Interprétations surréalistes
(The French Kings of UBU)

A mix of found sound from the greatest archive of all things experimental – a mash of mostly French artists in a surreal, entangled web of audio imprints. A tribute to the educational and cultural significance of UBUWEB. (Exceptionally, for this show, the sounds originate almost exclusively from the archives of UBU.com!)

John Whiting presents some early 78 rpm recordings of works by Béla Bartók (June 25, 1962)

Magyar gőzmozdonyok

Apollinaire – Le Pont Mirabeau / Le Voyageur (Alcools, 1913)
Roland Barthes – Comment Vivre Ensemble , (Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977)
Avant Garde Project – x

Andre Breton – Entretiens d’André Breton avec André Parinaud (1952) (L’aventure surréalistic (L’aventure intérieur et la création personnelle le disputent aux disciplines sociales)

Pierre Henry – Concerto des ambiguités 1950 / Spirale1955

Andre Breton – Interview 1950

Pierre Henry – Coexistence 1958 – Allegretto

Pierre Schaeffer – Etude des Bruits: Pathétique 1948

Vögel des Ost Europas

Louis Aragon – Interview 1963

Erik Satie – Furniture Music

Jean Cocteau – No Man’s Land

Lois Borges – The Craft of Verse (The Norton Lectures) Lecture 6: Word-Music and Translation, (1967-68)

Pierre Henry – Astrologie (1953)
György Ligeti – Artikulation (1958)

John Ashbery – Landscape (After Baudelaire) (1962) / Daffy Duck in Hollywood (Reading for WBAI-FM, Produced by Susan Howe, New York, June 7, 1975)

Pierre Boulez – Répons 1981-84 (6 solistes et ensemble)

Francis Bacon in Conversation With Melvyn Bragg (from South Bank Show, 1995)

Tamas Ungvary – Gypsy Children’s Giant Dance with IlI Fourier

Jack Kerouac – Old Angel Midnight