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Douglas Huebler (1924-1997)



1. Untitled

Broadcast on KPFK, Close Radio, January 3, 1977, 13 min. 25 sec.
The artists discuss the scores of Huebler's sound drawings.


2. Douglas Huebler presents Jack Goldstein
A Faster Run, 2 min. 56 sec.
Tornado, 3 min. 11 sec.

Broadcast on KPFK, Close Radio, May 1978
A Faster Run is a composition of wranglers herding horses.
Tornado presents the sounds of the weather phenomenon.


3. Douglas Huebler presents Lawrence Weiner - Nothing to Lose


Broadcast on KPFK, Close Radio, May 1978, 9 min. 11 sec.
English and Dutch phrases about society's relationship to objects, layered with music box melodies.


4. Douglas Huebler presents Marc Pally - He Knew the Fear


Broadcast on KPFK, Close Radio, January 3, 1977, 13 min. 25 sec.
Descriptive sentences of a contemporary Renaissance man.


5. Douglas Huebler presents Marc Pally - The Book of Time


Broadcast on KPFK, Close Radio, May 1978, 7 min. 48 sec.
A snapshot of a state of mind told in first person and edited to read like a poem.


6. Douglas Huebler presents T.J. Silverlake - Untitled


Broadcast on KPFK, Close Radio, May 1978, 2 min. 57 sec.
A collection of musings interrupted by instructions for an escape.


7. Douglas Huebler presents the Poetics (Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, and Don Krieger) - Dream Lover


Broadcast on KPFK, Close Radio, May 1978, 8 min. 14 sec.
A dramatic reading about the beginnings and declines of historical civilizations.


8. Douglas Huebler presents Fernando Doty - Excerpt from Historical Radioactivity


Broadcast on KPFK, Close Radio, May 1978, 5 min. 18 sec.
Carousel music punctuates examples of man vs. man and man vs. nature anecdotes.






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