John M. Bennett
+ Tyler Carter + Alice Hui-Sheng
Chang + Tim
Gaze
+ John
Havelda + John
Lowther
+ Evgenij
Kharitonov +
Chad
Lietz
+ Will
Morris + Paul Toth +
Yan
Jun
brooklyn chase scene closing
moment
(0:18)
scan
cluster scan scatter
(1:05)
brooklyn
chase scene closing moment…
is influenced by street violence & sports commentary, being pursued, taxied
& lunging towards personal abstract compounds- more to follow no
doubt…
scan
cluster scan scatter
is an underling’s hymn recited from a skyscraper’s 55th floor on
meltdown Monday, it’s part condemnation & an attempted elevation further,
the full piece in 14 parts shall be completed & performed soon as a noise
piece…"
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The world's top destinations for diving
and skydiving
(3:24)
[Ed.
note: This work is licensed for use under the Creative Commons’ Attribution-Noncommercial-No
Derivative Works 3.0 license.]
The
world’s top destinations for diving and skydiving
With the sun shining right through my left ear to my right ear, I sit in the
lounge chair, listening to the opera singer practicing a few windows
away.
When
people dedicate their life to one movement, how do you maintain the
drama.
For a gift idea, I found the tourist guide book for the world
underneath.
It introduced the regular facts for comfort and senses, with the flora and fauna
sights and architecture ruins as special attractions.
Could there be one for the world above as well?
What would you encounter while you are in the process of losing
yourself?
Would the excitement of being able to fly take over the fear of the
death?
If it doesn’t, would you encounter the world after and the world
before?
How do you experience others people’s life in a book form?
Or a cut down version in a colour photo brochure?
The
artist utilised extended vocal technique, sound outside of normal speaking and
singing, as the sounding object. For the artist, the creation of an artwork is
primarily for communication purpose. Using human voice as the sound source is
also for this purpose to be achieved simply and directly. The physical sound
produced by a mouth and throat organism, under no computer manipulation, is not
only for the artist to be fully involved during performance, but also to
challenge the listener with an intimate relationship while
receiving.
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Brake Neck
Lungk Sot
Ahgm
Form Stun
Fresh Awnful
(2:40)
These
are backward readings of 5 Globbolalia poems, written in a language that has yet
to be translated.
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Detached
Retina
(3:31)
This
piece is based on a short poem repeated with a delay effect, which eventually
produces a kind of chant. Oddly, the effects of the delay being random, the
words often sync with the music and progress into a repetition that seems to
produce new words. I play guitar at the end, while the rest consists of
pre-recorded loops for the synths, etc.
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Wutang
Mountain
(12:34)
about
this piece:
studio improv with 3 voice works played via earphone.
the 3
works: by Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Li Zenghui and Zheng Shijia.
recorded by
Duan Xiaolin June, 2008
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Argo
(2:07)
STASI (poem
for Valeri Scherstjanoi) (3:10)
Angry
Poema Part 1-4
(6:11)
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Tyler Carter
Berlin
1945
(0:59)
Johnny's
Cabin
(0:43)
Tyler
Carter lives in San Francisco. His poetry and prose has most recently been
published in LIT, EOUGH, and BlazeVox. More audio is
forthcoming from Action, Yes this Winter, and can also be found on his
blog at iwantedtowriteanemail.blogspot.com.
He writes:
“These two pieces were composed five years ago with the Microsoft sound editor
as packaged with Windows 95. 'Berlin 1945' was the end result of a
thinking/doing dialectic journal in Providence, Rhode Island. Each day, opening
the notebook, I would write or collage together on the left side something to do
with 'thinking,' and on the right something to do with 'doing.' After filling
all the pages, I read each page into the computer beginning with all the
thinking pages layered on top of one another, then the doing pages, and then put
the two sides together. The software restricted each recording to sixty seconds
and every reading that took longer than a minute was thrown out. 'Berlin 1945'
is the compounded 'thinking' side of the dialectic.
"'Johnny's Cabin' was put together in Ashwood, an unincorporated township in the
desert of Central Oregon where I was learning Wu Wei meditation. Each morning I
would sit outside and say 'No Thank You' to every impulse I had to do something,
be it brush my teeth, move my hand, or write something down. In the afternoons I
would go for a hike, read a book, or split wood. The source recordings were
captured with a mini-disc recorder. The female voice is my friend Molly who was
living in Portland at the time."
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Salvo
(pdf)
Phonetic Matrix Set 1 – 5-Vox Realization
(2:00)
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Jack, are you out
there?
(1:57)
Fact
Sheet
Genre:
Improvisation
Equipment:
Fisher-Price walkie talkies, Olympus handheld recorder
Location:
House on Adair St., Decatur, GA, USA
Date:
June 24, 2009
Occasion:
Wednesday night meeting of Atlanta Poets Group
Trivia:
Next door neighbor can be heard at approximately 0:42 asking to pick some
rosemary from the front yard
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Tim Gaze
Banging the Stone
(1:35)
The
Drunk Computer
(2:10)
BANGING
THE STONE into little pieces: is a severely reductive remix of the poetry
cd BANGING THE STONE, by John M Bennett & Jim Leftwich (Luna Bisonte Prods,
2009).
voice & texts: John M Bennett, treatments: Jim Leftwich, final
remix: Tim Gaze
the drunk computer: my computer doesn't seem to
know what it's talking about!
composer: Tim Gaze
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Implosion
of the Vulgar Tongue (1:37)
Implosion of the Vulgar
Tongue
(jpg)
Inbred Headlines (0:47)
Inbred
Headlines (pdf)
“The
Implosion of the Vulgar Tongue” is a chiastic reading of the headwords of A
Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence often
referred to as The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. The first and last
headword, the second and penultimate and so on are combined to form short
phrases until the piece implodes in the centre of the dictionary.
