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Jules Vasylenko saxophone FUMPH!

5/20/2018

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Jules Vasylenko, saxophone, FUMPH!
​A Distro Album from [Pro]-[Anti] Press,
2018. 80 minutes!
$10 + $3 s/h.
https://monoclelash.wordpress.com/new-publications/

The variety of sounds created by Jules Vasylenko using a saxophone, often as if it
were a voice, is truly incredible: whispering, fluttering, grunting, buzzing,
vocalizations, talkative, percussive, moaning, fog horning, barking, muttering,
chirping, bees swarming, wind, trumpeting, squealing, wavering, quacking,
squeaking, loud, soft and everything in between, plus many indescribable sounds.
What makes this recording great is that all of this coheres into a single voice, a
voice of an enhanced human consciousness telling a complex and deeply
emotional and understood story. I've never heard anything quite like it. Recorded
live at Roanoke's Art Rat Studio, the recording, by Tomislav Butcovic, is up front,
clear, fully professional, and with none of the deficits of live recording. Released
in a limited edition, you better get this while you can!

John M. Bennett
May 2018
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tornatrueno

5/17/2018

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John M. Bennett
2.22.18
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John M. Bennett Interview by Dimthingshine

5/16/2018

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This interview with poet John M. Bennett
by Dimthingshine
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was originally published in Electronic Cottage Issue #5, January 1991
Editor's Note: Article originally re-published here at the EC website on May 8, 2018 in the EC Legacy Blog section. I have re-constructed it here on John's Personal Page by his request.
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Christina Vantzou, No. 4, Kranky, 2018

5/14/2018

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Christina Vantzou's excellent new album, No. 4, on the Kranky label,
has been called
“ambient classical minimalism”
but this characterization downplays
​some of the organic, complex, and enigmatic beauties of the work.
Vantzou says that she used
“sleep and the loosening of time”
in her creative process,

and her work clearly reflects
this way of doing things,

​with its emotionality
​and global meditative atmospheres.
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There are moments in this mesmerizing recording that resonate
with the music of Hildegard von Bingen,
​with voices in a polyphonic ethereal space,
with the polyphony often implied rather than explicit, a neat trick indeed.
This engages the listener's mind
and imagination
​to such an extent
that the listener becomes part of the piece,
creating it in his or her own mind,
which is what the best art must always do.
Vantzou's No. 4 has a surprising variety
of sound structures and modes,
which elevate it beyond what is usually thought of as “ambient” music.
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In fact, the work has a strong narrative feel to it; and at the same time a “timeless”, outside-of-history feel.
​This contrast between linear narration and atemporal space creates a fullness and balance to the work as a whole.

No. 4 is also impressive for the number of collaborators involved in the project, and for the seamless quality of the sound and structure.
​The collaborators 
(among them John Also Bennett, Angel Deradoorian, and members of Belgium's 
Echo Collective) were allowed considerable freedom of spontaneity within a structure of premeditated ideas and textures.
The result is a strong and cohesive
​sonic universe.
Vantzou's No. 4 is available as a download, and as a beautifully designed LP or CD.

In the USA, from Bandcamp
In the UK and Europe, from Boomkat

John M. Bennett
Luna Bisonte Prods
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Thoughts of a Dot as it Travels a Surface

5/13/2018

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Christina Vantzou & John Also Bennett
ZIN TAYLOR'S “THOUGHTS OF A DOT AS IT TRAVELS A SURFACE”

Shelter Press
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LP from Forced Exposure
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Download from Bandcamp
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Thoughts of a Dot as it Travels a Surface, at Forced Exposure
More than just an example of blatant nepotism, I have to express my pleasure in this beautiful new recording by Christina Vantzou and my son, John Also Bennett.  It consists of a sounding or interpretation of a visual work, a drawing by Zin Taylor on the walls of a gallery.  Unlike Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, which is a suite of pieces, Vantzou and Bennett's work is a single long piece, (though several tracks are listed), evolving through numerous changes.  It owes something to ambient music, but is much more developed and meaty than most such work, perhaps due to its grounding in a large visual artwork.  The music involves the use of electronics, flute, and piano, and is, amazingly, a recording of a single live collaborative performance, a performance which fully engages one's attention, and rewards repeated listenings.  

This work is a prime example of the interconnectivity and collaborative nature of the arts; for example, the fact that much sound poetry derives from asemic or visual poetry texts, which are sounded or performed as if they were scores, a practice much engaged in today in avant-garde literary, Fluxus, and performance venues today.

“Thoughts of a Dot as it Travels a Surface” is a beautifully produced high-quality LP with a large fold-out print of the art on which the performance is based, and ample textual discussions on the inner sleeve.  Don't pass this one up!

Editor's Note: this article on Thoughts of a Dot as it Travels a Surface was originally published at EC on April 12, 2018 in the now obsolete/discontinued REVIEWS section. I have re-published it here on John's page by his request.
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    JOHN M. BENNETT
    OPENS HIS MOUTH

    John M. Bennett has published over 400 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. He has published, exhibited
    and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues.

    ​He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and is Founding Curator of the Avant Writing
    Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries.

    Richard Kostelanetz has called him “the seminal American poet of my generation”.

    His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University
    (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries.
    His PhD (UCLA 1970) is in Latin American Literature.

    His latest books are:
    - Select Poems, Poetry Hotel Press/Luna Bisonte Prods, 2016 
    - The World of Burning, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2017
    - Poemas visuales, con
    movimientos con ruidos con combinaciones
    (with Osvaldo Cibils), Deep White Sound, 2017
    - The Sweating Lake
    Luna Bisonte Prods, 2017
    - Olas Cursis
    Luna Bisonte Prods, 2018

    John M. Bennett & Nguyen Đao Claude - 5 S/M/O/K/E JMB after Ivan Argüelles after JMB

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