25 November 2013

Producing Poverty Won't Be A Crime Until Poets Make It Illegal (And The Interrelated Matter Of the Unformed Field of Prosody)




Thanks Stephen Novotny for the video of Robert's launch above. Enjoy!

And don't forget to join us this evening (Monday, 11/25) for Robert's last Bay Area apprearance of the season:

"PRODUCING POVERTY ON’T BE A CRIME UNTIL POETS MAKE IT ILLEGAL (AND THE INTERRELATED MATTER OF THE UNFORMED FIELD OF PROSODY)" 

The Bay Area Public School
2141 Broadway, Oakland
Mon. 11/25 7pm


Here's Robert's description of the event:


I’d like to discuss these two concerns particularly as possible implementations, as a way of proposing further focused collaboration.


law as creative writing along with shared productivity as poetry medium

What’s the best way to provide goods and services directly to the greatest needs? What should the labor share of national income be? Should the finance industry be turned into a public utility? As deprivation of liberty and property, isn’t a nonliving wage unconstitutional? By posing a national security threat, was not the risk taken by investment banks with depositor funds a revolt against civil authority (and therefore unconstitutional)? Is money the commons misconstrued? Should specific conditions be attached to our basic income guarantee? This is a call to collectively research, write and pursue the enactment of model legislation, resolutions, ordinances, bills and initiatives in favor of an all-inclusive economy. We could at least begin to write the book on banking, corporate and finance law for poets.


the missing artscience of prosody (untended poet-province?)

What constitutes prosody? What does prosody constitute? We’d be staring blankly at each other without it. It is the link, by the way, between physics and biology. Bodies formed around the ways in which we’d express ourselves. Does morphology follow prosody? Why try to delineate the area of prosody (it may well be amorphous?) I’d like to discuss prosody as a way of gauging interest in creating an open access exchange, a web workspace, where anyone working with or wondering about prosody can post her or his impressions, papers or findings. More experientially, I would eventually like to set up a sort of lab or anechoic darkroom for carrying out qualitative and quantitative testing of the effects of tone, beat, frequency, silence, darkness, color and other prosodic phenomena on various bioprocesses. Of course, prosody is also, at any point, performable research. What could possibly be more practical, practicable? The ways in which this field organizes itself will necessarily be integral to what it is.

22 November 2013

Cross/Sutherland/Xu


This reading is going to be SUPER FUN, and it will act as a kind of going away party for Keston, so you should come. Also, since most of the rad stuff in the Bay Area is happening at the Public School, it shouldn't be a suprise that Tyrone Williams will be giving a talk there tonight (Friday, 11/23) at 7 pm. Hope to see you there...

21 November 2013

David Brazil's Gerundive Song





The "Gerundive Song" was Brazil's contribution to the Kocik launch. Word on the street is Eleni Stecopoulos, Margit Galanter, and maybe Chris Nagler will perform at the Long Legs event on Sunday. Don't miss...

19 November 2013

Some Pictures from the Kocik Launch (and Something Completely Different!)

Supple Science arriving at Small Press Distribution

John Sakkis in the warehouse modeling

The Brick!

It's nearly 500 pages!

Ezzy on BART

Getting ready for Robert's arrival

Sara Larsen, Alana Siegel, and Stephen Novotny

Robert and Daria Fain performing a choral piece

David Brazil's signature move of climbing on things and singing (usually about God)!

Thank you to everyone for stopping by the Kocik launch yesterday. Hope to see you at his talk at the public school next week (Monday, 11/25). Preorders go out tomorrow, and the book is officially available through our website now; otherwise, you can pick it up through SPD sometime next week?

In the meantime, here is a final, totally unrelated photo of Laura Woltag and Alana Siegel at their reading on Halloween at the Public School (w/ the great David Abel). Since I'm not on Facebook, this incredible image is new to me, and it's simply too good to keep to myself! Alana and I were planning an intricate birthday ritual involving birds (and driving everyone into the woods in a flatbed truck), but I ended up missing the event altogether. This image makes me regret that fact even more! (spirit animal breastplates by Brenda Iijima!).



06 November 2013

Supple Science Launch Events!



“UBIQUITOUS DIVIDEND”
SUPPLE SCIENCE BOOK LAUNCH 
Small Press Traffic
Artist Television Access
992 Valencia Street, SF
Sun. 11/17 5pm
Spoken, choral and choreoprosodic selections from the ongoing libretto "Re-English," an investigative musical that treats our current ecological and inequity crises as consequents of the sonic and connotative qualities of english, calling upon forms and phenomena as diverse as neuroendocrinology, cosmogony, naad, triple bottom line accounting, optativity, dead languages, energy cauldrons, and even poetry to re-tune our tongues, imbuing them with unheard of inherences, moods, admixtures and admonishments.


PROSODIC BODY WORKSHOP 
Long Leg Series
New Arts Building Consortium 
1 Grove Street, SF
Workshops: Fri. 11/22 6:30-9:30 pm
Sat./Sun. 11/23-24 10-3 pm
Public Showing: Sun. 11/24 7:30pm

In this workshop we will practice the Prosodic Body, opening broader interoceptive, energetic connections. We will work with correspondences between phonemes and the neuroendocrine and somatosensory systems, sync our heart rates with danced poetic meter, involve cellular respiration in vocalization, perform phoneme puncture, embody cosmogony and become the direct experience of biophysics. We will integrate “choreoprosodia,” movement and language, fulfilling each other's expression.


"PRODUCING POVERTY WON’T BE A CRIME UNTIL POETS MAKE IT ILLEGAL (AND THE INTERRELATED MATTER OF THE UNFORMED FIELD OF PROSODY)" 
The Bay Area Public School2141 Broadway, Oakland
Mon. 11/25 7pm

We'll discuss two concerns particularly: 1) law as creative writing along with shared productivity as poetry medium: This is a call to begin writing the book on banking, corporate and finance law for poets. 2) the missing artscience of prosody: a lab or anechoic darkroom for carrying out qualitative and quantitative testing of the effects of tone, beat, frequency, silence, darkness, color and other prosodic phenomena on various bioprocesses.

01 November 2013

Weekend Reading!

Suspense is not telling

Camille Roy with Michael Cross



My interview with Camille is finally up at Jacket2. If you're not convinced that Camille Roy is a genius, this should do it for you. Everything she says here totally retuned my thinking. Check it out here.



Sam Ladkin just printed a super interesting piece on Rob Halpern's Music for Porn at World Picture. Check it out here.



'Perfect losses we can't mourn'

On Rob Halpern’s ‘Music for Porn’


Another killer piece of writing on Music for Porn. The world is finally recognizing the genius of this book. Read it here.