Since the fall of 2022, World Poetry's Colloquy event series has provided a forum for translators to engage with live audiences in an exploration of the art of translation. In ➚this episode, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Patricio Ferrari, and Minna Zallman Proctor join translator and series curator C. Francis Fisher to discuss their recent publications with New Directions. 

Find past episodes in the archive and stay tuned for more of Colloquy in 2024.

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Inside the launch issue of the Whitney Review (Spring/Summer 2023), including excerpted audio from the feature interview between Brontez Purnell and Michael Bullock and a reading of Philippa Snow's essay about Y2K celebrity fiction by Pamela Anderson, Nicole Richie, and the Kardashians. 

The Whitney Review is the biannual print review dedicated to new writing you've been waiting for -- founded and edited by Whitney Mallett and art directed by Immanuel Yang. The first issue includes interviews with Brontez Purnell, Tamara Faith Berger, Ishmael Reed, and Samuel Delany and reviews of novels, poetry, nonfiction,, art books, periodicals, and more. 

The first issue sold out so enjoy the audio supplement :) Listen ➚here.

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We produced a play in a lobby by, with, and about the psychic worlds of doormen as part of our residency with The Kitchen and in collaboration with The Working Theater.

Comte Des Cierges is a play written by Carlos Cotto and draws from his decade of experience as a former doorman. Directed and organized by Salome Oggenfuss, starring professional and amateur doormen and actors, Jim Fletcher, Ruby Max Fury, Anthony Delfi, Emily Davis, Sophie Becker, Gordon Landenberger, N'yomi Stewart, Timothy Allan, Lluca Huatuco, John Ayala, and Pam Hammond.

Comte Des Cierges was performed on March 23rd, 2023 in the lobby of the Seward Park Cooperative apartment on Grand Street in Manhattan. It was produced in collaboration with The Kitchen and The Working Theater.

We also recorded this fascinating conversation about the work, work, and ➚The Working Theater with Salome Oggenfuss. 

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The Working Theater exists to create theater specifically for, about and with working people; the community that makes up the majority of the overall metropolitan workforce. To that end, Working Theater makes their productions relevant, accessible and affordable to all regardless of geography or socio-economic status because they believe that theater should be a part of everyone’s everyday culture.

Listen to the radio play on ➚MPR here:

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No Spotlight Like the Sun is an hour-long playlist inspired by Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. Go put on that new bathing suit and imagine an OC where Heidi dumps Spencer, Trey and Stephen explore their sexuality, and Lauren’s just a little less shady… I’ve always been the nice girl but this year I realized sometimes you just have to go after what you want.

Since 2012, Lm Listening has made eight playlists with GarageBand—four with Adobe Audition—and has liked nearly 1,500 songs on Soundcloud. Lm absorbs and shares music the same way lots of people do with images: kind of obliviously.

 

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Harry Tafoya sent us this conversation recorded with the late great Frederick Weston and we cut it with some of Weston's music (deep cuts provided by ➚Gordon Raubichaux who manage his estate, and just closed a great ➚exhibition of his). Weston (1946–2020) was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in Detroit, Michigan where he participated in the club scene before moving to New York City in the mid-1970s and worked at concession stands in porno theaters in a very different Times Square (He was once interviewed by ➚Samuel Delany on the subject). Weston was a self-taught, interdisciplinary artist who developed a vast encyclopedic archive of images and ephemera related to fashion, the body, advertising, AIDS (which he contracted in 1996), race, and queer subjects.

This interview was recorded in 2019 while Harry was still in journalism school, two years before Weston's passing. When he was asked to write about the club scene, naturally he went to Frederick. It is a record of a life lived to the fullest. ➚ Listen to the whole two hours here:

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Frederick Weston's obituary by Alex Vadukal in the New York Times is beautifully written, and if you're curious to hear more about the art, craft, and trade secrets of NYT obit writing in general, Kaitlin Phillips, Alex Traub, and Alex Vadukul (City Correspondent and former Obit desk at the NYT) did a whole episode on just that which you can ➚listen to here:

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Revisiting an early, formative segment with Adrian Rew (Ergot Records) and Carol Parkinson who co-produced Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine from 1983-1993. A subscription to Tellus would get you a bi-monthly cassette in the mail with recordings featuring poets, artists, no wave punks, and new music composers, mostly downtown NYC (though sometimes issues were made up of entirely China-based contributors). ➚Every issue of tellus is online at Harvestworks here. 

A favorite work in Tellus is from issue #22 from 1988 where Gretchen Bender's Artificial Treatment layers multiple outtakes of a television news anchor reporting a gruesome scene, leaving a listener to imagine it. The anchor's well-rehearsed takes synch robotically until each gives way to some all too human mistake. The result is a terrifying and uncanny revelation of the fairly banal process of mediating reality. Bender was not only a great artist, she also worked in mainstream media producing things like Megadeath music videos and the intro to the TV hit America's Most Wanted. 

 

➚Listen to the conversation with Carol and Adrian here.

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Considered one of the most influential contemporary artists, Dieter Roth produced artworks in various media, from graphics, drawings, and sculptures, to assemblages / ready-made, sound and music recordings. Dieter Roth's Verlag was founded in 1974.

Featuring: Colette Roper “Piano Pieces” / Dieter Roth “Thy Quatsch Est Min Castello" / Nam June Paik "My Jubilee Ist Unverhemmet"

Colette Roper’s “Piano Pieces”, which was released in 1979, was one of the hardest to find albums among Dieter Roth's Verlag catalogues. Much is unknown about Colette Roper and “Piano Pieces” was her only album. Remastered by Jos Smolder in 2022 and released March 3, 2023 as a split between Art Into Life and Tochnit Aleph/Rumpsti Pumsti (Musik).

From 1977 to 1979 Dieter Roth and Nam June Paik made artistic interventions that manipulated the speed of Arnold Schoenberg's play "Verklärte Nacht, opus 4". Titled "My Jubilee Ist Unverhemmet", Paik's version played the record 4 times slower (on 16 RPM) in a Merce Cunningham dance event. When Roth heard Paik's version, he played "Verklärte Nacht, opus 4" at four times the original speed and recorded this accelerated version as his own piece of music on vinyl. The title of his version is: "THY QUATSCH est min Castello"

From the sleave of Colette Roper “Piano Pieces”:

 

 Nam June Paik’s "My Jubilee Ist Unverhemmet", is slowed up Schoenberg to match a classic immigrant’s tale of great hope followed by disappointment and absurd levels of persistence. I love this story, in his words a pic I took at the Nam Jun Paik museum outside of Seoul:

 

➚Listen to the whole segment here on MPR ---->

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