20120822
Krybaby Craftwerk
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20120813
I'd like to introduce you to my new book.
It is with only a little undue excitement (and perhaps more than a little overdue excitement) that I announce the publication of my second book. Sentences is what it sounds like: a book of sentences. My publisher (that'd pretty much be me) described it as:
Poetry disguised as declaration. Haiku that hasn't been housebroken. Unkempt koans. Ideas with germs. Fortune cookies for the fasting. Around 100 carefully crafted sentences. Not packaged for individual servings.
The book is available on Lulu where you can also preview the first 10 pages or so (select the book and then click "preview" under the image of the book cover) and where you can additionally find a copy of my novelesque Little Apples: A Story Cycle.
That was a fairly long and haphazardly constructed sentence. For Sentences my goals were set higher. I promise. Incidentally, I've really understood the difference between the word "parentheses" and the word "parens." I just looked it up and "parens" is colloquial. Isn't that cute? It's like they have a nickname.
I made this one a paper edition only because I feel that the nature of this project demands the printed page. But if enough people say they want a digital version (like, I guess, anyone), I'll oblige. I was pleased that the paper edition of Apples outsold the digital one 2:1, but that's still 1:2 that wanted it paperless.
Anyway, if you decide you want my book I hope you enjoy it.
20120808
Updated Important Informations
rahrahree! @ the
International sTRANGE mUSIC Day Performance Soiree
Hosted by Patrick Grant and starring Angela Babin + Cristian Amigo = Much Les Paul; The Dreamscape Floppies; Now Eleonor Sandresky;Gene Pritsker's Cage ReUnMixed; An Intimate Moment w/ Glenn Cornett; Hotdog Snotty R.I.P.; Jesse Krakow's Greatest Hits; Micro-Tons o' Fun w/ Johnny Reinhard; Jolly Ramey (Steve Carter & Maddi Horstmenn); Card Tricks with Kathleen Supove; rahrahree! (Tamara Yadao & Kurt Gottschalk); Miguel Frasconi LLC; Symphony Baby & Wormhole Chili; and Jed Distler as himself! Plus everybody's favorite... ZERO BOY!!
@ SPECTRUM, 121 Ludlow St., NYC
8PM-11PM, tickets $10 at the door
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Meeting of Capitalists, Inc.
Hosted by rahrahree!
Meeting of Capitalists Inc. to Mark the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of John Milton Cage, Jr., Hosted by rahrahree! (Kurt Gottschalk and Tamara Yadao): With "Lecture on Nothing" and "Theatre Piece"; please bring 100 records to break during the session.
@ Downtown Music Gallery
13 Monroe St., NYC
6 pm, Admission: 100 pieces of recorded media which you will destroy during the session.
(Reduced admission rates available.)
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Sept 5
Read a Text by John Cage Aloud at Noon Wherever You Are
12 pm
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Ecstasy Mule vs John Cage vs Ecstasy Mule
CAGE100, curated by Miguel Frasconi
Ecstasy Mule vs. John Cage vs. Ecstasy Mule is a game of luck in which there will be a winner. It is an aleatoric piece as opposed to an indeterminate one, using elements of the Cage compositions Indeterminacy, Music Walk, Water Walk, 4'33", Variation #1, Imaginary Landscape #5 and Radio Music, as well as some other chance determined sound sourcings. It was created in response to a request by Miguel Frasconi for a chamber-music-from-another-planet take on Cage, like watching two friends (in this instance Kurt Gottschalk and Len Siegfried) in their living room playing music they can't help but play.
The Stone, E. 2nd St. and Ave. C, Manhattan
8 pm, $10
See it on Facebook
and then,
Dec. 2
Ecstasy Mule vs John Cage vs Ecstasy Mule
RIPRIG at Cafe Clave
4305 Locust Street
Philadelphia
This one site, called Bandcamp?
OK, so posting that eventually I'll get around to making a Bandcamp page made me go ahead and make one for Batterrie Records, the nearly make-believe banner under which my and Ecstasy Mule's self-releases have been, well, self-released. Already up there for free streaming and cheap download are two of the three X-Mule records - Ecstasy Mule Sings Songs of Love and Redemption and Ecstasy Mule Contemplates Hunting + Drinking When the Rainbow is Enuf - as well as two new songs (we would have loved to do a proper 7"), "Square Cooper" b/w "Hothead."
And really, Bandcamp seems to be a pretty nice environment. At least so far, but I've only been there a couple days now. But it all seems to work pretty well. And they give you all these embeds, including this little badge here that'll take you to our page:
And I think I mentioned it before, but the newest X-Mule track is up over at SoundCloud.
So give a listen!
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