Thanks again to everyone who participated in
Reverie. The archive’s posted
here – and in two weeks there’ll be a podcast there, too. Were I you, I’d totally wait for the podcast, as it comes with over thirty images by
Michael Merck---
-- but not everyone is into gratification deferral, so! here are some sneak peaks. Here, too, is a list of participants: in order of appearance, with a couple explanations. Some pieces were edited for time, so if you like what you heard, I hope you’ll sleuth it out in full. Questions? Comments?
Shoot. Again, everyone: thanks.
1. ROBIN HUSTLE
“TWO EGGS SUNNYSIDE UP”Robin Hustle is developing the field of Pornographic Context Messaging, a new interdisciplinary science aimed at "passing through." Recent projects include
Mirror Tricks, a book and projector show about and through prostitution, and
Power of the Impotent, a collection of essays.
robinhustle@riseup.net 2. PEDRO
“(INTRO) ASLEEP”(from
You Me & Everyone. (Mush))
3. JERRY BOYLEJerry Boyle casts nets of shadows, which capture things in this world. (Excerpt from Gaston Bachelard’s
The Poetics of Reverie, trans. Daniel Russell. (Beacon Press))
4. CHRIS WOOD
"RECORD OF DARKNESS”Christopher T. Wood, a native of Pittsburgh, currently lives and works in Chicago. He has an MFA in painting, but prefers to draw many lines. Sometimes he has very little to say. (
For the last couple of years, any time the power goes out, I draw for the duration of the outage. After a while, I zone out from the repetition of the sound of pencil/charcoal on paper. That was interesting to me. so I recorded the sound.)
www.christophertwood.com5. CHRIS ESTEY
UNTITLEDChris Estey is a writer who recurrently dreams about living in haunted tenements, publishing zines, working at record labels, and doing midnight security shifts in downtown low income housing, which is what he's done during the day for the most part for the past twenty years.
6. RADICALFASHION
“BALLET”(from
Odori. (Hefty))
7. TODD DILLS
“SLEEPWRITING”Todd Dills is editor of the literary broadsheet and online magazine THE2NDHAND and author of a novel,
Sons of the Rapture.
www.the2ndhand.com/8. KAHLIL SMYLIE
“VOICEMAIL 2”http://www.myspace.com/luwormhole
9. TIMOTHY ATTICUS
“AND THEN HE BEGAN TO READ BECKETT”Timothy Atticus was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1987 and lives as an artist in New York City. Before moving to New York, he curated and exhibited shows at 2114 Artists Lofts in Seattle, WA. In 2006, Timothy's paintings were featured in the film,
Ugly is A Movie, by Jason Ryan. Timothy is currently a student at The Cooper Union School of Art and Science. (This is Timothy’s dad, talking with Samuel Beckett.)
www.myspace.com/for_arts_sake10. KAHLIL SMYLIE
“CHICKS AND BIKE SPOKES”http://www.myspace.com/luwormhole11. NITSUH ABEBE(Excerpt from Mervyn Peake’s
Titus Groan. (Overlook Press))
12. BRIAN ENO
“GOING UNCONSCIOUS”(from
Another Day on Earth. (Hannibal))
13. ALEX BUSHHailing from Seattle, WA, Alex Bush is a well-adjusted, malcontent dilettante. When not at her day job, she distracts herself from ennui by getting over-involved in projects of various persuasions, mostly at the Northwest Film Forum. Sometimes she publishes translations, but really, she'd rather be cataloguing. Her obsessive and neurotic dreams might be a product of quasi-insomnia, or vice-versa; in any case, she has trouble distinguishing them from reality. You can find what she thinks about a few things at
www.likeallotherkeystrokes.blogspot.com. (Excerpt from Raymond Queneau’s
Zazie on the Métro, trans. Barbara Wright. (Penguin))
14. DAME DARCY
“ODE TO JOY #2”(from
Greatest Hits. (Action Driver/Boptart))
15. DAVID SCOTTwww.dsco.libsyn.com (Recorded in a coffeeshop at Maxwell and Halsted, Chicago.)
16. TICO PUTA
“EYELID SCRAPES EYELIKKER”Tico Puta loves boys. They just don’t love her back.
www.sexywomeneating.com
17. SARAH GALVIN
“THE BEST AND WORST NEW YEAR’S EVE EVER”Sarah Galvin lives in Seattle, where she attends the University of Washington as a creative writing major. She has read at the Richard Hugo House, Left Bank Books, Elliot Bay Books, and Mr. Spot's Chai House as part of the Word of Mouth reading series. These poems are from the latest issue of her zine,
Tea Party.
sarahg6@u.washington.edu18. MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE
UNTITLEDRadical History Review says Mattilda Bernstein "never backs down from a fight,” and the
San Francisco Bay Guardian says Mattilda "kicks mainstream lit in the teeth," but she loves intimate conversations too, so try her, okay? She’s the author of a novel,
Pulling Taffy, and the editor of four anthologies, including, most recently,
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, and the just-released expanded second edition of
That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. Mattilda’s new novel,
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, will be published by City Lights Fall 2008, and it better cause some trouble. Contact Mattilda or find her blog via
www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com. (This excerpt has pianos and sleeping pills. The full version includes televisions, Nancy Pelosi, and the Pope.)
19. THE CAUSE
"CELL, STRUM, SWIRL”Deacon Bruno is THE CAUSE. THE CAUSE is an alias, but then so is Deacon. His other aliases include D!one., its phonetic offshoot, Dee-Pang-Yen, and the 8 Diagram Pole Fighter. So where does the true identity lie amongst this mess of monikers? The truth is that an identity emits from each of these names and the owner of these names uses them as he wishes in order to channel his projects and communicate their intent. Everything is permitted. THE CAUSE is an attempt to breath life into his sonic flights of fancy. THE CAUSE is a motivator and does all he can to help you achieve his goals by using sound, performance, and the odd Powerpoint presentation as his tools. THE CAUSE is currently working on a project that will be released and performed titled
Imperatives: The Self-Help Album. www.deaconbruno.com
20. LIZZIE EHRENHALTLizzie Ehrenhalt is an intern at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
www.pogoprincess.blogspot.com21. TRAE
“PROTOTYPE 1, FIG. 3This is the text accompanying the diagram of a spaceship that Trae made in 2001. 36” x 48”. Blueprint copy/pen on vellum.
somethingsomething@email.com.
22. MARIAPAZ CAMARGOMariapaz Camargo was born in Bogota, Colombia in the late 80s and moved to Chicago in the late 90s. She graduated from Sullivan High School a year early and has been working odd jobs ever since, daydreaming about going to college and around the world. To tame the wanderlust, she works on weird/awesome projects in the city with her husband Matt and their mutual friends. Mariapaz has done 6th grade 3 times, but not 4th or 5th. (Excerpt from a mix she made for Matt, and Pablo Neruda’s “Poem 15:”
I like for you to be still . . . )
23. SALEM COLLO-JULINSalem Collo-Julin is an artist, writer, and organizer who often collaborates with Brett Bloom and Marc Fisher under the auspices of the Illinois-based group Temporary Services. She’s published over seventy-five booklets and books, and is a co-founder of Chicago experimental space Mess Hall. Temporary Services’ latest book, entitled
Group Work (Printed Matter, 2007), provides an in-depth look at why people choose to work creatively in groups. Collo-Julin is also a performer, and her current project
Cats & Ghosts will force her to perform acts of economic ritual, disgust, and ecstasy in a variety of places throughout 2013. (This is Salem with a tape recorder, doing long division to fall asleep.)
www.temporaryservices.org24. MICHAEL ROBINS
“OFF THE SHOUDLER OF ORION”Born in Portland, Oregon, Michael Robins is the author of
The Next Settlement, which was selected for the Vassar Miller Prize and published by UNT Press (
www.unt.edu/untpress) in 2007. He is a contributing editor at
Born Magazine (
www.bornmagazine.org) and his work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in
AGNI, Denver Quarterly, LUNA, Third Coast, TYPO and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago.
25. YOKO ONO
“SNOW IS FALLING ALL THE TIME”(from ubuweb:
www.ubu.com/sound/ono.html)
26. SEAGULLSRecorded in Chicago by Russell Weiss, 2005-2008.
rustelisdreaming@yahoo.com27. SERGIO BESSA(Excerpt from
Oyvind Fahlstrom: The Art of Writing, to be published in August 2008 by Northwestern University Press. Sergio’s talking about Oyvind Fahlstrom’s “Birds in Sweden,” which you can hear
here.)
28. STEVEN BEEBER / GARY LUCAS
“ME AND THE GOLEM”Steven L. Beeber’s study of the Jewish origins of punk rock,
'The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk, was published by Chicago Review Press in 2006 and will be released in Germany in October. Editor of the insomnia anthology,
AWAKE: A Reader for the Sleepless (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Associate Editor of
Conduit, “the only magazine that risks annihilation” (
www.conduit.org), Beeber’s work has appeared in
The Paris Review, The New York Times, Spin, MOJO, and elsewhere. His website is
www.jewpunk.com.
Gary Lucas has been dubbed "The Thinking Man's Guitar Hero" by
The New Yorker, "the legendary leftfield guitarist" by
The Guardian, "Guitarist of 1000 Ideas" by
The New York Times, and "a true axe God" by
Melody Maker. A former member of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band and the leader of the group Gods & Monsters, he co-wrote two of Jeff Buckley's biggest hits ("Grace" and "Mojo Pin") and has collaborated with everyone from John Zorn to Leonard Bernstein to Iggy Pop. His website is
www.garylucas.com. (This is an excerpt from a short story by Gary Lucas, published in Beeber’s
AWAKE: A Reader for the Sleepless.)
29. CHRISTOPHER DELAURENTI
“ASSIZE”Christopher DeLaurenti is a composer, improviser and phonographer. His latest album,
Favorite Intermissions: Music Before and Between Beethoven-Stravinsky-Holst is a collection of surreptitiously recorded orchestra intermissions. Christopher's
Four Protest Symphonies debuted on May Day at UbuWeb at ubu.com. Much of his music and other writings reside at
www.delaurenti.net.
30. FRANKLIN BRUNO
“THERMONEUTRAL”www.nervousuntothirst.blogspot.com/31. LEIF ELGGREN
“VOODOO DOLL”Active since the late 1970s,
Leif Elggren (b. 1950, Linköping, Sweden) is a writer, visual artist, art book publisher, stage performer, and composer based in Stockholm. His varied and prolific output routinely involves dreams, subtle absurdities, and social hierarchies turned upside-down. His audio work, often created as the soundtrack to an installation or performance, has been released on labels such as Ash International, Touch, Radium and his own Firework Edition. In 1988, he formed the duo Guds Söner (the Sons of God, with Kent Tankred). That same year, he released his debut solo LP,
Flown Over by an Old King. Elggren also is the benevolent co-monarch (with Carl Michael von Hausswolff) of Elgaland-Vargaland, all areas of no-man's land, territories between national boundaries on both land and sea, digital and mental spaces. This nation has its own national anthem, flag, coat of arms, currency, citizens and ministers.
32. AYA LAFILETTE
UNTITLEDAya lives in Berlin.
www.myspace.com/ayasingsoo (
i made this song early in the morning on the new years day.)
33. NITSUH ABEBE(Excerpt from Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen,” trans. Tiina Nunnally. (Penguin))
34. NANANG TATANG
“BUNNY HOP HOP”www.myspace.com/nanangtatang 35. MACLEOD
“COUNTING THE SECONDS UNTIL YOU GIVE ME A DRINK”www.myspace.com/freakinmacleod36. JOSHUA CLOVER – “[RIDING AWAY FROM WAKING LIFE I ENCOUNTERED TWO VERY SMALL PEOPLE WHO WERE MYSELF AND I KNEW IT WAS THE ONE WHO SLEPT AND THE ONE WHO DREAMED AND THEY WERE NOT THE SAME THOUGH THEY COULD NO MORE LIVE WITHOUT EACH OTHER THAN COULD THOUGHT AND MEMORY],” read by ROQUE STREWJoshua Clover is the author of one film book (
The Matrix, BFI 2005) and two books of poetry, the most recent of which is
The Totality for Kids (University of California 2006). He has a column for
Film Quarterly, "Marx and Coca-Cola"; and writes about poetry for
The Nation, The New York Times, and others.
Roque Strew lives in Cambridge, MA. He writes about books, contemporary art, the brain, religion, foreign policy, and the Constitution.
37. ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE
“THE CAMBODIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM”Anne Elizabeth Moore is a writer, artist, activist, and WNBA fan based in Chicago who recently completed a residency at the Harpswell Foundation, the first all-female leadership education center and dormitory for university students in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She's currently working on a project based on her collaborations with these young women at Providence, RI's AS220, as described in this month's
Print magazine. Her highly-praised book about the infiltration of the corporate world into the cultural underground,
Unmarketable (The New Press, 2007), was recently photographed being read by Pamela Anderson in a bikini. See
www.camblogdia.blogspot.com or
www.anneelizabethmoore.com for more.
38. HAZEL PINE(Excerpt from Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Tinderbox.”)
39. DOUGLAS WOLK
“BABY”(Cover of Caetano Veloso’s “Baby.”)
www.lacunae.com.
40. SIOBHAN CASE(Excerpt from Italo Calvino’s
Mr. Palomar, trans. William Weaver. (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich))
41. BLOOD ON TAPE
“BY DESIGN"Blood on Tape is comprised of Kevin O'Sullivan and David Gonzalez, both now residing in Austin TX.
www.myspace.com/bloodontape (KO:
Our intention in this ensemble consists mainly of two elements: The contextual representations of what we consider to be largely 'pop' themes; and the possibilities of drone. It is our belief that a melody can be opened to wider interpretation, and therefore wider utilization, based on the sonic landscape in which it is presented. It is our hope that by presenting such a theme in a such a way (in a 'wash of drone,' for instance) we can capture the essence of this idea, and express our shared belief of the possibility of great movement within the static. DG:
The best part of sleep for me has always been dreams. My most sensational dreams were the ones caused by an Autechre/NIN playlist, which was kind of like Blue Stilton, according to this article. "By Design" is sleepy and its main melody was written while falling asleep, which answers a question. I normally fall asleep reading a book, or playing an instrument.)
42. terry plummingwww.terryplumming.com
