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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:

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]

Martina Pfeiler Sounds of Poetry: Contemporary American Performance Poets (2003), PDF (3.3mb)

Scott MacDonald Introduction to "Avant-Garde Film" (1993)

Ron Rice The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man (1963)

Allen Ginsberg Face to Face: An Interview (1995)

Andrew Lampert #6 & #4 Okkyung (2004)

Stephen Montague John Cage at Seventy: An Interview (1985)

Werner Schroeter Der Tod der Maria Malibran (1972) [German language]

Situationist Documentary On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972

Louis-Ferdinand Céline Television Interview (1961) (French) & "Un siècle d'écrivains" Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Un diamant noir comme l'enfer (1998)

René Viénet Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973)

Gilbert & George The Ten Commandments of Gilbert & George (1995)

Hollis Frampton Zorns Lemma (1972)

Jean Genet Un Chant d'Amour (1950)

Martha Rosler Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975)

Pipilotti Rist Video Works (1988-1999)

Wim Delvoye Sybille II (1999)

George Kuchar Films 1965-1986

Toshio Matsumoto Experimental Film Works, 1961-1987

Richard Foreman Strong Medicine, 1981

Jean Epstein La glace à trois faces, 1927

Segundo de Chomón Selected Works, 1902-1914

Carlfriedrich Claus Menschliche Existenz als Experiment, 1997

Willard Maas Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations, 1966

Marie Menken Glimpse of the Garden, 1957

Bruce Andrews & Dirk Rowntree Prehab (2005) (MOV)

Laurel Beckman Beatbots

Beth Anderson Audio works from Peachy Keen O, 2006, MP3

Guy Debord Films

Brian Kim Stefans Kluge (2006)

Softpalate Gertrude Stein 3 New Interpretations of Stein's "Geography & Plays" by Robert Quillen Camp, [N]+Semble (Talan Memmott), and Ergo Phizmiz

Cinema of Transgression Early 1980s Lower East Side Films: Kern, Moritsugu, Pfahler, Wojnarowicz, etc.

Walerian Borowczyk Short Films, 1957-84

Jerry Tartaglia Ecce Homo, 1989

George Landow (aka Owen Land) Three Films, 1965-70

Erik Satie Pièces pour Guitare, (played by Pierre Laniau, 1982) (MP3)

Penelope Umbrico Recent Web Works

Stefan and Franciszka Themerson Films, 1937-1944

UbuWeb | Summer 2008

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 - Film Works (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.

The Western Round Table on Modern Art (1949) Rare proceedings and documentation from this important conference that took place in San Francisco in April of 1949. Participants included Marcel Duchamp, Frank Lloyd Wright, Arnold Schoenburg, Mark Tobey, Darius Milhaud, Alfred Frankenstein, Gregory Bateson, Kenneth Burke, Robert Goldwater and Andrew C. Richie. Documentation includes over 9 hours of audio tape, transcriptions and photographs. Organizer Douglas MacAgy writes, "The object of the Round Table was to bring a representation of the best informed opinion of the time to bear on questions about art today (1949). A set of neat conclusions, as to the outcome of the conference, was neither expected nor desired. Rather, it was hoped that progress would be made in the exposure of hidden assumptions, in the uprooting of obsolete ideas, and in the framing of new questions." Curated for UbuWeb by Colby Ford.

Five Rare Books From the 1960s by Bern Porter Several of Porter's books from the 1960s are gathered here on UbuWeb, three of them for the first time anywhere, with an essay by Porter's collaborator and literary executor, Mark Melnicove. Titles include: Aphasia (1961), cut and assembled commercial and soft news language into a found poetry that is still original and fresh; Scandinavian Summer (1961), where Porter cut out pages from Scandinavian, Russian, and American newspaper archives at random, bound them together, and called the result a book; 468B Thy Future (1966), a book written entirely in computer code; The Wastemaker (1926-1961) where texts are divorced from their sources and disguised in a new tone, not intended by the original author; and Dieresis (1969) where the photographs in the book are the modern equivalents of ancient ideograms, capable of being read as texts. Melnicove writes in his introduction: "As reproduced here on UbuWeb, you can all but touch the books. What was prohibitively expensive almost fifty years ago for Porter -- the full-color reproduction of his pages -- is today's electronic commonplace. You can view his titles as a series of double-page spreads, not so foreign from the experience of holding and turning a Bern Porter book with your 'real' hands." See also Porter's UbuWeb Sound page and Porter's page in our Historical section.

All Avant-Garde All The Time - UbuWeb Podcast #2: The World of Outsiders

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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. As the site has grown so large, these occasional audio guides might shed some light on things you may have overlooked, forgotten about or simply never knew about. This podcast gives a guided tour of UbuWeb's collection of outsider audio. Artists include Antonin Artaud, Jim Roche, Bern Porter, Francis E. Dec, Benjamin Weismann and Sean Landers amongst others. You can subscribe to our podcast here.

Julian Schnabel - Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud (1995) With the Oscars just around the corner, it's nice to remind ourselves that not everything Julian Schnabel touches turns to gold. This record was made between his art star days and his current Hollywood reign with such great players as Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell, Golden Palomino drummer Anton Fier, and jazz arranger Henry Threadgill, but was universally panned upon its release in 1995. As one reviewer put it, "Schnabel can be described as a cross between Michael Bolton and Leonard Cohen, but unfortunately he writes songs like Bolton and sings like Cohen instead of the other way around... a combination of treacly sentiment, pretentious poesy, tuneless croaking, and minimalist melodies."

Harun Farocki - Selected Works (1967-2001) Born in 1944, Farocki has made close to 90 films, including three feature films, essay films and documentaries. He has worked in collaboration with other filmmakers as a scriptwriter, actor and producer. Featured here are ten of Farocki's films: Die Worte Des Vorsitzenden (1967), Inextinguishable Fire (1969), Wie man sieht (As You See) (1986), Leben-BRD [How to Live in the German Federal Republic] (1989), Images Of The World And The Inscription Of War (1989), Schnittstelle/interface (1995), Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik [Workers leaving the Factory] (1995), Stilleben (Still Life) (1997), I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts (2001); Bewerbungen aka The Interview (1996); and The Creator of Shopping Worlds (2001). Also featured in Jill Godmilow's What Farocki Taught (1998), a remake of Farocki's Inextinguishable Fire. A collaborative film with Helke Sander Break the Power of the Manipulators (1967/68) is also featured. You can watch a documentary about Farocki Dokumentarisch Arbeiten Modell/Realität - C.Hübner im Gespräch mit H. Farocki (2004). This UbuWeb resource is a collaboration with UbuWeb's partner Art Torrents.

Henri Chopin (1922-2008) UbuWeb mourns the loss of the great pioneer sound poet, who passed away on January 3, 2008 at his home in England. You can hear his audio, watch videos of him or read his 1967 manifesto "Why I Am The Author of Sound Poetry and Free Poetry." He will be missed.

Publishing the Unpublishable, First Series (001-032) What constitutes an unpublishable work? It could be many things: too long, too experimental, too dull; too exciting; it could be a work of juvenilia or a style you've long since discarded; it could be a work that falls far outside the range of what you're best known for; it could be a guilty pleasure or it could simply be that the world judges it to be awful, but you think it's quite good. We've all got a folder full of things that would otherwise never see the light of day. Invited authors were invited to ponder to that question. The works found here are their responses, ranging from an 1018-page manuscript (unpublishable due to its length) to a volume of romantic high school poems written by a now-respected innovative poet. The web is a perfect place to test the limits of unpublishability. With no printing, design or distribution costs, we are free to explore that which would never have been feasible, economically and aesthetically. While this exercise began as an exploration and provocation, the resultant texts are unusually rich; what we once considered to be our trash may, after all, turn out to be our greatest treasure.

365 Days Project 2007 Complete: December 31 ended this year's run of the 365 Days Project. Thanks for visiting, reading and listening through this very fun year of sharing. A huge mountain of gratitude goes out to all the contributors who shared this year! You can view the archived site for both 2003 and 2007 editions here (mirrored at WFMU). -- Otis Fodder, Curator

Six Videos by Pierre Huyghe (1999-2004) Pierre Huyghe explores the territory of reality and fiction, creating a site of convergence for interpretation, representation, and transformation. His work incorporates film, objects, and staged events such as celebrations, puppet shows, and musicals to address how we construct and translate experience. Although the final artwork often takes the form of a projected image, Huyghe's primary interest lies in the production of situations. Videos include: A Journey That Wasn't (2005), Les Grands Ensembles (2001), One Million Kingdoms (2001), Streamside Day Follies (2003) and This Is Not A Time For Dreaming (2004). Presented in collaboration with UbuWeb's new partner Art Torrents.

All Avant-Garde All The Time - UbuWeb Podcast #1:

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Produced by The Poetry Foundation, UbuWeb is pleased to announce the second in its podcast series, focusing on Ubu's hidden treasures. As the site has grown so large, these occasional audio guides might shed some light on things you may have overlooked, forgotten about or simply never knew about. This podcast explores the mass of recordings by Giorno Poetry Systems (aka The Dial-A-Poem Poets), a series of double LPs put out back in the 70s featuring artists such as Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, John Cage, Richard Hell, Frank O'Hara and hundreds of others. UbuWeb's introductory podcast, a general introduction to the site and to sound poetry, can be found here. You can subscribe to our podcast here.

Komar & Melamid and Dave Soldier "The People's Choice Music" (1997) Komar & Melamid's Most Wanted Painting project was extended into the realm of music. A poll, written by Dave Soldier, was conducted on The Dia Foundation's web site in Spring 1996. Approximately 500 visitors took the survey. Solder used the survey results to write music and lyrics for the Most Wanted and Most Unwanted songs.

The Most Wanted Song: A musical work that will be unavoidably and uncontrollably "liked" by 72 ± 12% of listeners.

The Most Unwanted Song: Fewer than 200 individuals of the world's total population will enjoy this.

More details and liner notes here.

Four Films by Gordon Matta-Clark: Includes Tree Dance (1971), Fresh Kill (1972), Day's End (1975) and Office Baroque (1977). Gordon Matta-Clark's (1943-1978) artistic project was a radical investigation of architecture, deconstruction, space, and urban environments. Dating from 1971 to 1977, his most prolific and vital period, his film and video works include documents of major pieces in New York, Paris and Antwerp, and are focused on three areas: performances and recycling pieces; space and texture works; and his building cuts.

Audio Selections from The Sackner Archive: Hundreds of MP3s ripped from rare sound poetry LPs, tapes & 45 RPM vinyl. The Ruth & Mqrvin Sackner Archive of Visual & Concrete Poetry in Miami Beach is the world's largest collection of text-based art. Of the audio files here, curator Matthew Abess states: "The work presented here comprises a portion of the Sackner's tremendous compendium of sonic works. The range of geographic origins runs the circumference of the globe. The time span is nearly a century. It witnesses histories: of poetry, literature, music, visual art, technology, politics, religion, theoretical contentions and practical abstention." Artists include John Cage, Merzbow, Anton Bruhin, Laurie Anderson, Bob Cobbing, Lily Greenham, Velemir Chlebnikov, Aleksej Krucenych and Jean Jacques Lebel among dozens of others. UbuWeb is also pleased to feature a full-length documentary about the Sackner Archive, Concrete! directed by Sara Sackner.

Five Films by Jonas Mekas Mekas, born 1922, is considered by many to be the godfather of American avant-garde cinema. Presented here are Happy Birthday to John (1972), a film record of John Lennon's 32nd birthday party; Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (1992), a video diary of Fluxus founder George Maciunas; and Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997), a video diary of Ginsberg in the days immediately before and after his death. Also included is a short, Hare Krishna (1966), with a soundtrack by Ginsberg.

Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You: Bob Cobbing (1920-2002) A celebration highlighting the works of Cobbing on UbuWeb: films, sounds, writings, interviews and critical writing about him [PDF]. As curator Matthew Abess writes, "Cobbing was an assiduous innovator in the sphere of language. Alternately a landscape gardener, farmer, steward's clerk at a hospital, and teacher of Esperanto, Cobbing fluidly traversed dissimilar vocations with the same dexterity apparent in his boundary-dissolving performances with and of the plasticity of the word. When asked about the development of his intermedia praxis, Cobbing remarked, 'I commenced as a painter; later wrote poetry; studied music; began to realize all three were one activity (together with dancing, which is, perhaps, the key to them all)." This UbuWeb resource is presented in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt Library, The Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry and the Kelly Writers House at UPenn, where Suddenly Everyone Began Reading Aloud, a tribute to Cobbing took place October 11th featuring the poets Charles Bernstein, chris cheek and Maggie O'Sullivan. You can hear the event here.

Vision #4 - Word of Mouth (1980) Twelve artists from California, New York and Europe were each invited to prepare a twelve minute talk on any subject. Artists include: Tom Marioni, Robert Kushner, Marina Abramovic/Ulay, John Cage, Daniel Buren, Joan Jonas, Bryan Hunt, Chris Burden, William T. Wiley, Brice Marden, Pat Steir and Laurie Anderson. Originally a double LP.

Selections from FILM CULTURE Magazine (1955-1996) 24 seminal articles from FILM CULTURE, which served as a forum for the New American Cinema, discussing the works of pioneering filmmakers like Maya Deren, Ron Rice and Paul Sharits, and providing important context for largely unseen films through its essays on film history, contemporary art and poetry. Authors and subjects include Hollis Frampton, Luis Buñuel, Stan Brakhage, Tyler Parker, Donald Sutherland, Rudolf Arnheim, Taylor Mead and many others. Selected and edited by Kareem Estefan. Presented in partnership with Anthology Film Archives.

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New Additions:

Mary Ellen Bute Passages from James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" (1965-67)

Mark Leckey Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999)

Philippe Parreno The Boy from Mars (2005)

Tracey Moffatt Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1989)

Tracey Moffatt Nice Coloured Girls (1987)

Anri Sala Now I See (2004)

Erkki Kurenniemi Electronics in the World of Tomorrow (1968)

Joyce Weiland Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968)

Beat Streuli Brussels 05/06 (2006)

Nam June Paik Edited for Television (Documentary, 1975)

yann beauvais Still Life (1997) / Hezraelah (2996)