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RECENT ADDITONS Christopher DeLaurenti: 4 Protest Symphonies To celebrate May Day and the 40th anniversary of May '68, UbuWeb is pleased to present 4 full-length audio pieces based on various protest actions by this Seattle-based composer. "N30: Live at the WTO Protest, November 30, 1999" is an aggressively edited orthophonic "you are there" recording. Spattered by pepper spray, enshrouded in tear gas and pelted with rubber bullets, Delaurenti was engulfed in maelstrom of drums, slogans, chants, screaming and violence. "N30: Who guards the Guardians?" is a 57-minute radiophonic work depicting how law enforcement acted and reacted on that unforgettable day in Seattle history when thousands gathered in Seattle to protest the World Trade Organization. "Two Secret Wars" presents audio recorded at an Anti-War Rally in Seattle on December 8, 2002; and "Live in New York at the Republican National Convention Protest, September 2 - August 28, 2004" welds combative field recordings of the various protests and art actions with police transmissions, NOAA weather alerts, radio broadcast anomalies (splashes and sprays of tape hiss, enigmatic numbers glossolalia, crude phase encoding), and wild card audio snatched from the airwaves into a vivid soundscape of dissent. Tellus Audio Cassettes (1983-1993) UbuWeb is pleased to present the entire run of the legendary New York-based Tellus audio cassette magazine. Originally a subscription-based bimonthly publication, the series took full advantage of the popular cassette medium to promote cutting edge music, documenting the New York scene and advanced US composers of the time. Highlight issues include: All Guitars! (1985), The Sound of Radio (1985), Just Intonation (1986), Audio By Visual Artists (1988), The Voice of Paul Bowles (1989) and Flux Tellus (1990). Featuring hundreds of artists including Marcel Duchamp, Alison Knowles, Sonic Youth, Joan Jonas, George Brecht, Pauline Oliveros, John Zorn, Richard Prince, Glenn Branca, Harry Partch and Mike Kelley. Tellus cassettes were edited by Joseph Nechvatal, Claudia Gould and Carole Parkinson. This UbuWeb feature is presented in conjuction with Continuo's Weblog. Produced for UbuWeb by Steve McLaughlin Dada Magazine, Issues 1, 2, 3 (1917-1918) Attempting to promulgate Dada ideas throughout Europe, Tristan Tzara launched the art and literature review Dada. Appearing in July 1917, the first issue of Dada, subtitled Miscellany of Art and Literature, featured contributions from members of avant-garde groups throughout Europe, including Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Delaunay, and Wassily Kandinsky. Marking the magazine's debut, Tzara wrote in the Zurich Chronicle, "Mysterious creation! Magic Revolver! The Dada Movement is Launched." Issue 2 appeared in December of 1918. Issue number 3 violated all the rules and conventions in typography and layout and undermined established notions of order and logic. Printed in newspaper format in both French and German editions, it embodies Dada's celebration of nonsense and chaos with an explosive mixture of manifestos, poetry, and advertisements - all typeset in randomly ordered lettering. Included is Tzara's "Dada Manifesto of 1918," which was read at Meise Hall in Zurich on July 23, 1918, and is perhaps the most important of the Dadaist manifestos. See also Helmut Herbst's film Deutschland Dada (1969), Hans Richter's films and Tristan Tzara's sound poems in UbuWeb Sound which is strewn with historical and rare recordings from dozens of Dadaists. Dinner With Henry Miller (1979) Dinner With Henry is a rare, 30-minute documentary about Henry Miller. It is exactly what the title implies: footage of Henry having dinner. With him at the table is the film crew, and actress/model Brenda Venus, to whom Henry was enamoured in the final years of life. Henry - at age 87 - spends the majority of his time speaking on a number of subjects, the most persistent of which is Blaise Cendrars. Occasionally, he complains about the food. That is all: a curious "slice of life" for any Miller fan who likes to imagine being at the table with him. David Cronenberg on Andy Warhol (2006) A guided tour of the "Andy Warhol / Supernova: Stars Death and Disasters, 1962-1964" exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario, conceived and narrated by renowned filmmaker David Cronenberg. Cronenberg says, "Andy was making underground films when I was making underground films. And I was more inspired by him than by Hollywood. He created himself: He was an outsider, a Slovakian, Catholic, gay, an artist, poor; an outsider in his own family, a triple outsider like Kafka, with his nose pressed against the New York window. And, he became the ultimate insider, the center of his own world, and drew people to him. He became a huge example of the invention of an identity." Commentary by David Cronenberg, Mary-Lou Green, Dennis Hopper, David Moos, James Rosenquist and Amy Taubin. Gilbert and George No Surrender (BBC Documentary, 2007) The Wooster Group Rhyme 'Em To Death (1993) John Baldessari I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art (1971); John Baldessari Sings Sol Lewitt (1972); The Meaning of Various News Photos to Ed Henderson (1973) Anne Tardos Sound Works Tacita Dean Kodak (2006) La Monte Young, editor An Anthology of Chance Operations (1963) Robert Smithson text of "Hotel Palenque" (1969-72) Pat O'Neill Water and Power (1989) C.C. Hennix Electric Harpsichord No. 1 Antonio Gaudí Documentary (1984) Tellus 15: The Improvisors (1986) John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Christian Marclay, Fred Frith and many others Tellus #17 - Video Arts Music (1987) Jean Paul Curtay, Ann-Sargent Wooster, Woody Vasulka, Peter Rose and many others Tellus #20 - Media Myth (1988) Crawling With Tarts, Nicolas Collins, Joseph Nechvatal and many others Nam June Paik Beatles Electroniques (1966-69) Dan Graham Performer/Audience/Mirror (1975) Ben Lewis Art Safari: Matthew Barney (2005) Maria Anna Tapeiner The Body as a Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle (2002) Tellus 10: All Guitars! (1985) Lee Ranaldo, Butthole Surfers, Bob Mould, Thurston Moore and many others Tellus 2 (1984) Kiki Smith, David Garland, Jamie Daglish, Willoughby Sharp and many others Tellus 12: Dance (1986) Lynda Benglis Female Sensibility (1974) Hollis Frampton Gloria! (1979) Ben Lewis Art Safari: Matthew Barney (2005) Terayama Shuji Photothèque imaginaire de Shuji Terayama, les gens de la famille Chien Dieu (photographs; 1975) Salvador Dalí Radioscopie De Jacques Chancel - Interview (French language; 1971) John Roach Simultaneous Translation (2007) François Dufrêne Crirhythms, Osmose-Art and various works (1958-70) Carolee Schneeman Meat Joy (1964) Ulay Action in 14 predetermined Sequences: There is a Criminal Touch to Art (1975) Mike Kelley Test Room Containing Multiple Stimuli Known to Elicit Curiosity and Manipulatory Responses (1999) Michael Taylor Lecture on Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi (2008) Tellus 23: Paul Bowles Historical musical and literary works Tellus 16: Tango with Carlos Gardel, David Garland, Fast Forward and many others (1991) Tellus 13: Power Electronics with Merzbow, Rhys Chatham, Controlled Bleeding and many others (1986) Tellus 26: Jewel Box with Catherine Jauniaux & Ikue Mori, Sapphire, Mary Ellen Childs and many others (1992) Ryan Trecartin I-Be AREA (2007) Richard Serra Hand Catching Lead (1968) C.C. Hennix Dutch National Radio Broadcast (2005) Hollis Frampton Nostalgia (1971) Group 180 Works by Reich, Szezmo, Rzewski and others (1980, 1985) Jaap Blonk Vocalor (1998) Alexander Ross (painter) Grandfather Paradox (1989) Charles Simonds Five Films (1972-74), with Rudy Burckhardt Tellus 5-6: Audio Visual Issue with Louise Lawler, Richard Prince, David Wojnarowicz and many others (1984) Sophie Calle & Greg Shepard No Sex Last Night aka Double-Blind (1992) Tuli Kupferberg No Deposit, No Return (1964) Sam Taylor-Wood: Video Works (1998 - 2003) Sam Taylor-Wood makes photographs and films that examine, through highly charged scenarios, our shared social and psychological conditions. Taylor-Wood's work examines the split between being and appearance, often placing her human subjects - either singly or in groups - in situations where the line between interior and external sense of self is in conflict. Films here include: Brontosaurus (1995), Knackered (1996), Method in Madness (1998), Hysteria (1999), A Little Death (2002), Breach (2001) Mute (2001), Pietà (2001), Still Life (2001) and Ascension (2003). Presented in partnership with Art Torrents. All Avant-Garde All The Time - UbuWeb Podcast #3: The Sound of Aspen Magazine Listen / Download 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. Alan Licht - Conceptual Soundworks (2003-2004) Four previously unavailable compositions. Includes "Rashomon" where the film Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa was shown with the sound turned down. The audience was asked to read the subtitles aloud, together; "Twilight of the Idols," in which the audio levels of Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album are manipulated; and two outtakes from his A New York Minute CD, "Bridget O'Riley," a mashup of Blondie and The Who's "We Won't Get Fooled Again" and "A New York Minute," the original uncut version, consisting of a month's worth of weather reports from a New York AM radio station. You can also read three of Alan Licht's conceptual written works [PDF] in UbuWeb's Publishing the Unpublishable series. The Western Round Table on Modern Art (1949) Rare proceedings and documentation from this important conference that took place in San Francisco in April of 1949. Participants included Marcel Duchamp, Frank Lloyd Wright, Arnold Schoenburg, Mark Tobey, Darius Milhaud, Alfred Frankenstein, Gregory Bateson, Kenneth Burke, Robert Goldwater and Andrew C. Richie. Documentation includes over 9 hours of audio tape, transcriptions and photographs. Organizer Douglas MacAgy writes, "The object of the Round Table was to bring a representation of the best informed opinion of the time to bear on questions about art today (1949). A set of neat conclusions, as to the outcome of the conference, was neither expected nor desired. Rather, it was hoped that progress would be made in the exposure of hidden assumptions, in the uprooting of obsolete ideas, and in the framing of new questions." Curated for UbuWeb by Colby Ford. Five Rare Books From the 1960s by Bern Porter Several of Porter's books from the 1960s are gathered here on UbuWeb, three of them for the first time anywhere, with an essay by Porter's collaborator and literary executor, Mark Melnicove. Titles include: Aphasia (1961), cut and assembled commercial and soft news language into a found poetry that is still original and fresh; Scandinavian Summer (1961), where Porter cut out pages from Scandinavian, Russian, and American newspaper archives at random, bound them together, and called the result a book; 468B Thy Future (1966), a book written entirely in computer code; The Wastemaker (1926-1961) where texts are divorced from their sources and disguised in a new tone, not intended by the original author; and Dieresis (1969) where the photographs in the book are the modern equivalents of ancient ideograms, capable of being read as texts. Melnicove writes in his introduction: "As reproduced here on UbuWeb, you can all but touch the books. What was prohibitively expensive almost fifty years ago for Porter -- the full-color reproduction of his pages -- is today's electronic commonplace. You can view his titles as a series of double-page spreads, not so foreign from the experience of holding and turning a Bern Porter book with your 'real' hands." See also Porter's UbuWeb Sound page and Porter's page in our Historical section. All Avant-Garde All The Time - UbuWeb Podcast #2: The World of Outsiders Listen / Download 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. Julian Schnabel - Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud (1995) With the Oscars just around the corner, it's nice to remind ourselves that not everything Julian Schnabel touches turns to gold. This record was made between his art star days and his current Hollywood reign with such great players as Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell, Golden Palomino drummer Anton Fier, and jazz arranger Henry Threadgill, but was universally panned upon its release in 1995. As one reviewer put it, "Schnabel can be described as a cross between Michael Bolton and Leonard Cohen, but unfortunately he writes songs like Bolton and sings like Cohen instead of the other way around... a combination of treacly sentiment, pretentious poesy, tuneless croaking, and minimalist melodies." Harun Farocki - Selected Works (1967-2001) Born in 1944, Farocki has made close to 90 films, including three feature films, essay films and documentaries. He has worked in collaboration with other filmmakers as a scriptwriter, actor and producer. Featured here are ten of Farocki's films: Die Worte Des Vorsitzenden (1967), Inextinguishable Fire (1969), Wie man sieht (As You See) (1986), Leben-BRD [How to Live in the German Federal Republic] (1989), Images Of The World And The Inscription Of War (1989), Schnittstelle/interface (1995), Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik [Workers leaving the Factory] (1995), Stilleben (Still Life) (1997), I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts (2001) and The Creator of Shopping Worlds (2001). Also featured in Jill Godmilow's What Farocki Taught (1998), a remake of Farocki's Inextinguishable Fire. A collaborative film with Helke Sander Break the Power of the Manipulators (1967/68) is also featured. This UbuWeb resource runs concurrent with Farocki's solo show at Greene Naftali Gallery (Jan. 10-Feb. 9) in New York City. Harun Farocki - Selected Works (1967-2001) is a collaboration with UbuWeb's partner Art Torrents. Henri Chopin (1922-2008) UbuWeb mourns the loss of the great pioneer sound poet, who passed away on January 3, 2008 at his home in England. You can hear his audio, watch videos of him or read his 1967 manifesto "Why I Am The Author of Sound Poetry and Free Poetry." He will be missed. Publishing the Unpublishable, First Series (001-032) What constitutes an unpublishable work? It could be many things: too long, too experimental, too dull; too exciting; it could be a work of juvenilia or a style you've long since discarded; it could be a work that falls far outside the range of what you're best known for; it could be a guilty pleasure or it could simply be that the world judges it to be awful, but you think it's quite good. We've all got a folder full of things that would otherwise never see the light of day. Invited authors were invited to ponder to that question. The works found here are their responses, ranging from an 1018-page manuscript (unpublishable due to its length) to a volume of romantic high school poems written by a now-respected innovative poet. The web is a perfect place to test the limits of unpublishability. With no printing, design or distribution costs, we are free to explore that which would never have been feasible, economically and aesthetically. While this exercise began as an exploration and provocation, the resultant texts are unusually rich; what we once considered to be our trash may, after all, turn out to be our greatest treasure. 365 Days Project 2007 Complete: December 31 ended this year's run of the 365 Days Project. Thanks for visiting, reading and listening through this very fun year of sharing. A huge mountain of gratitude goes out to all the contributors who shared this year! You can view the archived site for both 2003 and 2007 editions here (mirrored at WFMU). -- Otis Fodder, Curator Six Videos by Pierre Huyghe (1999-2004) Pierre Huyghe explores the territory of reality and fiction, creating a site of convergence for interpretation, representation, and transformation. His work incorporates film, objects, and staged events such as celebrations, puppet shows, and musicals to address how we construct and translate experience. Although the final artwork often takes the form of a projected image, Huyghe's primary interest lies in the production of situations. Videos include: A Journey That Wasn't (2005), Les Grands Ensembles (2001), One Million Kingdoms (2001), Streamside Day Follies (2003), The Third Memory (1999) and This Is Not A Time For Dreaming (2004). Presented in collaboration with UbuWeb's new partner Art Torrents. All Avant-Garde All The Time - UbuWeb Podcast #1: Listen / Download 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. Komar & Melamid and Dave Soldier "The People's Choice Music" (1997) Komar & Melamid's Most Wanted Painting project was extended into the realm of music. A poll, written by Dave Soldier, was conducted on The Dia Foundation's web site in Spring 1996. Approximately 500 visitors took the survey. Solder used the survey results to write music and lyrics for the Most Wanted and Most Unwanted songs. The Most Wanted Song: A musical work that will be unavoidably and uncontrollably "liked" by 72 ± 12% of listeners. The Most Unwanted Song: Fewer than 200 individuals of the world's total population will enjoy this. More details and liner notes here. Yvonne Rainer Film About A Woman Who... (1974) Robert Whitman Performances from the 1960s Sean Landers The Man Within (1991) [MP3] Mauricio Kagel Die Zeit überwinden - Der Komponist Mauricio Kagel (2007) Chicago '82: A Dip in the Lake John Cage, Glenn Branca, Meredith Monk, Charlemagne Palestine, Harold Budd and many others (1982) [MP3] Mike Kelley Extracurricular Activity & Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath (1999 - 2000) Gordon Matta-Clark Conical Intersect (1975) Gordon Matta-Clark Splitting, Bingo/Ninths, Substrait (Underground Dailies) (1974-1976) Helke Sander and Harun Farocki Break the Power of the Manipulators (1967/68) Paul Lansky Artifice (1976) [MP3] Jill Godmilow What Farocki Taught (1998) Martin Kippenberger Greatest Hits [MP3] Joseph Beuys Art into Society - Society into Art (at the ICA, London. May, 1974) [MP3] David Soldier & Kurt Vonnegut A Soldier's Story [MP3] Tellus #7 The Word Tellus #8 USA/Germany Tellus #9 Music With Memory Tellus #11 The Sound of Radio (1985) Tellus #14 Just Intonation (1986) Tellus #22 False Phonemes (1988) Bas Jan Ader Selected Works (1970-1971) Robert Fitterman Sprawl (Video, 2007) Jean/Hans Arp Soundworks (1913-1961) Ronald Nameth Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable with The Velvet Underground (1966) Doron Golan Four Films (2007) Alvin Lucier The Only Talking Machine of its Kind in the World (1969) Tony Oursler Sucker (1987) René Viénet Chinois, encore un effort pour être révolutionnaires a.k.a. "Peking Duck Soup" (1977) Dan Graham Rock My Religion (1982-84) Harun Farocki Schnittstelle / interface (1995) Survival Research Laboratories A Plan for Social Improvement (1988) René Clair BBC Documentary The Kitchen Presents Two Moon July (1986): Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Dara Birnbaum, David Byrne and others Kenny G Meets John Zorn Kenneth Goldsmith & Jonathan Zorn (2007) Jonathan Zorn All Talk (2003-2005) François Girard Le Train (1985) Harun Farocki Schnittstelle / interface (1995) Survival Research Laboratories A Plan for Social Improvement (1988) René Clair BBC Documentary Dan Graham Rock My Religion (1982-84) The Kitchen Presents Two Moon July (1986): Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Dara Birnbaum, David Byrne and others Mona Hatoum Measures of Distance (1988) Simon Morris sucking on words: Kenneth Goldsmith (2007) Sara Sackner Concrete! (2006), A documentary about the Sackner Archive for Visual and Concrete Poetry Glenn Gould Karlheinz Klopweisser Promo for CBC David Van Tieghem Ear To Ground (1979) Maurice Lemaître Le film est déjà commencé?, (1951) Peter Campus Three Transitions (1973) Survival Research Laboratories Virtues of Negative Fascination (1985-86) Stephen Dwoskin Dirty (1966) - Music by Gavin Bryars György Ligeti: Portrait, A Documentary by Michel Follin (1993) [French language] Arthur Lipsett 21-87 (1963), A Trip Down Memory Lane (1965) & Fluxes (1968) Ken Jacobs Blonde Cobra (1963) & Little Stabs at Happiness (1960) Nobuhiko Obayashi Experimental Films (1960-68) Maja Ratkje Live in Paris, 2005 (video) William S. Burroughs French Television Interview (1990) Hy Hirsch Come Closer (1952) Cheryl Donegan Refuses (2007) Jean Rouch Cimetieres dans la falaise (1951) & Les Maitres fous (1955) Carpi Cioni Three Short Films (1960-1962) Alexander Hammid Bezucelna Prochazka (Aimless Walk, 1930) & Na Prazskem Hrade (At Prague Castle, 1932) Shuji Terayama & Shuntaro Tanikawa Video Letters (1982-83) Sidney Peterson The Lead Shoes (1949) Nicole Dextras Frozen Words (2007) Lance Wakeling SIC, NOTES FRMDELOM A KEYLOGGER (2006/2007) Joseph Nechvatal viral symphOny (MP3) Andy Warhol Warhol's Cinema: A Mirror for the Sixties (1989) J.G. Ballard Shanghai Jim (1991) Taj Mahal Travellers On Tour 1973 (16mm film) Robert Kramer Ice (1969) Kay Rosen Sisyphis, 1991 (video); Interview, 2007 (video & MP3) Peter Weiss Was machen wir jetzt (1958) Contemporary Chinese Experimental Music 1997-2007 (MP3) Alec Finlay: Assorted Visual Poems and Bookworks Orson Welles: The One Man Band (1995) The Itchy & Scratchy Orchestra Harvard Concert: pieces by Cornelius Cardew and Christian Wolff (2007) Joseph Cornell Rose Hobart, 1936 Joseph Beuys Abstract Energy LP, 1985 (MP3) Luigi Russolo Selection of Historical Audio Works (MP3) Pandit Pran Nath Ragas of Morning and Night LP 1986 (MP3) Wolf Vostell De/Collage LP, 1980 (MP3) Sonic Arts Union Ashley, Lucier, Mumma, Behrman - LP, 1971 (MP3) Lautpoesie: An Anthology 1974-1986 (MP3) Jacques Derrida On Religion (MP3) Tadanori Yokoo 3 Animation Films (1964-65) Piotr Kamler Animated Films (with Bernard Parmegiani, Francois Bayle, etc) (1969-93) Werner Nekes & Anthony Moore Hynningen (1975) Jacques Lacan Télévision (1973) MoMA: Writing in Time Fitterman, Goldsmith, Bergvall & Byrum (2007) Banksy The Punking of Paris Hilton (2006) Anton Corbijn Some YoYo Stuff: An observation of the observations of Don Van Vliet (1993) Abagail Child Mayhem, Mercy, Perils (1986-1989) Jean Cocteau Autobiography of an Unknown (1983 - French language) Robert Frank Energy and How to Get It (1981) Larry Jordan Carabosse (1980) Maya Deren The Complete Films (1943-1958) Joseph Beuys Filz TV (1970) Lawrence Weiner Nothing to Lose (1976) Alexander Kluge Selection of Films (1963-1977) Yves Klein Anthropometries of the Blue Period and Fire Paintings: Two Film Performances (1960) John Cage The Norton Lectures (1988-1989) Marcel Duchamp Interview (French, 1961) Marcel Duchamp Les Mémorables d'Marcel Duchamp (French radio broadcasts, 2005) Edgard Varése Les Mémorables d'Edgard Varése (French radio broadcasts, 2005) Pierre Guyotat Progenitures (2000) Dieter Roth The Music of Dieter Roth (1973-1991) Berliner Dichter Workshop Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm and Oswald Weiner (1973) Racter The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed (facsimile edition, 1984) John Cage Songbooks (Score, 1970) Clausfriedrich Claus Geran Radio Feautres (2000) Derek Bailey On the Edge: Improvisation from Around the World (1992) Tim Hecker Pluie (1994) [MP3] Takahiko Iimura On Eye Rape (1962) Robert Frank Me And My brother (1969) Paul Glabicki Films (1978-84) Julian Beck Interview (1984) [MP3] Eiríkur Örn Nordahl Recent Sound Poems [MP3] Concrete Mass Art and Money Broadcasts (2006) [MP3] R. Henry Nigl Shout Art [MP3] Mairead Byrne SOS Poetry (2007) [PDF] Jas Duke Poems Of Life And Death By Jas H. Duke (1977-1990) [MP3] Unamunos Quorum Strange Visitors (2006) [MP3] Pierre Coulibeuf Balkan Baroque (1999) Seth Price Stay at Home/Go Home (2003) [PDF] Martina Pfeiler Sounds of Poetry: Contemporary American Performance Poets (2003), PDF (3.3mb) Haroun Farocki Inextinguishable Fire (1969) Scott MacDonald Introduction to "Avant-Garde Film" (1993) Ron Rice The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man (1963) UbuWeb Featured at NADA Art Fair Miami, December 5-9 If you happen to be in Miami this week for the art fair, please make sure you stop by the London-based Brown Gallery Booth F8 at the NADA Art Fair (at the Ice Palace Film Studios, 1400 North Miami Ave). Four Films by Gordon Matta-Clark: Includes Tree Dance (1971), Fresh Kill (1972), Day's End (1975) and Office Baroque (1977). Gordon Matta-Clark's (1943-1978) artistic project was a radical investigation of architecture, deconstruction, space, and urban environments. Dating from 1971 to 1977, his most prolific and vital period, his film and video works include documents of major pieces in New York, Paris and Antwerp, and are focused on three areas: performances and recycling pieces; space and texture works; and his building cuts. Audio Selections from The Sackner Archive: Hundreds of MP3s ripped from rare sound poetry LPs, tapes & 45 RPM vinyl. The Ruth & Mqrvin Sackner Archive of Visual & Concrete Poetry in Miami Beach is the world's largest collection of text-based art. Of the audio files here, curator Matthew Abess states: "The work presented here comprises a portion of the Sackner's tremendous compendium of sonic works. The range of geographic origins runs the circumference of the globe. The time span is nearly a century. It witnesses histories: of poetry, literature, music, visual art, technology, politics, religion, theoretical contentions and practical abstention." Artists include John Cage, Merzbow, Anton Bruhin, Laurie Anderson, Bob Cobbing, Lily Greenham, Velemir Chlebnikov, Aleksej Krucenych and Jean Jacques Lebel among dozens of others. UbuWeb is also pleased to feature a full-length documentary about the Sackner Archive, Concrete! directed by Sara Sackner. Five Films by Jonas Mekas Mekas, born 1922, is considered by many to be the godfather of American avant-garde cinema. Presented here are Happy Birthday to John (1972), a film record of John Lennon's 32nd birthday party; Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (1992), a video diary of Fluxus founder George Maciunas; and Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997), a video diary of Ginsberg in the days immediately before and after his death. Also included is a short, Hare Krishna (1966), with a soundtrack by Ginsberg. Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You: Bob Cobbing (1920-2002) A celebration highlighting the works of Cobbing on UbuWeb: films, sounds, writings, interviews and critical writing about him [PDF]. As curator Matthew Abess writes, "Cobbing was an assiduous innovator in the sphere of language. Alternately a landscape gardener, farmer, steward's clerk at a hospital, and teacher of Esperanto, Cobbing fluidly traversed dissimilar vocations with the same dexterity apparent in his boundary-dissolving performances with and of the plasticity of the word. When asked about the development of his intermedia praxis, Cobbing remarked, 'I commenced as a painter; later wrote poetry; studied music; began to realize all three were one activity (together with dancing, which is, perhaps, the key to them all)." This UbuWeb resource is presented in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt Library, The Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry and the Kelly Writers House at UPenn, where Suddenly Everyone Began Reading Aloud, a tribute to Cobbing took place October 11th featuring the poets Charles Bernstein, chris cheek and Maggie O'Sullivan. You can hear the event here. Vision #4 - Word of Mouth (1980) Twelve artists from California, New York and Europe were each invited to prepare a twelve minute talk on any subject. Artists include: Tom Marioni, Robert Kushner, Marina Abramovic/Ulay, John Cage, Daniel Buren, Joan Jonas, Bryan Hunt, Chris Burden, William T. Wiley, Brice Marden, Pat Steir and Laurie Anderson. Originally a double LP. Selections from FILM CULTURE Magazine (1955-1996) 24 seminal articles from FILM CULTURE, which served as a forum for the New American Cinema, discussing the works of pioneering filmmakers like Maya Deren, Ron Rice and Paul Sharits, and providing important context for largely unseen films through its essays on film history, contemporary art and poetry. Authors and subjects include Hollis Frampton, Luis Buñuel, Stan Brakhage, Tyler Parker, Donald Sutherland, Rudolf Arnheim, Taylor Mead and many others. Selected and edited by Kareem Estefan. Presented in partnership with Anthology Film Archives. COLAB: All Color News Sampler (1978) & Colab Compilation (1980) Two rarely seen compilations from the New York-based Collaborative Projects (aka COLAB) formed in 1978. All News Color Sampler is a remarkable collection of clips from the feature news program for cable TV. Hard, gritty, this is the early political and socially oriented work by artists now well-known as sculptors and filmmakers. Potato Wolf, Colab Compilation was an artists' cable TV show produced by Collaborative Projects from approximately 1979-84. Artists include John Ahearn, Tom Otterness, Scott and Beth B, Kiki Smith, Peter Fend and many others. Mary Ellen Solt: An Appreciation & Flowers in Concrete Mary Ellen Solt (1920-2007) became known in academic and poetic circles worldwide after the publication in 1968 of her influential book Concrete Poetry-A World View. Included here is an appreciation by critic A.S. Bessa and the full cycle of her influential and beautiful concrete poems Flowers in Concrete (1966). Salvador Dali - Impressions de la Haute Mongolie - Hommage á Raymond Roussel (1974-1975) Salvador Dalí's romance with film and the visual arts is a relatively well-known chapter in the life of the original and controversial Spanish (Catalan) artist (1904-1989). However, his explorations of video art with the production of the "documentary" Impressions de la haute Mongolie. Hommage a Raymond Roussel (1974-75) remain an episode of his long and successful creative career only acknowledged by the specialist. The "videografía", narrates the exploration of Dalí to the remote land of Mongolia in search of the Great White Mushroom. Salvador Dalí, a consummate expert in media manipulation, invites the spectator to become his accomplice and partner in what it seems a drug-induced "trip" to a faraway and distant land where wonderful treasures are hidden. By means of advanced technology in film and the visual arts of the time (video, electronics, macro photography), Dalí strives to reveal optically the metamorphoses of matter with the purpose of revealing a new artistic reality. UbuWeb Radio Listen to a 24-hour continuous stream from UbuWeb's MP3 archives. All avant-garde, all the time. Thanks to the Center for Literary Computing for providing technical support. The 365 Days Project, Part 2 (2007) UbuWeb is pleased to be co-hosting and archiving the second installment of Otis Fodder's magnificent 365 Days Project. The first project was completed in 2003 and can be accessed here as well. 365 days of cool and strange and often obscure audio selections. Some words to describe the material featured would be... Celebrity, Children, Demonstration, Indigenous, Industrial, Outsider, Song-Poem, Spoken, Ventriloquism, and on and on and on. The best thing to do is to simply listen. UbuWeb's archive will be updated monthly. For day-to-day updates, be sure to visit UbuWeb's partner WFMU's Beware of the Blog. Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About UbuWeb An in-depth sit-down interview with UbuWeb founder Kenneth Goldsmith on Archinect tracing the history, breadth, philosophy and scope of UbuWeb. Shirley Clarke - Shorts (1953-1982) A survey of short films by American independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke (1919-1997). Films include, "A Dance in the Sun" (1954), a portrait of dancer Daniel Nagrin; "A Moment in Love" (1957); "Bridges Go-Round" (1959) with two alternative soundtracks, one electronic music by Louis and Bebe Barron, the other jazz by Teo Macero; "A Scary Time" (1960) produced by UNICEF with a soundtrack by Peggy Glanville-Hicks; "Savage / Love" and "Tongues" (1981-82), a collaboration with Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaiken. Alejandra & Aeron A survey of audio and film works from the collaborative team of Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman. Wildflowers is a series of video text-animated portraits showing citizens of Detroit rejecting politics, opting instead to work on changing concepts of "common sense". The sound works range from found Riojan folk sounds to a study of the social, political, formal and aesthetic properties of sound environments in Porto, Portugal and Northern Spain. Stan Brakhage: The Test of Time (MP3) A series of 20 half-hour long radio broadcasts by Brakhage recorded at KAIR, Univeristy of Colorado in 1982. Includes long passages of Brakhage musing on subjects such as film, poetry, theater, and other arts. Includes music, lectures, readings, and sound pieces by Edgar Varèse, Peter Kubelka, Kenneth Patchen, Charles Ives, Kurt Schwitters, Robert Duncan, Ed Dorn, Glenn Gould, James Joyce, Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein, Olivier Messiaen, Louis Zukofsky, William Faulkner, Charles Olson, Henry Cowell and many others. You can also read The Brakages Lectures (1972) and view the short film Legendary Yarns and Fables: Stan Brakhage on UbuWeb. Her Noise: Women in Experimental Music (2007) A video documenting the development of the Her Noise project between 2001 and 2005 and features interviews with artists including Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether, Peaches, Marina Rosenfeld, Kembra Pfhaler, Chicks On Speed, Else Marie Pade, Kaffe Matthews, Emma Hedditch, Christina Kubisch and the show's curators, Lina Dzuverovic and Anne Hilde Neset. The documentary also features excerpts from live performances held during the Her Noise exhibition at South London Gallery by Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether and Jenny Hoyston (Erase Errata), Christina Carter, Heather Leigh Murray, Ana Da Silva (The Raincoats), Spider And The Webs, Partyline and Marina Rosenfeld's 'Emotional Orchestra' at Tate Modern. Her Noise celebrates the occasion of Electra, the London-based arts agency, new partnership with UbuWeb. /ubu Editions, Third Series (Spring 2007): Edited by Danny Snelson UbuWeb is pleased to present the latest installment of our ongoing series of full-length e-books. Titles for this series include works by Steve Benson, Maurice Blanchot, Mairéad Byrne, Terence Gower & Mónica de la Torre, Dick Higgins, Bernard Nöel, Severo Sarduy, Claude Simon, Rosemarie Waldrop, Robert Wilson, and Monique Wittig. This new series of /ubu editions presents eleven out-of-print works from 1957 to 1994 - and also includes three newer titles (1999-2007). Of the historical republications, there are three works of poetry, three works of prose, one opera libretto, one work of critical theory, and one manifesto - though each piece blurs these genres. Seven were written in English, four appear in translation, and one is bilingual. Two authors could be considered language poets, two are associated with Tel Quel, one arguably initiated Fluxus, another arguably initiated the new novel. Four are women, nine are men. One title was changed for its /ubu publication. Peter Rose: Vox 13 Eleven films created between 1983 and 2000, Vox 13 offers a grand circumnavigation of the subject of language. These films consider what it means to read, what it means to listen, when it is that we speak, how words acquire meaning, what it means to write, who we listen to, how we listen, what speaks, other ways we can speak, what the voice is, where language can be found, what words do to time, what holds stories together, and how light shapes language. Francis Bacon - The South Bank Show (1985) Part of The South Bank Show series, David Hinton directs this BBC documentary about British painter Francis Bacon, known for his horrifying portraits of humanity. The program consists of a series of conversations between Bacon and interviewer Melvyn Bragg, starting with commentary during a side-show presentation at the Tate Gallery in London. Later in the evening, Bacon is followed through various bars hanging out, drinking, and gambling. In another segment, Bacon provides a tour of his painting studio and a glimpse at his reference photographs of distorted humans. The artist discusses his theories, influences, and obsessions. This title won an International Emmy Award in 1985. David Schafer: Audio Works (1999-2007) A survey of Schafer's oeuvre, from his radically altered plunderphonic pieces -- including densely layered remixes of easy listening, pop, soft and classic rock records -- to his geeky "General Theory Expo", a continuous play of a reading by a female voice actor of a Jacques Derrida lecture from 1966. Schafer conceptually explores ideas about how the structures of space and sound data, controls, oppresses, stimulates, or enlivens the listening subject. On these tracks, Schafer works with voice actors and with various degrees of superimposition that border on, or fully engage, the noise side of things. The Films of Irene Moon and the Begonia Society Irene Moon has been creating music, film and musical lectures since the mid-90s. Her films are head- ing combinations of completely factual information with neo-Dada homemade New Wave music, insect sound samples, microphotography, animations and so much more. Included here are her Films of the Auk Theater, a touring theater that performs absurd, classical and heavily stylized theater in rock clubs and music venues. All of the short Auk plays are from 2004-2005. Also: The Super 8 series: Early films from Moon with soundtracks created from field recordings of insects and equipment commonly found in a laboratory environment. Samuel Beckett - Audio Works (MP3) New additions to the UbuWeb Samuel Beckett archive: France Culture Radio Broadcasts (L'IMAGE par Denis Lavant, MALONE MEURT par Jérôme Kirchen, LE DEPEUPLEUR par Serge Martin, L'expulsé (Roger Blin), Actes sans paroles, 01.10.63 (Roger Blin), Bing, 1965 (Roger Blin), CENDRES (1966, Seyrig, Blin, Martin, Seminoff); A Swedish version of Embers; Cette fois (Jean Bollery); A Piece of Monologue (English version, David Warrilow), Solo (French version, David Warrilow). Also see Samuel Beckett in UbuWeb Film. Igor and Gleb Aleinikov - Five Films (1984-87) The brothers Igor and Gleb Aleinikov belonged to the first generation of independent filmmakers in the Soviet Union, who no longer worked within the studio system, but founded the 'Parallel Cinema'. Their films, like Western experimental film in the 60s, deliberately refused to conform to professional standards, and were thus rejected not only officially, but also by many filmmakers. John Cage - For the Third Time (1978) John Cage speaks with a laryngitis-ridden Richard Kostelanetz about the techniques he used in "Writing Through Finnegans Wake" (1977) and "Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake" (1977). Kostelanetz whispers the entire interview, as Cage describes his work in full volume. Several other Cage videos can be viewed here and numerous Cage MP3s & audio files are available on Cage's page in Ubuweb Sound. See Cage's score for his Songbooks (1970). Listen to his Norton Lectures (1988-89). People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - Boots! (2006) (MP3): These recordings document a collaborative research and development process between People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz culminating in a live performance using vintage turntables and vinyl dubplates, a CDr album ("Boots!"), a 10" vinyl record ("Honeysuckle Boulevard"), and a CD album ("Perpetuum Mobile"). Using the internet and file sharing as our primary means of communication and collaboration, we experimented and explored our collaborative practices over a period of almost a year. The files available here constitute the research sketches, the CDr, and the live performance. We would encourage others to use the dubplate files to create new juxtapositions and recontextualisations. Avant-Garde All the Time: The UbuWeb Poetry Foundation Podcast (2007) (MP3) A short (11 minute) interview with UbuWeb founding editor 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. Rick Moody - Audio Works (1999-present) (MP3): These pieces represent a small sampling of Moody's audio work that he's done over the years, mostly for radio. Collaborators include Kurt Hoffman, Sherre Delys, Chris Abrahams, Hannah Marcus, Tianna Kennedy, Sharanu Pardeet, Anna M. Saxon, Amy Dissanayake, David Rakowski and John Lurie. Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer best known for The Ice Storm (1994). His most recent book is The Diviners (2005). Music Overheard (MP3): An audio response to the exhibition Super Vision at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, December 10 2006 to April 29 2007. Editor Damon Krukowski says, "In constructing an audio response (you could call it a soundtrack) to Super Vision, I followed this lead. Rather than look to the latest computer-based electronica-the futuristic sounds of tomorrow-I wanted to gather work made by traditional means, which would not have been possible outside today's digital audio environment. Thus CD 1 (curated by Bhob Rainey) poses the question: What happens to the sound of acoustic instruments, once musicians are familiar with the tools and techniques of electronic music? And CD 2 (curated by Kenneth Goldsmith) asks a related question about our ur-instrument, the body: How do we hear the body's sounds, now that technology has given us superhuman ears?" MP3s include Greg Kelley, Sean Meehan, Charles Curtis, Bhob Rainey, Taku Unami, Chris Corsano, Liz Tonne, Ellen Fullman, Gregory Whitehead, Language Removal Services, Henri Chopin, Matmos, John Duncan, Caroline Bergvall, Paul Dutton, Lauren Lesko, Christof Migone, Miya Masakoa, Jim Roche, People Like Us and Leif Elggren & Thomas Liljenberg. Presented in collaboration with The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and PennSound. 4 American Composers: Directed by Peter Greenaway. Feautring John Cage, Meredith Monk, Robert Ashley and Philip Glass. Based on London performances under the aegis of the New York/Almeida Festival, this set of four one-hour documentaries, originally produced in 1983, introduced these avant-garde composers and their music to a general public. It is a tribute to the filmmakers' accomplishment (and a sorry comment on how we honor our own prophets) that the set provides no less valuable an introduction for audiences over two and a half decades later. Rarely seen and out of print, Greenaway's films make a perfect companion to Robert Ashley's set of composer portraits Music With Roots in the Aether, produced in the mid-70s. UbuWeb: The YouTube of the Avant-Garde UbuWeb has converted all of its rare and out-of-print film & video holdings to on-demand streaming formats à la YouTube, which means that you can view everything right in your browser without platform-specific software or insanely huge downloads. We offer over 300 films & videos from artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Vito Acconci, Pipilotti Rist, Jean Genet, The Cinema of Transgression, Richard Foreman, Terayama Shuji, Paul McCarthy Jack Smith, Carolee Schneeman, John Lennon and hundreds more -- of course all free of charge. Presented in conjunction with our partners at Greylodge. Terayama Shuji - Experimental Image World (7 Volume Collection): Poet, playright, theatre director, filmmaker, essayist, agitator and lover of all things anarchistic, chaotic, and truthful, TERAYAMA SHUJI (1936-1983) is one of Japan's most revered and respected artists. In the heady and extremist Japanese art scene of the late '70s, Terayama created a number of unforgettable and highly controversial films. EMPEROR TOMATO KETCHUP is his epic, sexually revolutionary and hallucinatory work from 1972 in which "magical women act as the initiatory, yet protectively maternal sexual partners to children. The children, in revolt, have condemned their parents to death for depriving them of self-expression and sexual freedom; they create a society in which fairies and sex education are equally important and literally combinable." -- Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art Music With Roots in the Aether: UbuWeb is pleased to announce the relaunch of the AVI's, RealVideo and MP3s of Robert Ashley's Music with Roots in the Aether, a seminal series of interviews and performances conceived and realized by Robert Ashley in 1976, consisting of 14 hours worth of video and audio. Subjects and performers include: David Behrman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, and Robert Ashley. Robert Ashley says: Music with Roots in the Aether is a series of interviews with seven composers who seemed to me when I conceived the piece-and who still seem to me twenty-five years later-to be among the most important, influential and active members of the so-called avant-garde movement in American music, a movement that had its origins in the work of and in the stories about composers who started hearing things in a new way at least fifty years ago." The Films of Groupe Medvekine Between the March strikes in 1967 at Rhodia in Besançon and work standardisation at the Peugeot factories in Sochaux, there occurred -- under the impetus of Chris Marker and his friends -- the constitution and action of the "Medvedkin Groups" for producing, directing and distributing political films. "A necessary caution: the "democratization of tools" entails many financial and technical constraints, and does not save us from the necessity of work. Owning a DV camera does not magically confer talent on someone who doesn't have any or who is too lazy to ask himself if he has any. You can miniaturize as much as you want, but a film will always require a great deal of work - and a reason to do it. That was the whole story of the Medvedkin groups, the young workers who, in the post-'68 era, tried to make short films about their own lives, and whom we tried to help on the technical level, with the means of the time." - Chris Marker Seth Price "Title Variable" UbuWeb is pleased to present a retrospective of Price's 'Title Variable' audio project, from 2001 to the present. In an ongoing series of music compilations, each concentrating on a technologically transitional but culturally ill-defined moment within the recent history of digital music production, Price suggests how production tools have changed music, both in distribution and who controls it as much as in structure and sound. From early video game soundtracks to New Jack Swing to Industrial music, Price exploits the genre of "mix tapes" as sound art. As a mass form operating outside commercial channels, the mix tape seems to stubbornly and perversely retain its purchase on the imagination long after actual mix-tapes have slipped free of storage constraints and lost any clear definition. UbuWeb Film & Video Relaunch UbuWeb announces a relaunch of its film and video section. Greatly expanded with liner notes and links, we're now hosting over 300 avant-garde films and videos. New additions include works by artists such as Vito Acconci, Alexander Calder, Merce Cunningham, Harun Farocki, Groupe Medvedkine, Helmut Herbst, Fernand Leger, Bruce Nauman, Charlemagne Palestine, Shuji Terayama, David Wojnarowicz, Richard Serra, Piero Heliczer, Paul McCarthy and many more. The Films of Maurico Kagel (1965-1983) Whether in the classical music hall, the theatrical stage or film/video, Kagel's neo-dada performances and wickedly original techniques always opens one's eyes and ears to the pure possibilities of sounds and their production. Although this aspect of his varied productions is little known in the US, Kagel's output as a filmmaker is tremendous. He just about made a film or video each year in the 60s and 70s, and has only begun to slow down in recent times. Films include "Antithese" (1965), "Match" (1966), "Solo" (1967), "Duo" (1967-68), "Hallelujah" (1969), "Ludwig Van" (1969), "Blue's Blue" (1981) and "MM51 / Nosferatu" (1983). You can also listen to Kagel's music here. Pianoless Vexations (MP3) 8 hours of MP3s recorded live at The Sculpture Center, NYC on June 11, 2006. Vexations was composed by Erik Satie in 1893 and consists of a short motif repeated 840 times. Vexations was first performed publicly by John Cage and several other pianists over the course of 19 hours in 1963. As the title conveys, artists performing in Pianoless Vexations used any instrument except the piano to perform Satie's original composition. Instruments included laptops, drums, guitar, French horn, violin, trumpet, saxophone, viola, recorder, toy piano, harpsichord, mandolin, bass, film projectors, voice, dulcimer and more. Artists include Randy Nordschow; Hay Sanders; Bruce Pearson and Marco Navarette; Daphna Mor, Rachel Begley, and Nina Stern; Bruce Arnold Jazz Trio; Alan Licht and Angela Jaeger; String Messengers; Rusty Santos; Amy Granat; Greg Kelley; Miguel Frasconi; Bethany Ryker; D. Edward Davis and Erik Carlson; Zachary Seldess; Charles Waters and Katie Pawluk; Andrew Lampert and Steve Dalachinsky; Margaret Leng Tan; Trudy Chan; David Grubbs; Goddess; Matthew Ostrowski; Kenta Nagai; Stephin Merritt and Ethan Cohen; Rick Moody, Hannah Marcus, and Tianna Kennedy. Allen Ginsberg Face to Face: An Interview (1995) Stephen Montague John Cage at Seventy: An Interview (1985) Werner Schroeter Der Tod der Maria Malibran (1972) [German language] Situationist Documentary On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972 Louis-Ferdinand Céline Television Interview (1961) (French) & "Un siècle d'écrivains" Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Un diamant noir comme l'enfer (1998) René Viénet Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973) Gilbert & George The Ten Commandments of Gilbert & George (1995) Marina Abramoviç Balkan Baroque (1998) Hollis Frampton Zorns Lemma (1972) Jean Genet Un Chant d'Amour (1950) Martha Rosler Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975) Pipilotti Rist Video Works (1988-1999) Wim Delvoye Sybille II (1999) George Kuchar Films 1965-1986 Toshio Matsumoto Experimental Film Works, 1961-1987 Richard Foreman Strong Medicine, 1981 Jean Epstein La glace à trois faces, 1927 Segundo de Chomón Selected Works, 1902-1914 Carlfriedrich Claus Menschliche Existenz als Experiment, 1997 Willard Maas Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations, 1966 Marie Menken Glimpse of the Garden, 1957 Jarrod Fowler Recent Audio Works Bruce Andrews & Dirk Rowntree Prehab (2005) (MOV) Laurel Beckman Beatbots Beth Anderson Audio works from Peachy Keen O, 2006, MP3 Guy Debord Films Brian Kim Stefans Kluge (2006) Softpalate Gertrude Stein 3 New Interpretations of Stein's "Geography & Plays" by Robert Quillen Camp, [N]+Semble (Talan Memmott), and Ergo Phizmiz Cinema of Transgression Early 1980s Lower East Side Films: Kern, Moritsugu, Pfahler, Wojnarowicz, etc. Walerian Borowczyk Short Films, 1957-84 Jerry Tartaglia Ecce Homo, 1989 George Landow (aka Owen Land) Three Films, 1965-70 Erik Satie Pièces pour Guitare, (played by Pierre Laniau, 1982) (MP3) Note: for films (AVI, MP4) right-click and download rather than stream. Paul McCarthy Black and White Tapes, 1972 (30.5 mb, MP4) Terry Fox The Children's Tape, 1974 (246 mb, MP4) Bruce Nauman Stamping in the Studio, 1968 (42.7 mb, MP4) Mauricio Kagel Blues Blue, 1981 (129.5 mb, AVI) Charlemange Palestine Island Song, 1976 (133.7 mb, MP4) Richard Serra Boomerang, 1974 (86.8 mb, MP4) Alfred Leslie The Last Clean Shirt, 1964 (AVI) Penelope Umbrico Recent Web Works Stefan and Franciszka Themerson Films, 1937-1944 (AVI) David Rimmer Surfacing the Thames, 1970 (AVI) Agnes Varda Black Panthers - Huey!, 1968 (AVI) Jorge Luis Borges The Mirror Man (AVI) Cornelius Cardew "Towards an Ethic of Improvisation" (1971) John Cage & Morton Feldman In Conversation, 1967 (MP3) Bernd Alois Zimmermann Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu (1968) (MP3) Hermann Bohlen Gekaut!! (Bis es von alleine herunterläuft) (MP3) Eric Rosolowski WMD (2006) Ghérasim Luca Radio France Broadcasts: Passionnément & Une vie une oeuvre (2005) [MP3] Phil Niblock Hannah Weiner, 1975 (Real Video) Phil Niblock Armand Schwerner, 1973 (Real Video) Guy Debord Hurlements en faveur de Sade 1952, 128.5 mb (AVI) People Like Us & Felix Kubin Molaradio, 2004 [MP3] Vienna Actionist Films 1967-1970 (MP4): Eight vintage films by Otto Muehl and Otmar Bauer. Includes Meuhl's Manopsychotisches Ballett (1970), Investmentfonds (1970), Psychotic Party (1970), Stille Nacht (1969) and Der Geile Wotan (1970); and Bauer's Zeigt (1969), Impudenz Im Grunewald (1969) and 20.September (1967). Cinematography by Hermann Jauk, Jörg Siegert, Otto Muehl and Kurt Kren. You can also listen to Otto Muehl's Psycho Motorik & Ein Schrecklicher Gedanke, LPs (MP3) from 1971 as well as two interviews by Hermann Nitsch (MP3), one from 1975 and the other from 1999. Abbie Hoffman Makes Gefilte Fish (1973) (MP4, 180mb): Just in time for Passover, UbuWeb is proud to present this never-before seen footage of Abbie Hoffman making gefilte fish on Christmas Eve of 1973. Filmed with Laura Cavestani, Hoffman tells stories as he performs an elaborate ancient Hoffman family recipie before the camera (21 minutes). You can also listen to Hoffman's long out-of-print LP, Wake Up America from 1969 (MP3). FluxFilms (1962 - 1970): UbuWeb is pleased to announce the return of FluxFilms. Dating from the sixties and compiled by George Maciunas (1931-1978, founder of Fluxus), this is a document consisting of 37 short films ranging from 10 seconds to 10 minutes in length. These films (some of which were meant to be screened as continuous loops) were shown as part of the events and happenings of the New York avant-garde. Made by the artists listed above, they celebrate the ephemeral humor of the Fluxus movement.Films by Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins, George Maciunas, Chieko Shiomi, John Cavanaugh, James Riddle, Yoko Ono, George Brecht, Robert Watts, Pieter Vanderbiek, Joe Jones, Eric Anderson, Jeff Perkins, Wolf Vostell, Albert Fine, George Landow, Paul Sharits, John Cale, Peter Kennedy, Mike Parr, Ben Vautier. (MPEG) Ferdinand Kriwet Hörspiels: Three unreleased legendary Hörspiels from the late 60s and early 70s, originally broadcast on German radio: Apollo America (1969), a sound collage of the events of Apollo 11, mostly recorded off of New York radio; and Voice of America (1970), a snapshot of American media at the beginning of the 1970s. Also included is an early work for mulitple voices, Jaja (1965). You can browse Kriwet's prescient visual works in UbuWeb's Historical section. Aram Saroyan Feature: UbuWeb celebrates the groundbreaking 1960s concrete poetry of Aram Saroyan by hosting The Street, a film based on Saroyan's life during that period. Other works by Saroyan on UbuWeb include three full-length books of classic concrete poetry: Pages (Random House, 1969), Aram Saroyan (Random House, 1968), and Cloth: An Electric Novel (Big Table, 1971). Saroyan chronicles his making of these poems in his essay Flower Power and his historical postition is noted in Mary Ellen Solt's 1968 "Concrete Poetry: A World View : United States" in UbuWeb Papers. Finally, you can listen to some very rare audio recordings made by Saroyan in the mid to late 1960s. Ethnopoetics Update: UbuWeb Ethnopoetics editor Jerome Rothenberg has supplied us with a fresh batch of poems and essays including: Yunte Huang's essay with visuals of poems inscribed on walls by Chinese immigrants at Angel Island, San Francisco; Dennis Tedlock's A Conversation with Madness (translation) from The Human Work, the Human Design: 2,000 Years of Mayan Literature; an essay by Greek artist Demosthenes Agrafiotis on traditional writing systems & art making (French); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's concrete poetry translation of an Ojibwa poem Song of the Owl; Dinita Smith on Incantations, a handmade book of original writings in Tsotzil by Mayan women; Ambar Past's Introduction to the Tzotzil Mayan Incantations book; and The People's Poetry Language Initiative -- A Declaration Of Poetic Rights And Values. Stay tuned for Ethnopoetic Sound updates including Ethel Waters’ "That Dada Strain" (1922) and "The Signifying Monkey: Two Versions of a Toast." Primary Texts of American and British Conceptual Art (1965-1971): Dozens of documents, statements, interviews and theories of conceptual art by the first wave of artists. Including texts by Art & Language, Terry Atkinson, Robert Barry, Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Doublas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Morris, Sol Lewitt, Adrian Piper, Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, Lawrence Weiner and many others. Steve Roden "Soundwalk" (2005) [MP3]: Recordings documenting a live five-hour performance by Los Angeles-based artist Steve Roden aka In Be Tween Noise. Roden writes, "On the evening of the event, the audience entered the space to find few old rugs covering the dance floor, and a couple of small lamps with low watt bulbs. From my windowless little cardboard shelter hidden in a corner, i had no idea what was going on in the space; and most of the visitors assumed they were listening to a pre-recorded installation... the piece was playing through speakers located roughly 10 feet above the audience and reflecting off a dome ceiling back down to the listeners below." Real Audio Files Fixed: Following our server issues over the past six months, the RealAudio files sprinkled throughout our Sound section had disappeard. Finally, we've found them and hooked them back up again. They should all be now working but if there's still a few broken links, let us know and we'll fix them. Henri Chopin Videos: UbuWeb is pleased to present four films of sound poet Henri Chopin (b. 1922): Henri Chopin at Home (13.9 mb, .MOV), Henri Chopin at The Garage (293.9 mb, .MOV); Henri Chopin Live at Espcace Gantner (204.3 mb, .MOV); Undated Henri Chopin Performance (19.3 mb, .MOV). Also see UbuWeb's vast collection of Chopin MP3s. All videos courtesy of Erratum Roland Barthes: "Comment vivre ensemble" (1977) and "Le Neutre" (1978) [MP3]: Over 36 hours worth of lectures by Roland Barthes (1915-1980). The audio material available here represents the whole lectures given by Barthes during his first 2 years' teaching at the Collège de France in 1977 and 1978, and also his inaugural lecture about the question of power (and the way it is inscribed in the core of the language). Jacques Lacan Hours of archival material from French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981). Includes his 1973 film Télévision (1973), the complete Radiophonie (1970), as well as numerous other lectures dating from 1966-1970. Also included are nine audio recordings of the legendary Séminaire. From 1953 to 1980, Lacan's Séminaire was the laboratory, the work-in -progress for his Return to Freud project. The Séminaire was a singular place and moment, almost weekly, every year from November to June. Without any connection with university, it was public and open to everyone. Curiously, despite Lacan's famous verve for grandiloquence and his matchless improvising oral style, none of the 500 sessions have been cleanly and officially recorded (neither audio nor video) until now, presented here on UbuWeb. (audio and video is in French) Gertrude Stein MP3s In conjunction with our partners at PennSound, UbuWeb is pleased to host a number of audio recordings by Gertrude Stein made during the years of 1934-1935 with liner notes by Stein scholar Ulla Dydo. Selections include: "The Making of Americans: Parts 1 & 2", "Matisse", "A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson", "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso", "Portrait of Christian Bérard", "Madame Recamier: An Opera", "How She Bowed To Her Brother" and "Interview (1934)." Elana Mann & Adam Overton Conversation Pieces: February 13-17, 2006 [PDF] Kenneth Goldsmith & Conceptual Poetics Essays by Perloff, Dworkin, Bök and others (2005) Hans Richter Filmstudie (1926) 32.3 mb [AVI] Samuel Beckett Not I (with Billie Whitelaw, 1971) 149 mb [AVI] Mauricio Kagel ACUSTICA for experimental sound-producers and loud-speakers (1971) [MP3] Steve Benson The Ball // 30 Times in 2 Days (2006) [PDF] Craig Douglas Dworkin Legion (II) (2006) [PDF] Fluxus Anthology 2006 A collection of music and sound events assembled by Walter Cianciusi for Fluxlist (2006) [MP3] A Trove of Archival Performances by Charlotte Moorman UbuWeb is proud to host the audio archive of Charlotte Moorman (1933-1991), containing hours worth of unreleased works and collaborations by Nam June Paik, John, Cage, Earle Brown, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Terry Jennings, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Jackson Mac Low, David Behrman, La Monte Young, Sylvano Bussoti, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Giuseppe Chiari and others. The selection is curated by Stephen Vitiello, with special thanks to Barbara Moore / Bound & Unbound. People Like Us: The Complete Recordings 1992-2005 UbuWeb now hosts the complete works of the UK-based People Like Us. The brainchild of Vicki Bennett, these hundreds of MP3s feature solo works and collaborations with Matmos, Negativland, Wobbly, The Evolution Control Committee, Ergo Phizmiz, Irene Moon, The Jet Black Hair People, Xper. Xr., Messer Chups, Kenny G and Tipsy. Jelle Meander & Maja Jantar Maiandros Sonoros (2005); Live in Geneva & Brussels (2004) [MP3] Steve Roden Soundwalk (2005), [MP3] Momus Fakeways (2002), [MP3] Adolf Wölfli Gelesen und vertont (1978), [MP3] John Cage Mureau (1972), [MP3] Mike Kelley Interview (1996) [PDF] Jerome Rothenberg How We Came Into Performance (2005) [PDF] A.S. Bessa Vers: Une Architecture (on Stéphane Mallarmé) [PDF] Jean Genet Le condamné a mort, 1952, [MP3] Jean Genet Un Chant D'Amour, 1950, 269 mb (AVI) Abraham Lincoln Gillespie: 1895-1950 [PDF] Antony Balch (with William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin) The Cut-Ups, 1966, 212 mb (MPEG 4) Maya Deren Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, 1947, 121 mb (MPEG 4) Henry Miller reads from "Black Spring" and "Colossous of Maroussi" (both 1949) (MP3) 40 Years of Polish Experimental Radio from Studio Warsaw (MP3) Craig Douglas Dworkin Unheard Music (extended version) (PDF) Extended Voices Works by Lucier, Oliveros, Ashley, Ichiyanagi, Feldman, Cage (1968), MP3 Luc Ferrari France Culture Tributes and Documentaries (MP3) Gene Youngblood Expanded Cinema (1970), PDF Klaus Kinski The Spoken Performances of Klaus Kinski (MP3) Alan Schneider "On Directing Samuel Beckett's Film", 1969 Derek Bailey Interview (1987), MP3 Erik Satie Conceptual Works, MP3 Robert Smithson Hotel Palenque, (1969), 362mb, .AVI Samuel Beckett Film, (1965), 170mb, MPEG Joseph Beuys Sonne Statt Reagan, (1982), 4mb, MOV Glenn Gould Radio Broadcasts and Radio Plays, 1967-1981, MP3 Yoshi Wada Off The Wall (1985) MP3 Walter De Maria Cricket Music / Ocean Music (1964/1968) MP3 Furious Pig I Don't Like Your Face (1980) MP3 Michael Snow Sinoms (1989) MP3 Derek Beaulieu an afterword after words: notes towards a concrete poetic (PDF) Group Ongaku Music of Group Ongaku, 1960-1961 (Takehisa Kosugi, Syuko Mizuno, Mieko Shiomi, Yasunao Tone), MP3 Öyvind Fahlström Manipulate The World! (1963) and The Holy Torsten Nilsson (1966) MP3 Yoshi Wada Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile (1982) MP3 Lasry-Baschet Chronophagie "The Time Eaters" (mid-1960s) MP3 Mairead Byrne Some Differences Between Poetry & Stand-up Comedy, 2005 (PDF) Carlfriedrich Claus Lautaggregat (1995) MP3 DJ Food Raiding the 20th Century - Words & Music Expansion (starring Paul Morley and a cast of thousands) (MP3) John Cage A Dip in the Lake, (Realized by Robert Pleshar (MP3) Stéphane Mallarmé New Translation of "One Toss of the Dice Never Will Abolish Chance" by Basil Cleveland Mick Jagger Soundtrack to Kenneth Anger's "Invocation Of My Demon Brother", 1969 (MP3) Eugène Ionesco Reads from his works, 1960s (MP3) UbuWeb