Personhood

Chapter 2

Happy / That You Have the Body (The Mirror Test)

written by Thalia Field

this episode is performed by April Matthis, with Shannon Tyo and Ben Williams

designed and produced by Ben Williams

Personhood  moves radically through genres and conventions, taking the listener on a design-driven experience into the psychic spaces and logical conundrums that we have created around our non-human relatives.

published by New Directions

recorded at The Collapsable Hole, NYC in 2021

Copyright © 2008, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 by Thalia Field

Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

(image by Joan Wong)

Chapter 2 - Happy / That You Have the Body

Personhood

Chapter 1

Hi Adam!

written by Thalia Field

this episode is performed by Shannon Tyo, with April Matthis and Ben Williams

designed and produced by Ben Williams

Personhood  moves radically through genres and conventions, taking the listener on a design-driven experience into the psychic spaces and logical conundrums that we have created around our non-human relatives.

published by New Directions

recorded at The Collapsable Hole, NYC in 2021

Copyright © 2008, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 by Thalia Field

Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

(image by Joan Wong)

Chapter 1 - Hi Adam

Bird Lovers, Backyard

Chapter 1

Apparatus for the Inscription of a Falling Body

in which a group of indigent philosophers attempt to solve the "pigeon problem"

written by Thalia Field

this episode is performed by Shannon Tyo

designed and produced by Ben Williams

recorded at the Collapsable Hole in NYC.

Copyright © 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 by Thalia Field

Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Bird Lovers, Backyard - Ch 1 - Apparatus for the Inscription of a Falling Body

Point and Line

written by Thalia Field

performed by Anna Foss Wilson
with Tei Blow, James Hannaham, Scott Shepherd, and Ben Williams

original music by Alex Waterman 
in collaboration with Eternities - Katie Porter (clarinet and bass clarinet) and Bob Bellerue (electronics and feedback)

designed and produced by Ben Williams

recorded at the Collapsable Hole in NYC

Copyright © 2000 by Thalia Field

Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

IMPOTENCE OF FIRST LINES

COMING–OF–AGE

SEVEN VEILS

HOURS

WALKING

THE COMPASS ROOM

A ∴ I

OUTLINE, IN MIND

A Prank of Georges

Pulley-Pulley I

in which we are introduced to the theater, Gertrude Stein, and proper names


written by Thalia Field & Abigail Lang

performed by Dee Beasnael, April Matthis, and Christina Rouner

designed and produced by Ben Williams

original music by Billy Martin aka illy B

published by Essay Press

recorded at The Collapsable Hole, NYC in 2024

1:08    machine for making a scene 

3:58    machine for identifying individuals   

7:40    machine for naming names   

12:06  machine for predicting machines   

13:44  machine for being alone   

17:29  machine for what counts   

21:40  machine for spreading rumors   

23:56  machine for dueling 

25:37  machine for food 

28:00  machine for compounding chimeras   

30:48  machine for ellis island (mencken & stein 1)   

37:49  machine for making eggs   

44:41  machine for strumming   

49:27  machine for finally   

53:21  machine for sentences   

56:20  machine for sentences too   

Copyright © 2010 Thalia Field and Abigail Lang

Used by permission of Essay Press


“In A Prank of Georges, Abigail Lang & Thalia Field create a dazzling set of variations in, about, and around lines from Gertrude Stein. Stein’s lines become threads with which Lang & Field weave a text heterolingual and ludic, in which the play of names becomes a matter of meaning’s performing. The question here is not ‘what the poem says,’ but how it keeps on keeps on saying.”

— Charles Bernstein

A PRANK OF GEORGES  PULLEY-PULLEY I

A Prank of Georges

Pulley-Pulley II

in which messes are made with names, confusions grow, populations compete for attention, the chorus appears chagrined


written by Thalia Field & Abigail Lang

performed by Dee Beasnael, April Matthis, and Christina Rouner

designed and produced by Ben Williams

original music by Billy Martin aka illy B

published by Essay Press

recorded at The Collapsable Hole, NYC in 2024

00:01.    machine for following fuses   

02:30     machine for making a lot   

06:19     machine for naming  

09:47     machine for spectral analysis   

12:09     machine for finding the soul   

17:27     machine for making cells   

21:25    machine of fortune  

23:15     machine for telling life from death   

25:42    machine for mysteries   

28:10     machine for spelling-bee and fire-fly   

33:19      machine à traduire (grippée)   

36:49      machine for finding a straight line   

Copyright © 2010 Thalia Field and Abigail Lang

Used by permission of Essay Press


“In A Prank of Georges, Abigail Lang & Thalia Field create a dazzling set of variations in, about, and around lines from Gertrude Stein. Stein’s lines become threads with which Lang & Field weave a text heterolingual and ludic, in which the play of names becomes a matter of meaning’s performing. The question here is not ‘what the poem says,’ but how it keeps on keeps on saying.”

— Charles Bernstein

A PRANK OF GEORGES - PULLEY-PULLEY II

A Prank of Georges

Pulley-Pulley III

in which other individuals vie for attention, geography and names combine, Gertrude Stein persists, populations triumph and fail

written by Thalia Field & Abigail Lang

performed by Dee Beasnael, April Matthis, and Christina Rouner

designed and produced by Ben Williams

original music by Billy Martin aka illy B

published by Essay Press

recorded at The Collapsable Hole, NYC in 2024

00:01      machine for a landscape   

02:54      machine for ellis island (mencken & stein 2)   

07:09      machine for days   

12:06      machine for get me not   

16:20      machine for holding hands   

21:46     machine for making marks   

27:36      machine for branding   

27:53      machine for sea glass   

30:38      machine for seeing ghosts   

34:49      machine for the country entirely (mencken & stein 3)   

40:11       machine for chimeras   

41:48      machine for making spare parts   

50:24      machine for again   

Copyright © 2010 Thalia Field and Abigail Lang

Used by permission of Essay Press

“In A Prank of Georges, Abigail Lang & Thalia Field create a dazzling set of variations in, about, and around lines from Gertrude Stein. Stein’s lines become threads with which Lang & Field weave a text heterolingual and ludic, in which the play of names becomes a matter of meaning’s performing. The question here is not ‘what the poem says,’ but how it keeps on keeps on saying.”

— Charles Bernstein

A PRANK OF GEORGES - PULLEY-PULLEY III

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