Ubu web's Sound by Visual Artists

 

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Audio By Visual Artists, TELLUS 21

1. Joseph Beuys - "Ja Ja Ja Ne Ne Ne", 1970, Mazzotta Editions, Milan, 33 rpm, 500 copies. (excerpt 2:00)  


2. Maurice Lemaître - "Lettre Rock", 1958. Interpreted by the author and Paul Thorel, accompanied by amateur jazz singers. "Maurice Lemaître Presents Le Lettrism", Columbia. (1:51)


3. Fillippo Tomasso Marinetti - "La Battaglia di Adrianopoli", 1926. Recorded by Marinetti in 1935, Voce del Padrone, Milano/EMI 1948-75, 33 rpm. (2:26)


4. Raoul Hausmann - "Poémes Phonetiques" (1919-1943) 45 rpm, Paris Ou Magazine, 25-26, 1966. (3:50)  


5. Antonio Russolo - "Corale", "Serenata", 1924, Musica Futurista, organized by Daniel Lombardi, Fonit Cetra. (2:31)  


6. Marcel Duchamp - Some texts from "A l'infinitif" (1912-20). Recorded by Aspen Magazine, November 1967, N.Y. (4:00)  


7. Kurt Schwitters - "Die Sonate in Urlauten" (1919-32). An Anna Blume - Die Sonate in Urlauten (1919-1932) 1958 Lords Gallery, London, 33 rpm, 100 copies. (excerpt 2:03)


8. Lawrence Weiner - "Having Been Done At / Having Been Done To, Essendo Stato Fatto A", 1973 Sperone-Fischer Edition, Roma 33 rpm. (excerpt 2:25)  


9. George Brecht - "Comb Music (Comb Event)" 1959-62. Performed by John Armleder August 23, 1988. Engineered by Brenda Hutchinson at Studio PASS, N.Y. (:05)  


10. Patrick Ireland - "Vowel Drawing", 1967. Recorded at Studio PASS, N.Y. Engineered by Connie Kieltyka, September, 1988. (1:07)  


11. Richard Huelsenbeck - "Four Poems from Phantastiche Gebete". 1916. Recorded by Aspen Magazine, November 1967, N.Y. (excerpt 2:00)  


12. Arrigo Lora-Totino and Fogliati - "Poesia Totale", 1968 Liquimoiono, Poesia Liquida, Scwettier, Milan (excerpt 1:34).  


13. Jean Dubuffet - "Musical Experiences", 1963, Atlantic Recording, NY 1973, 33 rpm. (excerpt 2:17)  


14. Mimmo Rotella - "Poemi Fonetici", 1949-75, Plura Edition, Milano, 1000 copies, 33 rpm. (excerpt :44)  


15. Joan Jonas - "The Anchor Stone", 1988. Engineered by Brenda Hutchinson at Studio PASS, N.Y. (2:30)  


16. Christian Boltanski - "Reconstruction de Chansons Qui Ont Et Chant" es Christian Boltanski (1944-46)", 1972 45 rpm. (excerpt 2:30)  


17. Ian Murray - "Keeping On Top of the Top Song", 1970, Performed by Arno Van Nieuwenhuise, 1984. A recording of the first ten seconds of the top 100 songs of the last ten years (1970). (excerpt 3:15)


18. Terry Fox - "The Labyrinth Scored for the Purrs of 11 Different Cats", 1976, on Airwaves 1977. (excerpt 3:00)  


19. Jonathan Borofsky - "The Standard Chant Pt. 2", 1983, recorded by J. Borofsky, Los Angeles, Ca. (1:33)  


20. Magdalena Abakanowicz - "Cough", 1986 Recorded by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Warsaw. Poland, (excerpt :35)  


21. Richard Prince with Bob Gober - "Tell Me Everything", 1988. Recorded May 18, 1988 at Studio PASS, N.Y. Engineered by Alex Gardner. (3:00)  


22. Martin Kippenberger - "Bang, Bang", 1987, POP IN. forum Stadtpark Graz. (3:11)


23. Jack Goldstein - "The Weep", 1978. (excerpt 2:21)


24. John Armleder - "16 Great Turn-Ons". 1988, performed and directed by Christian Marclay at Studio Pass, N. Y Engineered by B. Hutchinson. edited-by C. S Russell. (1:10)


25. Terry Allen - "Home On The Range", 1988, Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band, Greenshoes Publishers 1988. Vocal and piano: Terry Allen; acoustic guitar: Lloyd lvlaines; mandolin: Richard Bowden; percussion: Davis McLarty; harmony vocal: Joe Ely. Produced by Allen and Maines, recorded at Caldwell Studios, Lubbock, Texas. Engineered by Caldwell and Maines. (3:13)


26. Gretchen Bender - "Artificial Treatment" 1988, Recorded at Studio PASS, N.Y. by B. Hutchinson. (2:44)  

27. Y Pants - "Magnetic Attraction", 1980, Gail Vachon: ukulele; Barbara Ess: bass; Verge Piersol. drums, Vocals: all. (3:11)  


28. Ed Tomney - "Aquatic Chronicle", 1988, Spotless Music. (3:07)


29. Susan Hiller - "Magic Lantern", 1987, Edited by B. Hutchinson with Tim Guest at Studio PASS, N.Y. (Abridged version 5:03)  


30. Ian Murray - o.p. cit. (1: 12)



This issue of TELLUS explores audio work produced by visual artists from the Futurist Movement to the present. Luigi Russolo presented his theories on the use of noise in a musical context in 1913 with the "Art of Noise". Russolo destroyed the barrier which separated the works of precise harmonic sounds from that of indeterminate noise. With this manifesto, he proclaimed: "Ancient life was all silence. In the 19th century, with the invention of machines, Noise was born." His Futurist Orchestra of "families of noises" argued that the voice and sounds such as rumbles, explosions, whistles, snorts, screams, laughs and machines were to be regarded as musical instruments. With this in mind, I have touched on subsequent movements or events, defined by artists: Dada, Letterism, Art Brut, Fluxus, Conceptual Art and artists working with media appropriation that have been instrumental to audio and its history The two faces of this tape document different approaches to audio recording - sound and phonetic poetry, music concrete, storytelling, electronics, artists' bands and the sequential repetition of a sound, noise or word(s). With eighty-eight years of audio history passing through sixty minutes of time, TELLUS #21 accounts for less than one second of work produced by artists in this century.
-Claudia Gould
Engineered by Brenda Hutchinson at Studio PASS. NYC, 1988. Editors: Claudia Gould, Joseph Nechvatal, Carol Parkinson. Assistant Editor: Debbie McBride. Assistant: Charles S. Russell. Editor for this issue: Claudia Gould.

MOMA and DADA

Representing Dada
quote..."To mark the close of the international Dada exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York, MoMA hosted a day-long symposium to consider issues involved in representing Dada through texts, images, and objects, with a particular focus on the semantics of display. A distinguished group of scholars discussed landmark Dada exhibitions and past publications, with the aim of addressing how Dada has been defined historically, geographically, and conceptually.

Introduction
John Elderfield, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Does Dada Dissolve into Surrealism?
Didier Ottinger, Senior Curator, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
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New York Dada? Looking Back after a Second World War
Catherine Craft, Independent scholar and critic
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"Join Dada!" Aspects of Dada’s Reception since the Late 1950s
Hanne Bergius, Professor for the History of Art, Design and Architecture,
Burg Giebichenstein, University for Art and Design, Halle
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Dada and Surrealism Reviewed: From London 1978 to New York 2006
Dawn Ades, Professor, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex
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Approaching a Myth: The 1988 Reconstruction of Berlin’s First International Dada Fair of 1920
Helen Adkins, Art historian and independent curator, Berlin
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The Making of Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York (1996)
Francis Naumann, Independent scholar, curator, and art dealer
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“The Pattern that Connects Is a Meta-Pattern”: Dada’s Ongoing Challenges to Museum Practices
Tobia Bezzola, Curator, Kunsthaus Zurich
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Roundtable: Displaying Dada 2005–06

Leah Dickerman, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Laurent Le Bon, Chief Curator, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris; and Anne Umland, Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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The Thought Is Made in the Mouth: Dada Sound Poetry and Manifestos
An evening of historical Dada poetry with LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Bob Holman, and Pierre Joris. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Dada".

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eggs and all that avant garde from ubu

All Avant-Garde All The Time - 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.

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.

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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.

DADA and the incoherent in us all

We [Dadaists] are often told that we are incoherent, but into this word people try to put an insult that it is rather hard for me to fathom. Everything is incoherent... There is no logic... The acts of life have no beginning and no end. Everything happens in a completely idiotic way. That is why everything is alike. Simplicity is called Dada. Any attempt to conciliate an inexplicable momentary state with logic strikes me as a boring kind of game... Like everything in life, Dada is useless... Perhaps you will understand me better when I tell you that Dada is a virgin microbe that penetrates with the insistence of air into all of the spaces that reason has not been able to fill with words or conventions.

* As quoted in The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology (1981) edited by Robert Motherwell, p.250 - 251