Reading texts + music

William Burroughs/Kurt Cobain "The Priest They Called Him"

William Burroughs/Disposible Heroes "Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales"

I listened to this CD a while back in the record shop- and, as i recall- a reading of tibetan texts + some ambient-ish music.

Giorno Poetry Systems, come back!

New York Art Quartet and Sunny Murray to thread.

oh wait, the laughter's at the end, my bad.

Right, hstencil. I haven't heard that stuff; is it good?

I'm with you on this one. That disc was a massive disappointment because I buy every recording of Tudor's 'Rainforest' on sight.

The one definitive Johnnymumble document is the Empty Words Part III live in milan 1977, not as much for the mumbling itself but for the fact that the student audience slowly escalates a riot over the course of the two discs in response to the pointlessness

shoenburg's settings of some english poems and pieces are fun (i can't do the german or french of boulez ina grm etc.. so easily)

harry partch seemed to set out to mingle everyday through to highly mannered speech to everyday noise through to obvious yet maybe highly camp music -- all american english and not radio plays (cf: kagel only patchy in this area)

recordings i've been played of chomsky speaking are as much fun as can be hoped for under the circumstances, with his odd quaver, pitch and timing

If I saw that cage/tudor record I would've snapped that up as I love 'rainforest'.

Hi george! haven't seen you for a while, hope you're well.

I think I've seen that Braxton rec.

Goofing at the table!
"You just don't know!"
'What don't I know?'
"How good this ham'n'eggs is;
if you had any idea whatsoever how good this is
then you would stop writing poetry and dig in!"

Tock Tick - Simon Heselev & Kurt Vonnegut

I would check out the Braxton stuff at a Braxto-philes collection,
peruse the Braxton books, texts, drawings, musings etc.. (including his affirmation of Sun Ra under interview) ..

the Braxton collected pictures/ works are of some modicum of fun on a good CD/ are fun, but i think the Braxton thing is best experienced as the whole collection of most Braxton materials, for maximum enjoyment.

as desirable weird objectified art a lot of Braxton has eaten my wallet, so i reckon you go for the bigger picture with the collector, whereas i happily actually own most of the more minimally available/known/ whatever the deal works of the others i listed above.

(both Partch and Schoenburg did try to verge text/word and music in various ways, and yet i being a mere English-speaker could only vouch for the stuff in English)

'jon rose - the people's music'

hi everybodee- I got this and listened to it over the weekend, good collision of violins, tapes, and yes - you guessed it - readings.

The concept seems to be violing manufacturing in china (!) hence the 'tapes' => recordings of factory sounds.

I think it's the best thing he's ever done, and he's done quite a lot. When I got it I put it on while checking e-mail, expecting another furious plunder-collage free-improv obstacle course, but the first track was so beautiful I stopped what I was doing, sat down and took in the whole record.