Avant-Garde All the Time

Poetry Foundation

4.4 (35)
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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.

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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35 Ratings

This is good

02/23/2009

matthewande

Good sound quality. Concise explanations. I like it.
Love this podcast so much

08/27/2019

mikeymanreviews

Kenneth is amazing. He is so knowledgeable of the subject. He presents incredibly interesting audio clips and does a good job at not letting things drag too long. I listen to this podcast in its entirety just about every year. I really wish they made new episodes :(
No more episodes kuz Kenny G. died... inside

01/07/2018

Rick from Temple U.

I wish I could hear more of this. I’ve listed to every episode at least two or three times. Amazing archival work, some of the best avant- garden poetry anywhere. Kenny G. Needs to find his smile and begins posting again.
I want more episodes

02/15/2016

Amadeusleander

Fantastic show. I can feel new connections being made in my mind as I listen. I think I jumped on the bandwagon long after the bandwagon stopped making new episodes, tho.

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.