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transcription poems [Reading Group]

by Luke Martin

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1.
introduction: tim tsang 05:43
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2.
sucking stone I 01:50
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3.
mom can cook (santa clarita, ca), for tim tsang 20:09
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4.
sucking stone II 03:19
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5.
honu coffee (santa clarita, ca), for amy golden 26:16
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6.
sucking stone III 00:53
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7.
dink's (santa clarita, ca), for leah levinson 21:25
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8.
sucking stone IV 00:55
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9.
siam rice II (santa clarita, ca), for isaac aronson 16:31
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10.
sucking stone V 00:44
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11.
siam rice I (santa clarita, ca), for fernando orellana 27:38
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12.
sucking stone VI 00:13
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13.
saugus cafe (santa clarita, ca), for jordan dykstra 35:56
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14.
outro 01:23
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about

'transcription poems' was released in October 2017 on Reading Group as a double cassette. The cassettes are gone but digital copies are available for download. Feel free to download here (pay what you like / see RG for reference) or on the Reading Group site: readinggroup.co/rg08.html. And do look at the other releases they have!

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i recorded this project while i was living in santa clarita, ca/was at calarts. i asked six friends there—amy, ben, fernando, isaac, jordan, and tim—to be the readers of six transcription poems written specifically for each of them. these are six people (of many, of course) who i admire and who have influenced me during my time in california—by way of their work as artists and musicians, conversations we've had, seeing them at shows, playing music with them, observing their kindness toward others, their ability to challenge me to think in new ways (without explicitly meaning to), and so on. we've become (and this isn't unique or special) part of one another's (mental) social space, which is filled with countless other voices, opinions, thoughts, works, decisions, of people and places both dead and alive. some aspects of this we're aware of and some we're not. this space—which i'm fascinated by—is both imaginative and real (or makes those things fuzzy). it is hard to pin down or know what's what when consciously exploring it. maybe it is this cluelessness that i like. what i can intuit, however, is an intriguing sense of other-dimensional community and potential: an expansiveness, a kind of echoing of voices or thoughts across great distances that appear as offerings or suggestions of possible connection.

in this instance: i asked my six friends to tell me what restaurant/food service place was their favorite and/or most frequented in santa clarita (where calarts is located). i used those locations as the six places for the act of transcribing (environmental dialogue) and writing (their to-be-embedded poems); a kind of peering into the everyday, yet marginal areas of our spaces, which may or may not intersect with one another. appearing between and bleeding into the readings are short noise tracks, cut up from a set performed by some friends (isaac, ben, me). it is a focused dive into our (mental) social spaces and, in a way, an odd trace of my time there, in LA, and of these people.

Run time: 2 hours, 41 minutes.
Limited run of 30 double-cassettes.
[cassettes sold out / digital copies available only]

credits

released October 1, 2017

written and recorded from 2014 - 2016 / Reading Group.

readers:

amy golden
fernando orellana
isaac aronson
jordan dykstra
leah levinson
tim tsang

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