Ladislav Kupkovic
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 12:43 PM
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Jim Leftwich
long war event
(pataphysical resistance generator #1)
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1- elongate tomato mask dance
2- stairs forest knob debark
3- nose adventure gel lyric hat
4- ladder tossed set
5- moon desk swept fetish ladle
6- gardner medicinal snake nation
7- blink wire banker storm of frogs
8- then soon altitude under beak mirage
9- beats align unbalanced sense and blimp
10- hurl tigers enigma melted cubes
11- model rites askew tinder chaff
12- at handle ports flurry mobile
13- midst simmer annual conic print
14- toll snare frosted markers
15- delve lure garment twill
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instructions: make your own.
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 12:36 PM
Monday, February 27, 2006
Dick Higgins
the artist
a metadrama
artist: "i'm hungry."
someone else: "here are twenty two ounces of honor."
artist: "i'm still hungry."
someone else: "here are twenty two more ounces of honor."
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 12:33 PM
Dick Higgins
Statement about my "metadramas"
by Dick Higgins
One of the main genres of Fluxus pieces of the 1960s is and was
"events." These were first done before Fluxus, and came to be
conceptually framed as a sort of cognate of happenings, which were new
at the time-that is, intermedial, free-form pieces which lay
conceptually among the bounds of music, theater and visual art. Events
differed from happenings in that they were always as compressed as
possible, minimal statements that would provide a mental or emotional
impact. But, of course, they were highly abstract. I did them, George
Brecht did them, and others of the Fluxus artists did them also though,
for the most part, somewhat later than 1958 when George, I, AI Hansen
and others studied with John Cage in his class at the New School for
Social Research in New York, a story which has been told, more or less,
to death.
However, events made their point and the genre became well defined
over the years, through Fluxus concerts and individual performances and
works by, quite literally, hundreds of artists. In the sixties, when
purely formal explorations seemed essential to sweep away the overly
personal baggage of the 1960s, this was a positive thing. However, in
the 1980s, when personal expression has been minimized, and when art
performances, the heirs in some respect of happenings, often celebrate
boredom and almost always deal essentially with technical and formal
concerns, it seems more desirable to do pieces which are mainly minimal
emotional statements or narrative ones, complete with characterizations
in most cases. I had done a few such pieces previously, but not so
consciously as now. I call them "metadramas" because they must be
dramatic in order to satisfy the criterion, and, the "meta-" part
suggests that they are "next to" or "about" what they relate to-that
is, some are dramas about the drama, while others simply don't pretend
to be dramas but do point in that direction. I wrote about sixty of
them in the summer of 1985, destroyed most of them, and then noticed
that they seemed to define a genre to which the earlier events belong,
though not vice versa.
Barrytown, New York
18 September, 1985
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 12:32 PM
Sunday, February 26, 2006
George Brecht
Swim Puzzle
Red plastic box with label on the lid containing clam shell
and the score printed on card stock:
"Arrange the beads in such a way
the word CUAL never occurs."
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 11:04 AM
Saturday, February 25, 2006
George Brecht
Untitled
Three of them were the same size, and two were not.
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 12:51 PM
Friday, February 24, 2006
George Brecht
Three Dances
1.
Saliva
2.
Pause
Urination.
Pause.
3.
Perspiration.
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 12:52 PM
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
George Brecht
Symphony No. 5
I. before hearing
II. hearing
III. after hearing
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 11:17 AM
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
George Brecht
Exercise
Determine the centre of an object or event.
Determine the centre more accurately.
Repeat, until further inaccuracy is impossible.
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 12:35 PM
Monday, February 20, 2006
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Friday, February 17, 2006
Thursday, February 16, 2006
George Brecht
Two Elimination Events
empty vessel
empty vessel
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 5:49 AM
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Monday, February 13, 2006
George Brecht
Three Yellow Events
I yellow yellow yellow
II yellow loud
III red
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 6:41 AM
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Saturday, February 11, 2006
George Brecht
Answer to Ben Who Asked Me What Was Important
Exercices 3 and 4.
Consider something "important". Call what is not "important" "unimportant".
3. Take something which is "unimportant" and find a way to
consider it "important", adding it to what is already "important".
Continue in this way until there is no more "unimportant".
4. Take something which is "important" and find a way to consider
it "unimportant", adding it to what is already "unimportant". Continue
in this way until there is no more "unimportant".
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 12:58 AM
Friday, February 10, 2006
George Brecht
19 quantities of Time
(for G.B.H.*)
a heater of time
a cigarette of time
a window of time
some soups of time
now I go to the bathroom
why am I leaving?
the sweet orange
the pencil
covers turned back
la lune dans le ciel (the clouds seen twice)
fireworks underground
the hair
the fingernail's containing
everyone's wish
it was not the moon, it was a street light
the re-wired marquee
moldly noodles
photograph
a tack in my shoe
* I don't remember who or what G.B.H. was. But it propably relates to
James Waring, who once made a lot of soups.
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 8:31 AM
Thursday, February 09, 2006
George Brecht
The Game of Definitions
The first player writes, on a slip of paper, "What is _____" and he
completes the sentence. The second player, without seeing what the
other has written, writes "It is _____" and completes his sentence. The
two players then read their sentences in order, making any necessary
grammatical adjustments.
For example (played by Donna Jo Jones and George Brecht)
What is a factory? It is the manner in which George Washington's
men rowed him across the Delaware.
What is well dressed? It is the space between the top of the water
and the bottom of the bridge.
What is an answer? It is five ice-cubes melting.
What is a question? It is a method for drying wet matches between
the toes.
What is whortleberry? It is smoking under water while sexually
excited.
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 1:35 AM
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Monday, February 06, 2006
Steve Dalachinsky
tillman reading at bklyn public library decoded at home
soaring thru tin
her bet by sel (b) (f)
click
click passed imprint
\ imprint
(b)land
precisely
looks in e radicable precise
looks
click
click
perish
parish pew pyou pee-u podium mike enclosing speaker nibuo cigam
emit
emit
omit wager strip nickel down snarl
money
money
money honest
honest
g(amble) flush
flush
magic wept yavoni yavoni lace
honest flush pro snart
honest flush marker marker hum drum
music/art
settle
unsettling pag pro test
wager strip sprayed
cling
cling
mur nosbig clave clave insectuous grope
select
select
ants
dalachinsky nyc
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 10:51 PM
Sunday, February 05, 2006
prose score
lfulfo zaar [....] [6!] [1mp] nrvo neo [1~] degree [....] livid
with [1-] keel arlin. [....] Plain narrow [5+] [....] beak err [....]
avelin [....] [1ff] [4^] [....] [1ff] [....] [1_] hesup [4ff] 91,
cri [1#] wit [1#] track awartl iments upo [1+] hbrnia onmi [....]
eranoe [5ff] ank tipac ehr [....] rnetof [1#] [....] [1~] [1.] [....]
dohp,n [....] estroy [4~] [1=] him hard glance intern [1.] United
ations with carves drum them, people [1-] with [1=] not [....] very
common pmneo them uantit [....] cudw [....] [1pp] [1^] [1.] iendse
[6!] [1ff] [3~] [....] ngitby ently hpales unctio robabi [....]
[4_] [1#] [3^] cksano [1#] getab uoul [1ff] [1!] ehor,e [....] [1^]
odnenx uwaita [1.] [1-] [6.] erreen [1#] ion [8+] [1^] rpeo ilso [....]
was five great [8+] ,urdo, feoa [8~] ncys whomth o,nyrh [....] [1_]
8/am3\ rofffr
-Jim Leftwich & Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 10:23 AM
Steve Dalachinsky
DREAM BOOK
1.
smeared in numbers
3 figures
6
7 4
combo diablo
devine winner
taken under
elk denote marriage embalmed
serious suicide
an unexpected event brings good news
a happy but solitary life
white swan
disordered.
2. house
a.
it was
that i thought was never
there
river takes house b.
but…….
big house by sea
somewhere in the
storm comes erosion
midwest
i scream (she does very loud )
flat
but calms - relief -
it is not my house my life
06497 - 111 46
that will be washed away
a space off of a space
where i felt
safe
of covered wagons
3. creature dream sans creature
crossssshatchedsleeperinterrupted
by a lagoon of edges &
polarities
/ maplike indulgences
of elements
( land / water / air
empty > mass < flow
treeshaped arrows & buddha-johns
cross(-)circuiting creating typos
4. creature dream minus the dreamer
at 126th Carmeela enters the bodega
asks what her name is
2 men approach her w/a 40 in their hands
speaking dots - she joins them
@#$%&*#@$ como se llama ??????
?????como me llama ????
the mass become empty
the emptiness mass
both become finger prints
))))))))((((((((a language all their own
a pretext for signing
sounding singing speaking writing creating
typos -- me/se llama CARMEELA.
tilling the air (eating dream)
articulate complaints
de party insults
re: leaf
tables alarm edibles
edible muted sleep (others)
exhaust (fumes) open
multitudes din smoking lobby
separate race flounders
desisn <0> 1 (9) 2 other repeating count -
habit various shells squeezed young herbal gloss
hard-of-seeing sour scowl while missed appetite
brook goes strangely adlib unfamiliar
yrarbil - frequent stranger debunked
away print
smharb unique textiles text styles
tiled mosaic against grave seriopus pen
appalling thief transpires rickety
br(other)
m(other) - appear weak week collection
glared hard furious
uncover = take off
recover = put on
bathe re frain be tray s(tale) late e mit
flush precise stub toward unnatural death
within the parent mill
vile nt e labor ate emit time
immerse weight
scowl sour
scowl sour
curly cropped miden
bathing born astonished
munching feline stew
g(r)aze greys grZE grays
confused lost scuttled
curly cropped denim
immersed weight mined
wet
up hold story
upholstery sheets choice alc dov tis
shower
elom elom articulate and mol(e)ded
peril formed too late u tu late
born astonished.
dalachinsky nyc 10/12-13/04 partial scramble lynne
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 10:17 AM
Saturday, February 04, 2006
prose score
nd" rphyundo (6/!) (8/pp) tic [....] timeexi (3/stacc) ydvreo
(1/high) (1/high) ledort (4/pp) (5/pp) (4/low) (8/low) [....]
(4/stacc) (9/fast) (3/fast) prayer glue. seals in (7/low) (6/high)
(5/low) carat, braided yang (12/fast) two alien (10/stacc) [....]
But (4/high) (7/stacc) [....] (6/stacc) tte idio hhas (2/mp) rn.
(7/low) [....] (6/high) (10/pp) (7/stacc) assembles (2/mp) nalpeop
nblilo ndho lfe, (6/!) front (5/low) (8/=) (4/mp) (3/=) ewithl
opl rredamer [....] (3/fast) (3/+) lakd (7/fast) (5/+) (3/high) [....]
l,ehm (3/high) pedpr [....] (4/low) fore (7/low) (7/mp) rgo (8/mp)
aryno iraq [....] (7/low) [....] asked formless, but known eh pnn
(2/!) (3/stacc) war. it combs lpo (7/!) ersuas (4/fast) juvenile
(7/mp) it (5/stacc) mak (5/low) (7/stacc) hmoa inalkno hapaey
(7/=) (5/!) ndanery [....] blowi (6/low) (5/fast) or (2/high)
(9/low) (4/=) (3/high) (4/+) [....] tool (5/fast) [....] 6-am3
ldd rillamis
-Jim Leftwich & Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
Instructions:
1. Events are in parenthesis, in format X/Y where X is number of
sounds in time period and Y is playing method.
2. Tempo is free, fluctuating, each word is between 0.5" to 3".
3. Duration is free.
4. Any numbers of players, start any tacet ([....]) symbol, read
from left to right, from top to bottom, when you reach the last
symbol/word start from beginning.
5. Each word is either read aloud, very quiet, or in mind, in
silence. Do not play during the word.
Symbols:
= play simultaneously with any player
+ louder/accelerating/play after
- softer, dimunuendo, play before
pp,mp,ff dynamics
low/high registers
fast,slow tempi
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 1:32 AM
Friday, February 03, 2006
Steve Dalachinsky
act in absentia < elvin jones tribute @ blue note
until recently
cecil would play only on a
bo send or fer sob for
tonite one awaited him sub for
re fer
but he was a no/show send for
dense
money /fend
bend/er
was whispered
into
an ear
we see that it did not mean a thing
into the air it whispered
but for the drummer we must keep playing
the blues
send for
option
umlaut <> on slaught ex act i tude re act off
ad
re
con verse serve multiples
lost swing
wings
boast
here the or lost not surely just freedom speaks
theory terror
bus end or refer to
file
away boost
dogyouham good only
while supply lasts.
steve dalachinsky nyc 6/04
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 10:33 AM
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Steve Dalachinsky
cecil taylor trio @ castle clinton 7/29/04 ( for (e) shadow )
tell this dy /// nam is mos
useless blues & pinks
in mentus
this is daylight when we most need it when
there is no day left
this is river in a shadow
shadow against an even/ing when
tree become sky
no mental can the shadows stay this silent for so>long
the bricks that never saw the war they fought for
it is a yellow in the eye
useless magenta that crosses our lives
the sun is behind me the sun
it heats my neck
dy na mis mos contrarios
one
immigrant says to another
i passed thru here
(too)
vialavitsef feast & live
tale tail's tale to taste
aventus creatus
rowldtercompat
the act of natural act of..................
i've come
thru here too
the shadows
never move
the trees &
sky are one
glass &
stone
& steel a blding make
fingers make
things happen
one immigrant says to another
glass stone &
steel
are the
building blocks of this world
trader trapped inside the gullum
is a wink the paper asleep
i crumble
in uniform your day begins
like this: shadows never move
sun behind your back
useless magenta
bricks that tell a tale
fingers make things happen
running spotlights cannot function before the nite arrives
it is really not the clock that determines transition
that crosses our lives
one immigrant says to another
it is when the sun crosses our backs like a river
a festival a
world -
sonic tellin panic
when the light that was created
becomes the light that was invented
a bet earned a wise trade a gorge traversed
2( money is the (M) angle
we will not be fed by sunlight a loan
even now as evening turns snurt the
concessions
no time for this/that it's obligat(o)ion
0bliGate
it's now dark it feels
one immigrant says to another
feel my neck it passed this way
this is no joke
privitize my sacrament it's cool now hands on it's cool now
the useless magenta adds to the piano's song
this world was built by hands
tree & sky no longer touch
the shadows have become a river
that does not flow
brick is what i call your face
i remain attached to my
allegiance
tea is a drink for two (3)
this shifting desire is a wedge
between the clock & the hrs
clamusin tourista raditsula bo ard
such useless appendages these hands against the unmanacled day.
steve dalachinsky nyc
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 10:54 AM
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Steve Dalachinsky
cecil taylor trio @ the bluenote 7/19/05
set 1
precious 27 sic; the portholes
moontowel
led
attraction of f(r)ingers
speedoling downlid
some o' the best beebop piana i ever heard
chance is a bag fell outo the bag
the disc
unspun & wandered
blue folk left
1st the ones with little kids
expensive family outing
out being as far out as sitting in a room
with an U.F.O. can
get
just fell outto the mo(u) o ebabs
like toothes with working titles etched invisibly
inta 'em
only abbreviated maybe to untake plaque
for the best charge a minimums word
help yerself to the fries & wise-ums
spotlit(s)
& clean too
insensitive dewguns
sumtime
regraph the caterpultin
& in this case only a maestro can claim
the bottom 1/2
ich du 5 iced dinhair muminim &
sleeved short cooled down aftereves
only a pracker knowd the grail
only a SAGA-d shooed the shoit
grapple onta livin
garpple inta notes.....
set 2
the vagueries of time
who knew who lived where were
always goes back to 1890's
sheriff street
a tenement w/out shame
this is less than before one could imagine
where is the past now
where is the past now if not
in the head?
or in some book
or map
all museums
all warehouses
whorehouses
windows of rearrangement
this is a story you can tell again &
again
the same way
only different everytime
the grey area of time where "once" is what it's about
once i had this white cat
once i had this black dog
erratum continuous tom-tom z-rap
a message of of linels & sinews
any news
with even a touch of a touched up photograph/still
who was/who is
there to the end of christiandom
3 views from the same square
sphere is yes about a continuous line of blowing
rounds
or is it precise corners saught
atemplated shot
as if charted further
here you are slowing down to a star
you'll never catch down to
can we embark in a trump-o-tazzle
or even invectors complete the whole deck
by throwing it over ?
the monkey who owned the property's always
the one who flies
& it happens alot between gaps in the mind
& happens it seems around centuries turn.
steve dalachinsky nyc 7/19/05
posted by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at 10:23 AM
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