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UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.

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Recent Additions:

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)

Ant Farm Dirty Dishes (1968-1978)

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)

Yvonne Rainer Journeys from Berlin/1971 (1980)

Robert Smithson & Nancy Holt East Coast West Coast (1969)

Gordon Matta-Clark City Slivers (1976)

Hans Ulrich Obrist Arkipelag TV (2000), with Alexander Kluge, Dan Graham, Douglas Gordon, Rosemarie Trockel and others

Johan Grimonprez Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1998)

Derek Beaulieu Flatland (2007)

Martha Rosler Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained (1977)

Julian Cooper Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (1972)

Yvonne Rainer Film About A Woman Who... (1974)

Robert Whitman Performances from the 1960s

Sean Landers The Man Within (1991) [MP3]

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)

Paul Lansky Artifice (1976) [MP3]

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]

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)

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)

Mona Hatoum Measures of Distance (1988)

Sara Sackner Concrete! (2006), A documentary about the Sackner Archive for Visual and Concrete Poetry

Kenneth Goldsmith Sucking on Words - documentary (2007)

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)

Abigail 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)

Clausfriedrich Claus Geran Radio Feautres (2000)

Derek Bailey On the Edge: Improvisation from Around the World (1992)

Tim Hecker Pluie (1994) [MP3]

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]

UbuWeb | Winter 2009

Frans Zwartjes - Six Films (1968-1971) The incomparable Frans Zwartjes is a filmmaker, musician, violin-maker, painter and sculptor. In the late-60s he was one of the first Dutch visual artists to take up film, initially to document his performances and soon after as an independent medium perfectly suited to his way of creating visual art. His mind-bending works caused a furor, with psychological black-and-white imagery of heavily made-up and over-dressed actors from his circle of friends. Focused on sexually-loaded power games, hysteria, psychosis and cruelty, his films are largely edited 'in-camera'. "My own motor system determined the film style", Zwartjes stated in an interview. Zwartjes's oeuvre includes over forty films and his style has left a strong stamp on at least two generations of experimental filmmakers in Holland. You've never seen anything quite like this. - Film Anthology Archive. Included here are Birds, One (1968), Sorbet 3 (1968), Anamnesis (1969), Visual Training (1969), Behind Your Walls (1970) and Living (1971)

Henri Michaux -Images du monde visionnaire (1964) Rarely seen, Images du monde visionnaire, was an educational film by Henri Michaux and Eric Duvivier "produced in 1963 by the film department of Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz (best known for synthesizing LSD in 1938) in order to demonstrate the hallucinogenic effects of mescaline and hashish."

Ce film se propose de montrer les types d’images, et leurs façons spéciales d’apparaître et de disparaître, qu’un sujet quelconque, soumis à l’action de certaines substances psychotropes, voit défiler en son imagination avec une clarté extrême et sans l’intervention de sa volonté. Deux genres de visions, dont on a ici accusé les différences plutôt que les ressemblances, correspondent donc à deux hallucinogènes.

Sten Hanson - Soundworks The Swedish composer, Sten Hanson, was leader of the Fylkingen language group from 1968 and in charge of the Text-Sound Festivals which were held for many years. He has been working with experimental music, literature and art since the beginning of the 1960's, cultivating both instrumental, vocal and electro-acoustic music for performance on radio and television, on outdoor occasions or from the concert platform. Featured full-lenth albums on UbuWeb include a compilation spanning nearly 40 years, Text-Sound Gems & Trinkets; Autobiography from 2001; The Sonosopher Retrospective (1998); The John Carter Song Book (1988); and Secret Connection featuring works from 1975-1983.

Focus on Vito Acconci A poet of the New York school in the early- and mid-1960s, Vito Acconci (b. 1940) moved toward performance, sound, and video work by the end of the decade. UbuWeb is pleased to feature a number of Acconci's works, across serveral mediums, focusing mainly on his 1970s output. Video works include Conversions (1971), Pryings (1971), Open Book (1971), Undertone (1972), Seedbed (1972), Theme Song (1973); as well as an interview, Willoughby Sharp Videoviews Vito Acconci (1973); Sound pieces a number of full-length works including The American Gift (1976); The Gangster Sister From Chicago Visits New York (A Family Piece) (1977); Under-History Lessons (1976); Ten Packed Minutes (1977); and The Bristol Project (2001); Works from the UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing include RE; READ THIS WORD; Points for Motion; and INSTALLMENT (INSTALLATION): MOVE/REMOVE.

Paul Chan - Three Videos (2002-2006) In 2002, Chan was a part of the American aid group Voices in the Wilderness that broke U.S. sanctions and federal law by working in Baghdad before the U.S. invasion and occupation. In 2004 he garnered police attention for The People's Guide to the Republican National Convention, a free map distributed throughout New York to help protesters to get in or out of the way of the RNC. Most recently Chan collaborated with the Classical Theatre of Harlem and Creative Time to produce a site-specific outdoor presentation of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot in New Orleans. Featured here are RE:THE_OPERATION (2002); Baghdad No Particular Order (2003); and Untitled Video on Lynne Stewart and Her Conviction, The Law, and Poetry (2006)

All Avant-Garde All The Time - UbuWeb Podcast #6: Politics As Unusal

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Produced by The Poetry Foundation, UbuWeb is pleased to announce the latest in its podcast series, focusing on a dozen of Ubu's hidden treasures, highlighting audio works that you really should know about about but most likely don't. This time around, in conjunction with the US election season, we feature a quick tour of UbuWeb's audio / visual political landscape. Selections inlcude Christopher DeLaurenti's Live in New York at the Republican National Convention Protest, September 2 - August 28, 2004; Abbie Hoffman's Malachy's Bar and Grill; Cornelius Cardew's Smash The Social Contract; Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman's film Grace Lee Boggs, 91-year old activist; Red Shadow (The Economics Rock & Roll Band)'s Understanding Marx; Allen Ginsberg's C.I.A. Dope Calypso; Ezra Pound's Canto XLV ("With Usura"); and Amiri Baraka's Dope from 1978. You can subscribe to our podcast here.

All Avant-Garde All The Time - UbuWeb Podcast #5: An UbuWeb Grab Bag

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Produced by The Poetry Foundation, UbuWeb is pleased to announce the latest in its podcast series, focusing on a dozen of Ubu's hidden treasures, highlighting audio works that you really should know about about but most likely don't. Featured here gems ranging from Marie Osmond incanting Hugo Ball's 1916 sound poem Karawane to Charles Bernstein 1975 oratorio 1-100 where, yep, whispers and screams the first one hundred numbers in, urm, numerical order. Other artists include Joseph Beuys, Terry Fox, Hugo Keesing's Chart Sweep, Todd Colby, Steve McLaughlin, Kelly Mark and Komar & Melamid. You can subscribe to our podcast here.

Mauricio Kagel: 1931-2008 UbuWeb mourns the loss of the great composer, filmmaker and artist. You can hear his music here and view his films here. He will be missed.

Stan VanDerBeek - Films: 1959-1972 UbuWeb is pleased to present 14 films by the legendary filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984). "A pioneer in the development of experimental film and live-action animation techniques, he achieved widespread recognition in the American avant-garde cinema. VanDerBeek was also intimately involved with the artists and art movements of his time; he filmed Happenings and merged dance with films and videos. VanDerBeek was a preeminent thinker, scientist, artist, and inventor who forged new links between art, technology, perception, and humankind." (www.eai.org) Presented in collaboration with Guild & Greyshkul, EAI and re:voir

Judy Dunaway - Soundworks: 1990-2002 Judy Dunaway is a composer, improvisor and conceptual artist who is primarily known for her sound works for latex balloons. Since 1990 she has composed over thirty works for balloons as instruments and has also made this her main instrument for improvisation. Included here are three unrelased baloon works: "For Chorus with Balloons" (2000), 40 Days and 40 Nights (1999) and Surabaya (6:07); Shar: Pop Music, a collaboration with Ilja Komarov; the legendary Duo for Radio Stations, simulcast on WFMU (New Jersey) and WKCR (New York) in 1992; five collaborations with Evan Gallagher Little Band; and The Dead, a score for artist Diane Torr's Crossing the River Styx (1990).

Roulette TV, Part 2 32 more streaming and downloadable episodes of Roulette TV from the 2000 season. Artists include Billy Bang, Chris Cutler, Michael Gordon, Zeena Parkins, Shelley Hirsch, Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, Sainkho Namchylak, Phil Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, William Parker, Elliott Sharp, Jim Staley and many others. The first series of Roulette TV is below. This is presented in partnership with the legendary New York City experimental music organization Roulette. Founded in 1978, is a major New York City venue for contemporary music and intermedia art.

Alix Pearlstein - Videos: 2000-2005 Presented in conjunction with her solo show at The Kitchen in New York City, September 5-October 18, UbuWeb is pleased to present four videos works. Alix Pearlstein's performance based videos subject highly charged narratives to minimalist structures - at once pressuring emotionality and artifice. Characterized by deadpan humor and a streamlined aesthetic, her approach is direct and intimate. Pearlstein's earliest videos, in which she appears most often as performer, exhibit a deliberately low-tech, grunge sensibility that is countered by the cool, stylized elegance of her later works. Included here are Two Women (2000), Forsaken (2003), Crash (2004) and All Day and a Night (2005)

Roulette TV (2008) UbuWeb is pleased to announce a partnership with the legendary New York City experimental music organization Roulette. Founded in 1978, is a major New York City venue for contemporary music and intermedia art. We are happy to present ten videos from the 2008 season of Roulette TV. Roulette TV is an on-going, innovative video series which presents unique contemporary music in compelling and engaging performances given by the creators themselves. Each performance is followed by an insightful interview with the artist. This series includes performances by: David Behrman, Marilyn Crispell, Andrew Cyrille, Joan La Barbara, Oliver Lake, Phoebe Legere, Margaret Leng Tan, Kathleen Supové, Blue Gene Tyranny and Lois V Vierk. Future archive plans include several seasons of Roulette TV as well as Roulette's extensive concert audio archive.

Cheryl Donegan - Videos: 1993-2007 Cheryl Donegan defines a generation of artists, many of whom are women, who first engaged in a new conceptual art practice in the early 1990s. Her work integrates the time-based, gestural forms of performance and video with forms such as painting, drawing, and installation. Provocative and irreverent, her body-based, performative video works put a subversive spin on issues relating to sex, gender, art-making, art history, and pop culture. Presented here are fourteen videos from her early ground-breaking Head (1993) to her most recent mediation on Carolee Schneeman and Coroline Bergvall's works, Refuses (2007).

Keren Cytter - Videos: 2003-2008 "Keren Cytter's videos have a distinctly literary flavour. Although her medium is tape and she makes countless references to cinematic and televised forms, her scripts often involve long soliloquies and multiple voice-overs that would seem more comfortable unravelling over the pages of a novel. Cytter, who writes all her own scripts, deliberately uses an over-poetic and non-realistic spoken language to enhance the artificiality of the filmmaking process. This eloquent and expressive speech is at odds with the videos' documentary style, which includes lots of wobbly, hand-held, out-of-focus shots, culminating in the camera getting knocked over." - Frieze Magazine. Included here are five videos: MFPIG (2003), Nothing (2003), Continuity (2005), Der Spiegel (2007) and Les Ruissellements du Diable (2008).

Guy Ben-Ner - Videos: 1999-2007 Although shot at home and usually with his children, Ben-Ner's films are far from home movies. They are sequences of carefully planned scenes, each film is in fact preceded by a copious storyboard drawings. The interest in the works of the mid-1960 and early 1970s' body artists such as Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, and Dennis Oppenheim, and the fascination with filmic situations in which the director, the cameraman, the leading actor and the stuntman are all one and the same, led Ben-Ner to deepen his interest in the early films of Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, and specially Buster Keaton. Included here are four videos: Stealing Beauty (2007), Moby Dick (2000), Wild Boy (2005) and Berkeley's Island (1999).

Janek Schaefer - Soundworks and Videos (1995-2008) A retrospective of the audio and visual works of this U.K.-based composer and artist. Sound works included are: Recorded Delivery [1995], fragmented noises of a sound activated dictaphone traveling overnight through the Post Office; His Master's Voices [1997], T.S Eliot poem 'Burnt Norton' is played 3 times at once on the 3 tone-arm Tri-Phonic Turntable; Love Song [2003], sing the word Love seven separate times at seven different pitches; Skate - Random Play Record [2001], an LP that is never the same twice; and Minneapolis 'Office Max' Messages [2003], a simple collage of the messages Schaefer found left on the display model of a mini digital Dictaphone he bought at Office Max in Minneapolis. Films include The Freedom of Speech [2006], a work for typewriter and voice about the erosion of our freedom of speech; Vacant Space [2006], an installation using location recordings and panoramic photographs collected in a series of empty interiors around the world; Extended Play [2008], an installation for 3 x Cello EP's, 3 x Piano EP's, and 3 x Violin EP's played at either 33, 45, or 78rpm using nine retro record players, playing continuously; and Two by Two by Two by Two by Too many by Too much [2007], an audio /visual response to global warming.

Michael Smith and Joshua White - Collaborative Works (1997-2005) In conjunction with Mike's World at the ICA in Philadelphia, Mike Smith and Joshua White's retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, UbuWeb is pleased to present a retrospective of their video works including The MUSCO Story: 1969-1997, video documentation of a fictitious lighting design company with origins in the psychedelic oil-projection shows of the late '60s; Open House (1999), about an artist who, in response to skyrocketing SoHo real estate values, has decided to sell out after living in extended-adolescent squalor for 20 years; QuinQuag (2001-2002), a spoof of a utopian artists' colony; and Take Off Your Pants (2005), a meditation on internet life in the form of six-sided kiosk that serves as a relentlessly cheerful information booth purporting to take you to a miniature "virtual" world that conflates the internet and a Disney ride. Michael Smith is a video and performance artist who invokes the routines of popular comedy to articulate the banality and hype of mass consumer culture, and the isolation of those whose inner lives are defined by it. Smith chronicles the trivial dreams and adventures of his eponymous alter-ego, the deadpan "Mike," a postmodern Everyman who believes everything and understands nothing in his media-saturated world.

People Like Us - Films: 2002-2007 Five full-length films which employ recycled materials from a variety of sources. We Edit Life (2002) explores the theme of technology, using documentary, industrial and educational film footage from the Prelinger Archive and The Internet Archive.;The Remote Controller (2003) uses found footage sourced from educational films to explore the way human body and machine interface in the 20th century; Resemblage (2004) was created using film from the LUX archive by artists Alan Berliner, Lawrence Jordan, People Like Us, Semiconductor and the Estate of Stan Vanderbeek; Story Without End's (2005) narrative is from a public domain film of the same name made in 1950 about the development of microwave radio transmission and the transistor; Work, Rest & Play (2007) is a video triptych exploring the themes of labour, leisure and industriousness; and live at the WFMU Record Fair (2003). The work has been carefully constructed using industrial and documentary film footage from 1940-1975. You can also hear People Like Us' complete audio work featuring hundreds of MP3s in UbuWeb Sound.

Three Videos by Ryan Trecartin UbuWeb is pleased to feature three full-length videos by Ryan Trecartin: I-Be AREA (2007), (Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me) (2006) and A Family Finds Entertainment (2004). Writing this year in The New York Times, Holland Cotter says of Trecartin: "[He uses] very basic digital tools to create a highly personal narrative art, almost a kind of folk art... ...For queer artists of Mr. Trecartin's generation, cross-dressing, cross-identifying and cross-thinking are part of a state of being, not statements of political position. Like the work of John Waters and Jack Smith, his art is about just saying no to life as we think we have seen it and saying yes to zanier, virtual-utopian possibilities."

All Avant-Garde All The Time - UbuWeb Podcast #4: The Tellus cassettes

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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. This podcast gives a guided tour of UbuWeb's collection of the Tellus Cassette Magazines comprising nearly 1,000 MP3 files recorded between 1983 and 1993. This podcast features narrated selections from the series including Louise Lawler, Jerome Rothenberg, Gregory Whitehead, Glenn Branca, Harry Partch and Paul Bowles. You can subscribe to our podcast here.

Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes, The Film (1964) Premiered in Cologne during the autumn of 1961, this is a documentary of the U.S. premiere production of Originale, a Happening by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Filmed at the "2nd Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York," the stage production was directed by Allan Kaprow. An all-star cast of performers include Nam June Paik, Charolotte Moorman, Jackson Mac Low, James Tenney, Max Neuhaus, Alvin Lucier, Dick Higgins, Alan Kaprow, Allen Ginsberg, and many others.

Glenn Gould - "Dialogues on the Prospects of Recording" on CBC Sunday Night Broadcast on CBC radio in 1965, this unique recording is positioned between Glenn Gould's last live concert performance in 1964 and his seminal publication "Prospects of Recording" for High Fidelity magazine in 1966. In a proto-tapestry of sound, music and voice, which came to fruition in his experimental radio documentary Idea of North (1967), Gould counterpoints the opinions of those celebrating the imminent ubiquity of recordings with those lamenting the loss of the live concert. As the host of the show, Gould explicates on how recordings are made from different geographical regions, while arguing for the superiority of the recorded performance. Marshall McLuhan is one of the many interviewees, providing his usual insightful and at times 'far-out' theories. The transcripts of the broadcast were later published by McLuhan in his Explorations column and were to provide the foundation for the High Fidelity text. However, with this broadcast one can ingest the ideas while listening to some classic examples of recordings that bolster Gould's argument. Curated for UbuWeb by Charles Stankievech.

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.

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

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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. 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.

All rights for materials presented on UbuWeb belong to the artists. All materials are for non-commercial and / or educational use only.

New Additions:

Art Worker's Coalition Documents 1 (1969) and Open Hearing (1969)

Sound Sculptures Published by Wergo in 1985, Sound Sculptures is a gorgeous, state-of-the-art overview of Austria and West Germany's instrument builders and sculptors. [MP3]

Hollis Frampton Two Interviews (1978)

Roni Horn Saying Water (1999) [MP3]

Yves Klein Conference á la Sorbonne (1959) [MP3]

Michael Snow Two Radio Solos: Short Wavelength (1980) and The Papaya Plantations (1980) [MP3]

Dieter Roth Die Radio Sonata (1976) [MP3]

Ben Patterson Tells Fluxus Stories (1962-2002); Drip Music; 370 Flies [MP3]

Russian Futurists from the GLM Collection [MP3] (1920-1959)

Gertrude Stein (read by Marian Seldes) from The Making of Americans and Lectures in America (1963) [MP3]

Jean Dubuffet Musique Brut (1971)