The Sounds of the UK

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The Sounds of the UK

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23 minutes

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Jul 22, 2009

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A wide-ranging survey of British sound poets and artists from the 1960s to the present, featuring Bob Cobbing, Neil Mills, Liliy Greenham, Chirstopher Logue, Ann Laplantine, and more.

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Jul 22, 2009

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Titles in the series (17)

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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The World of Outsiders: Kenneth Goldsmith shares some insane and profane sounds that lie between Avant-Garde and Outsider Art, including recordings by Jim Roche, Robin Kahn, and Sean Landers. by Avant-Garde All the Time
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What did Patti Smith, Frank O'Hara, and Meredith Monk Have in Common?: The John Giorno Poetry Systems by Avant-Garde All the Time
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Best Decade Ever? by Avant-Garde All the Time
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Protest Poetry With a Beat: Hear Allen Ginsberg's hilarious "CIA Dope Calypso" and peak performances by Ezra Pound, Amiri Baraka and Abbie Hoffman. by Avant-Garde All the Time
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Punk Versions of Monkey Chants: And other ethnopoetic marvels, including speaking in tongues, throat singers, and sound poetry. by Avant-Garde All the Time
14 min listen
Continental Drift: How the French avante-garde twisted up and bent language, featuring Rimbaud, Apollinaire, the space age poetry of Ilse Garnier, and more. by Avant-Garde All the Time
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Resident Voices: Listening to the far out sounds of 1970's LA, featuring Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, and the Kipper Kids, among others. by Avant-Garde All the Time
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The Sounds of the UK: A wide-ranging survey of British sound poets and artists from the 1960s to the present, featuring Bob Cobbing, Neil Mills, Liliy Greenham, Chirstopher Logue, Ann Laplantine, and more. by Avant-Garde All the Time
23 min listen
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. by Avant-Garde All the Time
25 min listen
The Women of the Avant-Garde (part 2): Sound clips from Gertrude Stein, Yoko Ono, Louise Lawler, Shelley Hirsch, Lauren Lesko, Forough Farrokhzad, Pauline Oliveros, and many more. by Avant-Garde All the Time
26 min listen
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. by Avant-Garde All the Time
42 min listen
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. by Avant-Garde All the Time
20 min listen
Driven by Sound Tracks: An audio tour of films featuring Vito Acconci, Erik Satie, Vicki Bennett, Karl Holmquist, and more from the UbuWeb archive. by Avant-Garde All the Time
30 min listen
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. by Avant-Garde All the Time
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Almost Completely Understanding: Audio interpretations of Gertrude Stein from the UbuWeb archives. by Avant-Garde All the Time
22 min listen

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Resident Voices: Listening to the far out sounds of 1970's LA, featuring Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, and the Kipper Kids, among others. by Avant-Garde All the Time
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The World of Outsiders: Kenneth Goldsmith shares some insane and profane sounds that lie between Avant-Garde and Outsider Art, including recordings by Jim Roche, Robin Kahn, and Sean Landers. by Avant-Garde All the Time
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The Sounds of the UK

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