Avant-Garde All the Time

Poetry Foundation

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.

  • 29 minutes 46 seconds
    Driven by Sound Tracks

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

    11 January 2011, 6:00 am
  • 20 minutes 10 seconds
    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.

    7 September 2010, 5:00 am
  • 21 minutes 33 seconds
    Almost Completely Understanding

    Audio interpretations of Gertrude Stein from the UbuWeb archives.

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    23 July 2010, 5:00 am
  • 24 minutes 5 seconds
    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.

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    2 June 2010, 5:00 am
  • 42 minutes 7 seconds
    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.

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    23 March 2010, 5:00 am
  • 25 minutes 33 seconds
    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.

    24 November 2009, 6:00 am
  • 25 minutes 21 seconds
    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.

    19 October 2009, 5:00 am
  • 20 minutes 48 seconds
    Continental Drift

    How the French avante-garde twisted up and bent language, featuring Rimbaud, Apollinaire, the space age poetry of Ilse Garnier, and more.

    19 August 2009, 5:00 am
  • 22 minutes 33 seconds
    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.

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    22 July 2009, 5:00 am
  • 18 minutes 33 seconds
    Resident Voices

    Listening to the far out sounds of 1970's LA, featuring Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, and the Kipper Kids, among others.

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    28 April 2009, 5:00 am
  • 13 minutes 51 seconds
    Punk Versions of Monkey Chants

    And other ethnopoetic marvels, including speaking in tongues, throat singers, and sound poetry.

    6 January 2009, 6:00 am
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