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MAGAZINE is the inaugural issue of Blank Forms\u2019 journal, bringing together a combination of never-before published, lost, and new materials that supplement our live programs. It is envisioned as a platform for critical reflection and extended dialogue between scholars, artists, and other figures working within the world of experimental music and art.<\/p>\n
Following \u201cLet Freedom Fry\u201d\u2014a short statement by Joe McPhee drawing out the contemporary political climate in relation to his practice as a creative improviser\u2014the magazine is bookended by four texts surrounding the practice of pioneering sound artist Maryanne Amacher; an essay by Bill Dietz on his collaborations with Amacher and his work with her archive; an unpublished 1988 interview highlighting Amacher\u2019s ideas around her Long Distance Music and Mini Sound Series; a conversation between Marianne Schroeder, Stefan Tcherepnin, and Lawrence Kumpf revealing the archival questions raised by Amacher\u2019s work; and science fiction writer Greg Bear\u2019s short story Petra, a tale of gargoyles coming to life and breeding with humans in a post-apocalyptic Notre Dame, from which Amacher\u2019s 1991 piece got its name.<\/p>\n
This issue also includes Branden Joseph\u2019s interview with The Dead C\u2019s Bruce Russell, accompanied by Russell\u2019s essay exploring the Situationist tradition of \u2018mis-competence\u2019 in New Zealand electronic music. Charles Curtis contributed notes on the interpretive challenges posed by a posthumous performance of Terry Jennings\u2019 minimalist classic Piece For Cello And Saxophone. Shelley Hirsch, Richard Skidmore, and Dennis Hermanson provide a series of writings on and remembrances of the late Ralston Farina, whose scarcely documented \u201cvisual poetry\u201d was an important precursor to what we now call \u201cperformance.\u201d And from her own 2016 performances at the Emily Harvey Foundation, Dawn Kasper supplies her original proposal document and score notes for an improvisational interpretation.<\/p>\n
MAGAZINE features two new French-translations: an excerpt from Fran\u00e7ois Bonnet\u2019s book of phenomenology, The Infra-World, translated by Robin Mackay, and a Christophe Broqua interview with enigmatic huntress of sounds Anne Gillis, translated by Adrian Rew. Ian Nagoski\u2019s rare 1998 conversation with \u00c9liane Radigue, conducted and largely ignored at a time when there was little interest in her music, provides one of the clearest overviews of the visionary composer\u2019s early work and life. Supplementing the texts are numerous archival photos and documents, plus \u201cDark Matters,\u201d a poem by Joe McPhee.<\/p>\n
Edited by Lawrence Kumpf and Joe Bucciero with contributions by Greg Bear, Fran\u00e7ois Bonnet, Bill Dietz, Dennis Hermanson, Shelley Hirsch, Branden W. Joseph, Dawn Kasper, Joe McPhee, Ian Nagoski, Adrian Rew, Bruce Russell, and Richard C. Skidmore<\/p>\n
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