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Poet Kenneth Goldsmith presents selections from UbuWeb, the learned and varietous online repository concerning concrete and sound poetry, experimental film, outsider art, and all things avant-garde.
Avant-Garde All the Time
English, Arts, 1 season, 17 episodes, 6 hours
Avant-Garde All the Time
English, Arts, 1 season, 17 episodes, 6 hours
Driven by Sound Tracks
An audio tour of films featuring Vito Acconci, Erik Satie, Vicki Bennett, Karl Holmquist, and more from the UbuWeb archive.
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1/11/2011 • 29 minutes, 46 seconds
The Sound of Silence
Samples from from Craig Dworkin's UbuWeb paper “Unheard Music,” featuring John Cage, Steve Reich, Mieko Shiomi, Yves Klein, and more.
9/7/2010 • 20 minutes, 10 seconds
Almost Completely Understanding
Audio interpretations of Gertrude Stein from the UbuWeb archives.
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7/23/2010 • 21 minutes, 33 seconds
Sounds of Fluxus
Yoko Ono flushing toilets, La Monte Young’s “Theater of Eternal Music,” Larry Miller’s baby crying, Alison Knowles onion skin music and loads more.
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6/2/2010 • 24 minutes, 5 seconds
UbuWeb Interviews
Gertrude Stein at the Algonquin, William Carlos Williams trying to remember “The Red Wheelbarrow,” Salvador Dali on his phallic moustache, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Derrida, and scads more from the archive.
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3/23/2010 • 42 minutes, 7 seconds
The Women of the Avant-Garde (part 2)
Sound clips from Gertrude Stein, Yoko Ono, Louise Lawler, Shelley Hirsch, Lauren Lesko, Forough Farrokhzad, Pauline Oliveros, and many more.
11/24/2009 • 25 minutes, 33 seconds
The Women of the Avant-Garde
Sound clips from Kathy Acker, Laurie Anderson, Caroline Bergvall, Denise Levertov, Lydia Lunch, Patti Smith, Eileen Myles, and many more.
10/19/2009 • 25 minutes, 21 seconds
Continental Drift
How the French avante-garde twisted up and bent language, featuring Rimbaud, Apollinaire, the space age poetry of Ilse Garnier, and more.
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8/19/2009 • 20 minutes, 48 seconds
The Sounds of the UK
A wide-ranging survey of British sound poets and artists from the 1960s to the present, featuring Bob Cobbing, Neil Mills, Liliy Greenham, Chirstopher Logue, Ann Laplantine, and more.
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7/22/2009 • 22 minutes, 33 seconds
Resident Voices
Listening to the far out sounds of 1970's LA, featuring Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, and the Kipper Kids, among others.
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4/28/2009 • 18 minutes, 33 seconds
Punk Versions of Monkey Chants
And other ethnopoetic marvels, including speaking in tongues, throat singers, and sound poetry.
1/6/2009 • 13 minutes, 51 seconds
Protest Poetry With a Beat
Hear Allen Ginsberg's hilarious "CIA Dope Calypso" and peak performances by Ezra Pound, Amiri Baraka and Abbie Hoffman.
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10/21/2008 • 16 minutes, 28 seconds
Schwitters Happens
You really should listen to the numbers 1 through 100 . . . especially 79.
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8/1/2008 • 17 minutes, 26 seconds
Best Decade Ever?
Tellus's trove of '80s recordings, from ethnopoetics to Paul Bowles.
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5/27/2008 • 14 minutes
The First "Three-dimensional" Magazine?
Aspen featured Warhol, the Velvets, and John Lennon twiddling the radio dial.
2/18/2008 • 15 minutes, 42 seconds
The World of Outsiders
Kenneth Goldsmith shares some insane and profane sounds that lie between Avant-Garde and Outsider Art, including recordings by Jim Roche, Robin Kahn, and Sean Landers.
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1/18/2008 • 15 minutes, 28 seconds
What did Patti Smith, Frank O'Hara, and Meredith Monk Have in Common?
The John Giorno Poetry Systems
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12/5/2007 • 17 minutes, 12 seconds