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rebecca loudon

Amazing!

Alan Baker

Congratulations John! An epic project, and an epic list of names! Here's to Zeitgesit Spam! Four parts? Nah! May it never end!

Ed Baker

where then phuck is my name?
what AM Eye: chopped liver?!

John Bloomberg-Rissman

Did I forget to mention you, Ed? Dear god ... You WILL be named in the published notes, that's for sure. Thanks for catching this!

richard lopez

utterly mindblowing project! and fantastic news. your work gets my blood pumping and the synapses firing. that's right, suckas!, i'm all fired up!

Ed Baker

hey

thanks for including me

however
:can you move me to the top of the
list

and

why in the first place this list

John Bloomberg-Rissman

Why the list? Because integral to this project is it's collage-like nature. I have an offer from the publisher to publish in 2 vols, one text, the other notes - full notes - and, between us, they are very full. At least one reader tells me that he finds the notes as fun as the text. I want to make sure I don't miss anyone.

Carlos Henrickson

Use the words and the spirit.

Prau

Oh my. This is...cosmic.

John Bloomberg-Rissman

Thanks, Carlos, Jean. Carlos, if you look at FCF 105 you will be able to tell ME if I've betrayed your spirit. I certainly hope not.

Karen Alkalay-Gut

i just discovered this site and find the project very interesting - Aside from the fact that I loved Ed Baker's request to go to the top of the list, and the fact that my poems were used, I don't know much about the rules of this project. Want to share it?

John Bloomberg-Rissman

Hi Karen--

FCF was en epic dance-party consisting virtually entirely of samples from thousands of artists including you who enabled me to respond responsibly to I dunno what to call it - my (our?) life/lives in the world?

Tho it was built in 120 sections, it is one long 700 page poem. It will be published in 2 vols sometime later this year (it's just waiting on the cover art) - vol 2 consists entirely of program notes. Each section was constructed "algorithmically", i.e. I had constraints - sources, the order in which I was to use them, etc - going in.

Let's see, what else? I was trying to compose a "poem including history" (E Pound) because I find my own lyric preoccupations relatively pitiful - I mean, who cares whether a bird flies by, so to speak, as long as the oil continues to gush into the gulf? The poem's not directly "political", at least it's only occasionally directly "political"; I just figured "if I let the zeitgeist speak, I'll hear the (hmm hmm) "truth" of our times in its concerns."

Does this help at all?

Karen

wonderful! I learned about my own place in the zeitgeist and I'm going back now to change my poems

Belstaff Outlet

So cute! I already like you on FB and also get your posts on Google Reader. :)

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