Published: Nero Presspublished in May 2024 English edition 16 x 23 cm (softcover) 76 pages (ill.)A new poem composed by the legendary dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti. New Book is the title of a new poem composed of three existing poems re-edited by Simone Forti. As reading this poem, one moves forward with wonder amid everyday memories, recollections of life, a sense of civic duty, glimpses of a precarious world, the beauty of nature, melancholy, a rage to live.   American dancer and choreographer Simone Forti (born 1935 in Florence, Italy) has been a leading figure in the development of contemporary performance over more than fifty years. Artist, choreographer, dancer, writer, Forti has dedicated herself to the research of a kinesthetic awareness, always engaging with experimentation and improvisation. Investigating the relationship between object and body, through animal studies, news animations and land portraits, she reconfigured the concept of performance and dance. Forti emigrated from Italy with her family via Switzerland to Los Angeles in 1938, where she subsequently studied for four years with choreographer Anna Halprin and has since spent most of her life. She joined the experimental downtown art scene in New York during the emergence of performance art, process-based work and Minimal Art and spent a fruitful time in Rome in the late 1960s, where she used the spaces of L'Attico to study and perform. Her work is seen as a precursor of the famous Judson Dance Theater—a group of artists experimenting with dance, including Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, and Yvonne Rainer—and Minimal Art, although she prefers to be referred simply as a "movement artist."Forti has worked with artists like Dan Graham, Robert Whitman, Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg and composers like Charlemagne Palestine, Peter Van Riper, and La Monte Young.

Self Published: 2024A5 Saddle-Stitched Booklet24 pagesA true crime / noir fiction novella by 43 year old Hitchin resident Russell Walker. ‘Walker is like the anti-Nick Cave.’ - The Quietus.‘A non-league Derek Raymond.’ - Matt Atkinson, book lover.

"Earth, ecology, catastrophe: perhaps Senyawa are themusical embodiment of catastrophe of the Anthropocene?Perhaps. That would be one way to appreciate Rully’scompound lyricism, but certainly not the only one. Thebeauty of poetic forms lies in their open nature. Findingone way in doesn’t meant that there aren’t many more toexplore. And that’s what this booklet is for: to presentRully’s lyrics for Senyawa, so now we can read, understand,and discuss as we listen."Translation of lyrics from experimental Indonesian band Senyawa Senyawa, the experimental Indonesian band formed by Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi, does not sound like anyone else… the combination of Wukir’s handmade instruments and Rully’s other-worldly vocals, channeling Javanese melodies with the intensity of punk and metal, with an avant-garde / DIY approach to constant experimentation and boundary pushing. Over the past ten years Senyawa have continually developed their sound, shifting in relation with the instruments Wukir builds. Unfortunately for people who do not understand the various Indonesian dialects used, while you can appreciate their music and performances, you can appreciate the aurality of Senyawa – the sheer force and wonder of their music – but not the lyrical content. This project is intended to rectify that, translating Rully’s lyrics for Senyawa into English for the first time.

Self-Published 280 x 180mm 20 pages Risograph throughout Saddle stitch, Card cover Released: 2023TALKER is an interview zine about performance. Issue #12 is a conversation with Agus Nur Amal PMTOH Agus uses household objects for storytelling performances and creates art objects to share ideas, knowledge, conflict resolutions and trauma healing. Collaborating with artists, photographers, videographers, and educators, he aims to entertain and educate through various methods. This interview traces the formation of his performance practice following his graduation from the theatre faculty at the Jakarta Institute of Arts and return to his hometown Weh Island (Aceh, Sumatra) where he researched and studied the art of Acehnese storytelling. We also discuss his involvement in community empowerment activities, trauma healing and peace building projects throughout Indonesia. His work was featured in a major exhibition in Kassel, Germany as part of Documenta Fifteen in 2022. Previous issues of TALKER have featured Ian White, Kate Valk, Richard Maxwell, Sue Tompkins, Spalding Gray with Kathy Acker, Dora García, Jo Fong, Paul Maheke, Clifford Owens, Barby Asante, Gustav Metzger and Miranda July. This issue is supported by a Connections through Culture UK-Southeast Asia 2022-2023 Grant from the British Council.

Self-Published 280 x 180mm 20 pages Risograph throughout Saddle stitch, Card cover Released: 2022#10 is a conversation with Barby Asante. Barby is a London-based artist, curator, educator and occasional DJ. Her work is concerned with the politics of place, space memory and the histories and legacies of colonialism. The work is collaborative, performative and dialogic, often working with groups of people as contributors, collaborators or co-researchers. This issue focuses on her live work, from South London community intervention Noise Summitto her intricate, iterative project Declaration of Independence. The interview explores the crucial role of ‘contributor-performers’ and the challenges of presenting performances online.

280 x 180mm 24 pages Risograph printed throughout saddle stitch, Card cover Released: 2019TALKER is a self published interview zine about performance by musician, artist & writer Giles Bailey --- Issue #7 of Talker features a conversation with director, choreographer and performer Jo Fong. Though her background is as a dancer, performing as part of Rosas, Rambert Dance Company, Mark Bruce Company and National Dance Theatre Wales among many others, she also works across film, theatre and the visual arts. Her own work is distinguished by an open, self-aware process and an innovative and expansive approach to research and rehearsal. This interview begins with her ongoing project Ways of Being Together, a series of workshops, discussions and performances centered on the idea of belonging. Jo goes on to share insights into her working methods and discusses her complex relationship to dance, the difficulty of speaking and the impulse to do so. ---

amaican dancehall has long been one of the most vital and influential cultural and artistic forces within contemporary global music. Wake the Town and Tell the People presents, for the first time, a lively, nuanced, and comprehensive view of this musical and cultural phenomenon: its growth and historical role within Jamaican society, its economy of star making, its technology of production, its performative practices, and its capacity to channel political beliefs through popular culture in ways that are urgent, tangible, and lasting.Norman C. Stolzoff brings a fan’s enthusiasm to his broad perspective on dancehall, providing extensive interviews, original photographs, and anthropological analysis from eighteen months of fieldwork in Kingston. Stolzoff argues that this enormously popular musical genre expresses deep conflicts within Jamaican society, not only along lines of class, race, gender, sexuality, and religion but also between different factions struggling to gain control of the island nation’s political culture. Dancehall culture thus remains a key arena where the future of this volatile nation is shaped. As his argument unfolds, Stolzoff traces the history of Jamaican music from its roots in the late eighteenth century to 1945, from the addition of sound systems and technology during the mid-forties to early sixties, and finally through the post-independence years from the early sixties to the present. Wake the Town and Tell the People offers a general introduction for those interested in dancehall music and culture. For the fan or musicologist, it will serve as a comprehensive reference book.

Paperback, 544 pp, English/German Edition. Wolke Verlag, Berlin, 1998 In 2002 Christian Wolff was a guest composer at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and during the course of the festival he was interviewed by Christopher Fox and by James Gardner. Fox's interview took place before an audience in the Lawrence Batley Theatre on 25 November; Gardner's interview was recorded in private in the George Hotel, Huddersfield on 27 November, and edited excerpts from that recording were subsequently used in a programme produced by Radio New Zealand. The conversation presented here has been compiled by James Gardner from his transcriptions of the two interviews and presents a wide-ranging discussion of Wolff's musical preoccupations across every phase of his compositional career, from the early piano pieces of the 1950s, to his involvement with indeterminacy in the 1960s, to the political concerns evident in his music after 1970, to the works of the last three decades in which indeterminate and determinate methods of composition are combined.

Softcover, 432pp, Bilingual Edition (German & English) Wolke Verlag, MusikTexteThis volume documents the work of Alvin Lucier, one of the key figures in 20th-century experimental music. Through conversations, essays, interviews, prose scores, and introductory texts, a unique sonic universe unfolds, revolving around themes such as resonance, space, perception, and reduction. From classics such as I am Sitting in a Room and Music for Solo Performer to installations, diary entries, and collaborations with John Cage, the book shows how Lucier repeatedly pushed the boundaries of hearing. Forewords by Pauline Oliveros and James Tenney

Comprises scholarly engagements with the various outputs of the prolific Berlin based German artist Ulrike Ottinger born in Constance in 1942 to a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father both of whom were protected from the Nazis by the paternal grandmother. The book consists of thirteen contributors, one commentator and 5 interviews. 20 b&w; illus.

From her childhood in Detroit to her professional career in New York City, American composer Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925–2000) lived a life of relentless creativity as a poet and writer, composer for dance, theater, and film, and, eventually, choreographer. Forging her own path after briefly studying with John Cage and Edgard Varèse, Dlugoszewski tackled the musical issues of her time. She expanded sonic resources, invented instruments, brought new focus to timbre and texture, collaborated with artists across disciplines, and incorporated spiritual, psychological, and philosophical influences into her work. Remembered today almost solely as the musical director for the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Dlugoszewski's compositional output, writings on aesthetics, creative relationships, and graphic poetry deserve careful examination on their own terms within the history of American experimental music.

Coiled Verbal Spring: Devices of Lenin’s Language brings together the first English translation of the Russian Formalist and Futurist writings on Lenin’s revolutionary language. The book includes the Russian Formalists’ (Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, Yuri Tynyanov, Boris Tomashevsky, Lev Yakubinsky, and Boris Kazansky) most ‘political’ texts, first published in 1924 in the journal of the Left Front of the Arts (edited by Mayakovsky). Together with this collection, the publication also includes Futurist poet Alexei Kruchenykh’s Devices of Lenin’s Speech, from 1925. Indispensable for any serious research dealing with the relationship between revolutionary politics and artistic forms, these writings had remained a marginal note, both in studies on avant-garde art, and in much literature on Formalist theory.The publication is edited by Sezgin Boynik, who wrote an extensive introduction to the translations by contextualising the experiments of the Russian avant-garde through theories of conjuncture, or more precisely, the theory of contemporaneity within the revolutionary moment. Darko Suvin in his afterword discusses the actuality (and limits) of Lenin and Formalists in the shadow of never-ending warfare.With this book, Rab-Rab Press is proud to present the first English translation of the most interesting project of political Formalism and avant-garde theory in the twentieth century.210x140mm, 366 pages, Black and white offset printed throughout, Perfect bound, Ed. of 1000 Published by Rab-Rab Press, 2018

"Dokkiri! tells the history of a remarkable complex of musical subcultures that developed in Japan from the mid-1970s. Starting with a discussion of the earliest rumblings of punk and new wave, all types of independently produced music are covered in more detail than has ever appeared in English before. Punk, art music, noise, hardcore, psychedelic, dance music and more." - Public Bath Press This book fills in the gaps in my own appreciation of the Japanese independent music scene and provides context for sounds, lyrics and personalities that were all opaque mysteries until now – Steve Albini "Knowledge, affection and respect for the music illuminate an incredible creative and innovative scene. The what. The why. The how" – Ian MacKaye "Hopkins is that rare scene historian who was there at the beginning: and he's still there, recounting the details and telling the stories that no one else can remember. Maniacs and beginners alike, start here!" – David Novak, author of Japanoise     Published by Public Bath Press, paperback, 296 pp, 2015

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January 2023, English/German14×21 cm, 224 pages, 88 color ill., softcover with dust jacket Edited by SERGIO EDELSZTEIN, FANNI FETZER Texts by SERGIO EDELSZTEIN, FANNI FETZER, JEAN-PIERRE REHMRoee Rosen’s film Kafka for Kids is set as the pilot episode for a TV series that perversely aims to make Kafka’s tale “Metamorphosis” palpable for toddlers. In its title, the film Kafka for Kids implies that the intellectual great of modern literature will finally be presented in a way that is generally understandable. Roee Rosen wants to present Franz Kafka, of all people, with his contorted thought constructions, in a way that is even accessible to kids! But unfortunately, that’s not how things turn out: the star writer of the educated middle class is not simplified, but his story becomes much more complex, corresponding to reality, for reality is more complicated than we like to represent using biaxial graphs. Featuring the original script of the movie, readers are invited to dive into a magical story, followed by essays that give a deeper insight in the literary aspects of Roee Rosen’s oeuvre. A stowaway on the journey, Rosen playfully and with wonderful self-irony, does not negate the complexity of the present, but takes it to the next level by exploring how all things are interlinked. Rosen neither doubts the complexity of our reality, nor does he oversimplify to a fault.

ISBN: 9781904607762 Published: 25 Apr 2008 Format: Paperback 528pp Publisher: Birlinn Ltd  The Highland bagpipe has long been a central strand of Scottish identity, but what happened to the Highland bagpipe in the two centuries following Culloden? How was its music transmitted and received? This study presents contemporary evidence and uses a range of methods to recreate the changing world of the pipers as they influenced and were influenced by the transformation in Scottish society. This book is intended for pipers exploring the achievements and musical concerns of their predecessors; for the general reader interested in a music whose history is akin to that of Scotland's poetry and song; and for all students of the process of tradition.Combining newspaper and manuscript evidence from the pipers themselves with a wide range of historical sources, the author harnesses the insights of the practical player to those of the historian and provides a fresh account of the players and their musical traditions, which have previously been the subject of much myth-making. This is the first history of the musical culture of the worldwide piping community.

Paperback, 240 x 180mm, 176pp. Prototype, 2024 With contributions by Galia Admoni, Louis Bailey, Eloise Bennett, Jen Carter, Imogen Cassels, Kat Chimonides, Helena Fornells Nadal, Miruna Fulgeanu, Zsuzsanna Gahse (trans. Katy Derbyshire), Eiffel Gao, Mica Georgis, Matthew Halliday, Jordan Hayward, Hasib Hourani, Aria Hughes-Liebling, Dominic J. Jaeckle, Rozie Kelly, Alex Mepham, Lucy Mercer, Duncan Montgomery, Angélica Pina Lèbre, c.f. prior, Oisín Roberts, Rochelle Roberts, James Rodker, Jacqueline Rose, Leonie Rushforth, Irina Sadóvina, Agnieszka Szczotka, Maya Uppal, Stephen Watts, Jack Young and Kate Zambreno.The sixth instalment of Prototype’s annual anthology: a space for new work, open to all and free from formal guidelines or restrictions. Poetry, prose, visual work and experiments in between.

published by Tenement Press & Prototype, 2023 Paperback; 140 x 216mm; 444pp; black-and-white images throughout Mario Dondero, Erica Baum, Jess Cotton, Rebecca Tamás, Raúl Guerrero, Stephen Watts, Helen Cammock, Salvador Espriu, Lucy Mercer, Olivier Castel, Lucy Sante, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Ryan Choi, John Yau, Nicolette Polek, Chris Petit, Sascha Macht, Amanda DeMarco, Mark Lanegan, Georgia May Jaeckle, Vala Thorodds, Richard Scott, Jonathan Chandler, Joshua Cohen, Sandro Miller, Hannah Regel, Nick Cave, Matthew Shaw, Daisy Lafarge, Jeffrey Vallance, Holly Pester, Matthew Gregory, Emmanuel Iduma, Joan Brossa, Cameron Griffiths, Levina van Winden, Imogen Cassels, Hisham Bustani, maia tabet, Aram Saroyan, Velimir Khlebnikov, Natasha Randall, Edwina Attlee, Jason Shulman, Aidan Moffat, Lesley Harrison, Oliver Bancroft, Lauren de Sá Naylor, Yasmine Seale, Will Eaves, James Hugunin, Glykeria Patramani, Cass McCombs, Will Oldham, Antonio Tabucchi, Elizabeth Harris, Nina Mingya Powles, Isabel Galleymore, Preti Taneja, Stanley Schtinter, Sophie Seita, Ralf Webb, Wayne Koestenbaum, Iain Sinclair, SJ Fowler, David Grubbs, Agustín Fernández Mallo, Pere Joan, Thomas Bunstead, John Divola, Adrian BridgetSeven Rooms brings together highlights from Hotel, a magazine for new approaches to fiction, non-fiction & poetry which, since its inception in 2016, provided a space for experimental reflection on literature’s status as art & cultural mediator. Co-published by Tenement Press and Prototype, this anthology captures, refracts, and reflects a vital moment in independent publishing in the UK, and is built on the shared values of openness, collaboration, and total creative freedom.