Avant-garde All The Time

An audio tour of films featuring Vito Acconci, Erik Satie, Vicki Bennett, Karl Holmquist, and more from the UbuWeb archive. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

Samples from from Craig Dworkin's UbuWeb paper “Unheard Music,” featuring John Cage, Steve Reich, Mieko Shiomi, Yves Klein, and more.

Audio interpretations of Gertrude Stein from the UbuWeb archives. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

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. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

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. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

Sound clips from Gertrude Stein, Yoko Ono, Louise Lawler, Shelley Hirsch, Lauren Lesko, Forough Farrokhzad, Pauline Oliveros, and many more. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

Sound clips from Kathy Acker, Laurie Anderson, Caroline Bergvall, Denise Levertov, Lydia Lunch, Patti Smith, Eileen Myles, and many more. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

How the French avante-garde twisted up and bent language, featuring Rimbaud, Apollinaire, the space age poetry of Ilse Garnier, and more. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

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. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

Listening to the far out sounds of 1970's LA, featuring Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, and the Kipper Kids, among others. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

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

Hear Allen Ginsberg's hilarious "CIA Dope Calypso" and peak performances by Ezra Pound, Amiri Baraka and Abbie Hoffman. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

You really should listen to the numbers 1 through 100 . . . especially 79. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

Tellus's trove of '80s recordings, from ethnopoetics to Paul Bowles. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

Aspen featured Warhol, the Velvets, and John Lennon twiddling the radio dial.

Kenneth Goldsmith shares some insane and profane sounds that lie between Avant-Garde and Outsider Art, including recordings by Jim Roche, Robin Kahn, and Sean Landers. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

The John Giorno Poetry Systems Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.