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Listening to Films, a New UbuWeb Podcast A selection of ten films from the UbuWeb archive that are actually worth listening to (as well as seeing). Included here are excerpts from the following films: Vito Acconci's Theme Song (1973); René Clair's Entr'acte (1924) with a soundtrack by Erik Satie; Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn's Can't Swallow It, Can't Spit It Out (2006); Jordan Wolfson's Con Leche (2009); People Like Us's Story Without End (2005); Hermann Nitsch's 6 Tage Spiel - Das Orgien Mysterien Theater. Day 3: Day of Dionysus (1998); Sun Ra A Joyful Noise (1980); Richard Serra's Boomerang (1974); David Van Tieghem's Ear to the Ground (1979); Karl Holmqvist's I'm With You In Rockland (2005). Download the MP3 podcast directly here. You can subscribe to our podcast here. UbuWeb's podcasts are produced by The Poetry Foundation.
UbuWeb Podcast: The Sounds of Fluxus A wealth of innovative sounds from this movement, which began in the early 50s and continues through today. From the broken record compositions of Milan Knížák to Yoko Ono's recording of a toilet flushing, Fluxus strove to break down the barrier between art and life, fusing Spike Jones, vaudeville, gag, children's games and Duchamp. Feautred here are Ben Vautier, John Cage, Emmett Williams, La Monte Young, Joe Jones, Dick Higgins, Larry Miller, John M. Bennett and Alison Knowles. You can find several Fluxus audio anthologies on UbuWeb as well: Fluxus 30th Anniversary Box, Fluxus Anthology, Fluxus Anthology 2006, Flux Tellus and Fluxsweet. Download the MP3 podcast directly here. You can subscribe to our podcast here. UbuWeb's podcasts are produced by The Poetry Foundation.
UbuWeb's Interviews A focus on Ubu's vast trove of audio interviews with artists. Includes excerpts of conversations with Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, William Carlos Williams, Salvador Dalí, Jacques Derrida, Harry Smith, Carolee Schneemann, Pauline Oliveros, DJ Spooky, Marcel Broodthaers, Richard Prince & Robert Gober, Lionel Casson and John Cage. Download the MP3 podcast directly here. You can subscribe to our podcast here. UbuWeb's podcasts are produced by The Poetry Foundation.
Women of the Avant Garde, Part 2 Produced by The Poetry Foundation. We continue our feature with the second podcast featuring the fabulous works done by women on UbuWeb. This time around we hear from the great sounds of Alison Knowles, Louise Lawler, Shelley Hirsch, Lauren Lesko, Forough Farrokhzad, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Kristin Oppenheim, Jane Philbrick, Marina Rosenfeld, Gertrude Stein, Karen Finley and People Like Us. You can subscribe to our podcast here.
The Malady of Writing: Modernism You Can Dance To (MP3) In collaboration with MACBA in Barcelona, UbuWeb is pleased to present a podcast accompanying their new exhibition entitled The Malady of Writing, a project imagines a pleasurable, humorous and fun version of modernism. This podcast is based on Mark Klienberg's proposition: "Could there be someone capable of writing a science-fiction thriller based on the intention of presenting an alternative interpretation of modernist art that is readable and appreciated by the wider public?", which has actually been answered affirmatively in a certain undercurrent of artist's audio production over the past century; let's call it an unofficial unofficial history of modernism (doubly unofficial since artist's audio production has been viewed as secondary to the their plastic / marketable production). Artists featured include: Alfred Jarry and Charles Pourny, Erik Satie, George Antheil, Gertrude Stein, Salvador DalÂ’, Allen Ginsberg, Karl Holmqvist, Jack Smith, Karlheinz Stockhausen, The Beatles, The Mothers of Invention, The Beach Boys, Sue Tompkins, Flanagan & Allen, Gilbert & George, Kipper Kids, Laurie Anderson, Karen Finley, Chris Burden, Joseph Beuys, Martin Kippenberger, Miranda July, Seth Price, and Sean Landers.
New UbuWeb Podcast: Women of the Avant Garde, Part 1
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Produced by The Poetry Foundation. Let's face it: our previous podcasts have under-represented the fabulous work being done by the women of UbuWeb. Here we hope to correct that impression and showcase several of the dozens of talented and innvovative women on our site. This, the first of two podcasts, features Kathy Acker, Beth Anderson, Laurie Anderson, Caroline Bergvall, Meredith Monk, Lydia Lunch, Patti Smith, Helen Adam, Denise Levertov, Eileen Myles and Judy Dunaway. You can subscribe to our podcast here.
All Avant-Garde All The Time - UbuWeb Podcast #10: Continental Drift - Focus on the French Avant-garde
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Produced by The Poetry Foundation, UbuWeb is pleased to announce the latest in its podcast series, focusing on a dozen of Ubu's hidden treasures, highlighting audio works that you really should know about about but most likely don't. With this podcast, we continue our series focusing on the sounds of different regions. Here the focus is on the avant-garde language-based audio coming out of France. Beginning with Arthur Rimbuad and Guillaume Apollinaire, we make our way through Surrealism, Existentialism, Sound Poetry, and Musique Concrete, Fluxus, and French Plunderphonics. Included here are Jacques Doyen & Jacques Lasry's interpretation of Rimbaud's Roman, Guillaume Apollinaire reading his Le Pont Mirabeau (1913), Marcel Duchamp reading his Some texts from 'A l'infinitif' (1912-20), Roger Blin's interpretation of Samuel Beckett's Ping (1966), Henri Chopin's La Digestion, Ilse Garnier's TEM-TEM (1962), Jean Dubuffet's Gai savoir, Yves Klein's Monotone Symphony (1949), Ben Vautier's Some Ideas for Fluxus (1989), Georges Aphergis' A, Lionel Marchetti's Les fleurs tombent and Xaiver Gautier's Rachel (2000), which is all the words Rachel says in chronological order from the French version of Bladerunner (1982). You can subscribe to our podcast here.
All Avant-Garde All The Time - UbuWeb Podcast #9: The Sounds of the UK from the 1960s To Yesterday
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Produced by The Poetry Foundation, UbuWeb is pleased to announce the latest in its podcast series, focusing on a dozen of Ubu's hidden treasures, highlighting audio works that you really should know about about but most likely don't. With this podcast, we continue our series focusing on the sounds of different regions. Here the focus is on the avant-garde language-based audio coming out of the UK. Beginning with Bob Cobbing and making our way through the the swinging London scene of the 60s, and the political / punk work of the 70s, and ending up with the electronics + samples of today, we cut a path through the London (and beyond) underground. Featured here are works by Bob Cobbing, Neil Mills, Lily Greenham, Cornelius Cardew, Christopher Logue, Richard Long, Art & Language + The Red Krayloa, Furious Pig, Momus, People Like Us, and Caroline Bergvall. You can subscribe to our podcast here.
All Avant-Garde All The Time - UbuWeb Podcast #8: The Sounds of Los Angeles in the 1970s and Beyond
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Produced by The Poetry Foundation, UbuWeb is pleased to announce the latest in its podcast series, focusing on a dozen of Ubu's hidden treasures, highlighting audio works that you really should know about about but most likely don't. With this podcast, we kick off a series focusing on the sounds of different regions. Here the focus is on the very rich scene emerging out of Los Angeles. Blending genres such as punk rock, visual art, performance art, experimental music and innovative poetry, we focus mostly on the late 1970s. Featured here are Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, The Kipper Kids, Mike Kelley with Sonic Youth, John Baldessari, David Antin, Eleanor Antin, the Los Angeles Free Music Society, and Benjamin Weismann. You can subscribe to our podcast here.
All Avant-Garde All The Time - UbuWeb Podcast #7: Punk Versions of Monkey Chants and Other Ethnopoetic Marvels
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Produced by The Poetry Foundation, UbuWeb is pleased to announce the latest in its podcast series, focusing on a dozen of Ubu's hidden treasures, highlighting audio works that you really should know about about but most likely don't. This time around we focus on our Jerome Rothenberg-curated trove of Ethnopoetic treasures, focusing on sound. Included here are examples of and by Ella Fitzgerald, Slim & Slam, Glossolalia (speaking in tongues), Tuvan throat singers, Indonesian ketjack, Sainkho Namtchylak, Inuit Throat Music and the punk rock vocal band Furious Pig. You can subscribe to our podcast here.
All Avant-Garde All The Time - UbuWeb Podcast #6: Politics As Unusal
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Produced by The Poetry Foundation, UbuWeb is pleased to announce the latest in its podcast series, focusing on a dozen of Ubu's hidden treasures, highlighting audio works that you really should know about about but most likely don't. This time around, in conjunction with the US election season, we feature a quick tour of UbuWeb's audio / visual political landscape. Selections inlcude Christopher DeLaurenti's Live in New York at the Republican National Convention Protest, September 2 - August 28, 2004; Abbie Hoffman's Malachy's Bar and Grill; Cornelius Cardew's Smash The Social Contract; Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman's film Grace Lee Boggs, 91-year old activist; Red Shadow (The Economics Rock & Roll Band)'s Understanding Marx; Allen Ginsberg's C.I.A. Dope Calypso; Ezra Pound's Canto XLV ("With Usura"); and Amiri Baraka's Dope from 1978. You can subscribe to our podcast here.
All Avant-Garde All The Time - UbuWeb Podcast #5: An UbuWeb Grab Bag
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Produced by The Poetry Foundation, UbuWeb is pleased to announce the latest in its podcast series, focusing on a dozen of Ubu's hidden treasures, highlighting audio works that you really should know about about but most likely don't. Featured here gems ranging from Marie Osmond incanting Hugo Ball's 1916 sound poem Karawane to Charles Bernstein 1975 oratorio 1-100 where, yep, whispers and screams the first one hundred numbers in, urm, numerical order. Other artists include Joseph Beuys, Terry Fox, Hugo Keesing's Chart Sweep, Todd Colby, Steve McLaughlin, Kelly Mark and Komar & Melamid. You can subscribe to our podcast here.
UbuWeb Podcast #4: The Tellus cassettes
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Produced by The Poetry Foundation, UbuWeb is pleased to announce the latest in its podcast series, focusing on Ubu's hidden treasures. This podcast gives a guided tour of UbuWeb's collection of the Tellus Cassette Magazines comprising nearly 1,000 MP3 files recorded between 1983 and 1993. This podcast features narrated selections from the series including Louise Lawler, Jerome Rothenberg, Gregory Whitehead, Glenn Branca, Harry Partch and Paul Bowles. You can subscribe to our podcast here.
UbuWeb Podcast #3: The Sound of Aspen Magazine
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Produced by The Poetry Foundation, UbuWeb is pleased to announce the latest in its podcast series, focusing on Ubu's hidden treasures. This podcast gives a guided tour of UbuWeb's collection of audio featured on Aspen Magazine: the Multimedia Magazine in a Box, published between 1965 and 1971. Artists featured include Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, John Cale and The Velvet Underground, Marcel Duchamp, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Jackson Mac Low, Morton Feldman, Gordon Mumma and Angus Maclise. You can subscribe to our podcast here.
UbuWeb Podcast #2: The World of Outsiders
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Produced by The Poetry Foundation, UbuWeb is pleased to announce the latest in its podcast series, focusing on Ubu's hidden treasures. As the site has grown so large, these occasional audio guides might shed some light on things you may have overlooked, forgotten about or simply never knew about. This podcast gives a guided tour of UbuWeb's collection of outsider audio. Artists include Antonin Artaud, Jim Roche, Bern Porter, Francis E. Dec, Benjamin Weismann and Sean Landers amongst others. You can subscribe to our podcast here.
UbuWeb Podcast #1: Giorno Poetry Systems
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Produced by The Poetry Foundation, UbuWeb is pleased to announce the second in its podcast series, focusing on Ubu's hidden treasures. As the site has grown so large, these occasional audio guides might shed some light on things you may have overlooked, forgotten about or simply never knew about. This podcast explores the mass of recordings by Giorno Poetry Systems (aka The Dial-A-Poem Poets), a series of double LPs put out back in the 70s featuring artists such as Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, John Cage, Richard Hell, Frank O'Hara and hundreds of others. UbuWeb's introductory podcast, a general introduction to the site and to sound poetry, can be found here. You can subscribe to our podcast here.
Avant-Garde All the Time: An Introduction to the UbuWeb Sound Archives (MP3)
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Kenneth Goldsmith introducing the site to a general listenership, with a specific focus on UbuWeb's sound archives. Full MP3 recordings of the excerpts featured on the podcast include: bpNichol 060173; Marie Osmond performing Hugo Ball's Karawane; Guiallme Apollinaire Le Pont Mirabeau; Gertrude Stein The Making of Americans: Parts 1 & 2; The Dial-A-Poem Poets; Patti Smith Parade; Ogden Nash Word About Winter; Charles Bernstein 1-100. The podcast was produced by Curtis Fox for The Poetry Foundation.
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