poetry / prose / criticism / installation(s) / research
here’s a page from Serkan’s book Dada Korkut, recently published by Ebabil in an inexpensive edition. 96 pages, black & white.
you don’t need to understand Turkish to enjoy this book; the visual poetry leans more towards shapes, rather than language.
you can download a free PDF version, with 34 pages, & many different poems to the paperback book, from Lulu.com.
#8 of Ri.L.Un.E., the Review of Literatures of the European Union, is devoted ideograms in early 20th century poetry: http://www.rilune.org/ENGLISH/mono8/IdeogramsArticles.htm
some in English, autres en français, español, Deutsch.
Michaux, Dotremont, Albert-Birot, Spanish Ultraists, Pound, Morgenstern, & so on.
9 calligraphic artists from China, Iraq, Morocco, France, Switzerland and Italy are participating in the exhibition Le geste suspendu, at the Chateau de Vogüé, in the south of France.
Monica Dengo’s article on the exhibition (English): http://www.monicadengo.com/geste-suspendu.html
& descargar español: http://www.monicadengo.com/assets/files/legestesuspendu_es.pdf
Many, if not all, of the works could be described as asemic writing, écriture asémique, scrittura asemantica, escritura asémica.
Meanwhile, an article on Monica (italiano) is at http://www.giornalesentire.it/2009/agosto/1197/dengo–scrivodunquesono-.html
download English translation: http://www.monicadengo.com/assets/files/giornalesentire_eng.pdf
http://konkretourist.de/ is a net-label which releases Creative Commons licensed audio.
the releases range from raw, unedited field recordings to processed compositions à la musique concrète.
birdsong, a walk through Paris-plage, remixes of Köln street sounds, & so on.
Jah Trinity’s Earthshaker Sound System shook the air at Higher Ground, a venue in Adelaide, on Friday night, May 1st. assisting was reggae singer, deejay & selector Jessie Proverbs.
Milton told me at a dubstep night (N-type & friends) a couple of months ago that his new sound system was almost ready, & showed me a photo on his mobile phone.
we finally got to see & hear it. the sound system has excellent bass, although I suspect that only a fraction of its power was used.
a few times, safety switches (I presume) overloaded, & the room was in silence while Milton & others hunted down the problem, then music returned just as people were getting engrossed in their conversations. one man excitedly sang for a couple of minutes, the first time the sound dropped out.
the records Milton played were British roots music, including a lot of steppers dub. I recognised a severe dub of Aswad. otherwise, I don’t know the artists, just the style. Jah Warrior, Iration Steppas, Tena Stelin, Prince Alla, Dub Creator, Jahmaine Lion & so on.
a few times, we got the total bass throbbing air experience. can’t describe it really, except to say that all other frequencies are cut out, & the whole volume of air in the room throbs very deeply. it’s a feature of British steppers dub.
the tracks which moved me most included Nyabinghi chants. African religion survives the remarkable migrations to Jamaica, & then to England, & remains part of reggae culture.
Jessie gee’ed us up with some stirring vocals, & some conscious tunes. he left his slack records at home! his sound is a tad more Jamaican than Milton’s.
I accepted a lift home, & left before Milton’s second set. he’ll be running these dances once a month.
a nice group of people was assembled, on a rainy night. some came from Melbourne & Port Lincoln. some local dubstep djs, older reggae faces, a couple of African men, drum’n'bass crew, & other folks. we saw a few different styles of dancing.
Earthshaker promises a resurgence of proper reggae culture, for militant people, not lazy, blunted hedonists.
Atlanta Poets Group presents:
aslongasittakes
a magazine of sound poetry
Issue 3
featuring an essay on 17th Century Icelandic sound poet Æri-Tobbi by EIRÍKUR ÖRN NORðDAHL, an interactive sound application by JIM ANDREWS, and audible and legible sound poems by GERARD ALTAIÓ, SERGEY BIRYUKOV, JOHN M. BENNETT, JAAP BLONK, DAVID BRADEN, MIKE CANNELL, ANYA COBLER, TIM GAZE, EVGENIJ KHARITONOV, NOBUO KUBOTA & W. MARK SUTHERLAND, CHAD LIETZ, PHILIP MEERSMAN, STEPHEN NELSON, EIRÍKUR ÖRN NORðDAHL, MARK PREJSNAR, and CHRIS STROFFOLINO.
voilà: http://www.aslongasittakes.org/issue%203.html
Andrei Molotiu has established a place for discussion & demonstration of aspects of abstract comics/bds abstraites, at:
http://abstractcomics.blogspot.com/
<page from a collaboration between Andrei Molotiu & troylloyd>
posted by Tim
Math minus Math is a collection of irrationalist non-equations, which you can buy from: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/math-minus-math/5673115
other books published under Rosaire’s imprint Press Rappel include:
OUTWITTERS / handbook
MORPHEME PAGES
SECURITY PAPERS
Magazine
Different aspects of her work might be described as asemic writing, abstract comics, ‘pataphysical diagrams, gentle visual noise or gene-spliced graphics.
Flip some switches! Please try these.
posted by Tim
Portuguese collector of field recordings Luís Antero is working on a series of 6 volumes of Sound Narratives.
his earlier EP “Water Recordings” (http://bp.bai-hua.org/releases/bp012.htm), under the name Out Level, is on the Chinese Bypass Netlabel. my review of it went:
"the ear leads the hand holding the microphone, asking the feet to carry the body towards new sounds. these field recordings tell a simple audio narrative. there is something honest here, compared to highly processed productions such as pop music."
his home site is www.luisantero.synthasite.com.
2 volumes of Sound Narratives are released already, of a total of 6: “Sound Narratives, Vol. 1”, on the Bypass Netlabel (http://bp.bai-hua.org/releases/bp017.htm) and
“Sound Narratives, Vol. 2” (http://electrorucini.mine.nu/), on the Portuguese Electrum Rucini Records.
soon, 2 more will be available:
“Sound Narratives, Vol. 3”, on AudioTong (http://audiotong.net/cmsms/) and
“Sound Narratives, Vol. 4”, on Earth Monkey Productions (http://www.earthmp.com/index.html).
all of these are available for free download, under Creative Commons licenses.
smash the record industry! don’t give any more money to Lars Ulrich for his new, gold-plated shark tank!
posted by Tim
Another Hemisphere Rec [http://www.myspace.com/anotherhemisphererecnetlabel], a Russian net-label for sound poetry, has just released a short album titled noises & voices, by Tim Gaze & David Curnow, of South Australia.
influences might be Alvin Lucier, John Cage & punk.
both fun & alarming, this collection combines solo efforts by Tim with improvised collaborative soundscapes by both Tim & David.
these are home recordings & field recordings, with a d.i.y. sensibility.
posted by Tim
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