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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Driven by Sound Tracks

01.11.2011

An audio tour of films featuring Vito Acconci, Erik Satie, Vicki Bennett, Karl Holmquist, and more from the UbuWeb archive.

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.
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.
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.
11.24.2009 The Women of the Avant-Garde (part 2) Sound clips from Gertrude Stein, Yoko Ono, Louise Lawler, Shelley Hirsch, Lauren Lesko, Forough 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.
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.
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.
08.01.2008 Schwitters Happens You really should listen to the numbers 1 through 100 . . . especially 79.
05.27.2008 Best Decade Ever? Tellus's trove of '80s recordings, from ethnopoetics to Paul Bowles.
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.
12.05.2007 What did Patti Smith, Frank O'Hara, and Meredith Monk Have in Common? The John Giorno Poetry Systems

Avant-Garde All the Time

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?

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