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Painters Painting, a 1972 (?) film featuring de Kooning,...

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:58:20 -0400

Painters Painting, a 1972 (?) film featuring de Kooning, Rauschenberg and others talking about art.

See my art made out of salvaged wood at the Morean Art Center,...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:27:00 -0400

See my art made out of salvaged wood at the Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL. Opening reception May 11th, 5:00 pm.

robertomusci: Derek Bailey Derek Bailey (29 January 1930 – 25...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:33:00 -0400

robertomusci:

Derek Bailey

Derek Bailey (29 January 1930 – 25 December 2005) was an English avant-garde guitarist and leading figure in the free improvisation movement.Bailey was born in Sheffield, England ; he found work as a guitarist and session musician in clubs, radio, dance hall bands, and so on, playing with many performers including Gracie Fields, Bob Monkhouse and Kathy Kirby, and on television programs such as Opportunity Knocks. Bailey was also part of a Sheffield-based trio founded in 1963 with Tony Oxley and Gavin Bryars called “Joseph Holbrooke”. Although originally performing relatively “conventional” jazz this group became increasingly free in direction.Bailey moved to London in 1966, frequenting the Little Theatre Club run by drummer John Stevens. Here he met many other like-minded musicians, such as saxophonist Evan Parker, trumpet player Kenny Wheeler and double bass player Dave Holland. These players often collaborated under the umbrella name of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. In this year Bailey also formed the Music Improvisation Company with Parker, percussionist Jamie Muir and Hugh Davies on homemade electronics, a project that continued until 1971. He was also a member of the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra and Iskra 1903, a trio with double-bass player Barry Guy and trombone player Paul Rutherford that was named after a newspaper published by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin.In 1970, Bailey founded the record label Incus with Tony Oxley, Evan Parker and Michael Walters.Along with a number of other musicians, Bailey was a co-founder of Musics magazine in 1975. This was described as “an impromental experivisation arts magazine” and circulated through a network of like-minded record shops, arguably becoming one of the most significant jazz publications of the second half of the 1970s, and instrumental in the foundation of the London Musicians Collective. 1976 saw Bailey form Company, an ever-changing collection of like-minded improvisors, which at various times has included Anthony Braxton, Tristan Honsinger, Misha Mengelberg, Lol Coxhill, Fred Frith, Steve Beresford, Steve Lacy, Johnny Dyani, Leo Smith, Han Bennink, Eugene Chadbourne, Henry Kaiser, John Zorn, Buckethead and many others. Company Week, an annual week-long free improvisational festival organised by Bailey, ran until 1994.In 1980, he wrote the book Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice. This was adapted by UK’s Channel 4 into a four-part TV series in the early ’90s, edited and narrated by Bailey. Bailey died in London on Christmas Day, 2005.

For listeners and for guitar players , Bailey’s distinctive style is extreme discontinuity,with enormous intervals between consecutive notes, and rather than aspiring to the consistency of timbre typical of most guitar-playing . He differs in approach to almost any other guitarist who preceded him. Bailey uses the guitar as a sound-making, rather than a “music”-making, device, meaning, he rarely plays melodies or harmonies in a conventional sense, but instead pulls out of his instrument every conceivable type of sound using every imaginable technique.On electric guitar, Bailey is capable of the most gratingly harsh, distortion-laden heavy-metalisms; unamplified, he’s as likely to mimic a set of wind chimes. Bailey’s guitar is much like John Cage’s prepared piano; both innovations enhanced the respective instrument’s percussive possibilities. Bailey was able to extend the possibilities of the instrument in radical ways, obtaining a far wider array of sounds than are usually heard. Listen to Baley’s music is a disturbing and unusual event: you must follow the micro melodies that he plays with his “extreme” guitar ,to see the light in the maze of sounds from his performance.

Beware : his music can create genetic mutations in regular listeners.

Selected Discography :

The Topography of the Lungs , with Evan Parker, Incus, 1970

The Music Improvisation Company, Incus, 1971

Solo Guitar Volume 1 , Incus recorded 1971

First Duo Concert with Anthony Braxton , Emanem, 1974

Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet , (Obscure Records, 1975

Drops with Andrea Centazzo, Inctus, 1977

Aida ,Incus, 1982

Cyro with Cyro Baptista, Incus, 1982

Yankees with John Zorn and George Lewis,1983

Figuring with Barre Phillips, Incus, 1987

Village Life with Louis Moholo, Incus 1992

Harras with John Zorn and William Parker, 1995

Guitar, Drums ‘n’ Bass with DJ Ninj, Avant records, 1996

The Sign Of Four with Pat Metheny,Knitting Factory, 1997

Wireforks with Henry Kaiser ,Shanachie/Jazz, 1993

Legend of the Blood Yeti with Thurston Moore , Incus, 2002

Soshin with Fred Frith ,Ambiances Magnetiques, 2003

Complete discography at : http://www.discogs.com/artist/Derek+Bailey

DVD:

Derek Bailey, Min Tanaka - Mountain Stage ‎Incus Records 1993

John Stevens / Derek Bailey - Gig ‎ Incus Record 1996

Playing For Friends On 5th Street ‎ Straw Gold Pictures 2004

All Thumbs ‎Incus Records 2009

Live At G’s Club Incus Records 2009

Web Archive :

http://efi.group.shef.ac.uk/fulltext/mbailin2.html

http://efi.group.shef.ac.uk/fulltext/jungle.html

http://efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mbailey.html

http://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/p=10864

Self Portrait as Nadia Tolokonnikova on Flickr.

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:32:57 -0400

Self Portrait as Nadia Tolokonnikova on Flickr.

Foirades / Fizzles by Jasper Johns and Samuel Beckett, 1977

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:29:06 -0400

Foirades / Fizzles by Jasper Johns and Samuel Beckett, 1977

theparisreview: The first notebook of Samuel Beckett’s Watt...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:44:20 -0400

theparisreview:

The first notebook of Samuel Beckett’s Watt signed and marked “Watt I,” with the following note: “Watt was written in France during the war 1940-45 and published in 1953 by the Olympia Press.” On an inserted sheet, Beckett has written, “Begun evening of Tuesday 11/2/41.”

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A conversation with Lou Reed

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:48:00 -0400

A conversation with Lou Reed

i12bent: Jack Kerouac/Steve Allen: “The Wheel of Quivering Meat...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:18:24 -0400

i12bent:

Jack Kerouac/Steve Allen: “The Wheel of Quivering Meat Conception” - Chorus 211 from Mexico City Blues. Possibly recorded March 1958…

jungleindierock: Kevin Ayers, one of the founding guitarists...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:07:09 -0500

jungleindierock:

Kevin Ayers, one of the founding guitarists and songwriters of the psychedelic music movement in the 60s, has died. A man who inspired, and drew inspiration from, his friends Syd Barrett and Jimi Hendrix, Ayers founded Soft Machine at the dawn of the psychedelic era. He toured with Pink Floyd and Hendrix, released some significant solo albums, and then became a recluse. He was 68 when he died. RIP, Mr. Ayers.

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Beckett by Mark Kerstetter Samuel Beckett’s The...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:45:41 -0500

Beckett by Mark Kerstetter

Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable is full of references to eyes: eyes opening and shutting, eyes with or without eyelids, disembodied eyes, eyes that can’t see, eyes that can’t help but see, and most of all, eyes that weep copiously and without ceasing. If one of the themes of The Unnamable is the unknowable, then all of these references to eyes, and particularly to eyes weeping, should not be surprising, if the eyes are a primary mode of access to the world and to knowledge.

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Ostraconia: self-image vs. public endorsement of artistic authenticity

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:13:57 -0500

Ostraconia: self-image vs. public endorsement of artistic authenticity:

ostraconia:

“Sometimes I get the feeling that people just don’t see me as a composer but it’s what I’ve always been since I was 8-years-old… I’ve always thought of myself as a composer but the world has had a hard time looking at me as a composer because a lot of what I compose is controversial.”

“But no…

Merry Xmas

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:44:29 -0500

Merry Xmas

Archie Shepp sitting in with the Sun Ra band in Berlin 1983 (by...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:32:00 -0400

Archie Shepp sitting in with the Sun Ra band in Berlin 1983 (by untubeism)

Text: Walt Whitman, section 24 of Song of Myself Drawing: Myself...

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:39:00 -0400

Text: Walt Whitman, section 24 of Song of Myself

Drawing: Myself by Mark Kerstetter

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artnet: Amnesty For Pussy Riot The three Pussy Riot members who...

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:22:32 -0400

artnet:

Amnesty For Pussy Riot

The three Pussy Riot members who were sentenced to prison will be featured in a September 10 pop-up exhibition and fundraiser in New York backed by Amnesty International.

According to Bloomberg, the five videos—which are the works of those arrested and other performance artists—will be shown at Lombard-Freid Projects in Chelsea in a show called Pussy Riot.

“This is about raising money for the women, their families and defense,” said Lea Freid.

My new diggs

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:04:55 -0400

My new diggs

One Step Aheadpoem and drawing by Mark Kerstetter The path is...

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:57:26 -0400

One Step Ahead
poem and drawing by Mark Kerstetter

The path is dark
one step ahead
Night advances
and you move ….

The dream: A small child, only 3 or 4, was on trial for a crime. I met with his lawyers - young...

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 18:07:00 -0400

The dream:

A small child, only 3 or 4, was on trial for a crime. I met with his lawyers - young black women - who were apparently going to give me a grilling about a telephone conversation I had with the child, during which I had allegedly been cruel and had traumatized the child. The lawyers were stern, as if I were the one on trial. Perhaps their intention was to show that the child was innocent due to the trauma I had caused. Perhaps they would show that I was the guilty one. There seemed to be no question that the telephone call had taken place yet I had absolutely no recollection of it. I pleaded with them to divulge what I had allegedly said. “Please, just tell me what I said,” I urged. “It’s like I have amnesia. I have no memory of it at all.” They remained silent and my pleading reached such a level of urgency that I awoke.

- text and sketch by Mark Kerstetter

i12bent: Kurt Schwitters: Man soll nicht asen mit Phrasen, 1930...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:33:48 -0400

i12bent:

Kurt Schwitters: Man soll nicht asen mit Phrasen, 1930 - collage/Merz-Bild (Kunstmuseum St.Gallen)

theconstantbuzz: Happy Birthday Kurt Schwitters

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:17:52 -0400

theconstantbuzz:

Happy Birthday Kurt Schwitters