in this playlist I have approached the ‘desert island
discs’ concept from the position of someone who would rather listen to the
specificity, the temporal uniqueness of the island itself (whether that island
be wilderness or urbanscape) than impose an unrelated sound environment. my intention was to steer clear of the
highways of sound in favour of the meandering byways, the fragile and the
just-overheard, a strategy which is not unfamiliar to the artists included, in
their various ways (as Vito Acconci says in ‘Buildings’ : “we love cities, but we hate monuments. we love the city as a walk, but
we hate the city as a triumphant march.”). the proposal to use UBUweb’s vast library as a
constraint provokes the programmer to become a maverick archivist, to dive into
the etheric sea, (as one does with the astounding resources still available via
wwweb distribution in general, often without maps or guidebooks, under and
apart from all moves to tighten this access), further and further into detail,
and to emerge after this to link such details up into a personally-delineated
travelogue, a field report, a narrative of links and gaps.
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1./ Janek Schaefer : Recorded Delivery (1995 – 7” edit) 12:00 http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Schaefer/Schaefer-Janek_Recorded-Delivery.mp3
2./Vito Acconci :
‘Buildings’, from Interiors, Buildings, Parks
(2004) 21:08 http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/acconci_vito/Acconci-Vito_Buildings_2004.mp3
3./ John Cage : 49 Waltzes for the
Five Boroughs “For Performers or Listeners or Record Makers” from 'The Waltz Project', Nonesuch D-79011 LP, 1980, 5:13 http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/cage_john/Cage-John_49-Waltzes_1977.mp3
4./ Erik Satie : Furniture Music,
Part 2 : Tapestry of Wrought Iron : for the arrival of the guests – grand
reception – to be played in an entrance hall, 3:00 http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/satie_erik/selected_works/Satie-Eric_Selected-Works_04_Furniture_Music_02.mp3
5./ Margaret Leng Tan
: from Erik Satie ‘Pianoless Vexations’,
21.50 http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/Pianoless-Vexations-2006/17_Pianoless-Vexations_Leng-Tan_SculpCntr-NYC_06.11.06.mp3
6./ Language Removal
Services : William S. Burroughs, 0:56 http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/ICA_Boston_2006/Music_Overheard/14_LRS_William-S.-Burroughs_ICABoston_2006.mp3
7./ Louise Lawler : Birdcalls (1972) 6:52 http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/tellus_5-6/Tellus-5-6_01_Louise_Lawler-Birdcalls.mp3
8./ Alvin Curran : Natural History (1983) 32:03 http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/curran_alvin/natural_history/Curran_Natural_History-A.mp3
9./ Gavin Bryars : Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet , from
The Sinking of the Titanic (1975), 25:58 http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/bryars_gavin/jesus_blood/Bryars-Gavin_Jesus-Blood-Never-Failed-Me-Yet.mp3
10./ Laurie Anderson :
Two Songs for Tape Bow Violin, 4:24 http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/airwaves/Airwaves_13_ANDERSON_TWO-SONGS-FOR-TAPE-BOW-VIOLIN.mp3
11./ John Cage : Imaginary Landscape #5 , 1:49 http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/electronic/02-02-John-Cage-Imaginary-Landscape-No.-5_1952.mp3
12./ Janek Schaefer : His Master’s Voices (1997), 3:23 http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Schaefer/Schaefer-Janek_His-Masters-Voices.mp3
13./ Yoko Ono : Snow is Falling All the Time, 1:10 http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/aspen/mp3/ono2.mp3
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total time 137.46min