Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Ears:
  • Kevin Drumm - Second
  • Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Eyes:
  • Saturday New York Times
  • Ad Reinhardt, "Artist," "[The Role of the Artist]," "Documents of Modern Art," "The Artist is Responsible...," "44 Titles for Articles for Artists under 45," "The Artist in Search of a Code of Ethics," "Twelve Rules for a New Academy," "Art vs. History," from Art as Art: the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt

Ears:
  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Italian Concerto (Glenn Gould)
  • Pelt - Skullfuck/Bestio Tergum Degero
  • Rodney Graham Band - Garden Fete
  • various - The World's Lousy With Ideas Vol. 8
  • Joe McPhee Quartet - Underground Railroad
  • Gilberto Gil - Gil Luminoso: voz & violao
  • Jim O'Rourke - Happy Days

Monday, September 28, 2009

Monday, September 28, 2009

Eyes:
  • The Onion
  • Bob Nickas, "Questions About Art Criticism: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words. Are a Thousand Words Worth a Thousand Dollars?" from Theft Is Vision

Ears:
  • 39 Clocks - Pain It Dark
  • Richard Youngs - River Through Howling Sky
  • Rodney Graham Band - Why Look for Good Times?
  • Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers
  • Jim O'Rourke - Happy Days
Eyes & Ears:
  • The Simpsons
  • Gossip Girl

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Eyes:
  • Sunday New York Times
Ears:
  • Morton Feldman - Trio

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Eyes:
  • Gary Indiana, "To Want To, Which, What Of", from Dike Blair: Now and Again
  • Xandra Eden, "Between, But Not Through: Dike Blair's Gouaches and Sculptures, 2001-2009", from Dike Blair: Now and Again

Eyes & Ears:
  • Picasso and the Allure of Language
  • Beyond Beauty: Photographs from the Duke University special collections library
  • Dike Blair: Now and Again

Friday, September 25, 2009

Eyes:
  • Friday New York Times

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Thursday, September 25, 2009

Eyes:
  • Sunday New York Times

Ears:
  • Oneida - Rated O
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago - Reese and the Smooth Ones
  • Richard Youngs - River Through Howling Sky

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Ears:
  • Richard Youngs - River Through Howling Sky
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago - Reese and the Smooth Ones
  • various - The World is Lousy With Ideas Vol. 8

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Eyes:
  • Saturday New York Times
  • Amos Tutuola, My Live in the Bush of Ghosts

Ears:
  • John Zorn - O'o
  • Times New Viking - Move to California, Pentagram b/w City on Drugs, Teen Spirit in Hell

Monday, September 21, 2009

Monday, September 21, 2009

Eyes:
  • Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Ears:
  • Pelt - A Capsized Moment, Paris 2004

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Eyes:
  • Renee Green, "Affection Afflictions: My Alien/My Self or More 'Reading at Work'", from Everything but the Burden: What white people are taking from black culture edited by Greg Tate
  • Arthur Jafa, "My Black Death", from Everything but the Burden: What white people are taking from black culture edited by Greg Tate
  • Michaela Angela Davis, "The Beautiful Ones", from Everything but the Burden: What white people are taking from black culture edited by Greg Tate

Friday, September 18, 2009

Eyes:
  • Michael Wood, "What Happened at Gordita Beach? - Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon", from New York Review of Books, September 24, 2009

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Eyes:
  • Tom McDonough, "Liam's (Not) Home", from Texte zur Kunst No. 75

Ears:
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago - Reese and the Smooth Ones
  • John Zorn - O'o
Eyes & Ears:
  • The Baader Meinhof Complex

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Eyes:
  • Joshua Kit Clayton, "Top Ten", from Artforum September 2009
  • Barry Schwabsky, "Changing Destiny", from Artforum September 2009
  • Mignon Nixon, "Roni Horn", from Artforum September 2009
Ears:
  • John Zorn - O'o
  • Oneida - Rated O
Eyes & Ears:
  • Caroliner

Monday, September 14, 2009

Monday, September 14, 2009

Eyes:
  • Chicago Reader
  • Manford L. Eaton, Bio-Music
  • Gary Indiana, "Leap of Faith" in Artforum, September 2009

Ears:
  • Gyorgy Ligeti - Cello Concerto, Clocks and Clouds, Violin Concerto, and Sippal, dobbal, nadihegeduvel
  • Aufgehoben - Messidor
  • Pelt - Skullfuck / Bestio Tergum Degero
  • Peter Brotzmann - Hairy Bones
  • Luc Ferrari - L'oeuvre electronique CD 1 (Etude aux accidents, Etude aux sons tendus, Etude Floue, Echantillon pour mimes, Visage 5, Tete et queue du dragon, Tautologos 1, Tautologos 2, Music Promenade)
  • John Zorn - O'o
  • Pelt - A Capsized Moment, Paris 2004

Eyes & Ears:
  • Gossip Girl

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Eyes:
  • Sunday New York Times
  • Fabrice Stroun, "What art looks like, circa-1997-tomorrow, as seen through the eyes of someone else", in Mai-Thu Perret: Land of Crystal
  • Paula van den Bosch and Giovanni Carmine in conversation with Mai-Thu Perret, in Mai-Thu Perret: Land of Crystal
  • Hamza Walker, "Alice Still Lives Here", in Mai-Thu Perret: Land of Crystal

Ears:
  • Franz Koglmann - Lo-lee-ta: Music on Nabokov
  • ICP Orchestra - Jubilee Varia
  • Henry Flynt - Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Vol. 2
  • Rodney Graham Band - Never Tell a Pal a Hard Luck Story (You'll Only Get a Hard Luck Story in Return)
  • 39 Clocks - Pain It Dark
  • Morton Feldman - Trio

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Eyes:
  • Saturday New York Times
  • Friday New York Times

Ears:
  • 39 Clocks - Pain It Dark (x3)
  • Times New Viking - Move to California, Pentagram b/w City on Drugs, Teen Spirit in Hell

Eyes & Ears:
  • Robert Davis / Michael Langlois
  • Anthony McCall and Paola Bertucci at Art/Science/Spectacle Micro-Symposium
  • Doug Ischar - Marginal Waters

Friday, September 11, 2009

Friday, September 11, 2009

Eyes:
  • Time Out Chicago
Ears:
  • Oneida - Rated O
  • 39 Clocks - Pain It Dark
  • Teenage Panzerkorps - Arc de Triomphe, Knut Hamsun b/w Corpse On an Empty Stage
  • Gas - Compressed Gas
  • Blues Control - Local Flavor
Eyes & Ears:
  • Melanie Schiff - The Mirror
  • Selina Trepp - Appear to Disappear
  • David Lieske - a means to an end - to make ends meet
  • Paul Nudd -Vomitromiton & Dan Attoe
  • Philip von Zweck - The Fortieth Anniversary of the First Anniversary of May ’68 (in September)

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Eyes:
  • The Onion

Ears:
  • Hanne Darboven - Opus 17a
Eyes & Ears:
  • Philip von Zweck - The Fortieth Anniversary of the First Anniversary of May ’68 (in September)
  • Paul Nudd -Vomitromiton & Dan Attoe
  • Robyn O'Neil - On Sinking
  • The Simpsons

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Eyes:
  • Diedrich Diederichsen, "When Worlds Ellide" from Artforum September, 2009

Ears:
  • Roscoe Mitchell - Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3
Eyes & Ears:
  • Diversity & Contemporary Art panel at MCA

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Eyes:
  • Mike Watt, "Sonic Spiel, 2008", from Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix
  • Kim Gordon, "Letter to Karen, undated", from Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix
  • Richard Hell, "Goo, 1992", from Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix
  • Elein Fleiss, "One or two anecdotes about the Sonic Youth miracle, 2008", from Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix
  • Kim Gordon, "Contribution for Purple Prose, 1998", from Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix
  • Timothy van Laar, "An Atlas of Proximity and Distance: Buzz Spector's Postcard Works, 1973 to 2000", in Buzz Spector: Cards and Letters
Ears:
  • U.S. Maple - Acre Thrills
  • Sonic Youth - The Eternal
  • Gas - Compressed Gas
  • Tyvek - Mary Ellen Claims b/w Honda
  • Oneida - Rated O
  • 39 Clocks - Pain It Dark
  • Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
  • Teenage Panzerkorps - Arc de Triomphe, Knut Hamsun b/w Corpse On an Empty Stage
  • Roscoe Mitchell - Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3
  • Morton Feldman - Trio

Monday, September 7, 2009

Monday, September 7, 2009

Eyes:
  • Alan Licht & Jutta Koether, "On Sonic Youth, 2008", from Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix

Ears:
  • Roscoe Mitchell - Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3
  • Evan Parker - Saxophone Solos
  • Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
  • Royal Trux - 3 Song EP
  • Wall of Voodoo - Dark Continent
  • Max Roach featuring Anthony Braxton - Birth and Rebirth
  • Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
  • Morton Feldman - Trio
Eyes & Ears
  • Duck, You Sucker (aka A Fistful of Dynamite)

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Eyes:
  • Sunday New York Times

Ears:
  • Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
  • Max Roach & Anthony Braxton - One in Two - Two in One
  • Peter Brotzmann - Hairy Bones
  • Monks - Black Monk Time
  • Omoide Hatoba - Kinsei
  • Alice Cooper - Love It to Death
  • The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
  • La Lupe - Greatest Hits
  • Hanne Darboven - Opus 17a

Eyes & Ears:
  • The Arthur Hoyle Orchestra conducted by Muhal Richard Abrams, featuring Harrison Bankhead, Ari Brown, George Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Eyes:
  • Saturday New York Times
  • Chicago Reader
  • John Miller, "Pop by Other Means", from Sonic Youth etc: Sensational Fix

Ears:
  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Master and Everyone
  • Rhys Chatham - Echo Solo
  • Roxy Music - The Greatest
  • IBM - The Oval Recording
  • Alice Cooper - Love It to Death
  • Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
Eyes & Ears:
  • Academy Records - Sunrise, Different States of Mind, and Maudlin-Missives and Mementos
  • Fred Anderson Trio
  • Amina Figarova Sextet
  • William Parker presents "The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield"

Friday, September 4, 2009

Eyes:
  • Friday New York Times
  • Eileen Myles, The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel essays in art (begun in earnest)

Ears:
  • Hanne Darboven - Opus 17a

Eyes & Ears:
  • Jeff Parker Quartet
  • Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, George Lewis Trio
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba Quintet

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Eyes:
  • David Joselit, "Institutional Responsibility: The Short Life of Orchard", from Grey Room 35
  • Andrea Geyer and Ulrike Muller, "An Idea-Driven Social Space", from Grey Room 35
  • The Onion

Ears:
  • Josh Abrams - Cipher
  • Anthony Braxton & George Lewis - Donaueschingen (Duo) 1976
  • Conga de los Hoyos - Carnival Music of Eastern Cuba
  • Don Cherry - The Sonet Recordings
  • Luc Ferrari - l'oeuvre electronique (CD 1: Etude aux accidents, Etude aux sons tendus, Etude floue, Echantillon pour mimes, Visage 5, Tete et queue du dragon, Tautologos 1, Tautologos 2, Music Promenade)
  • Gyorgy Ligeti - Aventures, Nouvelles Aventures, Artikulation, Eight Pieces from "Musica ricercata', Cello Sonata, Big Turtle Fanfare, Balada si joc, Regi magyar tarsas tancok
  • Max Roach & Anthony Braxton - One in Two - Two in One
Eyes & Ears:
  • The Simpsons
  • 30 Rock

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Eyes:
  • Melanie Gilligan, "Public Image LLC: The Three-Year Plan", from Grey Room 35
  • Time Out Chicago

Ears:
  • Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Maurice Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, Elliot Carter: Night Fantasies, Two Diversions, and 90+

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Eyes:
  • John Miller, "Fun Gallery", from Grey Room 35

Ears:
  • Alan Licht - A New York Minute
  • Thelonious Monk - Plays Duke Ellington
  • Alice Cooper - Killer

Monday, August 31, 2009

Eyes:
  • Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter