hippos in tanks
the co - founder and operating ceo of hippos in tanks has died, according to reports .
the co - founder and ceo of experimental music label hippos in tanks has passed away at the age of 27 .
machat co - founded the los angeles - based hippos in tanks with travis woolsey in 2010. known for their experimental catalog, hippos in tanks put out releases from autre ne veut, laurel halo, dean blunt, arca, physical therapy, hype williams, james ferraro, nguzunguzu and more .
and the hippos were boiled in their tanks, columbia university, david kammerer, jack kerouac, lucian carr, the bloodsong, william s. burroughs
barron machat was co - founder and operating ceo of hippos in tanks, a los angeles - based record label and management company that released music from artists such as dean blunt, laurel halo, james ferraro and autre ne veut. launched in 2010, in 2011 hippos in tanks was named label of the year by fact .
@ torakamikaze tried looking up hippos coughing online but couldn' t find much, shame! i love learning more about hippos .
hippos in tanks was a record label and artist management entity based in los angeles, california founded by barron machat and travis woolsey. label ceased operations when barron machat died in a car crash in miami, fl in april 2015 .
hippos in tanks' records had the commonality of being generally technology - obsessed, sounding consistently strange, and always seeming a year ahead of what everyone would be talking about .
although the youtube embed has no info beyond the phrase
ringtones 4 world peace ,
tiny mix tapes reports that a new bodyguard album is in the works for hippos in tanks, and is set to drop sometime in september .
nyc, hell 3: 00 am is out october 15 on hippos in tanks. you can stream the second trailer below as well as an audio stream of
eternal condition / stuck 2 .
back in 2009, and how their mutual passion for these radically retro (but completely fresh) artists they were contacting and being contacted by moved them to want to release their music. and one ep at a time, one lp at a time, hippos in tanks began floating in the ether .
this is true. i saw nine hippos at 6 zoos over the last 10 months and 7 were coughing .
barron machat, the co - founder and ceo of record label hippos in tanks, has died. tri angle' s robin carolan and oneohtrix point never shared the news on twitter. he was 27 years old. the cause of death has not been confirmed .
considering that this la - based label’s name comes from a novel co - written by jack kerouac & william s. burroughs a whole 10 years before they became “ jack kerouac ” and “ william s. burroughs, ” the creators of hippos in tanks are placing themselves firmly in the timeline of music alt. culture history. trafficking in a left of - left of center avant - synth zone, hippos in tanks is doing really bold work that should be recognized right now, but may very well be so cutting edge that it’s the label kids will be talking about in 20 years in the same way that ze records (and “no wave”) was so informative to the early 2000s .
the los angeles based label hippos in tanks was founded five years ago by machat and travis woolsey, and released music by artists including dean blunt, autre ne veut and hype williams, as well as james ferraro and nguzunguzu. machat had recently been working with yung lean and the sad boys .
i read in a magazine that hippos only cough sometimes. you know, like cause of all the water around them. they' ll just start coughing .
i recently sat down for a margarita with label head, barron machat, whose youthful idealism and profound respect for the artists he’s releasing is super - inspiring. he told me the story of how hippos in tanks had started as an offshoot of a late - night radio show he’d co - curated with travis woolsey for
hippos in tanks comes through two independent interests in recorded music: my interests and those of my partner barron machat. in both cases our passions were fostered through our families, who lead record - centric existences. our experiences and relationship with records differ greatly yet we ultimately reached the same conclusion: we should take part in making music. we owe a special debt to our fathers who passed this wonderfully meaningful disease onto us .
indeed, and the hippos were boiled in their tanks has reached a time when it will be loved, and that raises real questions over its literary merit. but then again, who really cares, so long as it’s a fun read? the key is in both authors calling it ‘hard - boiled’. when was hard - boiled ever really out and out literary ?
and the hippos is quite engaging. highly recommended for those compelled by the beats, i found myself laughing out loud many times, definitely worthwhile .
hippos in tanks’ last record was released in 2013, but in recent years machat had worked with swedish rapper yung lean and the sad boys as part of emotional management. machat was from a music family: his father was steven machat, the music lawyer and manager behind the book gods, gangsters and honour, and his grandfather was marty machat, a lawyer and manager who worked closely with leonard cohen and phil spector .
barron machat, co - founder of hippos in tanks, has died. although the cause of death is still undetermined, the news began to spread early yesterday morning via a series of tweets and instagram images from hippos in tanks' alumni and folks close with machat, including james ferraro, daniel lopatin, arca, laurel halo, and tri angle, among others. together with label co - founder travis woolsey, machat helped cultivate the careers of arca, games / ford & lopatin, dean blunt, inga copeland, sleep ∞ over, james ferraro, d' eon, and lauren halo - - all largely underground producers who went on to experience much larger audiences after working with the label. machat was 27 .
this resulted in a vast ceramic oeuvre that he has exhibited worldwide in countless major museums such as the bass museum in miami, the crac in sète and the louvre in paris .
nonetheless, it changed much. kerouac was now married, carr was gone from the circle, and all of the writing of the time centred on the infamous event. ginsberg wrote the bloodsong, but was warned by the assistant dean that columbia didn’t need any more bad publicity. kerouac and burroughs, however, wrote a novel called, strangely, and the hippos were boiled in their tanks .
with an already future - classic release from games under their belt, and a phenomenal roster of great young talent with solid releases from next wave artists like hype williams, d’eon, grimes, sleep - over, laurel halo, and most recently synth wunderkind james ferraro (who simon reynolds recently likened to jean baudrillard in his latest book, retromania) hippos in tanks have already been named one of fact magazines “ labels of 2011. ”
on april 9, 2015, barron alexander machat passed away due to a car crash in miami at the age of 27. machat was the co - founder of los angeles - based label hippos in tanks, home to experimental pioneers james ferraro, laurel halo, arca, hype williams, dean blunt, and more. he also managed artists like yung lean and the sad boys under emotional management. coming from a family of music industry giants, he gracefully followed his father steven machat' s footsteps in representing standout artists in his own underground way with the biggest heart and dreams .
the (non) publication history of and the hippos were boiled in their tanks isn' t one to inspire confidence either. apparently the yet to be famous duo submitted the work to most of the publishers in america shortly after completing it in 1945 and not one took it on. kerouac might have declared in a letter to his sister, deliciously unaware of what the future held for him, that the novel
can' t be beat
, but no one else was interested .
in hindsight, i don' t see why they should have been ,
burroughs told his biographer in the mid 1980s .
it wasn' t sensational enough … nor was it well written enough .
i remained unimpressed, even when i heard that the book gloried in the title and the hippos were boiled in their tanks and saw the beautifully understated cover. i was especially wary of anything that might somehow so far have escaped publication, since the beats were already quite prepared to publish any amount of incoherent guff in their own lifetimes. kerouac' s book of dreams, which i forced myself to read when a student, is a not even half - formed case in point. that' s a book that the man wrote when half asleep. about stuff he couldn' t remember properly. and wasn' t even that interesting in the first place. what could possibly have merited less attention from the barrel scraper than that ?
jamison stoltz is a senior editor at grove atlantic. he edits nonfiction—recent titles include the voyeur’s motel by gay talese, the comedians by kliph nesteroff, neither snow nor rain by devin leonard, and eccentric orbits by john bloom—and fiction, including donna leon’s new york times - bestselling commissario guido brunetti mystery series, and the novels of mark haskell smith, deon meyer, and mike lawson. notable forthcoming books include simon ings’ stalin and the scientists, tracy borman’s the private lives of the tudors, and carrie gibson’s el norte. in 2008 he oversaw the original publication of jack kerouac and william s. burroughs’s collaborative novel and the hippos were buried in their tanks. before joining grove atlantic in 2005, he worked at the william morris agency in london and new york, and in publicity at houghton mifflin in new york .
a couple of years ago, i lived in a big house with tons of roommates who were also in bands. barron and other hippos in tanks artists stayed at my house—it was insane, i think there were like at least 13 people staying with us that week. it was barron' s first time to austin, and he was enchanted with how safe and nice it was. so to make space in the house, he just slept in the park across the street from my house in a sleeping bag. i told him countless times that obviously he could sleep inside, but i think it went along with this romantic provincial idea he had of austin—like he had to do it because he could. i still remember driving to work in the morning, seeing him sleeping in the park, thinking ,
what a goofball .
he had a special sense of adventure, and sought to find the magic in what most people saw as totally banal. what he did was important .
last week, with the news of barron machat' s tragic passing in a car crash at the age of 27, i experienced the heartbreak of what felt like another chapter in music coming to a close. i wasn' t a close personal friend of barron' s, but hippos in tanks, his label, probably put out more releases i cared about than any other label i grew up alongside as a writer. it' s hard to generalize about the 47 releases that came out within the los angeles - based label' s four years of activity, though they had the commonality of being generally technology - obsessed, sounding consistently strange, and always seeming a year or so ahead of what everyone in music—from the underground community to the pop world—would be talking about .
in between, there was a description, by kerouac, in vanity of duluoz, but the truth was heavily distorted. kerouac talked about it with ann charters, for his biography. and two years later, excerpts of hippos appeared in a magazine and burroughs had to sue to protect carr, who was trying to work a stable life as a journalist. a short excerpt, too, came in word virus, but still there was no great effort made to bring about this near mythical text .
update, 17. 50 bst: barron’s family have confirmed that he died in a car crash in miami on wednesday morning .
barron was a deliverer of dreams. his belief in us helped us to believe in ourselves. we love you barron .
in early 2009 a pivotal change occurred in the form of a new opportunity: we received a request to host a radio show on los angeles station kxlu. the slot left a lot to be desired seeing that it was from 2 - 4am on saturday morning, but it offered us the chance to build something ourselves and play records, so we accepted. the title of the program was hippos in tanks (named after a novel written by burroughs and kerouac) and initially focused on vintage sounds. the program went on to have several incarnations during it' s run before we settled on playing contemporary music. the time spent curating and broadcasting proved to be an important element of developing the label identity and more importantly the show gave us a confidence, albeit modestly that our taste' s were something people enjoyed .
this was lucien carr, best known to beat watchers as the dedicatee of allen ginsberg' s howl. when carr died in 2005 he was a respected united press editor and family man. back in 1944 things were very different. then he was 17 and beautiful :
the kind of boy literary fags write sonnets to, which start out' o graecian lad'
, as burroughs says in the hippos book. he was sexually ambivalent, the friend of the fast living jack kerouac, william burroughs and allen ginsberg. and he was a murderer .
birth of the beats... william burroughs (l) and jack kerouac in new york in 1953, photographed by allen ginsberg. photograph: corbis
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thats why you jsut do the first part of the sneeze. you just do the
aaah
part. this way it fits good still and you give the viewer of the blanket somehting to think about. they see
aaah
on the blanket and think
oh that hippos is gonna sneeze
and they lay down in the bed and think
wonder what the
choo
part would sond like from a hippo ?
and that helps them sleep
in the aforementioned the wire article, keenan posits a solution for the underground' s
selling out problem
in a complete retreat from the marketplace and from visibility, in the avant - garde' s categorical withdrawal unto itself :
at this point we need to shut down dialogue, halt conversation, put down the iphone. we need a ruthlessly stratified, exclusionary, hermetic, refusenick art .
to that seemingly defeatist stance, i hope hippos will be remembered for laying the groundwork to an alternative template for the avant - garde: dive headfirst into the world you hate. wrestle with it. make art about it. become a vigilante .
this is the first in a series of essays chronicling the intersection of humor and music .
ad hoc: earlier in our correspondences you mentioned that you buried the pinhead tape behind an amphitheater in san diego. can you elaborate on that process, its purpose and outcome ?
johan creten (sint - truiden, 1963) initially studied painting at the academie voor schone kunsten in ghent, then studied sculpture at the école supérieure des beaux - arts in paris and was resident at the rijksakademie in amsterdam. for some time thereafter he led something of a nomadic artist’s life between miami, monterrey (mexico), kohler (wisconsin) and the villa medici in rome; all places where he created works. currently he is based in paris .
adhoc: compared with your compatriots in emeralds and some in the noise / ambient scene generally, you aren' t nearly as prolific—at least in terms of official releases, and especially in the last five years or so. is there a specific reason for this? did you feel like the
vault clearing
was accomplished with the s / h compilation release? are you generating as much material and just a lot choosier about what gets released and in what format ?
additionally, blunt has had numerous exhibitions and performances of his work as a conceptual artist, which often ties into his music:' white flight' in 2012,' lord knows' and' brixton 28s' in 2013, and' urban' and' new paintings' in 2014 .
book 1 – fact and fiction in a digital context. a text by holly francis that discusses the loss of authorship in the online environment, asking, who is the author? and what defines reality ?
samiee, who works in amsterdam, berlin and teheran, and studied at the royal academy of art in amsterdam in 2014 - 2015, will be presenting an installation combining works from 2014 to the present day in the gemeentemuseum’s projects gallery. he will also integrate into the installation a number of paintings from the museum’s collection, by the artists constant, paul thek and emo verkerk, with whom he feels a kinship .
john hilary shepherd is a wga award - nominated writer for his work on the emmy award - winning showtime television series nurse jackie. john joined cross creek pictures in 2010 after working in development for spelling films, polygram, and as a story analyst for the william morris agency. john has a ba in broadcasting & cinema from the university of north carolina at greensboro and received an mfa in screenwriting from the american film institute .
his beautifully coloured sculptures that take on all manner of forms are full of (double entendre) references and ‘winks’ which mean that their complex interrelationships and meaning is far from easy to define. the themes are often ‘veiled’ in the sculpture or are to be found in the title, in some instances more explicitly. in this way there are examples to be seen from his famous odore di femmina - and from the impressive glorie series .
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rescue dogs who, in the aftermath of the 9 / 11 attacks, searched day and night for survivors at the pentagon and world trade center. horses living in the wild, on the fringes of nevada towns, or on small islands in japan. breeds that are almost extinct because of they no longer serve any practical purpose .
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the full - length release of fourth world magazine: pinhead in fantasia is out soon from pacific city sound visions .
but the long delay in publication was caused by more than a simple suspicion that the book wasn' t very good. there' s also the serious consideration that the subject of the book didn' t want it published in his lifetime .
a matter of time. thom puckey en het thorbecke monument - the hague contemporary - platform for contemporary art in the hague
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the university of california has been active in the coachella valley for nearly 100 years, initially supporting the agriculture industry and more recently impacting modern growth issues through research in areas such as transportation, air quality, and energy and water conservation. the ucr palm desert center, established in 2005, provides graduate education to the coachella valley through its innovative executive mba and mfa degrees .
sam keogh a current artist in residence at the irish museum of modern art, working toward a new commission for eva international in limerick to open this april. he works across installation, sculpture, performance, drawing and collage. in recent work his installations facilitate a performance which morphs sculpture into props and collage into mnemonic devices or surfaces to be read as a half improvised pictorial script .
many of johan creten’s sculptures were created in close collaboration with ceramic atelier struktuur 68 in the hague and the famous french porcelain maker manufacture nationale de sèvres. the craftsmanship of such institutions in combination with creten’s artistry produces exceptionally beautifully executed works of art, each of which has its own unique appeal. he also devotes a great deal of attention to the skin of his sculptures. this can be rough or aggressive, covered in crystals and small details, or indeed smooth by the application of a glossy layer of glaze .
in 1967 dick raaijmakers launched the concept of the ideophone: a loudspeaker that becomes an active ‘speaker’ and composes its own music. between 1968 and 1970 he continued to elaborate the concept, eventually creating large installations that were all entitled ideophone (a combination of ‘idea’ and ‘phone’, meaning a speech sound or sound unit in isolation). this exhibition presents ideophone iii, an installation comprising four large loudspeakers. metal plates suspended in front of the centres of these ‘speakers’ are alternately kicked away in a perpetual cycle of movement .
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museum of the near future (mnf) is an apparatus for looking sideways at institutions, cities, time and space. in an attempt to challenge perceptions of what is possible, and desirable, between now and next, mnf produces places for imagination and discussion in site - specific, functional installations. they are set up in interaction with museum and other institutional contexts and contents, asking questions for and with their hosts .
in her bi - weekly column, social anxiety, emilie friedlander peeks underneath the artifacts of contemporary culture to question what it all really means .
it is being reported by fact mag that barron machat died in a car crash in miami. news of his passing was shared yesterday (april 9) by a number of artists and industry figures, including daniel lopatin of oneohtrix point never, arca, forest swords and laurel halo .
when kammerer and carr left the bar at three in the morning, to walk and talk by the hudson river, it was the last time anyone would see kammerer alive. according to carr, kammerer tried to sexually assault the younger man, and carr defended himself by stabbing his attacker twice in the chest with a small boy scout knife. in a panic, carr filled kammerer’s pockets with stones and throw his body into the hudson river .
back in december, the uk music critic david keenan published an editorial in the year - in - review edition of the wire that upset a lot of people i know .
it' s 2014 and the underground is finally dead ,
his retrospective began ,
a corpse where every nth generation inanity has its champion, where every artist is his or her own pr machine .
he continued :
in 2014, underground music has become a mere fetish, something to throw in the mix for credentials while never allowing the approach to fully deform the music or take it anywhere else. even industrial, one of the most consistent bulwarks against the commodification of revolt [ … ] has become nothing more than ambient, beat driven wallpaper .
practically, the labels beginning occurred after i graduated college and went to work for an online company in los angeles, which is where i met barron. the business was music related but bares nothing in common with the label. from the start, the two of us realized that we share similar dispositions in life (the most salient being that we share the same birthday) and developed a powerful friendship. eventually we came to understand that our engagement with the company was simply a job and while it served us in the most basic ways there was a tremendous amount of dissatisfaction. namely, the rapture of economic security dissolved and in it' s wake lied a future of blunt horizontal flatness. as people, we felt our time was worth spending on something more meaningful then material comfort and charted a course to build something we could have a greater, non - material stake in – a label .
defying logic, surreally pleasant and peaceful, with a definite air of physical precariousness, the image of a hippo in a tank is a powerful one .
a memorial for barron machat will be held this sunday 17 april, from 2 - 5pm at trans pecos in new york. more details on facebook .
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we have seen the work of keogh on earlier occasions, including his performance during the event ‘ectoplasm’ curated by padraic moore in 1646 in 2016. the last time we saw a performance of his, at the rijksakademie open presentation, it managed to contain an experience that felt as if a pattern was developing .
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but two days later, carr broke under the strain of guilt and turned himself in to the police. burroughs and kerouac were arrested. burroughs used his family’s money to pay the bail, but kerouac couldn’t, and was bizarrely forced to marry edie parker in order for her family to pay his own bail .
the visitor can take a seat at a number of observation points that will be located around the exhibition in order to look upon and reflect on the works .
in the exhibition kim hospers (1982) presents his complete' esse est percipi # whatever' series, which consists of 12 x 12 small format color pencil drawings. they depict photos of pranks that he finds on the internet: people that have fallen asleep because of drukenness or tiredness whose faces have been painted or written upon, by family or friends to redicule them. kim hospers interpretets this phenomenon in a postive way: in their riduculouness they are all equal and hence equally' worthy'. typical is the craftmanship and meticulous rendering of details used in the drawings that contrasts with the volatile and randomness of the photos on social media .
gatekeeper and steven machat have also organized a memorial this sunday, april 19 at trans pecos in ridgewood, new york. all are encouraged to come stop by .
but that was where the story ended between the two parties, as carr went to seek refuge with burroughs. burroughs, a good friend of kammerer, simply told carr to get a good lawyer and turn himself in. indeed, burroughs’ use of his family’s wealth to hire good lawyers kept him from a life in jail .
the new york times correctly described johan creten as an artist who was able to take ceramics out of the traditional conventions and help it gain a leading position in the field of contemporary art. he has used clay and ceramics since the 1980s in a highly original, personal way, and this has resulted in sculptural works with a deep conceptual basis. clay is not longer le parent pauvre (the poor relation), but a material that has a serious artistic aura and limitless new possibilities .
in fifty works, museum beelden aan zee will provide a retrospective of the fascinating oeuvre of johan creten. ceramic sculptures complemented by monumental bronze sculptures and photographic collages .
sun 11. 9. walk talk in hernesaari, a helsinki harbour area in development. participants will be picked up by a water bus to hernesaari at the sea harbour of kaivopuisto (address: merisatamanranta 10) at 1. 30 pm and brought back by 4 pm (tickets 5 e, bookings at hello @ urltoken )
' my practice, my politics' portrays the way in which artists and designers capture their views on society through the subject matter they explore, the language and tools they employ, the aesthetics they manifest, and the communities they engage. the exhibition and program brings together 22 alumni of 11 departments of the royal academy of art, in the hague, the netherlands during the salone del mobile in milan. following this presentation, a selection of the works will be exhibited at stroom den haag .
it seems they limited one another, although not necessarily in a bad way. they could only write what they knew, after all, and they both new different things, both in terms of facts and of style. one can tell when reading portions of the book where something was written by kerouac or burroughs. burroughs’ sections contain strong and mystical descriptions of drug use, gay sex, and hallucinatory violence. kerouac’s sections ramble on. but neither author goes to the extremes reached in his own books .
defining beat: era, location, and the importance of considering women the beat generation, though small in numbers, had a profound effect on the ameri ...
debbie graber’s fiction has been published in electric literature, harpers, zyzzyva, the nervous breakdown and hobart, among other journals. she received an mfa from the university of california, palm desert, low residency program. her debut collection of short stories, kevin kramer starts on monday, was published by the unnamed press in may 2016 .
kristen tracy has written twelve novels for young adults and young readers, including lost it, camille mcphee fell under the bus, too cool for this school, hung up, and project unpopular. she has an m. a. in american literature from brigham young university, an m. f. a. in poetry from vermont college, and a ph. d. in english from western michigan. she’s taught writing courses at byu, western michigan university, johnson state college, and stanford university .
the future is female showcases the powers of female artists while encouraging an open dialogue around art. the exhibition combines work by 13 artists with writings by the artist twan janssen. he guides the viewer on a visual and verbal journey between the artworks by means of highly personal writings in which he shares his wonder, childhood memories and incidental everyday thoughts. in this way, he spurs us to look at the works through new eyes and to engage in playful contemplation of art, life, ourselves, others, and more .
the raindance corporation was first founded in 1969 as a media think tank and a group of video makers. it was renamed to the raindance foundation in 1971. raindance challenged the monopoly of the commercial broadcast industry by cultivating artistic uses of video within alternate cultures. in the context of the us - american counterculture of the 1968 movement and inspired by the ideas of marshall mcluhan, buckminster fuller and gregory bateson, the raindance members’ works tested the socio - critical, participatory and emancipatory potential of the new affordable medium of video .
in jordan, annemarie made a successor to the film recently, this time at home with students from a taekwondo school in one of the oldest districts of the capital amman. the work was made at the invitation of art center darat al funun, a groundbreaking platform that aims to place contemporary art at the heart of jordan' s cultural life .
so much more than ‘just’ a fashion label, bless is in fact a lifestyle, an attitude, an entire world to itself. founded in 1996 by desiree heiss and ines kaag and based in paris and berlin, bless has always had its own way of seeing and doing: be it the famous fur wigs that were picked up by maison martin margiela, or chairs that function as hoovers, or combs made out of (real) hair, or desks that turn into beds – you never know what to expect from bless .
book 2 – the value of things. an image of a postcard generated by lola halifa - legrand exploring material artefacts in a digital environment, sent to rca students by email .
spf420 was founded by chaz allen and liz (who goes simply by her first name). despite the fact that chaz is from chicago and liz hails from north carolina, they were able to first make contact through a room on urltoken, a now - discontinued website that functioned as a sort of early online music venue in its own way. urltoken allowed its users to create “rooms” in which they could dj by curating and then live - streaming a playlist to others in the same room. an integral aspect of urltoken was its textual chat interface - - users in a given room were able to message each other while listening to the music - - something that would also become a vital component of the spf420 experience .
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yeah, i had gast and robertson being in bo khat in my notes, but i didn' t want to clutter up the hype williams paragraph too much. i' ll add it though, seeing as they both went on to collaborate with them. i think you' re right about the kaartel album too, so i' ll add that. thanks man !
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remarkably enough, this lavish visual language has its roots in the most modest of all artists’ material: clay. it is, almost literally, the fertile ground from which creten’s sculpture arise .
in this ninth installment of who has tapes anymore? , mike haley, ian franklin, and john pyle of tabs out brings you some of their favorite cassette releases of the last month .
“it wasn’t sensational enough to make it from that point of view, nor was it well - written or interesting enough to make it from a purely literary point of view. it sort of fell in - between. it was very much in the existentialist genre, the prevailing mode of the period, but that hadn’t hit america yet. it just wasn’t a commercially viable property. ”
in celebration of machat' s life and achievements, we asked his label mates, friends, and people he grew up with to share their memories—whether it was their initial meetings with barron, or him going that extra mile for them to see the world in his eyes. here is what gatekeeper, uno, sleep ∞ over, nguzunguzu, d' eon and more had to say .
the notion that the state of humanity can be read and studied by the way we relate to animals is a vital thread in charlotte dumas’ work (born 1977, lives and works in amsterdam and new york). her choice of subject relates directly to the way we use, co - exist with, and define specific animals, assigning various symbolisms to them as well as our own personal reflections .
hoorn & reniers' summer exhibition focusses on paper. 11 international established and upcoming artists show their works on paper and give their view on the position of the individual in today' s western society .
carr was sentenced to a maximum of ten years in jail, a light sentenced based on the defence argument that because kammerer was homosexual, the murder was an ‘honour killing’ that protected carr from being raped .
zoe zolbrod is the author of the memoir the telling (curbside splendor, may 2016) and the novel currency (other voices books, 2010), which was a friends of american writers prize finalist. her essays have appeared in salon, stir journal, the weeklings, the manifest station, the nervous breakdown, and the rumpus, where she is currently the sunday co - editor. she gradated from oberlin college and received an m. a. from the university of illinois at chicago’s program for writers. born in western pennsylvania, she now lives in evanston, il, with her husband and two children .
in an interview that continuously reverses the roles of interviewer and interviewees, bless talked with mono. kultur about the similarities between fashion and furniture, the importance of food, and their determination to improve our world .
spencer clark: in my dreams, for one week, i was to sit in a golden cell that was very hot with burning metals and smoke, and voices and music. every night this strange buzzing sound would read my thoughts and then tell me something about the future. these dreams, just as many others have, asked me to delve further into them. my dreams are calling me to correspond with them, possibly my subconscious wishes to be a bigger part of my waking life. the organ amphitheater in san diego is a really giant monument. it means something, it' s very beautiful and all children have seen this during christmas and watched angels sing there. i go there in my dreams so often, it' s another type of recurring dream i have had my whole life. like, just behind the theater, in my dreams, there are these rooms with strange artifacts. this dream is very unlike the golden cell dream, but they both are serving to inspire me look into the shadow spots. i decided that the new album should be buried and charged there, to further the conversation that my dreams are willing to have with me. it is a way of nodding in silence to the forces that will you to create .
each residency, we’re joined by a slate of guest writers, producers, agents, publishers, editors, and industry professionals. here’s who will be joining us from june 3 - 12th in beautiful rancho mirage .
the novel would prove to be a thorn in the side of carr, who emerged from prison a reformed man with little interest in his beatnik past, and instead had the desire to go straight, without anything to remind him or embarrass him for a horrible incident. but now, after carr’s death, the long awaited literary even has come – the release of the lost beat generation novel that predates all others by many years .
it is charlotte dumas’ belief that the disappearance of the actual presence of animals as a given in our society greatly affects how we experience life and, for example, our ability to empathize with one another. the gap that currently exists between animals used and seen as a food resource on the one hand and their anthropomorphic use on the other (as they are also often depicted in visual language) contributes to an increasingly contradictory relationship. when it comes to animal topics, emotions often run high. it seems the less we are in direct contact with the animals, the more we lose the perspective of their true capacity and what they mean to us and we to them .
dara hyde is an agent at the hill nadell literary agency in los angeles and represents a wide range of fiction and nonfiction, including literary and genre fiction, graphic novels, narrative non - fiction, memoir, and the occasional young adult title. before joining hill nadell, dara spent over a decade as an editor and rights and permissions manager at independent publisher grove atlantic in new york. a graduate of bard college, dara has always balanced her love of film and literature. at the agency she assists with foreign and film rights for the whole agency in addition to managing her own clients. dara has taught or spoken at a number of writers’ conferences and events, including 826la, los angeles times festival of books, new orleans writers’ conference, pima writers’ workshop, pubwest, bindercon, long beach comic expo, and the uc riverside mfa program in creative writing. you can follow her on twitter @ dzhyde .
such intimations of future glories - combined with the simple fact that it' s a compelling read - make it feel like a worthwhile publication rather than an exploitation. it sticks in my craw, but i have to recommend it .
the result, we now see, is perhaps not a classic work of literature, but certainly an interesting one, and not the epic failure that burroughs tried to have us all believe with his dismissive comments in the eighties. instead, there is now something else for beat fans to read, to learn a little more about beat history, now that all the players in the scenario are safely entombed beyond the grave. there are no more hurt feelings, no more treading carefully .
natashia deón is an attorney, writer, and law professor. her debut novel, grace, is out june 2016 with counterpoint press. deón was recently named one of l. a. ’s “most fascinating people” by l. a. weekly, and is the creator of the popular reading series, dirty laundry lit. a pen center usa emerging voices fellow, deón has been awarded fellowships and residencies at yale, bread loaf writer’s conference, prague’s creative writing program, dickinson house in belgium, and the virginia center for creative arts. her writing has appeared in american short fiction, the rumpus, the feminist wire, asian american lit review, rattling wall, b o d y and other places. deón has an mfa in creative writing from the university of california, riverside–palm desert, has two perfect children, and a lovely husband whom she met while living and working in kent, england. she loves pastor tacos and pretty much anything with sriracha on it .
on august 13 1944, he had stabbed david kammerer with a boy scout knife, weighted down his pockets with stones and thrown him in the hudson river. he claimed that the older, bigger kammerer had attempted to sexually assault him, the incident became front page news in the daily news as
an honour slaying
and carr only got two years. not surprisingly, however, he wasn' t keen on the story getting too much attention while he was forging his new life .
it' s been cited over and over in reviews how fully in control of xen ghersi seems to be, and yet the opposite is true. the album sounds like how it was recorded (over the course of six months, mostly improv), unfolding in fits of introspection and spastic release, reflective of the mental state of both the tunesmith and the androgynous alter - ego it' s named after. that kind of approach left xen feeling confused, with little to grab onto as its tunes evaporated one after the other. but if the listener held on, the record deepened and gelled in a powerful way that none of his efforts have done before. it' s still just as much of a labyrinth to get through as it was the day it was released, but xen is all the wiser for letting listeners draw the map to get through it for themselves. everyone you talk to about it is going to have a different favorite part. - - brad stabler
under the title naked roots museum beelden aan zee will display a selection of fifty sculptures in clay and bronze, many of which are monumental, by the belgian artist johan creten. with both earlier and more recent work, this exhibition provides the visitor with the opportunity to gain a broad overview of his rich oeuvre. the symbolic title refers not only specifically to the basis of creten’s sculptures, but also to more general themes such as origins, the place of the individual in history, and human relationships .
dutch premiere / screening of new annemarie van splunter film' a day such as this' (amman version), 2018. in the exhibition the future is female the video
a day such as this
( amsterdam version), 2012 is shown in which 21 children open the curtain. annemarie filmed the classmates of her son, then 9 years old and in the fifth grade of the primary school, everyone at home. the concept is simple, but provides a wealth of images: 21 children, 21 curtains and 21 times a view that is opened on a small, framed piece of amsterdam. the music is from bill withers, he sings :
when i look at you, i know it' s going to be a lovely day .
the lurid fascination of this ugly story is well replicated in the novel. the true (ish) story that burroughs and kerouac tell is sleazy, raw and painfully close to the bone even by the standards of the beats. it' s impressively bleak .
we would describe it as an experience of alienation; alienation from a world that contains lots of facts and data, lots of words and more words and objects, heaps of estranged objects. it felt as if you are being in outer space, alone with your own internal dialogue surrounded by lots of leftovers from your personal past, from the history of civilisation and from the products of a culture you are part of and that you are somehow failing to put together. in the work of sam, this ‘failure’ of connecting these elements suddenly reveals a parallel fascinating experience. the verbiage becomes materiality: sculptural and the real materials in combination with the way sam interacts with them transmits a sensorial experience that gets close to the youtube sensation of asmr (autonomous sensory meridian response).
hippos in tanks is a record label founded in 2010 by barron machat and travis woolsey . the label specializes in electronic music , and has released projects by artists such as james ferraro , grimes , arca , laurel halo , autre ne veut , and games . it was named the best label of 2011 by fact . following the death of machat in 2015 , the fader praised the label for " laying the groundwork to an alternative template for the avant-garde . " 
hippos in tanks is a record label founded in 2010 by barron machat and travis woolsey. the label specializes in electronic music, and has released projects by artists such as james ferraro, grimes, arca, laurel halo, autre ne veut, and games. it was named the best label of 2011 by fact. following the death of machat in 2015, the fader praised the label for " laying the groundwork to an alternative template for the avant-garde. "
hippos in tanks is a record label founded in 2010 by barron machat and travis woolsey. the label specializes in electronic music, and has released projects by artists such as james ferraro, grimes, arca, laurel halo, autre ne veut, and games. it was named the best label of 2011 by fact. following the death of machat in 2015, the fader praised the label for " laying the groundwork to an alternative template for the avant-garde. "