An audio tour of films featuring Vito Acconci, Erik Satie, Vicki Bennett, Karl Holmquist, and more from the UbuWeb archive.

Avant-Garde All the Time

Driven by Sound Tracks

Samples from from Craig Dworkin&#39;s UbuWeb paper “Unheard Music,” featuring John Cage, Steve Reich, Mieko Shiomi, Yves Klein, and more.

The Sound of Silence

Audio interpretations of Gertrude Stein from the UbuWeb archives.

Almost Completely Understanding

Yoko Ono flushing toilets, La Monte Young’s “Theater of Eternal Music,” Larry Miller’s baby crying, Alison Knowles onion skin music and loads more.

Sounds of Fluxus

Gertrude Stein at the Algonquin, William Carlos Williams trying to remember “The Red Wheelbarrow,” Salvador Dali on his phallic moustache, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Derrida, and scads more from the archive.

UbuWeb Interviews

Sound clips from Gertrude Stein, Yoko Ono, Louise Lawler, Shelley Hirsch, Lauren Lesko, Forough Farrokhzad, Pauline Oliveros, and many more.

The Women of the Avant-Garde (part 2)

Sound clips from Kathy Acker, Laurie Anderson, Caroline Bergvall, Denise Levertov, Lydia Lunch, Patti Smith, Eileen Myles, and many more.

The Women of the Avant-Garde

How the French avante-garde twisted up and bent language, featuring Rimbaud, Apollinaire, the space age poetry of Ilse Garnier, and more.

Continental Drift

A wide-ranging survey of British sound poets and artists from the 1960s to the present, featuring Bob Cobbing, Neil Mills, Liliy Greenham, Chirstopher Logue, Ann Laplantine, and more.

The Sounds of the UK

Listening to the far out sounds of 1970's LA, featuring Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, and the Kipper Kids, among others.

Resident Voices

And other ethnopoetic marvels, including speaking in tongues, throat singers, and sound poetry.

Punk Versions of Monkey Chants

Hear Allen Ginsberg's hilarious "CIA Dope Calypso" and peak performances by Ezra Pound, Amiri Baraka and Abbie Hoffman.

Protest Poetry With a Beat

You really should listen to the numbers 1 through 100 . . . especially 79.

Schwitters Happens

Tellus's trove of '80s recordings, from ethnopoetics to Paul Bowles.

Best Decade Ever?

Aspen featured Warhol, the Velvets, and John Lennon twiddling the radio dial.

The First "Three-dimensional" Magazine?

Poet Kenneth Goldsmith presents selections from UbuWeb, the learned and varietous online repository concerning concrete and sound poetry, experimental film, outsider art, and all things avant-garde.

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