Wednesday, July 28, 2010

the secret is too plain; the pity of it smarts



Two Glitch Compositions
by Ryan Kuen aka Balloony Tunes

Blind Melon -- "No Rain"




Smashing Pumpkins -- "Disarm"





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My tongue’s clapper honeypots shed sticky bodies on the sidewalk an eel pie inside the mute dwarf her gladiolas followed me I prayed to Tip eventually revealed to be a girl

"Interrogations"
by
Rebecca Loudon



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Jared Steffensen








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Rachel Frank






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"Puce Moment"
directed by Kenneth Anger





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Flying Lotus - "MmmHmm"
directed by Special Problems





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Dietrich Wegner






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Saya Woolfalk








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Amy Yoes








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Afrirampo - "Afrirampo"





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Karn Piana








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Matthew Beard








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Andrea Loefke








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Theresa Pfarr











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Alice Aycock








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Tim Kent is "a semantic voyeur of people and a manic semiologist of things, interested in the nature of people behind closed doors and the private
interiors where they consume those lives."





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"It begins then, always and again, with a briefcase, or with the mention of a briefcase and its relation to a manuscript—a manuscript that will be said to be more important than a man's life. But this briefcase, as it was archived, as its material existence in the object word was recorded, did not belong to Walter Benjamin, but instead to his posthumous double, the "Benjamin Walter" who died, as the official record shows, at 10.00pm on September 26, 1940 in his room at the hotel, Fonda de Francia, in Port-Bou, Spain."

"The Briefcase of Walter Benjamin/Benjamin Walter's Briefcase: An Invent/Story"
by
Julian Yates



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Nayland Blake





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Penelope Umbrico documents the outings of her dog in a series titled Jasper Walking













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LaDonna Smith -- "Free Improv with Fire"
directed by Alice Faye Love





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Derick Melander
"I create large geometric configurations from carefully folded and stacked second-hand clothing. These structures take the form of wedges, columns, walls and enclosures, typically weighing between five hundred pounds and two tons."








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Wayne Tippetts curates Streetstyle Aesthetics














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Designer Bob Noorda







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OOIOO - "UMO"
Directed by Shoji Goto




Wednesday, July 21, 2010

feeding upon itself with erudite fangs



Waltraud Meier - Liebestod
Teatro Alla Scala (2007)





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to roll
to crease
to fold
to store
to bend
to shorten
to twist
to dapple
to crumple
to shave
to tear
to chip
to split
to cut

Richard Serra
"Verb List Compilation: Actions to Relate to Oneself"
[1967-1968]




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Stefano Ruzzante








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1. Discuss how the careful disjointing of the corpse (pp 67-68) serves to symbolize the formal arrangement of the story.

"Study Guide"
by
Brian Evenson



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Le Vampire (France, 1939-45)
Directed by Jean Painlevé





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John Berryman - "Dreamsong #14"





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Mikael Kennedy
is an artist living and working in New York City









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Brigitte Bardot vs. Cat Power





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Megan Burns









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Mark Gormley - "Little Wings"





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Henry Gunderson











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George Crumb -- "Music of the Starry Night"





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Maurizio Bongiovanni


Bird rib, 2008


Bird rib, 2008



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Harrison Birtwistle - "Axe Manual"
Performed by Ross Karre, perc, and Aleck Karis, pno.
Live performance recorded on 3/10/08 at Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School in Los Angeles



[parts 2 & 3]



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Marcello Maloberti






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Luciano Berio - "Sequenza II for Solo Harp"
performed live by harpist Yinuo Mu
(2002)





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Heather Nevay
was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 13th January 1965








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Helmut Lachenmann - "Mouvement" (1983)

Michel Galante conducts the Argento Chamber Ensemble live at the Monday Evening Concerts series on April 14th, 2008 at Zipper Hall in downtown Los Angeles

Part 1 & 2 & 3



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Juan Weiss
(aka weisshaus) was born in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1980





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in the dirt slide the forty thousand, lilting down the hill at an enormous and cavernous way, flock into streams and stretch, bend and form sines that then go from each other and crest, barrels of feet all lifting


"black children women & men march on heaven white"
by
Ken Baumann



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Julia Randall





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Gold County Paper Mill - "Simulacra"





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Ivo Mayr








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When I’m older I’ll own Ryan Phillippe.
I can’t wait. I’ll feed him smarties one at a
time when he’s good. He’ll sit in the
backseat and look out the window and I’ll
look back in my rearview and say Ryan
Phillippe what are you staring at— and
he’ll say nothing, with a sad smile.

When we get to the dream house I’ll ask him
Ryan Phillippe why did you never age and
he’ll trail off and I’ll catch only two or three
words:

MY NAME’S RYAN PHILLIPPE AND I’M WEARING NO CLOTHES!!!
by
Leon Baham



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Patrick Rochon











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Bonnie Prince Billy - "Death to Everyone"





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The Nurse With Wound List

"In 1979, the members of Nurse With Wound, Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak, compiled a roll call of their favorite "outsider" musical artists to include with their first album, Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella. No other details were provided, just 300 or so names in block type. The second version of the list included several newly added names, and came with the To the Quiet Men From a Tiny Girl LP in 1980. Stapleton and co. knew not what they hath wrought; the so-called Nurse With Wound List has since become a scavenger hunt of holy grails for fanatical collectors of Krautrock, progressive rock, psychedelic, post-punk, jazz, free improvised and experimental music."

The List
The List Annotated
A five part showcase of selected titles from the list
A website where you can download many of the albums on the list



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The Books - The Way Out (2010)



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Eric Perriard lives and works in Seoul, South Korea







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"Oatmeal cookies with butterscotch chips are better than good. Once they had potato chip cookies which come dusted with confectioner’s sugar and crunch like crazy. Once there were hermit bars with plumped raisins and a whisper of mace, then marshmallow clouds, melaninized with cheap cocoa powder. Ten days after EP saw his snitch, someone’s old lady brought macadamia nut brittle and ribbon candy, red & green, piped in white, like a grandma would keep on a glass Santa tray for the holidays, flanked with a bright peppermint pig and cracked buttons of Pfeffernüsse. Sweet tongue-tipped patience, drizzling caramel shelled onan, right on right on."


Excerpt from The Gates
by
Vanessa Place



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"This is the Enemy" - (the young ones)
16mm collage film (1997)