The Road of Creative Excess Leads to the Palace of Creative Wisdom
jim leftwichDmitry Prigov
From Art Margins, 1999
Dmitry Prigov is one Moscow Conceptualist artist who has succeeded in creating an artistic universe of his own, or rather, an artistic all-encompassing mythology. His output alone is monstrous: He has already completed 20,000 poems and is planning to reach 24,000 by the end of the year. He has written prose, plays, and theory; worked as a performing and recording artist; produced drawings, sculptures, objects and installations. This massive output testifies to his obsession to fill the void around him with texts.
from a 1996 interview
Philip Metres: Have you any other new heroes emerging in your work?
Dmitry Prigov: You know, the thing is that no great myth exists now in which a hero could appear. I have written other discourses-the liberal-democratic, the national-patriotic, the contemporary homosexual, the mass metaphysical—these are big discourses—but it’s not necessary to write about heroes. One could just describe a kind of writing. Then there’s the very complex problem of self-presentation-as poet not existing in quantity of poems but as “manipulator.” I have a big project which is about images—I have to write 2,000 poems per year, 24,000 poems overall. It’s also a project that is a type of poetic conduct, more than anything. So I don’t have any problem finding material—some people just don’t understand the structure of this work.
instant composers pool 53-disc box set
TRACK LIST
Disc 1
01． ICP 000 （Die Berge Schützen Die Heimat / Jump Italiano / Adebar Der Geheimnisvolle / Piano Distance I / Before Og 15 Kir / September Song）
Disc 2
01． Willem Breuker / Han Bennink 「New Acoustic Swing Duo」
Disc 3
01． Misha Mengelberg / Han Bennink / John Tchicai 「Instant Composers Pool」
Disc 4
01． Willem Breuker 「Lunchconcert For Three Barrelorgans」
Disc 5
01． Han Bennink / Derek Bailey
Disc 6
01． Misha Mengelberg / John Tchicai / Han Bennink / Derek Bailey 「Fragments」
Disc 7
01． Misha Mengelberg / Paul Rutherford / Peter Bennink / Peter Brötzmann / Evan Parker / Han Bennink / Derek Bailey 「Groupcomposing」
Disc 8
01． Various 「Instant Composers Pool」
Disc 9
01． Various 「Instant Composers Pool」
Disc 10
01． Willem Breuker 「The Message」
Disc 11
01． Han Bennink / Misha Mengelberg 「Instant Composers Pool 010」
Disc 12
01． Han Bennink 「Solo」
Disc 13
01． Maarten van Regteren Altena 「Handicaps」
Disc 14
01． Misha Mengelberg / Han Bennink / Een Mirakelse 「Tocht Door Het Scharrebroekse」
Disc 15
01． Misha Mengelberg / Han Bennink / Een Mirakelse 「Tocht Door Het Scharrebroekse」
Disc 16
01． Misha Mengelberg / Han Bennink 「Einepartietischtennis」
Disc 17
01． Eric Dolphy / Misha Mengelberg / Jacques Schols / Han Bennink 「Epistrophy」
Disc 18
01． Steve Lacy 「Lumps」
Disc 19
01． Misha Mengelberg / Han Bennink 「Coincidents」
Disc 20
01． Misha Mengelberg / Han Bennink 「Coincidents」
Disc 21
01． Misha Mengelberg / Han Bennink 「Coincidents」
Disc 22
01． Misha Mengelberg / Han Bennink 「Coincidents」
Disc 23
01． Maarten Van Regteren Altena 「Tuning The Bass」
Disc 24
01． ICP Tentet 「Tetterettet」
Disc 25
01． Dudu Pukwana / Han Bennink / Misha Mengelberg 「Yi Yole」
Disc 26
01． ICP Orchestra 「Live Soncino」
Disc 27
01． Misha Mengelberg/Han Bennink 「Bennink Mengelberg」
Disc 28
01． Misha Mengelberg & ICP Orchestra 「Japan Japon」
Disc 29
01． ICP Orchestra 「Extension Red, White & Blue」
Disc 30
01． ICP Orchestra 「Two Programs: The Icp Orchestra Performs Nichols - Monk」
Disc 31
01． Han Bennink 「Solo 1990」（DVD）
Disc 32
01． ICP Orchestra 「Bospaadje Konijnehol I」
Disc 33
01． ICP Orchestra 「Bospaadje Konijnehol II」
Disc 34
01． Misha Mengelberg 「Mix」
Disc 35
01． Misha Mengelberg & Han Bennink 「The Instant Composers Pool 30 Years」
Disc 36
01． Wolter Wierbos 「X Caliber」
Disc 37
01． Tobias Delius Quartet 「The Heron」
Disc 38
01． Tobias Delius Quartet 「Toby's Mloby」
Disc 39
01． Han Bennink 「Solo」 （DVD）
Disc 40
01． Tristan Honsinger「A Camel's Kiss」
Disc 41
01． Steve Beresford & Han Bennink 「B＋B」
Disc 42
01． Mary Oliver 「Witchfiddle」
Disc 43
01． Tobias Delius 4 Tet 「Pelikanismus」
Disc 44
01． ICP Orchestra 「Oh, My Dog」
Disc 45
01． Mary Oliver / Thomas Lehn / Han Bennink 「Pica Pica」
Disc 46
01． ICP Orchestra 「Aan & Uit」
Disc 47
01． ICP Orchestra 「Weer Is Een Dag Voorbij」
Disc 48
01． Asko Ensemble And The Instant Composers Pool 「Live At Angelica Festival」
Disc 49
01． Alessandra Patrucco / Tristan Honsinger / Misha Mengelberg / Ab Baars / Han Bennink 「Circus」
Disc 50
01． ICP Orchestra 「Live At The Bimhuis」
Disc 51
01． Oliver & Heggen 「Oh, Ho!」
Disc 52
01． Tobias Delius 4 Tet 「Luftlucht」
Disc 53
01． ICP Orchestra
Han Bennink
Improvising is like everyday life, it's like crossing the street.
Alexander Calder
The Calder Foundation’s online research archive, which as Hyperallergic’s Valentina Di Liscia reports includes “over 1,300 Calder works across different media.”
But wait, there’s more: the archive also offers “1,000 photographs and archival documents,” “48 historic and recent texts by the artist, his contemporaries, and present-day scholars,” and “over 40 microsites exploring Calder’s exhibition history.” (This in addition to the Calder Foundation’s Vimeo channel.)
Sun Ra
In the final week of 1980, Sun Ra and the Arkestra played eleven concerts at the Detroit Jazz Center. The shows were organized and soundboard recorded by Rick Steiger (an associate of John Sinclair). On New Year's Eve the Arkestra performed nearly a hundred Sun Ra compositions in three different sets.
Sun Ra And The Omniverse Jet Set Arkestra* – The Complete Detroit Jazz Center Residency
Label:Transparency – 0307
Format:
28 x CD,
Tracklist
Friday December 26, 1980
Disc One 67:37
1st Set
Sun Ra Accepts The Key To The City Of Detroit
Discipline 27
Untitled Improv
Queer Notions
Yeah Man!
Round Midnight
Space Loneliness
Lady Bird
Half Nelson
Cocktails For Two
Big John's Special
Love In Outer Space (Includes Long Drum Section)
Disc Two 67:32
Fate In A Pleasant Mood
Space Is The Place
Untitled Improv
We Travel The Spaceways
Gone With The Wind
Encore
Angel Race / This Place Is Not My Home / Stranger In Paradise / Astro Nation
Greetings From The 21st Century / Interplanetary Music / Moonship Journey / Next Stop Mars / Second Stop Is Jupiter / Rocket Number Nine / Do That Thang / Pluto Too
2nd Set
Discipline 27
Untitled Improv
Untitled Improv
Enlightenment
The Satellites Are Spinning
Blue Lou
Unidentified Title
Disc Three 39:58
Spontaneous Simplicity
Images
Unidentified Blues
Stompy Jones
Over The Rainbow
I Can't Get Started
Saturday December 27, 1980
Disc Four 72:42
1st Set
Untitled Improv
Hymn To The Sun
Untitled Improv
Untitled Improv
Untitled Improv (Organ And Percussion)
Big John's Special
Unidentified Title
Take The A Train
Lightnin'
Disc Five 56:32
Slippery Horn
Solitude
Exactly Like You
The Mayan Temples
The Sound Mirror
Right Road, Wrong Direction
Bad Truth
Shoulder To Shoulder
Sea Of Immortality
To Be Or Not To Be
Ra Ra Ra
Over The Rainbow
Calling Planet Earth
Enlightenment
The Satellites Are Spinning
Disc Six 74:38
Love In Outer Space
Yeah Man!
Space Is The Place
We Travel The Spaceways
Announcer
2nd Set
Untitled Improv (Kora)
Discipline 27-11
The Same Sun Is Shining Now / Computer In The Sky / Private Eye In The Sky / Another Kind Of Glory / I Have Many Names / Mystery, Mr. Ra / You Have No Life Certificate / I Am A Different Kind Of Being / The Universe Sent Me To Converse With You / Stranger In Paradise / Do You Have Rights For Angels? / I Use Planets For Stepping Stones / Bad Truth / You're Just Babies In The Universe
Bad Truth / Moonship Journey / Sea Of Immortality / Astro Nation / Angel Race / This World Is Not My Home / I'll Wait For You
Greetings From The 21st Century / Rocket Number Nine / Second Stop Is Jupiter
Disc Seven 74:34
Untitled Improv
We'll Be Together Again
The Sunny Side Of The Street
King Porter Stomp
Spontaneous Simplicity
Space Loneliness
Lights On A Satellite
Watusi
Disc Eight 15:54
Big John's Special
Strange Celestial Road
Hit That Jive Jack / Gone With The Wind
Announcer
Sunday December 28, 1980
Disc Nine 72:31
1st Set
Untitled Improv (Kora) / Jingle Bells / Untitled Improv / Hymn To The Sun
Along Came Ra / Mystery Mr. Ra
Discipline 27 / Untitled Improv / Unidentified Title
Unidentified Title
Unidentified Blues
Three Little Words
Disc Ten 77:34
Sleeping Beauty
Fate In A Pleasant Mood
El Is A Sound Of Joy
South America
Africa
The Satellites Are Spinning
Saturn Rings / Journey To Saturn / Saturn Rings
Announcer
Disc Eleven 58:02
2nd Set
Untitled Improv
Unidentified Title
Discipline 27-11
You Are Living On The Other Side Of Time / I Am Sin / Sunset
The Same Sun Is Shining Now / Private Eye In The Sky
You'd Better Mind What You're Saying
Untitled Improv
Deep Purple
Unidentified Title
Big John's Special
Yeah Man!
Disc Twelve 65:16
Body And Soul
Queer Notions
Discipline 99
Images
Unidentified Blues
Lady Bird
Half Nelson
Watusi
Disc Thirteen 30:55
Destination Unknown / Untitled Improv / Untitled Improv (Synthesizer) / Destination Unknown
Space Is The Place
We Travel The Spaceways
Rocket Number Nine / Next Stop Mars / Second Stop Is Jupiter / Journey To Saturn / Saturn Rings / Third Heaven / Neptune
Monday December 29, 1980
Disc Fourteen 58:23
Unidentified Title (Kora, Bass, Percussion, Etc)
Pleiades (Flutes And Bells Only)
Before Sun Comes Out
Discipline 27 / Unidentified Improv
Spontaneous Simplicity
Oblique Parallax (Organ And Synthesizer Only)
Queer Notions
Big John's Special
Yeah Man!
Disc Fifteen 46:43
Lights On A Satellite
Love In Outer Space
We'll Be Together Again (Organ And Rhythm Only)
Disc Sixteen 58:13
Space Loneliness
Destination Unknown / The Space Age Is Here To Stay / Unidentified Improv (Synthesizer Only) / Calling Planet Earth
Space Is The Place
We Travel The Spaceways / Angel Race / This World Is Not My Home / I'll Wait For You / I Could've Enjoyed Myself On The Planet / Greetings From The 21st Century / Rocket Number Nine / Next Stop Mars / Second Stop Is Jupiter / Why Go To The Moon / Satellites Are Spinning / Journey To Saturn / We Travel The Spaceways / Interplanetary Music / Face The Music / Strange Celestial Road / Sun Ra And His Band From Outer Space / Hit That Jive, Jack / Gone With The Wind
Encore
Astro Nation
King Porter Stomp
Fate In A Pleasant Mood
Announcer
Tuesday December 30, 1980
Disc Seventeen 55:25
Untitled Improv (Kora, French Horn, Etc)
Discipline 27 / Untitled Improv (Alto Sax, Trumpet, Etc.)
The Last Days / Crazy As A Daisy
Calling Planet Earth
Queer Notions
What's New?
Springtime Again
Space Loneliness
Cocktails For Two
Disc Eighteen 60:23
Lights On A Satellite
Big John's Special
Love In Outer Space
Enlightenment
The Shadow World
Disc Nineteen 44:30
The Shadow World (Continued)
Journey To Stars Beyond (Part 2) / Space Is The Place
Over The Rainbow (Organ Only)
Space Is The Place
We Travel The Spaceways / Outer Spaceways Inc. / We Travel The Spaceways / Hit That Jive, Jac / Moonship Journey / Greetings From The 21st Century / Rocket Number Nine / Second Stop Is Jupiter / Why Go To The Moon / I'll Wait For You / We Travel The Spaceways / Angel Race / Stranger In Paradise / This World Is Not My Home / We Travel The Spaceways
Announcer
Wednesday December 31, 1980
1st Set - 8:00 PM
Disc Twenty 56:24
Untitled Improv (Percussion. Kora) / Untitled Improv (Horns) / Unidentified Title (Flutes)
Auld Lang Syne
Astro Black
Tapestry From An Asteroid
Along Came Ra
Discipline 27
Island In The Sun
Disc Twenty-One 48:14
A Foggy Day
How Am I To Know?
Images
New Horizons
There Will Never Be Another You
Celestial Realms
Stardust From Tomorrow
Enlightenment
Disc Twenty-Two 42:06
Somebody Else's Idea / I Wouldn't Make A World Like This
Bad Truth / Somebody Might Push The Button
The Impossible Is Your Only Hope / Sea Of Immortality
Untitled Improv
They'll Come Back / There Are Other Worlds / Take The Big Gamble (On The Dark Horse)
Announcement: Get Your Passport From Me
2nd Set - 11:00 PM
Disc Twenty-Three 59:40
Untitled Improv (Percussion, Kora)
When There Is No Sun / Are You Spotless?
Discipline 27-11 / I Am The Tempter / I Use Planets For Stepping Stones / Discipline 27-11
Auld Lang Syne
Big John's Special
El Is The Sound Of Joy
Beyond The Purple Star Zone (Journey To Stars Beyond) (Part 1)
The World Of Africa
Rose Room
Disc Twenty-Four 57:21
Halloween In Harlem
Journey To Saturn / Saturn's Rings
You Got To Head Out To Space One Day / Never Never Land
Everything Is Space
Fate In A Pleasant Mood
Strange Worlds / Black Myth
Medicine For A Nightmare / Untitled Improv
Rocket Number Nine / The Space Age Is Here To Stay
Face The Music
Disc Twenty-Five 59:47
St. Louis Blues
Watusi
Sunology / The Lion Of The Heavens
Planet Earth
Third Heaven / Why Go To The Moon? We Travel The Spaceways / Imagination
Announcer
Thursday January 1, 1981
3rd Set - 3:00 AM
Disc Twenty-Six 19:49
On Green Dolphin Street
Untitled Improv
Outer Space Is Such A Pleasant Place
Myth Vs Reality
Strange Worlds / Black Myth
Disc Twenty-Seven 72:43
Untitled Improv
Vista Omniverse (Organ And Synthesizer Only)
Tea For Two
Blue Lou
King Porter Stomp
Yeah, Man!
Deep Purple
Keep Your Sunny Side Up
Interstellar Low Ways
The Satellites Are Spinning
Stompin' At The Savoy
Mayan Temples
Disc Twenty-Eight 60:12
Unidentified Title
Queer Notions
Willow Weep For Me
Space Loneliness
Round Midnight
Limehouse Blues
Discipline 99
Space Is The Place / We Travel The Spaceways / Greetings From The 21st Century / Strange Celestial Road
John M. Bennett
BRIEF BIO AS OF DECEMBER 2019
John M. Bennett has published over 500 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. Among the most recent are rOlling COMBers (Potes & Poets Press); MAILER LEAVES HAM (Pantograph Press); LOOSE WATCH (Invisible Press); CHAC PROSTIBULARIO (with Ivan Arguelles; Pavement Saw Press); THE PEEL (Anabasis Press); GLUE (xPress(ed)); LAP GUN CUT (with F. A. Nettelbeck; Luna Bisonte Prods); INSTRUCTION BOOK (Luna Bisonte Prods); la M al (Blue Lion Books); CANTAR DEL HUFF (Luna Bisonte Prods); SOUND DIRT (with Jim Leftwich; Luna Bisonte Prods); BACKWORDS (Blue Lion Books); NOS (Redfox Press); D RAIN B LOOM (with Scott Helmes; xPress(ed)); CHANGDENTS (Offerta Speciale); L ENTES (Blue Lion Books); NOS (Redfoxpress); SPITTING DDREAMS (Blue Lion Books); ONDA (with Tom Cassidy; Luna Bisonte Prods); 30 DIALOGOS SONOROS (with Martín Gubbins; Luna Bisonte Prods); BANGING THE STONE (WITH Jim Leftwich; Luna Bisonte Prods); FASTER NIH (Luna Bisonte Prods); RREVES (Editions du Silence); NEOLIPIC (Argotist); LAS CABEZAS MAYAS/MAYA HEADS (Luna Bisonte Prods); BALAM MALAB (Logan Elm Press); LA VISTA GANCHA (Luna Bisonte Prods); THE SOCK SACK/UNFINISHED FICTIONS/MORE INSERTS (with Richard Kostelanetz; Luna Bisonte Prods); T ICK TICK TIC K (Chalked Editions and White Sky Books); THIS IS VISUAL POETRY (This is Visual Poetry); EL HUMO LETRADO: POESÍA EN ESPAÑOL (Chalk Editions; 2nd ed. White Sky Books); ZABOD (Tonerworks); TEXTIS GLOBBOLALICUS (3 vols.; mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press); NITLATOA (Luna Bisonte Prods); OHIO GRIMES AND MISTED MEANIES (with Ben Bennett, Bob Marsh, Jack Wright; Edgetone Records); SUMO MI TOSIS (White Sky Books); CORRESPONDENCE 1979-1983 (with Davi Det Hompson; Luna Bisonte Prods); THE GNAT’S WINDOW (Luna Bisonte Prods); DRILLING FOR SUIT MYSTERY (with Matthew T. Stolte; Luna Bisonte Prods); OBJECT OBJET (with Nicolas Carras; Luna Bisonte Prods); CARAARAC & EL TÍTULO INVISIBLE (Luna Bisonte Prods); LIBER X (Luna Bisonte Prods); CUITLACOCHTLI (Xexoxial Editions); BLOCK (Luna Bisonte Prods); THE STICKY SUIT WHIRS (Luna Bisonte Prods); PICO MOJADO (with Byron Smith; Luna Bisonte Prods); SOLE DADAS & PRIME SWAY (Luna Bisonte Prods); OLVIDOS (Luna Bisonte Prods); SACARON NAVAJAS (Redfoxpress); AREÑAL (with Luis Bravo; Yaugurú); LA CHAIR DU CENOTE (Fidel Anthelme X); THE LUNCH THE GRAVEL (X-Ray Book Co.); BRAVÍSIMA RESEÑA (with Diana Magallón; Luna Bisonte Prods); TURNS IN A CLOUD (White Sky Books); YES IT IS (with Sheila E. Murphy; Luna Bisonte Prods); DE LA MEMORIA EL PEZ (with Lola López-Cózar; Luna Bisonte Prods); AMINIMA (with Richard Kostelanetz, Archae Editions); MIRRORS MÁSCARAS (Luna Bisonte Prods); VERTICAL SLEEP (Luna Bisonte Prods); SELECT POEMS (Poetry Hotel Press/Luna Bisonte Prods, with an extensive introduction by Ivan Argüelles); THE WORLD OF BURNING (Luna Bisonte Prods), THE SWEATING LAKE (Luna Bisonte Prods), OLAS CURSIS (Luna Bisonte Prods), SESOS EXTREMOS (Luna Bisonte Prods), DROPPED IN THE DARK BOX (Luna Bisonte Prods), and LEG MIST (Luna Bisonte Prods). He was co-editor of 2 unpublished works by William S. Burroughs, EVERYTHING LOST and THE REVISED BOY SCOUT MANUAL: AN ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION (both published by The Ohio State University Press). He has published, exhibited and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and was Founding Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. Richard Kostelanetz has called him “the seminal American poet of my generation”. His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries. His work has been discussed in numerous articles, essays, interviews, and introductions, including in the recently published book by Jim Leftwich, CONTAINERS PROJECTING MULTITUDES: EXPOSITIONS ON THE POETRY OF JOHN M. BENNETT (Luna Bisonte Prods). Bennett's PhD (UCLA 1970) is in Latin American Literature.
Jim Brodey
Nick Sturm:
Jim Brodey remains sidelined in scholarship on the New York School. His books are out of print and hard to find, although among the poets who knew him his work is tremendously important.
Description by William Matthews, bookseller (2023)
In the original envelope, postmarked 22 Jan 1973, addressed to Tom Clark in Bolinas, Ca.; "Brodey" written on the back of the envelope. Three poems on individual pages, twice folded, one signed in holograph, the other two with "Jim Brodey" typed. These have been reproduced by mimeograph or hectograph, and are very faded and difficult to read, but still legible. Brodey and Clark were associated, co-editing The Bolinas Hit in 1969. Brodey died in 1993.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/155332/differing-freak-wonder
Though Brodey increasingly drifted away from the poetry community in the 1980s, he continued to write ceaselessly, sometimes composing up to 30 poems a day.
Loren Mazzacane Connors
https://pitchfork.com/features/the-out-door/9150-the-legacy-of-loren-connors/
"By one estimate included in the liner notes to Night Through, a 2005 three-disc retrospective that collected many of Connors' early singles and suites, he had by then recorded more than 9,000 hours of music."
https://www.discogs.com/artist/47579-Loren-Mazzacane-Connors
this discography lists 116 items
from an interview with !5 Questions
How important are practicing and instrumental technique for achieving your musical goals?
I don’t practice. I only play. In the 1990s, I used to play and record something every day. These days the guitar rarely comes out of the bag between shows, but I’m still playing all the time. My whole life is music. Everything I do is music.
I have a great love for the physical. I don’t reach for the spiritual – if I reached for that, I wouldn’t get anywhere. I don’t know what spiritual means. But once you understand the physical, everything else falls in place. The notes are physical, the instrument is physical, the eardrums are physical, the motions are physical, the soul is physical. We live in a physical world. Music has to have blood in it.
