Yet Another I wish I Could Be There: Buffalo, Oct. 13 for Buffluxus

Forwarded from Kevin Thurston:

if you live in or near buffalo, please come out to the burchfield-penny arts center. it'll be fun, swear to god. and, excuse the cross-posting

Saturday, October 13, 2007
Buffluxus Performance at 2:00 p.m.
Buffluxus is a performance ensemble composed of musicians and aural artists that realizes verbo-visual sound poetry and Fluxus and sound events. Based in Buffalo, the ensemble has presented original and traditional experimental works for more than twenty years.Michael Basinski, Ho Eui Bewlay, Kevin Thurston, Michael Colquhoun, Tony Arnold will be featured.

The Works of Emmet Williams
Emmett Williams was one of the most long lived artists associated with the Fluxus movement. As an artist and poet, Williams collaborated with Daniel Spoerrri n the Darmstadt Circle of Concrete Poetry from 1957 to 1959. In the 1960s, Williams was the European coordinator of Fluxus and a founding member of the Domaine Poetique in Paris. He was a pioneer of Concrete Poetry, a fusing of visual, literary and musical practices into a verbal-voco-art form. While working with fellow Fluxus artist Dick Higgins at something Else Press Williams edited, An Anthology of Concrete Poetry.

Featured Works
Cellar Song (1962)
Michael Basinski, Ho Eui Bewlay, Kevin Thurston, Michael Colquhoun, Tony Arnold
Voice Piece for LaMonte Young (1962)
Michael Basinski, Ho Eui Bewlay, Kevin Thurston, Michael Colquhoun, Tony Arnold
Alphabet Symphony (1962)
Michael Basinski, Ho Eui Bewlay, Kevin Thurston, Michael Colquhoun, Tony Arnold
Four-Directional Song of Doubt for Five Voices (1957)
Michael Basinski, Ho Eui Bewlay, Kevin Thurston, Michael Colquhoun, Tony Arnold
Duet (1964)
Ho Eui Bewlay, Michael Colquhoun
Song of Uncertain Length (1960)
Kevin Thurston
Vocal struggle for Dick Higgins (1963)
Michael Basinski, Ho Eui Bewlay, Kevin Thurston
The Last French-Fried Potato
Ho Eui Bewlay, Tony Arnold

Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 5:00 p.m.
Spoken Music
Spoken Music is concert of works by Dick Higgins, Allyson Knowles, Michael Basinski, and Jackson MacLow. Spoken Music refers to text based works by artists and poets that are both visual and sonic and are often called concrete poetry or visual poetry. These texts become musical notations which are used by performers to present sound pieces in the same spirit as a musical composition.

Featured Works
Wool Hat (1980) Jackson MacLow
Michael Basinski, Ho Eui Bewlay, Kevin Thurston, Michael Colquhoun
A House of Dust (1972) Allyson Knowles
Michael Basinski, Ho Eui Bewlay, Kevin Thurston, Michael Colquhoun, Tony Arnold
Eeohdeepey (1985) Michael Basinski
Michael Basinski, Michael Colquhoun, Don Metz
A Vocabulary for Sharon (Belle) Mattlin (1973) Jackson Mac Low
Michael Basinski, Ho Eui Bewlay, Kevin Thurston, Michael Colquhoun, Tony Arnold
Referred to in the Text as Mule Car (1978) Michael Basinski
Michael Basinski, Michael Colquhoun, Kevin Thurston
Fungini (1983) Michael Basinski
Michael Basinski, Don Metz, Kevin Thurston,
Danger Music #17 (1962) Dick Higgins
Michael Basinski, Ho Eui Bewlay, Kevin Thurston, Michael Colquhoun, Tony Arnold