BRIAN JOSEPH DAVIS
His page on UBUweb
YESTERDUH is there, and otherwise I highly recommend: 10 Banned Albums Burned Then Played (2005), Voiceover (which is very similar to the piece we listened to in class, Johnny - full text here) and Eula.
on the Free Music Archive here
You can visit his website here.
Some other slightly random things to look at:
http://annievought.com/
http://web.mac.com/washford/Wills_Words/Artists_Statement.html
http://nickm.com/poems/progress.html
Contemporary Vispo magazines and press
Otoliths
Word for Word
Xexoxial
Nico Vassilakis
http://www.youtube.com/nicovassilakis
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~blc35/final/vassilakis.html
http://www.wordforword.info/vol15/Vassilakis.htm
http://www.lulu.com/product/download/protracted-type/4919229
http://www.logolalia.com/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/archives/cat_negative_alphabet_alphabet_by_nico_vassilakis.html
http://www.critiphoria.org/Issue1/Nico_Vassilakis.pdf
I really enjoyed Yesterduh. I think its a really wise concept to pick a song that pretty much everyone knows and to see how well they REALLY know it. In fact, I'm not such a huge beatles fan myself so I actually enjoyed the Yesterduh version more than the original version of the song. Its pretty haunting and dark.
ReplyDeleteVoiceover is also a piece that really opened my mind to sound poetry. UNtil I heard this piece I really just thought sound poetry was just either edited noise music or DADA gibberish. This piece made me laugh and at the same time was incredibly clever and well executed.
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