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WORKS ON PAPER: EXPERIMENTS IN LANGUAGE & SOUND PRESENTS MARK SO
May 6, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Free – $20Works on Paper: Experiments in Language and Sound
presents an evening of tapes, readings, and text-objects by
MARK SO
Saturday, May 6
4:00 pm – 10:00 pm, come and go as you wish
$10-20 suggested donation; no one turned away
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
503-388-7665
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A six-hour multichannel playback of So’s experimental taped through-reading of John Ashbery’s booklength poem Flow Chart provides a lively scrim for several discrete but related nucleii of his work to appear and coincide:
• a group of his Ashbery scores which composer Manfred Werder performed for a month at a time, marked only by his sparse overtyping and occasional polaroids
• several typescripts from late in the Ashbery series, no longer scores but radical transcriptions of entire poems, and
• readings 54, for Manfred (2016 – ), an ongoing reading/writing/recording process comprising both an ever-expanding text-from-reading compiled in notebooks, and an evolving 20-minute tape loop.
The program is conceived as neither performance nor exhibition, but a mutually complicating interspersion of broken/modular facets.
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Mark So lives in and out of Los Angeles. His music has mainly developed through varied language-based media practices relating to reading, writing, and recording.
So has collaborated on diverse projects with numerous artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers, including Dicky Bahto, Robert Blatt, Kathleen Johnson, Eileen Myles, Stuart Krimko, Julie Tolentino, Erika Vogt, and Manfred Werder.
His work appears in the recent anthologies Pathetic Literature, Walking from Scores, and peripheries no. 5, and recordings have been released by caduc., Editions Wandelweiser, OPEN SPACE, and winds measure.
In 2016, Marfa Book Co. published a box of wind — a collection of more than three hundred scores from his Ashbery series.
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Works on Paper supports activities that use concepts, characteristics, and histories of the book, and entanglements with text, as a frame for exploratory practice across the arts. The spring 2023 series, Experiments in Language and Sound, was curated by Robert Blatt and David Abel. For more information, please visit the Works on Paper site.
The Works on Paper series is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
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