Friday, May 01, 2009

it's lovely down in the coffin patch




Emily L. Eibel
lives in Brooklyn:








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"A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow."

In Defense of Women
by H. L. Mencken




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"Any prose style risks being overdone, so that it makes a mockery of itself, and defeats the clarity and depth and efficiency of its aim. Undercooked, a prose comes to the table cold and raw; overcooked, it is flavorless, dry, and merely tough."

An Interview With William Gass
by Ian Corey-Boulet




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"Piece for three tape decks,found objects, and piano. Recorded, iirc, in 1984 in the New Mexico State University experimental music lab."



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Etudes Schaefferiennes

"Digital clips on electroacustic music inspirated in Pierre Schaeffer work."

Directed by Ricard Carbonell





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Kill Ugly Radio "payed tribute to the recently departed J.G. Ballard, with sounds, interview clips and songs either directly influenced by his writing or sounds coming from the Ballardian world..."



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"And so, I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute, and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media, with its very real possibility of complete elimination of the public and social aspects of musical composition."

""Who Cares if You Listen?"
by Milton Babbitt




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Chris Scarborough
is based out of Nashville, TN:








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"There are two types of transformation: the tone quality transformation and the structural transformation — the structural extension."

Pierre Boulez on Répons
By Josef Häusler




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"My thoughts are: I wish I had my synthesizer."

Milton Babbitt talks about "Philomel"
by Jason Gross




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"New Jersey's WFMU has what is quite possibly one of the best options (legal or otherwise) for discovering new music out there. They recently launched the beta-version of their Free Music Archive. It's pretty simple - music curators from WFMU, KEXP, dublab, KBOO, and others have put up a variety (and that's an understatement) of songs that have been "pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by outdated copyright law."

[thanks to alterdestiny]




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Chinese artist Hung Liu: