TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) articles from September 1996

TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) archives from September 1996

ARTNOW, Washington, D.C.: be there! (a 1997 demonstration of public support for the arts)(Editorial)
September 22, 1996... Yes, the arts are in trouble, the NEA is critically wounded, and private funding can't make up for what's been taken away. At first it was experimental artists, far-out artists, "offensive" artists who were under siege. But by now the...

Radio icons, short circuits, deep schisms. (experimental radio)
September 22, 1996... Multiple and contradictory histories of radiophony could be constituted, depending upon both the historical paradigms chosen to guide the research, and the theoretical phantasms behind the investigation. Its prehistory is vast; one key moment...

Voice tears: the CD. (details about artists and titles associated with the compact disc recording)
September 22, 1996... The following details the titles and artists on the companion CD to this special issue of TDR, being released by New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The CD is available for $9 (includes shipping and handling)....

Stein's Stein: a tale form 'The Aphoristic Theatre.' (author Gertrude Stein's experiments with automatic writing)
September 22, 1996... Gertrude Stein was already one of William James' favorite students by the time she enrolled in Hugo Munsterberg's laboratory experimentation course during her sophomore year at Radcliffe in 1894. James, having just published his monumental...

Shards of voice: fragments excavated toward a radiophonic archaeology. (ruminations on voice and experimental radio)
September 22, 1996... Junk Mail: Or perhaps not, depending on what you think of babies. But this announcement has arrived in mail boxes across the world since the beginning of the century. They were all posted the same day, but (the mail being what it is) they...

Schreber as machine, technophobe, and virtualist. (mental patient Daniel Paul Schreber)
September 22, 1996... Becoming Machine In consequence of the many flights of rays, etc., there had appeared in my skull a deep cleft or rent along the middle, which probably was not visible from outside but was from inside. The "little devils" stood on both...

Headhole: malfunctions and dysfunctions of an FM exciter. (ruminations on sound, voice and radio)(includes related article featuring excerpts from the Brut writers)
September 22, 1996... Quietly, let's unplug everything, blindfolded. Ears plugged, nose clamped, tongue tied, let's stop the hardware off radio. The exciter, heart of the FM transmitter, comes last. Once off, the purring winds down and we find ourselves...

Cat's cradle. (poem)
September 22, 1996... Aural outpost. Frame linguistic. Virgin image, splayed, acoustic. Ordered through the discipline of filings. Consecration through reception. Zealous practice of pressured perception. What gives? Magnetic deception, in reverse....

From one head to another. (thoughts on listening)
September 22, 1996... What Ulysses seems to tell us, his body arched against the ship's mast, is that listening involves a sort of rapture, a transporting movement, a movement of surrender and of desire. Perhaps his ruse was to have guessed that beyond the...

Radiophonic ontologies and the Avantgarde.
September 22, 1996... Introduction For Artaud, "an expression does not have the same value twice, does not live two lives; [...] all words, once spoken, are dead" ([1938] 1958:75), and this unwholesome aspect of language, when coupled with the incantatory...

Three receivers. (the use of radios and sound by author William Burroughs)
September 22, 1996... Why would William Burroughs leave "three off-tuned radios blaring static" in his room in Tangier (Leery 1983:95)? Was he waiting for code, for voices, for an ethereal or chthonic broadcast? Cocteau's Orpheus tuned his car radio to pick up the...

Inaudible postscript: a silent coda on the disembodied voice and the subsequent unwriting of history. (poem)
September 22, 1996... a silent coda on the disembodied voice and the subsequent unwriting of history Easy to erect radio antenna towers, Jefferson tube rejuvenators, the WARREN LOOP, Bakelite Philcos, Super-heterodyne Radiolas, Dutho battery eliminators,...

Radio play is no place: a conversation between Jerome Noetinger and Gregory Whitehead. (experimental radio innovators)
September 22, 1996... Over the past decade, writer/producer Gregory Whitehead has been exploring the multiple identities of radiophonic space. Live performance, taped documentary interviews, written texts, recyclings from other media, pristine nature recordings,...

Aural sex: the female orgasm in popular sound.
September 22, 1996... In The Pleasure of the Text (1975), Roland Barthes defines representation and bliss as mutually incompatible terms. Bliss is the limit of selfhood and the threshold of the text; it runs parallel to and is incommensurable with pleasure. One...

Developing a blind understanding: a feminist revision of radio semiotics.
September 22, 1996... LEAR: What, art mad? A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with shine ears. See how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief Hark in shine ear: change places and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the...

Mendicant erotics (Sydney): a performance for radio. (play)
September 22, 1996... Some Notes on the Production When Andrew McLennan of ABC Radio Australia asked me to create a piece for his Listening room series,(1) I immediately thought of using the opportunity to began work on the performative aspect of a novel...

Casual workers, hallucinations, and appropriate ghosts. (play)
September 22, 1996... Casual Workers, Hallucinations, and Appropriate Ghosts began as a radio soundtrack. It was an expansion of the installation Mesmer -- Secrets of the Human Frame, a part of the 1990 "Art in the Anchorage" exhibition sponsored by Creative Time,...

Hotel radio. (play)(excerpt)
September 22, 1996... What I can bring back from my day exploring the city--? It vanishes. Therefore, the city might have been endless. On the other hand, it might have been a disappointment. That is one of the reasons I so miss having a radio in my room. If there...

Lingua franca. (play)
September 22, 1996... A man stands on the shore, on a strange beach. He has never been here before, and everything is fresh and crisp in its unfamiliarity. Everything is abnormally vivid. He feels the wind long the edges of his ears, and he realizes that this is...

Around Naxos: a radio "film".... (play)
September 22, 1996... a patient labyrinth of forms, his own portrait --borges, on velasquez The curator of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities at the Louvre is distracted. He has a lot of other things to do. The Naxos project is almost completed, but I...

More facts on the polywave. (experimental radio)
September 22, 1996... I was just about to do my regular weekly show, when the transmitter broke down. It wasn't going to get fixed that night, but I stuck around anyway. I recorded the static that was going over the airwaves during the period that my program would...

Sexing the dance at Sleaze Ball 1994. (gay and lesbian dance party in Sydney, Australia)
September 22, 1996... Regardless, the real performance success of the night was on the dance floors, in the loos and on the pavements, where the assembled multitude flashed and panached. Sleaze as interactive mass performance art--why not? (Dunne...

Subversive Laughter: The Liberating Power of Comedy.
September 22, 1996... By Ron Jenkins. New York: The Free Press, 1994; 220 pp.; illustrations. $22.95 cloth. Humor theorists from Henri Bergson and Sigmund Freud to Kate Clinton and Susan Purdie have striven to analyze the pleasures and politics of comedy....

Satiric Impersonations: From Aristophanes to the Guerrilla Girls.
September 22, 1996... By Joel Schechter. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994; 188 pp. $29.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Humor theorists from Henri Bergson and Sigmund Freud to Kate Clinton and Susan Purdie have striven to analyze the pleasures and...

The Terrible but Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia.
September 22, 1996... By Helene Cixous. Translated by Juliet Flower MacCannell, Judith Pike, and Lollie Groth. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994; European Women Wnters Senes; 230 pp. $36.00 cloth, $13.95 paper. Helene Cixous remains best...

Muses from Chaos and Ash: AIDS, Artists, and Art.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1996... The interaction of AIDS and performance is clearly one of the most important elements of the late 20th century. The effects and consequences of HIV+ artistic work--for artists, audiences, and the culture at large, which is forced to think...