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Craig Dworkin
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
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Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Italian duo of brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio utilising an array of acoustic and electric guitars, various toy-instruments and toy-microphones.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
A celebration of our overabundant social entanglement and complicity, that remind us of how we can see ourselves, stripped of powers’ attempts to grasp us.
In this response to the Self Cancellation project, Lee Patterson dissolves medicine in glasses of water and explores the sonic content.
Pitching Fahey inspired, eastern-infused folk vibrations, sad elliptical drones and oracle chants into one kaleidoscopic sound.
Improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument, Basinski creates works of great melancholic depth and fragile beauty.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”