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