USIC minus the square root of -1

= A Plethora of No Longer Neglected
Audio/Conceptual Obstacle Courses

Contents

1. D COMPOSING
2. EASILY REALIZABLE SCORES
3. GRAPHIC NOTATION
4. GROUPS
5. GUERRILLA
6. INSTALLATION
7. LISTENING
8. MISCELLANEOUS
9. MOVIE SOUND
10. RADIO
11. SOUND THINKING
12. SPATIAL
13. SPOKEN WORD
14. Where to start?
15. "DEAD MAN WITH A HORN"
16. "Excerpt(s) From: &/or 4 Retiring _".
17. "Sound Thinking"
18. "Listening Score"
19. "Baloney Sandwich"
20. Laquerland
21. "Nuclear Brain Physics Surgery School"
22. "Car Tridge"
23. "publicity stunts (my growth as an obscuro)"
24. "Side 1 / Side 2"
25. "USIC - 1".
26. Widemouth Tapes
27. "Fuer Her"
28. "Clap Track"
29. "PAUSE FOR (Radio Play Only)".
30. "Sound Along With t he Bounding Ball(s)".
31. "USIC &/OR USICALITY - 1"
32. "88.1FM -> 88.1FM":
33. "Compliments to Vesna"
34. "booed usic"
35. "Sinnit-Nut Hollow Earth Symposium"
36. "Chinese for Celli"
37. "Conductor Loop"
38. Usical Material
39. "Mad Scientist Didactions".
40. "6 Fingers Crossed Country T.Ore/Tour".
41. "Sound Thinking: Phase II: Program Notes".
42. AUDIO/CONCEPTUAL OBSTACLE COURSE
43. "Generic As-Beenism"
44. "Something That Dissolved the Shadow of Something That Was Next to Something That Burned Twice".
45. "the "Official" John Lennon's Erection as Blocking Our View Homage & Cheese Sandwich".
46. "Tender Buttons"
47. "Hypnopedagogy"
48. other people.
49. "Klauhütte Bangzeit 200(0)"
50. "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE presents: A Triple "S" Ranch Variety Show straight from the bowels of the Turquoise, Beige, & Flesh Room at the Funny Farm"

The following list categorizes some of my audio activities:

D COMPOSING

• "Dead Man With A Horn"
• "decomposition"
• "Fuer Her"

EASILY REALIZABLE SCORES

• "dadadadadadadadadadaddadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadada"
• notes from: Excerpt(s) From: &/or 4 Retiring _:
  • "have performers hit certain spots chasing each other around"
  • "1 oo for every human seen..."
• a page full of la
• "Listening Score"
• from: publicity stunts (my growth as an obscuro):
  • "cue card(s)"
  • "shoot (a) blank(s) in t he dark"
  • "c shell(s) as (a) hearing aid(s)"

GRAPHIC NOTATION

• from: Excerpt(s) From: &/or 4 Retiring:
  • "profile drawing of face smoking cigar on graph paper"
  • ""2D" exercise"
• "Sound Along With t he Bounding Ball(s)" [16mm film]

GROUPS

• improvising:
  • "B.O.M.B."
  • "t he booed usicians"
  • "Cobbley World Fellowship"
  • "Something That Dissolved the Shadow of Something That Was Next to Something That Burned Twice, Once"
  • "Volunteers Collective"
  • wandering nameless wind ensemble
• scored:
  • "Crab Feast"
  • "Klauhütte Bangzeit 200(0)"
  • "the "Official" Project"

GUERRILLA

• B.O.M.B.
• "booing loop"
• "Car Tridge"
• "Clap Track"
• "Compliments to Vesna"
• "Lacquerland"
• ""Official" fake partying"
• "Portable Booed Usic Busking Unit / Nuclear Brain Physics Surgery School Lab /
  • Philosopher's Union Member's Mouthpiece / Blatnerphone Hallucinomat"
• from: publicity stunts (my growth as an obscuro)
  • "cue card(s)"
  • "shoot (a) blank(s) in t he dark"
  • "c shell(s) as (a) hearing aid(s)"
• "TESTES-3"
• wandering nameless wind ensemble

INSTALLATION

• "Alpha Waves Off the Hook"
• "Self Explanatory Rather Than Untitled"

LISTENING

• from: publicity stunts (my growth as an obscuro)
  • "c shell(s) as (a) hearing aid(s)"
• "listening score"

MISCELLANEOUS

• "computer etc"
• Excerpt(s) From: &/or 4 Retiring :
  • "prelude"
  • Detane Showpiece? <- Why Bother?:
    • "&/or a showpiece for retiring _____/denated"
    • "Bi-Monthly (temporarily, at least)"
    • "Dead Man With A Horn"
    • "piece 4 voices & drums (temporarily, at least)
    • "The Plastic Box Contents Etc (temporarily, at least)
    • "Roll Expectations - Copulatory Muzak"
    • "Saucy"
    • "Stain"
    • etc..
  • film plans:
    • "breath footsteps"
    • "cars"
    • "cunts"
    • "8"
    • "speaker moving - filmed as score"
    • "subliminals"
    • "walking"
  • "finished" titled pieces (not included elsewhere):
    • "the piece itself"
    • "The Strump"
    • "Telephone Piece"
  • graphic notation:
    • "profile drawing of face smoking cigar on graph paper"
    • ""2D" exercise"
  • notes:
    • "area designed 2 effect sound"
    • "can't say: as i have"
    • "chorus of identical twins people"
    • "contrast extended "fantastically""
    • "different names for deliberately different personality approaches"
    • "earthquake"
    • "Elsa Schiaparelli's Musical Notes Dress"
    • "environmental notation systems"
    • "fingering notation"
    • "foot pedals / loop rolls"
    • "guitar playing with material distinction"
    • "have performers hit certain spots chasing each other around"
    • "induced dizziness"
    • "induced itching"
    • "instruments played X players not holding them"
    • "interval between d & g"
    • "lightbulb after-image"
    • "1 oo 4 every human seen.."
    • "record cut for needle fluctuation etc."
    • "repetition with variety thru harmonics"
    • "score pages that multiply while sound duration decreases"
    • "speaker ripping"
    • "superimposing"
    • "supervised"
    • "using objects of varying properties as score"
• "growing brain(s)"
• "Nuclear Brain Physics Surgery School"
• publicity stunts (my growth as an obscuro):
  • "testing t he power of blief"
  • "cue card(s)"
  • "memory"
  • "growth"
  • "restructure t he universe"
  • "shoot (a) blank(s) in t he dark"
  • "c shell(s) as (a) hearing aid(s)"
• "Score for Mauricio Kagel"

MOVIE SOUND

• "Brain Waves Goodbye"
• "15 Hours of Video at "30" Times Its Original Speed"
• "Movie Trivia/Bob Cobbing/Hypnopedagogy"
• "the "Official" John Lennon's Erection as Blocking Our View Homage & Cheese Sandwich"
• "You Haven't Heard the Record, You Haven't Read the Book, Now! Don't See the Movie!"

RADIO

• "88.1FM -> 88.1FM"
• "962-0210/SATIRIS call in to WJHU"
• "Paranoia/Fear - October 27 - 28, 1983"
• "PAUSE FOR (Radio Play Only)"

SOUND THINKING

• "Sound Thinking"
• "Sound Thinking: Phase 2: Program Notes"

SPATIAL

• "Baloney Sandwich"
• "Baltimore Underground Telephone Network"
• "88.1FM -> 88.1FM"
• "the "Official" Project"
• "top/bottom"

SPOKEN WORD

• "Compliments to Vesna"
• "Photo Albums for Duchamp {w/ Laura} for the S.C.P."
• "Sound Thinking: Phase 2: Program Notes"
• "Tender Buttons"

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