van Tieghem -  Ear To Ground  (1979)

The Complete Beatles in One Hour

Run For Your Life (MP3) by Steve McLaughlin

All The Beatles UK LP releases compressed at 800% into a one-hour MP3.

Here's the album list (all the UK LPs):

Please Please Me
With the Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles for Sale
Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles (White Album)
Yellow Submarine
Abbey Road
Let It Be

You'll notice that Magical Mystery Tour is missing as Mr. McLaughlin claims it was released in the UK as two EPs.

WFMU Listener Editor B took portions of the file and decompressed them back to tempo. They sound amazing:

Julia (MP3)
I Will (MP3)
Revolution (MP3)

And here's one from Lee R:

Tomrrow Never Knows (MP3)

Close Radio (1976-79)

Close Radio (1976-79) - MP3s & Audio Stream

111 audio works recorded for KPFK by visual and performance artists between 1976 and 1979. Includes rarities and never-before heard cuts from mostly LA / CalArts-based artists such as John Baldessari, The Kipper Kids, Martha Rosler,  Jack Goldstein, Ant Farm, Hermann Nitsch, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley and many, many others. From the Evidence of Movement show at the Getty.

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About UbuWeb

UbuWeb Vu

An in-depth sit-down interview with UbuWeb on Archinect tracing the history, breadth, philosophy and scope of the largest site dedicated to the avant-garde on the web.

UbuWeb: Spring 2007

UbuWeb

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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.
http://www.ubu.com/film/her_noise.html

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 Varese, 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.
http://www.ubu.com/sound/brakhage.html

Yokoo's 3 Animation Films (1964-65)

Tadanori Yokoo 3 Animation Films (1964-65)
Download .avi

Groovy vintage animations from the Japanese Andy Warhol.

via UbuWeb

The Sexiest Film on the Web

Wim Delvoye "Sybille II" (1999)
Download .avi

Hint: it ain't what you think it is.
via UbuWeb

Some YoYo Stuff

An observation of the observations of Don Van Vliet by Anton Corbijn (13 min., 1993)
Download .avi
via UbuWeb

Pierre Bastien Interview

Pierre Bastien Interview via Flasher

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997)
by Jonas Mekas (67 min 16mm)

To mark the tenth anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's death (April 5, 1997), UbuWeb is featuring this remarkable video diary of Ginsberg in the days immediately before and after his death. 

Downloadable version here (.avi, 700mb)

79 Versions of Popcorn

79 MP3 versions of Popcorn below the fold...

Sabbath Studies

Black Sabbath’s ‘Black Sabbath’: A Gloss on Heavy Metal’s Originary Song [PDF]

Fuck Madonna Studies. That's so yesterday. The new craze in academia seems to be metal. This  ludic philosophical gloss on Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath" was scribbled by Nicola Masciandaro, a professor of medieval literature at Brooklyn College, CUNY and author of The Voice of the Hammer: The Meaning of Work in Middle English Literature (Notre Dame, 2006). The Sabbath gloss is part of a collaborative book project he is working on with a group of professors and artists called "What is This that Stands before Me?: Adventures in Heavy Metal Glossing," as yet unpublished. Rock on, dude.

Motherload of Andy Kaufman Torrents

Download Zip File with all the torrents

You  may recall, last year that the amazing site Greylodge ran a Andy Kaufman Collection that many of Greylodge's readers wrote in to say was one of their favorite  collections that we’ve run. What better way to start out a new year than to top their previous hit? They proudly present, the Gpod 2007- Tony…er…Andy Redux Collection. Containing over 8 and 1/2 gigabytes of chewy Kaufman rarities, with contributions from the private collections of newest GPod contributor, obsolete and long time contributor Joseph Matheny. The …er…Redux Collection (as it’s come to be known) showcases such works as:

• All Appearances by AK on Friday’s
• Vol. 1, 2 AND 4 of the Rare Andy Kaufman  Collections. (Vol. 3 is still rumored to exist…will we release it? Wait and see.)
• I’m From Hollywood (expanded)
• Andy Plays Carnegie Hall (expanded, direct from Andy’s own copy!)
• Andy’s Funhouse
• AK Bio from A & E
• Rodney Dangerfield’s “I Can’t Take It No More” special, with AK of course!
• The ultra-rare Johnny Cash Xmas Special, with AK as a featured performer and all-around pest.
• Stormy Justice with Judge Tony Clifton
• The Tony Clifton Movie
• Stick Around (pre-Taxi Pilot that never aired) plus outakes
• The Kaufman Files- Vol 1 & 2

So, as you can see, there’s a lot of chewy, gooey, disturbed goodness inside, which we have broken up as individual torrents, one for each nugget, so you can download at your leisure. They only ask that you seed, seed, seed! Since they are not hosting the files on their server, they cannot respond to reseed requests. If you download one of these files, seed it so that everyone may download it as well.

Download Zip File with all the torrents

72 Stormy Weather MP3s (Redux)

You can now download these MP3s directly here.
And they're still available as a big zip file here (263 megs).
Liners after the jump.

72 MP3 Versions of "Stormy Weather"

Download .zip file (263 megs)

Liners after the jump.

The First Thousand Numbers Classified In Alphabetical Order

By Claude Closky

Eight, eight hundred, eight hundred and eight, eight hundred and eighteen, eight hundred and eighty, eight hundred and eighty-eight, eight hundred and eighty-five, eight hundred and eighty-four, eight hundred and eighty-nine, eight hundred and eighty-one, eight hundred and eighty-seven, eight hundred and eighty-six, eight hundred and eighty-three, eight hundred and eighty-two, eight hundred and eleven, eight hundred and fifteen, eight hundred and fifty, eight hundred and fifty-eight, eight hundred and fifty-five, eight hundred and fifty-four, eight hundred and fifty-nine, eight hundred and fifty-one, eight hundred and fifty-seven, eight hundred and fifty-six, eight hundred and fifty-three, eight hundred and fifty-two, eight hundred and five, eight hundred and forty, eight hundred and forty-eight, eight hundred and forty-five, eight hundred and forty-four, eight hundred and forty-nine, eight hundred and forty-one, eight hundred and forty-seven, eight hundred and forty-six, eight hundred and forty-three, eight hundred and forty-two, eight hundred and four, eight hundred and fourteen, eight hundred and nine, eight hundred and nineteen, eight hundred and ninety, eight hundred and ninety-eight, eight hundred and ninety-five, eight hundred and ninety-four, eight hundred and ninety-nine, eight hundred and ninety-one, eight hundred and ninety-seven, eight hundred and ninety-six, eight hundred and ninety-three, eight hundred and ninety-two, eight hundred and one, eight hundred and seven, eight hundred and seventeen, eight hundred and seventy, eight hundred and seventy-eight, eight hundred and seventy-five, eight hundred and seventy-four, eight hundred and seventy-nine, eight hundred and seventy-one, eight hundred and seventy-seven, eight hundred and seventy-six, eight hundred and seventy-three, eight hundred and seventy-two, eight hundred and six, eight hundred and sixteen, eight hundred and sixty, eight hundred and sixty-eight, eight hundred and sixty-five, eight hundred and sixty-four, eight hundred and sixty-nine, eight hundred and sixty-one, eight hundred and sixty-seven, eight hundred and sixty-six, eight hundred and sixty-three, eight hundred and sixty-two, eight hundred and ten, eight hundred and thirteen, eight hundred and thirty, eight hundred and thirty-eight, eight hundred and thirty-five, eight hundred and thirty-four, eight hundred and thirty-nine, eight hundred and thirty-one, eight hundred and thirty-seven, eight hundred and thirty-six, eight hundred and thirty-three, eight hundred and thirty-two, eight hundred and three, eight hundred and twelve, eight hundred and twenty, eight hundred and twenty-eight, eight hundred and twenty-five, eight hundred and twenty-four, eight hundred and twenty-nine, eight hundred and twenty-one, eight hundred and twenty-seven, eight hundred and twenty-six, eight hundred and twenty-three, eight hundred and twenty-two, eight hundred and two, eighteen, eighty, eighty-eight, eighty-five, eighty-four, eighty-nine, eighty-one, eighty-seven, eighty-six, eighty-three, eighty-two, eleven, fifteen, fifty, fifty-eight, fifty-five, fifty-four, fifty-nine, fifty-one, fifty-seven, fifty-six, fifty-three, fifty-two, five, five hundred, five hundred and eight, five hundred and eighteen, five hundred and eighty, five hundred and eighty-eight, five hundred and eighty-five, five hundred and eighty-four, five hundred and eighty-nine, five hundred and eighty-one, five hundred and eighty-seven, five hundred and eighty-six, five hundred and eighty-three, five hundred and eighty-two, five hundred and eleven, five hundred and fifteen, five hundred and fifty, five hundred and fifty-eight, five hundred and fifty-five, five hundred and fifty-four, five hundred and fifty-nine, five hundred and fifty-one, five hundred and fifty-seven, five hundred and fifty-six, five hundred and fifty-three, five hundred and fifty-two, five hundred and five, five hundred and forty, five hundred and forty-eight, five hundred and forty-five, five hundred and forty-four, five hundred and forty-nine, five hundred and forty-one, five hundred and forty-seven, five hundred and forty-six, five hundred and forty-three, five hundred and forty-two, five hundred and four, five hundred and fourteen, five hundred and nine, five hundred and nineteen, five hundred and ninety, five hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred and ninety-five,

Kenny G's Top Ten of 2006

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