Top Tens UbuWeb

UbuWeb Top Ten: December 2009 Selected by Joan La Barbara 1. Agnes Varda - Plaisir d'amour en Iran (1976) Reminded me of all that has been lost ... 2. Merce Cunningham - Points in Space (1986) A wonderful doc about the making of the film and the work itself; great to see the guys happy and in action! 3. Bruce Nauman - Pinch Neck | Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square Stamping in the Studio is wonderful, too - a veritable dance determinedly without flair - but I love the obsessive singularity of Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square, and Pinch Neck is truly voluptuous. 4. Kathy Acker - Redoing Childhood Especially track 1: President Bush 5. Alfred Leslie & Frank O'Hara - The Last Clean Shirt ""The Last Clean Shirt" = life without seatbelts ... 6. Demetrio Stratos recordings Start anywhere, listen as long as you like/can, choose another, listen, choose another; we will not see/hear his like again. 7. Jaap Blonk & Golan Levin - Ursonography (2005) 8. The World Record | Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project It's all wonderful but especially Bob Creeley and Ted Berrigan. 9. John Giorno & Anne Waldman: "a Kulchur Selection" The Fast Speaking Woman herself: Anne Waldman. 10. David Moss and Peter Rose - Siren Joan La Barbara's career as a composer/performer/soundartist explores the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument expanding traditional boundaries, creating works for multiple voices, chamber ensembles, music theater, orchestra and interactive technology, developing a unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques.