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October 24, 2006

UbuWeb :: Fall 2006

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  UBUWEB :: Fall 2006
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--- RECENT FEATURES ---

Terayama Shuji - Experimental Image World (7 Volume Collection): Poet, playright, theatre director, filmmaker, essayist, agitator and lover of all things anarchistic, chaotic, and truthful, TERAYAMA SHUJI (1936-1983) is one of Japan's most revered and respected artists. In the heady and extremist Japanese art scene of the late '70s, Terayama created a number of unforgettable and highly controversial films. EMPEROR TOMATO KETCHUP is his epic, sexually revolutionary and hallucinatory work from 1972 in which "magical women act as the initiatory, yet protectively maternal sexual partners to children. The children, in revolt, have condemned their parents to death for depriving them of self-expression and sexual freedom; they create a society in which fairies and sex education are equally important and literally combinable." -- Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art (AVI)
http://www.ubu.com/film/terayama.html

Music With Roots in the Aether: UbuWeb is pleased to announce the relaunch of the AVI's, RealVideo and MP3s of Robert Ashley's Music with Roots in the Aether, a seminal series of interviews and performances conceived and realized by Robert Ashley in 1976, consisting of 14 hours worth of video and audio. Subjects and performers include: David Behrman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, and Robert Ashley. Robert Ashley says: Music with Roots in the Aether is a series of interviews with seven composers who seemed to me when I conceived the piece-and who still seem to me twenty-five years later-to be among the most important, influential and active members of the so-called avant-garde movement in American music, a movement that had its origins in the work of and in the stories about composers who started hearing things in a new way at least fifty years ago."
http://www.ubu.com/film/ashley.html

The Films of Groupe Medvekine Between the March strikes in 1967 at Rhodia in Besançon and work standardisation at the Peugeot factories in Sochaux, there occurred -- under the impetus of Chris Marker and his friends -- the constitution and action of the "Medvedkin Groups" for producing, directing and distributing political films. "A necessary caution: the "democratization of tools" entails many financial and technical constraints, and does not save us from the necessity of work. Owning a DV camera does not magically confer talent on someone who doesn't have any or who is too lazy to ask himself if he has any. You can miniaturize as much as you want, but a film will always require a great deal of work - and a reason to do it. That was the whole story of the Medvedkin groups, the young workers who, in the post-'68 era, tried to make short films about their own lives, and whom we tried to help on the technical level, with the means of the time." - Chris Marker
http://www.ubu.com/film/groupe_medvedkine.html

Seth Price "Title Variable" UbuWeb is pleased to present a retrospective of Price's 'Title Variable' audio project, from 2001 to the present. In an ongoing series of music compilations, each concentrating on a technologically transitional but culturally ill-defined moment within the recent history of digital music production, Price suggests how production tools have changed music, both in distribution and who controls it as much as in structure and sound. From early video game soundtracks to New Jack Swing to Industrial music, Price exploits the genre of "mix tapes" as sound art. As a mass form operating outside commercial channels, the mix tape seems to stubbornly and perversely retain its purchase on the imagination long after actual mix-tapes have slipped free of storage constraints and lost any clear definition.
http://www.ubu.com/sound/price.html

UbuWeb Film & Video Relaunch UbuWeb announces a relaunch of its film and video section. Greatly expanded with liner notes and links, we're now hosting over 300 avant-garde films and videos. New additions include works by artists such as Vito Acconci, Alexander Calder, Merce Cunningham, Harun Farocki, Groupe Medvedkine, Helmut Herbst, Fernand Leger, Bruce Nauman, Charlemagne Palestine, Shuji Terayama, David Wojnarowicz, Richard Serra, Piero Heliczer, Paul McCarthy and many more.
http://www.ubu.com/film/index.html

The Films of Maurico Kagel (1965-1983) (AVI) Whether in the classical music hall, the theatrical stage or film/video, Kagel's neo-dada performances and wickedly original techniques always opens one's eyes and ears to the pure possibilities of sounds and their production. Although this aspect of his varied productions is little known in the US, Kagel's output as a filmmaker is tremendous. He just about made a film or video each year in the 60s and 70s, and has only begun to slow down in recent times. Films include "Antithese" (1965), "Match" (1966), "Solo" (1967), "Duo" (1967-68), "Hallelujah" (1969), "Ludwig Van" (1969), "Blue's Blue" (1981) and "MM51 / Nosferatu" (1983). You can also listen to Kagel's music here.
http://www.ubu.com/film/kagel.html

Pianoless Vexations (MP3) 8 hours of MP3s recorded live at The Sculpture Center, NYC on June 11, 2006. Vexations was composed by Erik Satie in 1893 and consists of a short motif repeated 840 times. Vexations was first performed publicly by John Cage and several other pianists over the course of 19 hours in 1963. As the title conveys, artists performing in Pianoless Vexations used any instrument except the piano to perform Satie's original composition. Instruments included laptops, drums, guitar, French horn, violin, trumpet, saxophone, viola, recorder, toy piano, harpsichord, mandolin, bass, film projectors, voice, dulcimer and more. Artists include Randy Nordschow; Hay Sanders; Bruce Pearson and Marco Navarette; Daphna Mor, Rachel Begley, and Nina Stern; Bruce Arnold Jazz Trio; Alan Licht and Angela Jaeger; String Messengers; Rusty Santos; Amy Granat; Greg Kelley; Miguel Frasconi; Bethany Ryker; D. Edward Davis and Erik Carlson; Zachary Seldess; Charles Waters and Katie Pawluk; Andrew Lampert and Steve Dalachinsky; Margaret Leng Tan; Trudy Chan; David Grubbs; Goddess; Matthew Ostrowski; Kenta Nagai; Stephin Merritt and Ethan Cohen; Rick Moody, Hannah Marcus, and Tianna Kennedy.
http://www.ubu.com/sound/vexations.html

--- Fall 2006 :: NEW ADDITIONS ---

Toshio Matsumoto - Experimental Film Works, 1961-1987 (AVI)
http://www.ubu.com/film/matsumoto.html

Richard Foreman - Strong Medicine, 1981 (AVI)
http://www.ubu.com/film/foreman.html

Jean Epstein - La glace à trois faces, 1927 (AVI)
http://www.ubu.com/film/epstein.html

Segundo de Chomón - Selected Works, 1902-1914 (AVI)
http://www.ubu.com/film/chomon.html

Carlfriedrich Claus - Menschliche Existenz als Experiment, 1997 (AVI)
http://www.ubu.com/film/claus.html

Willard Maas - Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations, 1966 (AVI)
http://www.ubu.com/film/maas.html

Marie Menken - Glimpse of the Garden, 1957 (AVI)
http://www.ubu.com/film/menken.html

Jarrod Fowler - Recent Audio Works
http://www.ubu.com/sound/fowler.html

Bruce Andrews & Dirk Rowntree - Prehab (2005) (MOV)
http://www.ubu.com/contemp/andrews/andrews.html

Laurel Beckman - Beatbots
http://www.ubu.com/contemp/beckman/beckman.html

Beth Anderson - Audio works from Peachy Keen O, 2006, MP3
http://www.ubu.com/sound/anderson_beth.html

Guy Debord - Films
http://www.ubu.com/film/debord.html

Brian Kim Stefans - Kluge (2006)
http://www.ubu.com/contemp/stefans/index.html

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Featured UbuWeb Resources: Fall 2006
Selected by Nick Currie (aka Momus)

John Cage
Mushroom Haiku, excerpt from Silence (1972/69)
http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/dial/The-Dial-A-Poem-Poets_20_cage.mp3

Vito Acconci
The Bristol Project 2001
http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/acconci_vito/Acconci-Vito_The-Bristol-Project_2001.mp3

Mike Kelley
Excerpt from "Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile"
http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/kelley_mike/Kelley-Mike_Platos-Cave.mp3

Todd Dockstader
Interview, 1963 (WRVR, Riverside Radio, New York City)
http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/dockstader_tod/Dockstader-Tod_Interview_WRVR-FM_NY_1963.mp3

e.e. cummings
Let's From Some Loud Unworld's Most Rightful Wrong
http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/cummings_ee/Cummings-ee_Lets-From-Some-Loud.mp3

Piers Plowright
Radio Radio, Program 11: Piers Plowright
http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/radio/Radio-Radio_11_Piers-Plowright.mp3

Ernst Jandl
What you can do without vowels
http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/jandl_ernst/von_zum_zum/Jandl-Ernst_Vom-Vom-Zum-Zum_05.mp3

Scanner / Jean Cocteau
The Human Voice
http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/scanner/Scanner_BBC_The-Human-Voice_1998.mp3

Laurie Anderson
For Electronic Dogs/Structuralist Filmmaking/Drums
http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/guy/Youre-The-Guy_18_anderson.mp3

Momus and Anne Laplantine
Summerisle Horspiel
http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Momus/Momus_and_Laplantine-Anne_Summerisle-Horspiel_2003.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".

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UBUWEB :: Fall 2006
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