bob Cobbing

Ode To Gravity:
Bob Cobbing

One of the best known sound poets in the world is Bob Cobbing, a dynamic gentleman with a sonorous voice and lovely accent, who was active as a poet, performer, and composer of text-sound compositions. Cobbing also was a producer and collector of concrete or visual poetry, and his bookstore, Better Books of London was a leading distribution point for avant-garde poets during the 1960s and 70s. In this program Cobbing talks about his early work as a teacher and later as a publisher of visual poetry, as well as his opinions about the field of sound poetry. You will hear a selection of his sound poems and an engaging interview recorded in Cobbing’s home as he talked with Charles Amirkhanian. Bob Cobbing died in 2002 at the age of 82.

Interview and Music on radiom.org

unknown devices - scores/audio

here are the scores and the audio from Unknown Devices' performance at Tate Modern on 6th Feb. 2010

streaming: Click Piece.mp3
to download: Click Piece.aif

streaming: Bob Cobbing.mp3
to download: Bob Cobbing.aif

streaming: Boundary Music.mp3
to download: Boundary Music.aif

streaming: The Mediumship of the Listener.mp3
to download: The Mediumship of the Listener.aif

Unknown Devices

Directed by David Toop, 'Unknown Devices: The Laptop Orchestra' is an improvising ensemble of students and alumni from London College of Communication. For their performance at the Speaking Out symposium, Unknown Devices are performing a selection of text based compositions, including works by Mieko Shiomi, Bob Cobbing, John Stevens and David Toop.

The performance was on 6th Feb. 2010 at Tate Modern

teatrise

Teatrise is a 193-page graphic score by Cornelius Cardew.
On this clip, Seven Guitars - Otomo Yoshihide, Burkhard Stangl, Oren Ambarchi, Keith Rowe, Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetuzi Akiyama, Taku Sugimoto - are playing it and discussing about it




part II

radiom.org

two nice things on radiom.org:

John Cage at the San Francisco Art Institute

John Cage reading his composition "One 7" and answering questions from a capacity audience at the theater of the San Francisco Art Institute. “One 7” is approximately 30 minutes long and consists of brief vocalizations interspersed with long periods of silence. The questions from the audience range from inquiries about the process by which Cage composes, his lack of interest in pleasing an audience, his love of mushrooms, Buddhism, chance operations, and whether Cage can stand on his head.

Speaking of Music:
Gavin Bryars, Feb. 13, 1986

The English composer Gavin Bryars is interviewed onstage in front of a live audience by Charles Amirkhanian as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium's Speaking of Music series on February 13, 1986. With his wry sense of humor and his fascination with arcane philosophical movements of the early 20th century, Bryars fashions an engrossing evening of story telling, intermixed with discussions of his latest musical achievements.

music notations

a simple website with a very straight forward explanation and historical about music notations:
www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/picturesofmusic

elsa 2010

ELSA 2010 is a collective of artists specialising in Sound Art and Design. We are all currently in our the final year of a Bachelors Degree at the London College of Communication, part of University of the Arts, London.

ELSA 2010 is comprised of the following artists.

Laurie Akerman
Sam Andrews
Samuel Annand
Matthew Appelhans
Aradea Barandana
Julian Brown
Rory Buckley
Giuseppe Cantelmo
Catarina De Chaby
Kevin Emre
Ade Franks
Daniel Golan
George Hilton
Lowell Johnson
Steven Johnson
Sammie Joplin
Carina Levitan
Iwonka Makuszynska
Marc Meyer
Paul O'Brien
Ania Przygoda
Sam Robinson
Nanni Rovati
Jose Sanchez
Rollo Smallcombe
Peter Warnock
Christopher Wright
Vincent Ullens

The ELSA 2010 compilation's tracklisiting is complete and can be found on the compilation page from elsa2010.org

General Enquires:
info@elsa2010.org

ELSA 2010 blog:
elsa2010.blogspot.com

Eugene Chadbourne

achei mais um louco como nos. :)
loving you.
www.eugenechadbourne.com
myspace.com/eugenechadbourne

on the edge

'On the Edge' with Derek Bailey

have a look at: ubu.com
". . . this was the best and most intelligent analysis of improvisation to be screened on UK television is probably unnecessary: it has in all likelihood been the only televised programme on this form of music-making. . ."

atelier du spectacle

ateliers-du-spectacle.org

I hardly recommend. Never saw someone working with projection like them. Also, is incredible the structures they developed to play a wonderful and subtle sounds! Thks