Sound braid is proving to be an intriguing recreational time-sink in which to be involved along with two of my York cohort colleagues. Check it out. Submit if you wish.
Slowly returning this site to a creative repository (you know, hopefully)…
Poem
iridescent winged
black birds
in transfiguring shapes
verge upon soaring pines
their boisterous chatter
more raspy uproar
than murmuring
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Official Selections at the “Experimental Film Odyssey Festival” and “Film Boxe International Monthly Film Festival”
In 2020, the world shrank. Mundanity proliferated. Music was displaced by the sounds of everyday environments. Gazes fixed upon immediate surroundings. Fantastic voyages ceased. Expect for those of the Pandemic Spaceship.
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Now that’s what I call a hiatus.
“Variations on the Symphony of Late Liberalism” was composed by the anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli. The score appears as a figure in her book Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism. This is my first (ok, seventh actually) attempt at the piece. It’s not 100% accurate in terms of the sequencing of one of the tracks. It is, rather, a modest variation of the variations.
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Just not very quickly for lack of time…
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I’d be happy to hear from anyone who would be interested in working on the OP magazine archives with me. I’m just a little short on time right now, having a few balls in the air. And really, things are just so much more fun when you’re working with others!
Realistically, if I go it alone, the process will need to wait until next summer, or at least it looks that way at this point. I would love to hear from anyone wishing to collaborate.
Must have an interest in the independent radio and DIY scenes of the late 70s and early 80s!
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At this point, it’s not feasible to mount the OPs to a digital archive, though I will entertain collaboration if there is interest.
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Due to the kindness of strangers, it would appear that I’ll be able to archive all of the OPs. It will still be a while before they’re all posted for public consumption but there will be no missing issues.
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More on the process of archiving these darn things…
In the interest of longer term efficiency on my part, and accessibility on the part of the reader/researcher, it makes the most sense to build a website to house the digital copies of the OPs rather than provide written run-downs of them and/or post them here blog-style.
The digitization of the tabloid-sized formatted issues is near completion but I’m still waiting for the delivery of one issue (ho-hum) and have yet to track down a copy of “E.” That might take months to find so the full run, or at least the newsprint issues, will not be available anytime soon. But…with the exception of the yet-to-find “E,” the other tabloid print pages will be posted to the web in the upcoming months. Things would be moving faster but this is a time-consuming endeavor for someone still figuring out the website-building ropes!
It’s getting done but it’s a bit of a grind.
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I’m trying this layout out but before making a separate blog for OP–Chenille Tartar will be the test run location for the time being. I’ve also opted out of making full copies of any issues available online but will catalog the contents of each issue in written text format. That should make certain subjects more searchable too!
This format is subject to change. Here are the first two pages (well, the front cover and page 1, the Table of Contents) of “A”. This will be a lengthy project but hopefully something that will be of use for anyone interested. Pages will probably be posted 2 or 3 at a time (for now, hopefully more once all of the scanning is done) and will not contain full texts but page contents (topics of articles, ads, etc.). This really just seems like the best way to proceed at this point. I suppose I could not scan the collection but then the pages would become further damaged. They’re already very brittle.
If anyone is interested in contacting me for more information please feel free to do so via the comments for now. There seem to be issues with the contact form box. Hopefully that will sort itself out.
I hope that you enjoy the images that will be provided with each post.
[FRONT COVER]
OP A
Contents
Cover Image
Topics:
Alternative Listings
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Laurie Anderson
Small Label Addresses
The Avengers
Random Radar Interview
All Music: Folk, Country, Jazz, Rap
Alligator
Free Music in Alabama
“A” Movies
Background images include letter “A” stamps and purple Alligator stamps
[PAGE 1]
Lost Music Network—what it is
Who OP is
What next for LMN
TOC: (sorry for the haphazard page numbers–more stuff to be sorted/figured out before this gets a separate blog)
TABLE OF CONTENTS………………………………………………1
OP PROPAGANDA…………………………………………………..1
LETTERS……………………………………………………………3-5
RANDOM RADAR INTERVIEW………………………………6-7
THEORETICAL GIRLS……………………………………………..7
WELL-DRESSED MAN……………………………………………..7
SINGLES………………………………………………………….8-10
THE “A” SECTION…………………………………………….11-16
The Avengers, “A” Movies
International “A”
“A” Jazz Artists, “A” LPs
Brief report from Alabama
A cappella gospel
Laurie Anderson
The directory of “A” addresses
Alternative network listings
News and reviews
Ads page
Magazines
JOIN LMN: a description of why you should be a member of the Lost Music Network
JOIN LMN
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