tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51390464451950798732024-02-19T00:19:23.050-08:00The Radical Readout PressThe Radical Readout Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09699516557682826377noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139046445195079873.post-62117367943025164092011-06-10T14:11:00.000-07:002011-06-10T14:24:40.313-07:00"I'm into weird that works": Two Recent Interviews with Chris Weisman<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNGG6-aitgduE8IHIC32kN2hmyxUNLvBBywRN6kHVA_Kca871wIqyOgH3NEFyV9tc6kBIt0CkTzUg1p6ovKeTa8OzkcaCFtXRHmO_9LjmCUqoi0KB-8-t7FN3nS5r7OBCmJCFFHrRTmTA/s1600/f-i-11-05-chris-weisman.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNGG6-aitgduE8IHIC32kN2hmyxUNLvBBywRN6kHVA_Kca871wIqyOgH3NEFyV9tc6kBIt0CkTzUg1p6ovKeTa8OzkcaCFtXRHmO_9LjmCUqoi0KB-8-t7FN3nS5r7OBCmJCFFHrRTmTA/s200/f-i-11-05-chris-weisman.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616704946923551650" border="0" /></a><br />I thought I would share two new interviews with Chris Weisman who is promoting not only his book, <span style="font-style: italic;">Nonmusical Patterns and their Musical Uses</span>, but also his latest double album, <span style="font-style: italic;">Transparency</span> ( available from <a href="http://www.autumnrecords.net/">Autumn Records</a> ). The interviews were conducted by Crawford Philleo of <a href="http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/?p=9696">Foxy Digitalis</a> and Matt Bushlow for <a href="http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/chris-weisman">Tiny Mix Tapes</a>.The Radical Readout Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09699516557682826377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139046445195079873.post-22520133677733545722011-03-22T09:05:00.000-07:002011-03-22T09:18:36.190-07:00Chris Weisman was recently interviewed on the subject of his book, <span style="font-style: italic;">Nonmusical Patterns and their Musical Uses (for Guitar in Standard Tuning)</span> on the <a href="http://workandworry.com/?p=2762"><span style="font-style: italic;">Work & Worry</span></a> blog by Raymond Morin. Have a l<a href="http://workandworry.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Nonmusical_Patterns_73.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 360px; height: 505px;" src="http://workandworry.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Nonmusical_Patterns_73.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>ook.The Radical Readout Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09699516557682826377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139046445195079873.post-39314028887944407962011-03-18T14:48:00.000-07:002011-03-22T09:02:53.002-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEs9jcthrAYrtYlRL2xtx40vBrqycer2xi1RRR0scOCbLCjk0T8vgcXqnzF4oI68-MHOx2Ut9c0hyvl0tmAjv_gT1FsOUpaKX8GeDauE06JBoA3ajW8TnRYcbL8SOJEqVhgI4O1I2Y_ho/s1600/CoverDetail.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEs9jcthrAYrtYlRL2xtx40vBrqycer2xi1RRR0scOCbLCjk0T8vgcXqnzF4oI68-MHOx2Ut9c0hyvl0tmAjv_gT1FsOUpaKX8GeDauE06JBoA3ajW8TnRYcbL8SOJEqVhgI4O1I2Y_ho/s320/CoverDetail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585544294347137682" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;" class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">"From the brilliant mind of Chris Weisman comes a clever and intriguing book about shape exploration on the guitar, embodying a perspective that for me is both fresh and useful."<br /><br />-Kurt <span>Rosenwinkel</span></span><br /><br />The Radical Readout Press is proud to present Chris Weisman's <i>Nonmusical Patterns and their Musical Uses (for Guitar in Standard Tuning)</i>. <i>Nonmusical Patterns</i> is a hand-made, perfect-bound softback with letterpressed cover containing one hundred geometric patterns overlaid to the fretboard of a guitar in standard tuning. Weisman, a performer, recording artist and music teacher devised the selected patterns with their potential as creative spurs for the improvising guitarist in mind.<i> Nonmusical Patterns</i> is an unorthodox fusion of musical and visual esthetic concerns and is ultimately an act of conceptual synesthesia whose practical result, in the hands of the improvising guitarist, is musical and artistic risk-taking. As such, the work is in the tradition of George Brecht's <i>Water Yam</i>, Yoko Ono's <i>Grapefruit</i> or Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's <i>Oblique Strategies</i> and may appeal as much to those interested in conceptual art and artists' books as it will to the improviser and theoretician.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Nonmusical Patterns and their Musical Uses (for Guitar in Standard Tuning)</span> is available directly from the Radical Readout Press for $17 postage paid anywhere in the US, $15 + shipping to the rest of the world.<br /></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Chris Weisman is a songwriter, improviser, and tape artist living in Brattleboro, Vermont. Multitrack cassette recording has been his primary medium since 1991 when he and Ben Stamper borrowed their music teacher's 4-track and started recording under the name CLOV. Since then, Weisman has recorded hundreds of songs that can be purchased via his <a href="http://www.chrisweisman.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> (many of which are also available on various cassette and CD releases). Weisman has also collaborated with Autumn Records' Greg Davis on the album <i><a href="http://www.homenormal.com/releases/chris-weisman-greg-davis-northern-songs" target="_blank">Northern Songs</a></i> and was an original member of the Brattleboro group Happy Birthday, whose debut LP was released in 2010 on Sub Pop. His latest release is the double CD <i><a href="http://www.autumnrecords.net/releases.html" target="_blank">Transparency</a></i> available from Autumn Records.<br /></div><br /><br /></div> </blockquote></div><a href="http://workandworry.com/?p=2762" target="_blank"></a>The Radical Readout Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09699516557682826377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139046445195079873.post-56741809331116354052011-01-18T11:01:00.000-08:002011-03-18T15:09:24.374-07:00Picking up where we left off<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm9_5kzYSCSS_J5831XSN-E4bAFvvCgacVbC3z2P9mesb71Q3pgCkzD_Fs4VmwFHoFmLo_CAh-9BZzW44Hl9jtyKmpe3NBxAY18k6SaC6l_reA6k2PGdUIXo2G1cy7Z1ep8K76nkixbLA3/s1600/homoem+newcover.e-mail.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 154px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm9_5kzYSCSS_J5831XSN-E4bAFvvCgacVbC3z2P9mesb71Q3pgCkzD_Fs4VmwFHoFmLo_CAh-9BZzW44Hl9jtyKmpe3NBxAY18k6SaC6l_reA6k2PGdUIXo2G1cy7Z1ep8K76nkixbLA3/s200/homoem+newcover.e-mail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561527814145836722" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">It's been more than five years since the Radical Readout Press presented a new edition to the world. Our previous title, Steven Zultanski's chapbook <span style="font-style: italic;">Homoem</span>, was published in 2005 to some acclaim, but whereas Zultanski has been not only busy but prolific in the intervening years, we at the RRP have been merely busy. Busy planning and plotting? Most certainly. But busy producing? No, and that was a problem, the only one that mattered. In the time that it took Steve to have published at least three additional chapbooks, <span style="font-style: italic;">USA = Nazi</span> (with Brad Flis), <span style="font-style: italic;">This and That Lenin</span>, and <span style="font-style: italic;">Copkisser</span> (none of which he has sent me, and perhaps there are others), to produce and edit two numbers of his poetry journal, <span style="font-style: italic;">President's Choice</span> (Thanks, Steve, I have those two), to move to Buffalo in pursuit of his PhD, and then, having attained that goal, to move on with his terminal degree to the New York, the terminal city, the Radical Readout Press had done one thing, but it was an important one: dream. We dreamt of the time when our next project, Chris Weisman's <span style="font-style: italic;">Nonmusical Patterns and their Musical Uses</span> would get off the shelf and assemble itself in the dead of night. That never happened, but one day in late 2010 the book was a reality and so, once again, was the Radical Readout Press. We thank you for your patience and in advance for your continued interest.<br /><br />Cheers to Steve Zultanski: he has been a useful stick by which to measure our shortcomings. In tribute and gratitude, a reading from the past recorded here at the Radical Redoubt in August 2006, ladies and gentlemen, Steven Zultanski.<br /></div><br /><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" height="26" width="640"><param value="true" name="allowfullscreen"><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"><param value="high" name="quality"><param value="true" name="cachebusting"><param value="#000000" name="bgcolor"><param name="movie" value="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf"><param value="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':[{'url':'Chewing_on_His_Tongue_vbr.mp3','autoPlay':false},'Fogthrower_vbr.mp3','Om_vbr.mp3','The_Good_of_Drama_vbr.mp3','Winners_vbr.mp3'],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/VSEA_081306/'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'audio':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.2.1-dev.swf'},'controls':{'playlist':true,'fullscreen':false,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true},'scrubberHeightRatio':0.6,'timeFontSize':9,'mute':false,'top':0}},'contextMenu':[{},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}" name="flashvars"><embed src="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" cachebusting="true" bgcolor="#000000" quality="high" flashvars="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':[{'url':'Chewing_on_His_Tongue_vbr.mp3','autoPlay':false},'Fogthrower_vbr.mp3','Om_vbr.mp3','The_Good_of_Drama_vbr.mp3','Winners_vbr.mp3'],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/VSEA_081306/'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'audio':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.2.1-dev.swf'},'controls':{'playlist':true,'fullscreen':false,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true},'scrubberHeightRatio':0.6,'timeFontSize':9,'mute':false,'top':0}},'contextMenu':[{},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}" height="26" width="640"></embed> </object><br /><br />5 tracks, press forward or back for next selection<br /><br />recording thanks: Matthew GouletThe Radical Readout Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09699516557682826377noreply@blogger.com0