Language To Be Looked At, including a Poem Ending in “The”

"Language To Be Looked At, including a Poem Ending in 'The' for four voices plus one including The Old Man, The Worrier, The Forgetful Fish, and The Future Unintelligible" involved two Goodwill tape recorders, my old microcassette tape recorder, and one borrowed from Eric Matchett. The piece was to be based on found/sorted material as it was on the occasion of Rearrangutan, a reading at/for the Nina Katchadourian exhibition "Sorted Books" at the Feldman Gallery and Project Space at Pacific Northwest College of Art, and it appropriately pulled from Chaucer ("And out of olde bokes, in good feith"), especially the Clerk as stand in for the poet/scholar, from Jorge Luis Borges' "Library of Babel" (and is overseen by his Book of Sand), from Joan Retallack on reading, Blaise Cendrars (on an Aztec scroll), Robert Smithson (obviously), and involved an extended taffy pull of a phrase from Heidegger's On the Way to Language in which he proposes the word "saying" as an alternative to the word "language": "The word, 'Saying.' It means: saying and what is said in it and what is to be said." Word. It also references Morris Berman's Twilight Of American Culture; the sections on medieval cultural forgetting and preservation hang over and/or frame the entire piece.

Thanks David Weinberg for this recording.

Language to be looked at

 

 Language to be looked at. Lisa Radon, 2010.: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download