Personnel:
John Zorn: Alto Sax
Bill Frisell: Guitar
Wayne Horwitz: keyboards
Fred Frith : Bass
Joey Baron: drums
Yamatsuka Eye: vocals Continue reading JOHN ZORN’S NAKED CITY live @ The Puck Building, New Years Eve, 1989
JACK KEROUAC reads October In The Railroad Earth
Jack Kerouac reads his piece October In The Railroad Earth from the 1959 album Poetry for the Beat Generation, accompanied by Steve Allen on the piano.
October In The Railroad Earth is a memoir recounting Kerouac’s memories of his experiences as a “student brakeman” on the Southern Pacific Railroad in California. Its structure is episodic: its fifteen sections are loosely linked together by being set in the month of “October” and by focusing on his early career on the railroad. The piece was originally titled The Railroad Earth, first published in 1957. Continue reading JACK KEROUAC reads October In The Railroad Earth
JOSEF ALBERS: artist, theorist, educator
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Homage to the Square: Study for Nocturne 1951 Josef Albers 1888-1976 Presented by The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation 2006 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/T12215
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Study for homage to the square, 1954 Silkscreen print by Josef Albers http://www.easyart.com/scripts/zoom/zoom.pl?pid=80005
Accomplished as a designer, photographer, typographer, printmaker, and poet, Albers is best remembered for his work as an abstract painter, educator and theorist. He was born in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany on March 25, 1888. Continue reading JOSEF ALBERS: artist, theorist, educator
HANNAH HOCH :: German Dada Photomontage
Hannah Hoch (November 1, 1889 – May 31, 1978)
Hannah Hoech parlant aux marionnettes repésentant ses filles Pax et Botta, ca1920 /Willy Roemer /sc
Hannah Höch. German, 1889-1978 Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany (Schnitt mit dem Küchenmesser durch die letzte Weimarer Bierbauchkulturepoche Deutschlands). 1919-1920 Photomontage and collage with watercolor, 44 7/8 x 35 7/16 (114 x 90 cm) Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie © 2006 Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, © 2006 Hannah Höch / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, photo: Jörg P. Anders, Berlin
was one of the pioneers of the photomontage, combining, collating and layering images from contemporary magazines. She was the lone female participant in the Berlin Dada group, although Sophie Täuber, Beatrice Wood, and Baroness Else von Freytag-Loringhoven were significant Dada players albeit in different locales. Besides being the only female, Hoch was never quite accepted by the Berlin Dadaists, who felt that though Hoch’s works possessed a Dada aesthetic, they were conceptually still making a feminist social critique based upon “logic”. Dada had given up “logic” in favor of chaos, nonsense and irrationality. Continue reading HANNAH HOCH :: German Dada Photomontage
RICHARD MISRACH :: Flooded Snack Bar, The Salton Sea 1984
DANIEL LANOIS, live in studio 11.02.15
KEITH MANSFIELD :: Life Of Leisure 1968
British composer/arranger known for his TV theme tunes and to American audiences for his “Funky Fanfare” sampled by Danger Mouse.
VERSA :: We Are Not What We Say We Are
from the album: “The Decline And Fall Of….”
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PIETER HUGO :: The Hyena & Other Men (2005-2007)
Pieter Hugo was born 1976 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a photographer who primarily works in portraiture and whose work engages with both documentary and art traditions with a focus on African communities. Hugo lives in Cape Town.
The Incubator 