John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld; 19 June 1891 – 26 April 1968) was an artist and a pioneer in the use of art as a political weapon. Some of his photomontages were anti-Nazi and anti-fascist statements. Heartfield also created book jackets for authors such as Upton Sinclair, as well as stage sets for such noted playwrights as Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator.
Continue reading JOHN HEARTFIELD :: HURRAH DIE BUTTER IST ALLE, 1935
John Oswald/Plunderphonic’s Spring is a recomposition of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rites Of Spring. The piece was part of Oswalds legendary album, Plunderphonics, released in 1988 and re-released in 1989 in a 25-track expanded version. Continue reading JOHN OSWALD/PLUNDERPHONICS, SPRING, from the album Plunderphonics, 1989
DAB is recomposed from BAD, a song by Michael Jackson remixed, re-edited and reproduced by John Oswald in 1988-9, in a film by Martin Scorsese re-directed and re-edited by John Oswald in 2014-16. Continue reading JOHN OSWALD/PLUNDERPHONICS :: DAB, from the album, Plunderphonics, 1989
An excerpt from Touch The Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie.
Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie is a 2004 German documentary film directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer about profoundly deaf Scottish classical percussionist Evelyn Glennie. In the film Glennie, who won a Grammy Award in 1989, collaborates with English experimental musician Fred Frith and others, and explains how she perceives sound. The film appeared at over 20 film festivals across the world, and won several awards, including “Best Documentary” at the 2004 BAFTA Awards, Scotland.
A soundtrack of Touch the Sound featuring Glennie and Frith, plus additional music and sounds from the film, was released in 2004. An album based on Glennie and Frith’s performances in the film entitled The Sugar Factory was released in 2007.
The profoundly deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.
Richard Avedon by Jacques-Henri Lartigue 1966. Avedon got his start photographing identification pictures for the Merchant Marines, later moving on to pursue fashion photography & portraiture.
A seven and a half minute interview of John Giorno, by Geore Stroumboulopoulos on his CBC show, Strombo. February, 2012
JOHN GIORNO: NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED
2007
If you’re going to make my life miserable, or bring me bad news, hang up now, but if you’re going to bring joy into my life, and bring me great news, you, I want to talk to, start talking. I want to walk down runways into bathrooms I never been before, I want to walk down catwalks into toilets I never been before, I want to walk down catwalks into toilets I never been before, get what you want, ecstasy and viagra, we do anything and everything you want, too much is not enough, And sometimes, drugs and alcohol numb the nerves numb the nerves, allowing the natural clarity of the mind to flow free, like an auto accident you can’t keep your eyes off it like an auto accident you can’t keep your eyes off it, no good deed goes unpunished I want to rub my face in it and I want to roll in it I want to rub my face in it and I want to roll in it I want to rub my face in it and I want to roll in it, and eat the smell, and the sheer joy of swimming, absolute bliss in bottomless sewers, absolute sewers and bottomless bliss, completely pure, completely pure completely pure completely pure completely pure, primordially pure and empty, eating the sky eating the sky eating the sky eating the sky eating the sky, millions of stars come into my heart, welcome home. Hammering nails into steel with a fist full of water, hammering nails into steel with a fist full of water, hammering nails into steel with a fist full of water; and grabbing a handful of snow from the fire. Many years ago, I thought I could fly, and maybe, I got off once.
John Giorno (1936)
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Daniel Bachman performing “Copperhead” live in the KEXP studio. Recorded March 6, 2013.
The Incubator 