Avant-Garde All the Time

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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.

  1. 01/11/2011

    Driven by Sound Tracks

    An audio tour of films featuring Vito Acconci, Erik Satie, Vicki Bennett, Karl Holmquist, and more from the UbuWeb archive.

    30 min

  2. 09/07/2010

    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.

    20 min

  3. 07/23/2010

    Almost Completely Understanding

    Audio interpretations of Gertrude Stein from the UbuWeb archives. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

    22 min

  4. 06/02/2010

    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. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

    24 min

  5. 03/23/2010

    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. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

    42 min

  6. 11/24/2009

    The Women of the Avant-Garde (part 2)

    Sound clips from Gertrude Stein, Yoko Ono, Louise Lawler, Shelley Hirsch, Lauren Lesko, Forugh Farrokhzad, Pauline Oliveros, and many more.

    26 min

  7. 10/19/2009

    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.

    25 min

  8. 08/19/2009

    Continental Drift

    How the French avante-garde twisted up and bent language, featuring Rimbaud, Apollinaire, the space age poetry of Ilse Garnier, and more.

    21 min
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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.

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  • Creator
    Poetry Foundation
  • Years Active
    2007 - 2011
  • Episodes
    17
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
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  • Show Website
    Avant-Garde All the Time

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