Llorenç Barber: Cuaderno de Yokohama (2009)

The booklet contains the series of 17 graphic scores that Llorenç Barber created in Yokohama (Japan) in 2005. The series brings together the visual exercises and/or pastimes that the composer compiled in a small notebook as he worked on Pocket Naumaquia, the closing concert of the International Triennale of Contemporary Art (ITCA) in December 2005. For this publication Barber has used these graphic notations as inspiration to write 17 texts that, like a game, readers can link to any score they wish.

Llorenç Barber’s work is also reflected in the monograph on his artistic career in episode two of the AVANT series and a major selection of his graphic scores was displayed as part the exhibition Possibility of Action: the Life of the Score in 2008.

Publisher Ràdio Web MACBA, Barcelona, 2009
Quadern d’àudio series, Vol. 2
ISSN 2013-4681
26 pages
via Continuo Docs

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Antonin Artaud: Van Gogh, the Suicide Provoked by Society (1947-) [English, Portuguese]

Artaud’s essay on van Gogh was awarded the renown Prix Sainte-Beauve. He wrote the piece in 1946 after being released from a mental asylum in Rodez, France, where he had undergone extensive electro-shock treatment.

“Fifteen years before Michel Foucault, Artaud affirms that madness has been created by psychiatric medicine and not the other way around. He accuses doctors and Van Gogh’s brother Theo, to have, not only ignored, but actively suppress the expression of the painter’s art.” (source)

Originally published as Van Gogh, le Suicidé de la Société, Paris, 1947

English excerpts published in Horizon, January 1948, pp 46-50
Translated by Peter Watson

radio adaptation by André Almuró, with commentary (Continuo)

Van Gogh, the Suicide Provoked by Society (English, excerpts, trans. Peter Watson, 1948)
Van Gogh, o Suicidado pela Sociedade (Portuguese, 2nd edition)

Ultra-red: Five Protocols for Organized Listening (2012)

Ultra-red’s workbook for militant sound inquiry compiles protocols for collective listening developed by multiple teams of investigators from 2009 to 2011 in cities across North America and Europe.

Self-published
47 pages
via Ultra-red

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