Track List and Audio
1. Jud Fine –
In approximately 750 A.D., an anonymous Gilbert Islander on a simple passage from his home island - Aranuka - to the nearest island of Kuria, was blown completely off course. In the ensuing four weeks the navigator, for the first time, successfully reached the unknown (to the Gilberts) island of Truk - a distance of 1300 miles across open sea against trade winds.
As a by product of advanced historical measurement it was later deduced that the structure of the Gilbert Islander's logic pattern in navigating from Aranuka to Truk, exactly duplicated that of the structural (navigational) projection of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.
2. Eleanor Antin – Antinova Remembers
"An excerpt from a radio interview with Eleanora Antinova reminiscing about her life as a dancer with the Diaghilev Ballets-Russes. She was recorded in her home in Southern California where she lives surrounded by photographs, sketches, designs for sets and costumes - "souvenirs to help keep the old life alive." Because of the resurgent interest in the history of early 20th century art, there is a strong demand for Antinova to make personal appearances around the country. This surprises her. "When I hung up my shoes so long ago, I never thought to travel again, except perhaps to funerals. More and more funerals." She laughs. "And here I am, a youngster once more." In this excerpt from the longer interview, she talks about touring with the impoverished, passionate, yet determinedly cheerful Russian dancers."
3. Terry Fox – Internal Sound
"Excerpt from 'Internal Sound,' an 18 hour (3 days) performance in the ex-church of Santa Lucia, Bologna, Italy, October 1979.
Two 100 meter (300 feet) piano wires were stretched the length of the church. They were fastened to the large wooden door of the church at one end, and to a wooden covering over the encrypt at the other. The crypt covering and the door became the resonators for the sound of the wire, which was rosined and played with the fingers to create a continuous but constantly changing drone. The sound of the excerpt is created by plucking one of the 300 foot wires with the fingernail near the cover of the crypt. The sound is entirely acoustic with no electronic manipulation or amplification."
4. Margaret Harrison – First Lines
"The work called 'First Lines' consists of first lines from a selection of published works by women writers."
5. Les Levine – Would Not Say No To Some Help
"Dear Son, it ain't often I write you
but I have a big problem to solve
next month I'll be sixty-eight years old
so I would not say no to some help.
I'm up at seven in the morning
and I'm on the go till six
I'm getting tired of working
so I would not say no to some help.
Inflation, money and taxes
are getting worse all the time
there's never been savings to retire on, Son
so I would not say no to some help.
(chorus)
So I would not say no to some help
No, I would not say no to some help
I would not say no to some help, no Son,
I would not say no to some help.
You kids have gone and left home
and now we are left all alone
your mom's still working to pay off the house
so I would not say no to some help.
Chorus
They system has failed us and left us
left us afraid in old age
so please, Son, stop your drinking
and get on that train and come home.
Chorus
Lyrics by Les Levine
Music by Michael Galasso
Sung by Les Levine
Keyboards: Jeff Gordon
Bass & Guitars: Tom Wolk
Violin: Michael Galasso
Drums: Bob Riley
Background Vocals: Gordon & Galasso
6. Hannah Wilke – Stand Up
7. Douglas Davis – How to Make Love to a Sound
8. Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid – Russian Language Lesson
9. Helen Mayer Harrison/Newton Harrison – Extract from the Second Lagoon: A Memoriam to John Isaacs
10. Vincenzo Agnetti – Pieces of Sound
11. Chris Burden –
12. Piotr Kowalski & William Burroughs – You Only Call the Old Doctor Once
13. Ida Applebroog – Really, Is that a Fact?
14. Edwin Schlossberg – Vibrations/Metaphors
15. SITE – Comments on SITE
16. R. Buckminster Fuller – Critical Path
17. Thomas Shannon – Smashing Beauty
18. Conrad Atkinson – The Louis XIV Deterrent
19. David Smyth – Typewriter in D
20. Todd Siler – Think Twice
21. Joseph Beuys – Excerpt from Cooper Union Dialogue
