Bruce Russell book
 

Clouds announce a new publication: -----------------------------------------------
Bruce Russell
Left-handed blows: writing on sound, 1993-2009


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Available: 28 January
ISBN: 978-0-9582981-4-8
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Softcover
128 pages
English
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Edition: 500
Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 11 mm
Weight: 218 gm
Individually shrinkwrapped
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NZD$35

Left-handed blows gathers together, for the first time, the writings of outstanding sound artist Bruce Russell.
Russell, member of the groups The Dead C. and Handful of Dust and founder of the renowned record-labels Corpus Hermeticum and Xpressway, is reputed to have driven a substantial wedge into New Zealand music.
Besides his acclaimed work as a performer, recording artist and producer, Russell is a respected as a writer who theorises improvisation from a leftist perspective. His collected writing, fluidly unequivocal, effectively tracks the thinking of the group of free music luminaries to which he belongs.
This book consists of essays written over the last 16 years, reflecting on sound and its role in culture. It compiles online essays, liner notes, catalogue contributions and most of the previously published contents of the Russell-produced Logopandocy: the journal of vain erudition.

Left-handed blows will be launched with events in Christchurch and in Auckland at which Russell will perform:
In Christchurch, at Goodbye Blue Monday, on Thursday, 28 January at 6pm
And in Auckland, at The High Seas, on Saturday, 6 February at 6pm
This publication was funded by Creative New Zealand and was supported by the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology.
Left handed blows will be available from selected bookshops and www.clouds.co.nz, for NZ$35 (includes GST).

For further information visit:
http://www.clouds.co.nz/left-handed-blows
For retail/trade distribution enquiries please contact:

Clouds publishing
PO Box 68-187
Newton, Auckland 1145
Aotearoa New Zealand
+64 9 309 2604

summary of contents

the contents of the volume were first written for ‘logopandocy: the journal of vain erudition’ originally published with compact discs on the corpus hermeticum label, as liner notes for other compact discs, or as catalogue essays and journalistic pieces.

there are also a theoretical introduction and conclusion, which provide a framework within which these occasional pieces can be collectively understood.

essays 1999-2008

• left-handed blows: towards a technique of incognito
• practical materialism lesson 1: on the guitar
• practical materialism lesson 2: thinking my head to the sky
• practical materialism lesson 3: concerning the duende
• time under the rule of the commodity
• celestial disharmonies: retuning the ears of the world with sound art
• the real ‘driver ufo’: douglas lilburn in memoriam (the wire)
• battering down all chinese walls (the wire)
• why i make recordings (revue et corrigee)
• caution: analogue artist at work!

logopandocy 1994-97

• what is free? a free noise manifesto
• contra-fludd/contra-kepler: the disharmony of the spheres extolled in ten theses
• a little aesthetic discourse: a dialogue between alastair galbraith and bruce russell
• heaven on earth is always a beguiling prospect: a dialogue between danny butt and bruce russell
• ‘to think is to speculate with images’: rosicrucian linguistics revisited as semiological discourse
• ten aphorisms in lieu of an editorial policy for logopandocy

liner notes 1997-2008

• ralf wehowsky tulpas 1997
• ralf wehowsky points of reference 2003
• birchville cat motel gunpowder temple of heaven 2008
• bruce russell midnight crossroads tape recorder blues 2005
• bruce russell 21st century field hollers and prison songs 2007

interview 1999

• ‘poi$on + lie$ = money + death’ bruce russell interviewed by marco fusinato in axe no. 19, ed. john nixon and marco fusinato

Thanks man, I've been wanting to read the journal of vain erudition for some time