UbuWeb Featured Resources, May 2009
Selected by David Toop
1. Henri Michaux: Images du Monde Visionnaire
2. Yves Klein: Anthropometries of the Blue Period & Fire Paintings
3. Jacques Lacan: Télévision
4. Yukio Mishima: Rite of Love and Death
5. Chris Marker, John Chapman & Frank Simeone: Junkopia
6. Ethnopoetics: Canntaireachd – Earl of Seaforth’s Salute
7. Ethnopoetics: Slim and Slam – ‘African Jive’
8. La Monte Young: Drift Study 31 1 69, Aspen 8, item 5.
9. J.G. Ballard: Shanghai Jim
10. Group Ongaku: Automatism
David Toop is a musician/composer, writer and curator. More here.
UbuWeb Featured Resources, April 2009
Selected by Pauline Oliveros
1. Billy Bang – “Daydreams”
2. Guy Klucevsek – “Clairvoyant”
3. Mauricio Kagel – Antithese
4. Tehching Hsieh (b. 1950) – One Year Performance, No. 2 (1980-81)
5. Her Noise – The Making Of
6. Terry Fox – Children’s Tapes
7. Glenn Gould – Karlheinz Klopweisser Promo for CBC
8. Sainkho Namtchylak – Roulette TV
9. John Baldessari- Baldessari Sings Lewitt
Pauline Oliveros (b. 1932) is an accordionist and composer who was a central figure in the development of post-war electronic art music. Oliveros was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, and served as its director. She has taught music at Mills College, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Oliveros has written books, formulated new music theories and investigated new ways to focus attention on music including her concepts of Deep Listening and “sonic awareness”. More here.
Thanks for this, Kenneth. I just started reading Toop’s “Haunted Weather” yesterday (shortly before seeing your post); and Toop has written about Oliveros and her Deep Listening Band, one of whose discs I recently borrowed from the library (and am listening to now), so this is a pleasant conjunction. Thanks!
Imagine UbuWeb as the greatest cocktail party you’ve ever been to, crammed with the most fascinating artists of all time into one space, all chatting with one another. John, you just happened to be in the corner of the room where Mr. Toop and Ms. Oliveros were sipping a martini. But look over there: it’s Samuel Beckett sharing mojitos with Agnés Varda.