Avant-Garde All the Time

By Poetry Foundation

What's Avant-Garde All the Time about?

Poet Kenneth Goldsmith presents selections from UbuWeb, the learned and varietous online repository concerning concrete and sound poetry, experimental film, outsider art, and all things avant-garde.

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Avant-Garde All the Time episodes:

01.11.2011
Driven by Sound Tracks
An audio tour of films featuring Vito Acconci, Erik Satie, Vicki Bennett, Karl Holmquist, and more from the UbuWeb archive.
09.07.2010
The Sound of Silence
Samples from from Craig Dworkin's UbuWeb paper “Unheard Music,” featuring John Cage, Steve Reich, Mieko Shiomi, Yves Klein, and more.
07.23.2010
Almost Completely Understanding
Audio interpretations of Gertrude Stein from the UbuWeb archives. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
06.02.2010
Sounds of Fluxus
Yoko Ono flushing toilets, La Monte Young’s “Theater of Eternal Music,” Larry Miller’s baby crying, Alison Knowles onion skin music and loads more. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
03.23.2010
UbuWeb Interviews
Gertrude Stein at the Algonquin, William Carlos Williams trying to remember “The Red Wheelbarrow,” Salvador Dali on his phallic moustache, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Derrida, and scads more from the archive. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
11.24.2009
The Women of the Avant-Garde (part 2)
Sound clips from Gertrude Stein, Yoko Ono, Louise Lawler, Shelley Hirsch, Lauren Lesko, Forugh Farrokhzad, Pauline Oliveros, and many more.
10.19.2009
The Women of the Avant-Garde
Sound clips from Kathy Acker, Laurie Anderson, Caroline Bergvall, Denise Levertov, Lydia Lunch, Patti Smith, Eileen Myles, and many more.
08.19.2009
Continental Drift
How the French avante-garde twisted up and bent language, featuring Rimbaud, Apollinaire, the space age poetry of Ilse Garnier, and more.
07.22.2009
The Sounds of the UK
A wide-ranging survey of British sound poets and artists from the 1960s to the present, featuring Bob Cobbing, Neil Mills, Liliy Greenham, Chirstopher Logue, Ann Laplantine, and more. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
04.28.2009
Resident Voices
Listening to the far out sounds of 1970's LA, featuring Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, and the Kipper Kids, among others. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
01.06.2009
Punk Versions of Monkey Chants
And other ethnopoetic marvels, including speaking in tongues, throat singers, and sound poetry.
10.21.2008
Protest Poetry With a Beat
Hear Allen Ginsberg's hilarious "CIA Dope Calypso" and peak performances by Ezra Pound, Amiri Baraka and Abbie Hoffman. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
08.01.2008
Schwitters Happens
You really should listen to the numbers 1 through 100 . . . especially 79. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
05.27.2008
Best Decade Ever?
Tellus's trove of '80s recordings, from ethnopoetics to Paul Bowles. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
02.18.2008
The First "Three-dimensional" Magazine?
Aspen featured Warhol, the Velvets, and John Lennon twiddling the radio dial.
01.18.2008
The World of Outsiders
Kenneth Goldsmith shares some insane and profane sounds that lie between Avant-Garde and Outsider Art, including recordings by Jim Roche, Robin Kahn, and Sean Landers. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
12.05.2007
What did Patti Smith, Frank O'Hara, and Meredith Monk Have in Common?
The John Giorno Poetry Systems Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

What's Avant-Garde All the Time about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Avant-Garde All the Time episodes:

Driven by Sound Tracks

The Sound of Silence

Almost Completely Understanding

Sounds of Fluxus

UbuWeb Interviews

The Women of the Avant-Garde (part 2)

The Women of the Avant-Garde

Continental Drift

The Sounds of the UK

Resident Voices

Punk Versions of Monkey Chants

Protest Poetry With a Beat

Schwitters Happens

Best Decade Ever?

The First "Three-dimensional" Magazine?

The World of Outsiders

What did Patti Smith, Frank O'Hara, and Meredith Monk Have in Common?