"When a creative problem can't be solved directly, solutions may be found by approaching the task from an unusual direction; by using Oblique Strategies. Oblique Strategies was created by British musician Brian Eno and his artist friend Peter Schmidt (1931-1980) as a tool for addressing difficulties in the creative process. ... [details]
September 2 - 8, 1981 issue of SoHo News. Issue edited by John Leese. Cover stories include: "Little Martyrs: Can Kids Survive the Family?," by Carolyn Fireside; "Valium's Adscam," by Bob Brewin; "Pop Goes Tom Verlaine," by John Buckley; "George Will Has His Way," by Artful Dodger; and Reggie: Damned Yankee," by Roy Blount Jr. ... [details]
Issue Number Three of the newsprint punk periodical Search & Destroy, published in 1977. Edited by V. Vale. Essays, interviews, and images include: "Black Randy: LA Punk Rocker Makes the Rich Eat Shit," an interview with Black Randy; "Avengers: We Are The One!," an interview between Christina Chromatic and The Avengers; "Patti Smith / Captain Beefheart," text by Patti Smith and a brief interview with Captain Beefheart; "Tom Verlaine / Eno - Some Oblique Strategies," an interview between Lynnx and Tom Verlaine and a selection of Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies; "Alternative TV's Mark P/Politics of Punk," by Nico Ordway; "Devo: 2nd Part of the De-Evaluation Band Interview;" "Blondie: Interviewed Backstage at the Old Waldorf;" "Weirdos: Cliff Talks," an interview with Cliff from The Weirdos; "The Residents: No Longer a Mystery;" "Crime in San Francisco: A Poster History;" "Street Reports: London by Vermillion/LA by The Dils;" and "International Directory of New Wave Sources. [details]
Compendium of texts on New Music. Edited by Gregory Battcock. Essays "Introduction: In Search of the Avant-Garde," by Gregory Battcock; "Musical Cosmology," by Benjamin Boretz; "Fluxus Music," by Peter Frank; "Boredom and Danger," by Dick Higgins; "Notes on New Music," by Tom Johnson; "Definitions of Popular Music: Recycled," by Gaynor G. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue publish in conjunction with show held March 3 to July 8, 2001. Texts by John Weber, Aaron Betsky, Benjamin Weil, Janet Exhibition catalogue publish in conjunction with show held March 3 - July 8, 2001. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "The Arc of a diver - Judy Pfaff," by John Yau; "Vienna and Her Sisters, A Parable, with Strings," by Lisa Liebmann; "The Art of Filming Painting: Derek Jarman and Caravaggio, Peter Greenaway and Jan Vermeer, Paul Leduc and Frida Kahlo," by Wolfram Schutte; "Taking Liberty with Symbols," by Herbert Muschamp; "The Tourist Industry's Dramamine Against Terrorism: Seeing the World Through Travel Ads," by Glenn O'Brien; "The Big Fight. ... [details]
Large-scale exhibition catalogue for show held August 21 - November 27, 2005 in Bremen; May 16 - October 1, 2006; and traveling to Museu Serralves, Porto, Autumn 2007. Exhibition and catalogue indexes over 3,000 records and record covers by artists published from 1950s through 2004. ... [details]
Book with Audio CD. "The groundbreaking mix CD that accompanies this book features Nam Jun Paik, the Dada Movement, John Cage, Sonic Youth, and many other examples of avant-garde music. Most of the CD's content comes from the archives of Sub Rosa, a legendary record label that has been the benchmark for archival sounds since the beginnings of electronic music. ... [details]
"One of the best appreciations of a modern popular musician that's ever been written. In sharp contrast to most of the literature on popular music, it is articulate, it is written by someone who actually knows what he is talking about (Tamm's knowledge of both the mechanics of a studio and a wide variety of music from classical through pop is awesome), it is amazingly free of the usual polemics, hysteria and rhetoric which characterize this kind of book, and it is carefully systematic in the way it deals with Eno and his work. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue for show held April 27 - June 18, 2000. Curated by David Toop. Exhibition featured sound works by Angela Bulloch, Paul Burwell, Disinformation, Heri Dono, Max Eastley, Brian Eno, Paulo Feliciano and Rafael Toral, Greyworld, Stephan von Huene, Ryoji Ikeda, Philip Jeck, Thomas Koner, Vhristina Kunisch, Chico MacMurtrie, Christian Marclay, Russell Mills and Ian Walton, Mariko Mori, John Osward, Pan Sonic, Project Dark, Lee Ranaldo, Scanner and Katarina Matiasek, Paul Schutze. ... [details]