February 8th 7PM
Monday Night Experimental Cabaret
Host: Nicole Peyrafitte
every 2nd monday of the month
7-9 PMWhere were the professors?
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Dan Wilcox is the host of the open mic at Lark Street Bookshop in Albany, N.Y. on the third Thursday of each month and is a member of the poetry performance group "3 Guys from Albany". As a photographer, he claims to have the world's largest collection of photos of unknown poets. He has been a featured reader at all the important poetry venues in the Capital District & throughout the Hudson Valley and is an active member of Veterans for Peace. He was a finalist for the 1998 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards.
Tonight his performance included poems & slides (real, projected slides, not some computer-simulation) of rarely performed poems & a special slide/tape performance of "O Central Ave." by 3 Guys from Albany.
Tom Burre
Guitarist, vocalist, electronic musician, Burre composes and improvises in many diverse musical genres. Most recently he combined sound with video for the interactive piece 'leaf/vein' co-written and performed with multimedia artist Joe Reinsel at SUNY Albany last fall.Metroland Newsweekly (Albany, NY) called Burre 'BestGuitarist making a statement' in 2001 and voted his art rock group BoneOil's debut cd 'Best Album of the Year' in 2000.Burre currently serves as Assistant Executive Director of Electronic Music Foundation and shoots the ball above his head. More about Tom Burre's musical activities at:
Nick Matulis
Writer, actor, musician, Matulis always conveys brilliant authenticity.His screenplays and music for both short films 'Continuity' (2003) and 'Antarctica' (2004) received
awards at The Ed Wood Film Festivals. Matulis is currently working on the life journal of asemi-fictional naturalist and is often compared to Manu Ginobili on the court.Burre & Matulis will perform a 30 minutes set that experiments with interweaving story soundscapes for voice and computer with improvised guitar duets.
Click here for QT Video (10MB)
Pierre Joris/Tom Burre/Nicole Peyrafitte
opened the evening by performing America, America a poem by Iraqui poet Saadi Youssef
America, America
listen to it (9.9MB)Pierre Joris' most recent publications include Poasis: Selected Poems 1986-1999, A Nomadic Poetics (essays) and 4x1 (translations of Rilke, Tzara, Duprey & Tengour). He has translated Celan, Blanchot, Jabès, Meddeb, Schwitters and others and has received several PEN awards for translation. With Jerome Rothenberg he edited the Poems for the Millennium anthologies . He is professor in the Department of English at SUNY-Albany.
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