Yoko Ono flushing toilets, La Monte Young’s “Theater of Eternal Music,” Larry Miller’s baby crying, Alison Knowles onion skin music and loads more.Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

UbuWeb Interviews

Mar 23rd, 2010 42m 7s

Gertrude Stein at the Algonquin, William Carlos Williams trying to remember “The Red Wheelbarrow,” Salvador Dali on his phallic moustache, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Derrida, and scads more from the archive.Need a transcript of this episode? Requ

The Women of the Avant-Garde (part 2)

Nov 24th, 2009 25m 33s

Sound clips from Gertrude Stein, Yoko Ono, Louise Lawler, Shelley Hirsch, Lauren Lesko, Forugh Farrokhzad, Pauline Oliveros, and many more.

The Women of the Avant-Garde

Oct 19th, 2009 25m 21s

Sound clips from Kathy Acker, Laurie Anderson, Caroline Bergvall, Denise Levertov, Lydia Lunch, Patti Smith, Eileen Myles, and many more.

Continental Drift

Aug 19th, 2009 20m 48s

How the French avante-garde twisted up and bent language, featuring Rimbaud, Apollinaire, the space age poetry of Ilse Garnier, and more.

The Sounds of the UK

Jul 22nd, 2009 22m 33s

A wide-ranging survey of British sound poets and artists from the 1960s to the present, featuring Bob Cobbing, Neil Mills, Liliy Greenham, Chirstopher Logue, Ann Laplantine, and more.Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here

Resident Voices

Apr 28th, 2009 18m 33s

Listening to the far out sounds of 1970's LA, featuring Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, and the Kipper Kids, among others.Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

Punk Versions of Monkey Chants

Jan 6th, 2009 13m 51s

And other ethnopoetic marvels, including speaking in tongues, throat singers, and sound poetry.

Protest Poetry With a Beat

Oct 21st, 2008 16m 28s

Hear Allen Ginsberg's hilarious "CIA Dope Calypso" and peak performances by Ezra Pound, Amiri Baraka and Abbie Hoffman.Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

Schwitters Happens

Aug 1st, 2008 17m 26s

You really should listen to the numbers 1 through 100 . . . especially 79.Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

Best Decade Ever?

May 27th, 2008 14m

Tellus's trove of '80s recordings, from ethnopoetics to Paul Bowles.Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

The First "Three-dimensional" Magazine?

Feb 18th, 2008 15m 42s

Aspen featured Warhol, the Velvets, and John Lennon twiddling the radio dial.

The World of Outsiders

Jan 18th, 2008 15m 28s

Kenneth Goldsmith shares some insane and profane sounds that lie between Avant-Garde and Outsider Art, including recordings by Jim Roche, Robin Kahn, and Sean Landers.Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.