A Brief Lecture on Author/ity - 2004
I had been working on Lecture #4: "On Sound Composition as Anti-Authoritarian Writing" when Ben Basan invited me to submit to The Iowa Review Web "Sound" issue.

Lecture #4 was a struggle against god following Maninder's death. For one reason or another, I did not have the wherewithal to follow the essay into the total nihilism that it asked for. It was not completed. "Author/ity" is a portion that could be encapsulated, a meditation on the history of writing and the possibilities "Audio Writing."

Pretty buzzy and many layers of room tones. Most of the source recordings were made with a Sony dictaphone in a dark bathroom.

Author ity

"Where the Wind Lets You Down"
A Little Poem that I recorded as exported by Victoria High Quality.
1999.



Where the wind

A story about the power of the voice.
Originally published on Tactical Sound #5

Tactical Sound was a zine produced between 2004 and 2006 by Alexis Bhagat. The final issue was a CD collection, co-organized with Greta Byrum, including works by Gregory Whitehead, Christopher De Laurenti, Greta Byrum, Gydja, Matthew Sansom and Alexis Bhagat. Cover art by NSWalker

http://nadalex.net/projects/tacsound.html

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The Power of God

A tape of Sajan Bhagat speaking to Alexis Bhagat made in summer of 1996, remixed in 2001. He describes his first stay in Riker's Island and his first trip to India.

Photo above is by Mel Stones 
https://www.instagram.com/thatsacrazyone

I Didnt Know About It

"All of Asia is Listening to Bush's War"
collage of shortwave recordings from Delhi, India
Source recordings: March 2003
Collage: July 2004
12 minute excerpt for free103point9 of 30 minute tape.

From "Listening to Radio" series, 2004 - 2006

All of asia.mp3

Alexis Bhagat is a writer operating in the art world. His latest letters and emails are sent daily. He works as the Executive Director of the Albany Public Library Foundation, and is a member of St. Rocco’s Poetry Collective in Albany, New York.