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[billy <glitchkitten@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi all.  it is very cold in providence.

I joined the list maybe three or four weeks ago and agree 100% with 
kim.  while I like seeing calls for work and general art alerts, my 
mailbox has been a little overfull of promos for events I cannot 
possibly get to.  or playlists (how many of these do I need to get a 
day?)  kicking promoters off is a bit draconian, but will probably make 
the purpose of this list more clear to us who want to participate in 
it.  i don't know where promo info should go, but this list has really 
seemed more like a bulletinboard with kinkos copied flyers all over it.

anyway.  now for some content by me.  i hope some response can be 
generated and whatnot.

so, 2003 was rather damn fine for me.  (to start, I've had my powerbook 
for a year.  bling.)  lots of performances, lots of work, lots of 
drawing lines between boxes with text in them, general joys and 
emotions etc.

I have been continually perplexed by developements in music and art.  
this may come off as a short toplist but-

morton feldman wrote some amazing music and I have been fortunate to 
find more and more people who are as into it as I.  (missed a perf of 
quartet 2.  <heartbreak>)  his influence getting recognized and this is 
always a critical point for the work of an artist and for those 
influenced by him.  I got a copy of his selected writings (from exact 
change press, available on amazon so don't fret about unavailability) 
and was very into it, didacticism and all.  I feel in his work a stong 
sense of care and precision (even in his use of 
chance/indeterminacy/however you want to put it).  clarity and 
communication (when 'difficulty' presents itself, it is transparent, 
neither on the surface nor in the depths of the music).

the wealth of electronic music that is simply amazing.  musicians 
creating and performing work that I have a wonderfully hard time 
categorizing (some tasks I leave up to wire magazine) more enjoyable to 
listen to.  people playing instruments and singing instead of just 
staring at their laptops (though that has made some damn fine work this 
last year as well).

cremaster 3 -  damn.  completely overwhelming.  if all art was given 
this kind of support... (see also isaac julien's recent 3-channel film 
that was at metropictures in chelsea.  forgot the name but had a 
similar level of quality and vision)  neither have anything to do with 
the focus of this list, but are stunning.

the poetry of cole swensen, stephen ratcliffe and others.  ratcliffe's 
_portraits and repetition_ is of special interest to microsounders.  
immense (over 400 pg) but so focused and remarkable clear.  moments 
enlarged and reflected, sense and memory become loosed from their 
moorings.  read!  (if not these, something!)

much more to blab about.  figured i'd try to light a fire.  its cold 
anyway.
hey.  i'm pretty happy.  you?

b.



"	I want to go to the elevator
& ascend in the cool
wind that lifts us
in our just-awake traits
into the dusk & our skirts asking questions

of cringing atoms singing like brass bands in the closet

I will make the music for you, a view
with no pictorial illusion of volumetric space"	-eleni sikelianos


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