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September 23, 2009
Karaoke Marfa
My essay “Karaoke Marfa” is out now in print in the new issue of Proximity (issue 5). It’s a sort of hybrid of art criticism and narrative, with photos. It’s not online, but it can be bought from one of these places (scroll to bottom), or online. Table of contents (pdf).
September 6, 2009
Value Added: Thoughts on Supplementary Tactics in New Music
My latest essay in The Brooklyn Rail.
June 4, 2009
The Music Was Dying
My piece about William Basinski and “Hauntology” in music is online and in print in June’s Brooklyn Rail.
March 31, 2009
Poem
A poem of mine, “The Varieties of Knives“, is now up on Proyekto, which is refashioning itself into an outlet for new writing. The content promises to be anything but same ol’ same ol’. Check it out.
February 7, 2009
Daddy Knows Best: The Oedipal Right
Last year, as if to pass a now obligatory Republican litmus test, John McCain made the fatuous claim what while a prisoner of war in Hanoi, he drew strength from catching wind of a inspiring new Governor of California named Ronald Reagan (who was at the time spending an inordinate amount of time trying to [...]
January 21, 2009
Appearance
Ding Dong Reading Series
Nell Boeschenstein
Daniel Letchworth
Brandon Kreitler
Eric Burg + David Kutz-Marks
Sam Lipsyte
Wednesday, Jan 21
Ding Dong Lounge (106 and Columbus)
8:30-10:30
New York
January 12, 2009
Signal
You are driving and there is a song on the radio. You’ve heard it before. You haven’t heard it before. You may as well have heard it before. But static hums gently and then overtakes the signal, nearly. The song is hard to hear, buried in there somewhere. Is it the power lines that do [...]
January 5, 2009
Ghosts in the Wax (2)
In his 1928 essay “The Curves of the Needle” Adorno claims that it is exactly the imperfections of a recording, the sounds that point to the material instantiation rather than song, which paradoxically make a record sound human. The opposite also holds: the more clear the recording is the more distant, even “alien”, its sound [...]
January 3, 2009
Ghosts in the Wax
In his long article in Harper’s last year, “Unknown Bards”, John Jeremiah Sullivan makes the case that the mediation of records, and indeed their fetishization, was not only present very near the beginnings of the post-reconstruction era blues music that became the object of the feverish reification of authenticity, but indeed enabled this music from [...]
