Sometimes i mess around with music programmes. I also write, and co-edit Divergence, a journal of innovative text/image/sound/video (http://kevindoran.blogspot.com/2009/06/call-for-submissions-divergence.html). I don't take e-mail here; i use this to keep up with bands i like and gigs they're playing, 'cause i don't read/like music mags anymore. E-mail on my blog.
“poetry and music with the post-avant crowd for your Sunday afternoon pleasure”
Third Sunday of the month, 3-5 pm, Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL £4 entry.
February 15: Sarah Jacobs with Imogen Smith & Alex Walker + Richard Makin (art & language) + Dawn Scarfe & Mel Gough (music)
Art, language & music coming together. Sarah Jacobs is a sculptor making objects, performance, installation, books on paper, and books in electronic form. Her electronic piece Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: We Report Here uses text in a visual way to document the ethical, economic, political and philosophical polemics associated with mapping the human genome, and their changes through time. Richard Makin is a writer of fiction and poetry and a visual artist. Experience his language as a complex and haunting landscape to drift across. Carillon is an experimental sound performance by artists Dawn Scarfe and Mel Gough. Guitars are tuned to resonant nodes in cymbals to produce a rich bell-like sound. The aim is to investigate accents and textures within the spectrum of resonant sound in immersive and meditative live exploration. Expect from this afternoon completely new stances on language, music and performance!
March 15: Paul Taylor's Trombone Poetry (music + words) + Uru-Ana (music + words) + Mike Weller (words +)
April 19: Abi Oborne + Holly Pester + James Wilkes (words +)
The new issue is available for purchase at our website: www.absurdistjournal.com/current.htm
Issue #8 demonstrates why this journal has been hailed as the figurehead publication for absurd and surreal literature. Throughout these pages readers will find a man with an endless supply of money in his pockets, a nun who finds teeth in her ice cream cone, and a giant mechanized Michael Ironside stalking the streets of Galveston, Texas. Readers will also find the apocalypse as experienced by the cast of Friends and a race of chickens that enslaves a man and forces him to eat the last egg ever to be eaten. No one theme or tone dominates this issue. Some stories feature mindless violence or irreal nonsense. Others display sharp cultural satire or brain-tingling wordplay. At a time when most fiction serves up the standard fare of realism and common sense, issue #8 offers a zany feast for the ravenous imagination.
Includes stories by Sam Pink, Blake Butler, D. Harlan Wilson, Rhys Hughes, Ofelia Hunt, Cameron Pierce, Mike Young, Matthew Simmons, Darby Larson, Aaron Sitze, and Adam Breckenridge.
Kevin - here's a venture I'm starting up in Dalston:
SUNDAYS AT THE OTO
“poetry and music with the post-avant crowd for your Sunday afternoon pleasure”
Third Sunday of the month, 3-5 pm, Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL (http://www.cafeoto.co.uk) £4 entry.
Sep 21: Tim Atkins + Isnaj Dui + Sophie Robinson
Tim Atkins’ Horace (O Books, 2007) gives the definitive, delightful & dangerous version for our days; Isnaj Dui’s (http://www.myspace.com/isnajdui) electroacouistic blends & improvisations are both lush and dark; Sophie Robinson’s Killin’ Kittenish (yt communications, 2006) frolics, frightens & fiercely fantasises
October 19: Keith Jebb + The Mind Shop (music: Armorel Weston, John Gibbens and David Miller) + Alyson Torns
November 16: Tom Lowenstein + Hannah Silva + music tba
December 21: Frances Kruk + Jow Lindsay + Jonathan Styles (music)
for further information: http://www.myspace.com/sundaysattheoto
Grah!! my nemisis!!!! i have tamed the crocodiles! they told me of ur email, I've been away in my own nic universe, im very sorry but when i woke up and said oh, its wednesday i best get that paper for kevin... i went to the arndale and it was sunday... i blame you, with your brain device!! nemesis.... But am truely sorry and hope it all worked out for u! x x I go home on sunday morn, it's all good, who couldnt be feeling good with weather like this!? in other news i think im about 68% back to my normal self, what a difference a week makes eh!?
I've got a terrible cold, so I don't think I'll be able to make Tuesday (and I'm meant to be getting a giant bag of wool and I really don't fancy carrying it around with me).
Thanks for the add. Just read your stuff on Greatworks, really liked it - especially great listening to your music in the background:)
What's this stuff about SF poetry? I'm quite into all that stuff. Was at the Alt Fic Con in Derby yesterday and have just had something taken by Goblin Fruit.
My boyfriend writes on SF for The Guardian book blog - but he's a confirmed prosite!
