Consumerism is a track coming out on the eve of Ms. Hill's release. She wanted to get this music out while she was incarcerated, as it is a product of the space she was in while she was going through some of the challenges she has been faced with recently.

Available now on iTunes: http://bit.ly/MLH_C
Lyrics: http://mslaurynhill.tumblr.com/post/63565382195
 
"Consumerism is part of some material I was trying to finish before I had to come in. We did our best to eek out a mix via verbal and emailed direction, thanks to the crew of surrogate ears on the other side. Letters From Exile is material written from a certain space, in a certain place. I felt the need to discuss the underlying socio-political, cultural paradigm as I saw it. I haven't been able to watch the news too much recently, so I'm not hip on everything going on. But inspiration of this sort is a kind of news in and of itself, and often times contains an urgency that precedes what happens. I couldn't imagine it not being relevant. Messages like these I imagine find their audience, or their audience finds them, like water seeking it's level." 

- Ms. Lauryn Hill

Consumerism

Ms. Lauryn Hill - Consumerism

"Emoticons on Wikipedia" from "Dancing the Internet": a project setting HTML code.  Artificially intelligent dance music (AIDM)for Browsers.

"Emoticons on Wikipedia" by Gary Barwin

An old sketch of Black Rage, done in my living room. Strange, the course of things. Peace for MO.

- MLH

Lyrics: http://mslaurynhill.com/post/95329923112/black-rage-sketch

Black Rage (sketch)

Ep 27 Tom Comitta & Suzanne Stein: The People 

Featuring Tom Comitta performing selections from WARMUP
... and we close out the show with a song from the Los Angeles band Suivalc from their album Aestas Pars and the track is called “Mare Cognitum”

Tom Comitta is a writer and performer living in Oakland, CA originally from West Chester, PA.

Suzanne Stein is also a writer and performer living in Oakland, CA, and a native of Los Angeles.

Ep 27 Tom Comitta & Suzanne Stein: The People

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

MATHEW TIMMONS
CHELSEA RECTOR
& ANDREW CHOATE

Saturday, May 23 2015
Doors open at 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm

Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA 
90012

Mathew Timmons’ works include Terrifying Photo (Wonder, 2015), Joyful Noise for three or more voices (Jaded Ibis, 2012), The New Poetics (Les Figues, 2010), and CREDIT (Blanc Press, 2009). His visual and performance work has been shown at Night Gallery, Weekend Gallery, Pomona College Museum of Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, California College of the Arts, ArtSpeak Vancouver, & LACMA among other galleries and institutions. An active editor and curator, Mathew works as editor & publisher of Insert Blanc Press, General Director of General Projects, and he has curated events, readings and ephemeral art shows throughout Los Angeles. He co-produces and co-hosts the art and culture podcast The People on KCHUNG radio 1630AM with Ben White.

Chelsea Rector keeps poems here: www.crimpingiron.tumblr.com, and writes about art for ArtSlant Contemporary Art Network. Chelsea inhabits The Theater, as a player in LA's own Gawdafful Theater Company. In 2009 Chelsea began a long­term holiday music project, True Holiday Classic (Vol. I­III), while other original vocal and instrumental music is heard on her 2013 cassette, Popular American Song. In 2014 Chelsea and colleague Caitlin Adams formed Best Friends, an experimental dance performance collective. Chelsea has two cats.

Andrew Choate is the author of "Too Many Times I See Every Thing Just The Way It Is" (Residual Press, PRB Editions), "Language Makes Plastic of the Body" (Palm Press) and "Stingray Clapping" (Insert Blanc Press). He is currently working on two books: "Learning," which will be published by Writ Large Press and "I Love You More," for Insert Blanc. He is a member of Inner Dinner, a performance art dining collective, and is the host of The Unwrinkled Ear radio show on KCHUNG every other Tuesday from 5­7pm PST. His most recent piece of music writing was about the 2014 Nickelsdorf Konfrontationen. In terms of pictures, he is saintbollard.

03 Biggest Poetry Selfie Ever - Mathew Timmons

02 Encouraging Words - Mathew Timmons

Wait (Baby I Love You)

S.E.X.

I wrote this song about this person that had me at one spot and one spot only. I was so confused so confused i lost sight of my own life to busy worring about his and his career. so now im braking free out of this icebox that he left me so cold in. ("I almost forgot about a world of life and love")

Trapped (I Been Frozen)

The communist techno sound poetry album you've been waiting for:::

All words by Bertolt Brecht. All voice by Congressman Robert Stripling as he interrogated Brecht during a House Un-American Activities Committee hearing in 1947. 

Source: https://ubusound.memoryoftheworld.org/brecht_bertolt/tondokumente/08_Bertolt-Brecht_Ausschuss-fur-unamerikanische-Bettigung.mp3

Stripling Does Brecht

Tom Comitta

Related tracks