Re: FLUXLIST: Fridge Over Troubled Water--Stories and sonics.

2000-04-24 Thread Lord Hasenpfeffer
That's a wild story behind your recording of the door closing! My stereo mic just arrived last week. It has a very long wire which splits in the middle and extends even further down to two separate mics at the ends. Each mic has its own little clothespin shaped clip attached to it. In the

FLUXLIST: Burroughs

2000-04-24 Thread alan bowman
so I mention my favourite line( well one of): "Death needs time for what it kills to grow in." MIne's from a recording i got of burroughs ( along with einsturzende neubauten and nick cave - on the same record that is, not all together - imagine that .) anyway. "never get

Re: FLUXLIST: Poetry

2000-04-24 Thread George Free
Well, I do agree with you about Cage. I made the point recently to someone that Cage was never the anarchist he claimed to be in all his interviews and books. Real anarchy would have threatened his position as an artist. How so? Cage was an anarchist in the American individualist tradition of

Re: FLUXLIST: Poetry

2000-04-24 Thread George Free
Of course, I'm not a Fluxus poet, and I rather like seeing the persona of the writer expressed. I don't see Cage's work as "depersonalization", in the sense of eliminating personality. ...what would that end up being? Nihilism. And Cage was by no means a nihilist. I think what he's working

FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST-digest V1 #253 and all others

2000-04-24 Thread Judith A. Hoffberg
Any chance that many of you could use your mouse and get rid of the messages to which you are responding--for the most part, it is redundant and takes a lot of reading or erasing, or whatever. How about sweeping that mouse over previous messages, trashing them, and sending us your pithy remarks?

Re: FLUXLIST: Poetry

2000-04-24 Thread BestPoet
In a message dated 04/24/2000 7:47:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is a voice? ... I think what Cage was against was the habitual voice. He wanted to transform speaking, music. Thanks George. I do agree with what you say about Cage, and, as I said, this wasn't

Re: FLUXLIST: Poetry

2000-04-24 Thread Reed Altemus
George Free wrote: Well, I do agree with you about Cage. I made the point recently to someone that Cage was never the anarchist he claimed to be in all his interviews and books. Real anarchy would have threatened his position as an artist. How so? Cage was an anarchist in the American