Name: Reading Writing For Clay by Madison Brookshire
Duration: 3 min 9 s
Description: ...wish I knew. Art, I think, is... somewhere between a hobby and a calling...

Pale plumes of dullness
["The Vermont Notebook," John Ashbery]
readings 49

2 c30 audio cassettes, rendering The Vermont Notebook (by John Ashbery, with drawings by Joe Brainard)

version with A & B sides of both tapes superimposed (4 tracks)

48 audio scenes taken on and around Vermont Ave in Los Angeles (predawn), 48 text fragments read in my apartment (after dark), disposed in two layers on each tape (July 12, 2013)

Text from John Ashbery's 'The Vermont Notebook' Copyright © 1975, 2001, 2008 by John Ashbery.  All rights reserved.  Used by arrangement with Georges Borchardt, Inc. for John Ashbery.

Pale plumes of dullness (mark so, 2013)

12. Listening In/To The Liminal
Compiled by Catherine Lamb and Bryan Eubanks

PDF with Text and Translations: lateraladdition.org/listening_into_the_liminal.pdf

Contributions from (in the order in which they occur):

Lucio Capece 
Jürg Frey 
Laura Steenberge 
Mark So/Eileen Myles 
Jason Kahn 
Manfred Werder 
Jakob Ullman 
Eric Laska 
Maryanne Amacher
Michael Pisaro 
Johnny Chang (with Dina Khouri)
Madison Brookshire 
Jordan Paul
Bill Dietz 
Andrew Lafkas 
Walter Branchi 
Éliane Radigue
Mani Kaul 
Peter Ablinger

lateraladdition.org/#12

West Coast Soundings - Mark So

...wish I knew. Art, I think, is... somewhere between a hobby and a calling...

Reading Writing For Clay

excerpt of 52 min. recording of the last in the series Prisma Interius on New World Records:
web page: http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=95221

for: Ensemble Dedalus

Didier Aschour (electric guitar)
Amélie Berson (romantic flute)
Cyprien Busolini (viola)
Yannick Guédon (voice, treble gamba)
Thierry Madiot (bass trombone)
Pierre-Stéphane Meugé (secondary rainbow synthesizer)
Christian Pruvost (trumpet)
Silvia Tarozzi (violin)
Deborah Walker (cello/voice)

recorded and mixed by Benjamin Maumus at Centre Pompidou, Metz, France, July 2018

mastered by Paul Zinman

image by Uta Neumann

Prisma Interius IX (2018) excerpt

excerpt from the premiere performance made by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under Ilan Volkov, conductor, Tectonics Glasgow 2014

Portions Transparent/Opaque (2014) excerpt

Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker Madison Brookshire on helping us re-engage with "lived time", experiments in matching the flickering light of a projector to the frequencies of a harmonium, and the thinking behind his long form, self-performing works.  Images and links on our website at https://www.intothemothlight.com

EP.18 - Madison Brookshire

Fredrik Rasten - composition / guitar with e-bows and slide, piano (played simultaneously, not overdubbed)

Stream drops

a piece made with 2 found mixtapes, 60' and 90', advanced twice around in real time, intermittently recording field sound; treated as a single 150-minute loop; first time, a night walk in Los Angeles; second time, immediately thereafter in my apartment with each tape advancing/recording while the other tape plays back; digital realization, L-R pan: all 4 tape sides - 1A2A2B1B - ending together (April 2013)

Shenandoah Suite (5 hours in Los Angeles) for Madison (mark so, 2013)

4 tape environment from reading 'Illuminations' [readings 41] 

recorded by Julia Holter & Mark So, August-October 2011 in Los Angeles & environs, the Mojave Desert, and Portland, OR (4 audio cassettes, sides A&B together, interspersed L-R pan)

commissioned by the Pasadena Arts Council for the 2011 AxS Festival


Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations, translated from the French by John Ashbery.  Translation copyright © 2011 by John Ashbery.  All rights reserved.  Used by arrangement with Georges Borchardt, Inc. for John Ashbery.

READING ILLUMINATIONS for Julia (mark so, 2011-12)

Madison Brookshire lives in Los Angeles where he makes art and music.

Reading Writing For Clay

Madison Brookshire

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