txt fst [gemini]

slabs of sound.
fractured talking points
for twins (or triplets if need be).

the echo,
who said it?
either Ornette
or another.

after hypertext ends,
the long of the short
circuit
of conversation continues.

the words, the parts,
the multiplicity of thoughts
that impact across our tympani.

doubled up, we nod in agreement
with the ideas that could be.

**

Andrew Beccone / Gill Arno
agba
a reading from the reanimation library

Paul Haney / Richard Kamerman
linear b

Trophies - Alessandro Bosetti, Tony Buck, Kenta Nagai
Live in Montpellier, France, October 8, 2010
BACK SEAT
GOODNIGHT
LET ME

txt fst concept and curation : Kurt Gottschalk and Tamara Yadao

LANGUAGE EVENT

Eskimo


Use the language of shamans.

Say the leash > mean the father
Say a road > mean the wind
Say someone with a something sticking out > mean a man
Say where things get soft > mean the guts
Say soup > mean a seal
Say Big Louse > mean a caribou
Say what makes me dive in headfirst > mean a dream
Say what cracks your ears > mean a gun
Say what looks like piss > mean your beads
Say a of frozen meat > mean a child
Say a piece of almost frozen meat > mean a grandchild
Say a jumping thing > mean a trout
Say what keeps me standing > mean your clothes
Say the person with a belly > mean the weather
Say the person with a belly getting up > mean the morning
Say the person with a belly goes to bed > mean it's nightfall
Say the little walker > mean a fox
Say walker with his head down > mean a dog
Say the bag it lies in > mean a mother
Say the bag it almost lies in > mean a stepmother
Say a person smoke surrounds > mean a live one
Say a floating one > mean an island
Say a neighbor > mean a wife
Say a flat one > mean a wolf
Say a shadow > mean a white man
Say another kind of shadow > mean a person
Say the dark one > mean the liver
Say making shadows > mean a seance
Say the shadow-maker > mean the shaman
Say he turned my mind around > mean he told me something

adapted from Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas; Jerome Rothenberg, editor

txt fst [foxtrot]

dAVID mOSCOVICH
CAPTCHA Poem A
CAPTCHA Poem B

Going Upstairs To Bed

Blame Satan
Afterbirth

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tAMARA yADAO
Breath Stop v.2
[vox: TY] [sound: TY] [word/text: TY/found]
[coughing:Chris Burke/TY]

***

mIKEY IQ jONES
Glycemic

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dAVID mOSCOVICH founded Louffa Press to promote new, innovative microfictions in limited run, handmade editions. His stories and interviews have appeared in Word Riot, Rain Taxi, The Rumpus, Fringe and others. He has been playing the amplified bicycle for seven years and lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

tAMARA yADAO employs structure in improvisation to highlight failure aesthetics and meaning in conceptual methods of sound-making and juxtaposition. Current explorations include compositions for re-purposed machines, electroacoustic composition in virtual space and the spoken word. Materials may include house-hold electronics, mechanical instruments, guitar and voice. Pieces are purposed for the single channel, multi-channel performance installation and live performance.

mIKEY IQ jONES often works in a solo medium, using primitive sampling devices to process and arrange live sound materials drawn from the artist's voice, body, and arsenal of found object percussion. Glycemic is an improvised text arrangement derived from the artist's reading excerpts of his diabetic food diary, which logs blood glucose levels, medication dosages, and food intake.

txt fst concept and curation: kURT gOTTSCHALK and tAMARA yADAO

Canntaireachd

1) Tim Hecker - I'm Transmitting Tonight/7000 miles - Radio Amor [alien8]
2) Olivia Block - Heave To {pt 2} [sedimental]
3) I DM Theftable - Dew {web}

4) Christine Sehnaoui/Michel Waiswisz - Wig Wag/Preciously Empty - SHORTWAVE [al maslakh]
5) Steve Roden - the radio - in be tween noise [sonoris]
6) Jozef van Wissem - Darkness Falls Upon The Face of The Deep - It Is All That Is Made [important]

7) James Blackshaw - The Cloud of Unknowing - The Cloud of Unknowing [tompkins square]
8) Benjamin Reid - Percy Where Him Gone? - Songs and Dances of Haiti, the Dominican Republic & Jamaica [nonesuch]
9) Horace Andy - Serious Thing - Good Vibes [blood & fire]

10) Mega Banton - Sound Boy Killing - Little Sound Boy [vp]
11) Masanka Sankayi + Kasai Allstars feat. Mutumilayi - Wa Muluendu - Congotronics 2 [crammed discs]
12) Total Eclipse (X-Ecutioners) from Turntablist Revolution {ITF world advancement class world champion} [dj honda]

13) Appleblim - Circling [skull disco]
14) Shackleton - It's Time For Love - 3ep [perlon]
15) Antiguo Automata Mexicano - florian fricke - microhate [background]

16) Shackleton - (no more) negative thoughts - 3ep [perlon]
17) from Chants et Algerie
18) Morocco {el outro}

photo : philip freeman