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TEDIUM HOUSE PUBLICATIONS

Artist: BANANAFISH Title: Issue #10
Format: MAG+CD Catalog
Number:
BF10
Price: $7.75 Label: Tedium House Publications
***Editorial content and related CD tracks from David (U.S. Saucer) Tholfsen, Melt Banana, William Hooker, Couch, Prick Decay, Alexander Ross, Vagtazo Halottkemek, Macronympha and Emil Beaulieau.

Artist: BANANAFISH Title: Issue #13
Format: MAG+CD Catalog
Number:
BF13
Price: $9.75 Label: Tedium House Publications
Release
Date:
8/16/99
***Since 1986, a time some of your favorite writers were busy discussing the genius of Gov't Issue and debating the merits of early Gang Green (although today they'll have you believe silent CDs with a single electronic chirp at 35:25 are essential listening), Bananafish magazine has been devoted to undermining the dreams and aspirations of fun-killing explainers, rimless bifocal'd complainers, and horrid gothic sourpusses otherwise known as "the experimental music community." As usual, the magazine comes with a full-length CD containing exclusive music and sound contributed by the featured artists. Interviewed in this issue: Japanese droneur Diesel Guitar; electronic post-pioneer and composer Ilhan Mimaroglu; French publishers of silkscreened books Le Dernier Cri; homemade electronic noise duo Nautical Almanac; Los Angeles free music kingpins Solid Eye; lovers of Prince and improv sound collage Universal Indians; lovers of fantasy and free electronics Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase; and the hardest working percussionist in new music William Winant. Electronic deep theorist irr. app. (ext.), former Scissor Girl A.Z., and New Zealand solo freak Witcyst each contribute several pages of Dante-esque words and Bosch-like images. Last but not least, New Zealand filmmaker, animator, electricity demon Nigel Bunn gives Barbara Manning a guided tour of his gadgetry wonderland.


Artist: BANANAFISH Title: Issue #14
Format: MAG+CD Catalog
Number:
BF14
Price: $9.50 Label: Tedium House Publications
Release
Date:
10/2/00
  • CD features exclusive tracks by the artists in the magazine, including Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle, Peg Murray of U.S. Saucer, John Wiese of Bastard Noise, and the Polar Goldie Cats (doing a feline version of Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein")

  • Electronic music, composers, field recordings, avant rock, novelty, comix, improv, jazz-- like The Wire, but with a personality

  • If the price seems high for a magazine, think of it as a compilation CD with a really huge booklet. What a deal!

  • Lotta highbrow lunacy, plenty of lowbrow wut-th-fuh, and features on incredibly talented, hard-travelling pretzel makers, all in one place

  • No Merzbow reviews
  • Artwork, interview excerpts and other coy promotional tools accessible [sic] at the Bananafish 14 Celebratory webpage

    For those of you keeping score at home:

    Ota Keiti
    Prominent Japanese illustrator. Interview and lots of samples of his mind-blowing work.
    NT Fan
    Electronic sideproject of Trey Spruance (Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3). Reprints of several of his over-the-top cultural paranoia tracts.

    Jazzfinger
    English low-decibel-noise duo with a strong cinematic sensibility. Interview by The Neil Campbell.

    Octavian Nemescu
    Romanian "new complexity" composer, contemporary of Dumitrescu and Anatol Vieru, known for heavily layered, polystructural works for various instrumental combinations and tape. An essay originally published in a European journal calling for a return to conceiving of music as an initiative, participatory event made of "energy ladders," translated and published in English for the first time.

    Surrealestate
    Los Angeles-based new music ensemble. Their improvisational reaction to Nemescu's essay appears on the CD.

    Polar Goldie Cats
    Los Angeles-based instrumental quartet with releases on Ecstatic Peace!, W.I.N., and Detector. Interview by Carla Bozulich and Nels Cline of Smells Like recording artists Scarnella

    John Wiese
    Interview with this type designer, member of Bastard Noise, solo noise artist, and curator of Helicopter's MoonLanding seven-inch series.

    James Goode
    Interview with this San Francisco-based Mills College postgrad; a short essay on "phylogenetic music," excerpted from his Mills thesis; program notes from Foment in the Brailles of Zoopsia, an excerpt from the premier of which appears on the CD.

    Panicsville
    Hostile interview by Tina Gladden with this Midwest noise artist, raconteur, sculptor whose chosen medium is roadkill sealed in clear plastic, cartoonist with a unique quasi-kaleidoscopic style, and designer of handmade CD jackets for the Nihilist label.

    Mandate
    A track on the CD by Bananafish autophysiopsychic music editor Stanley Zappa's improv quartet, describe by The Rocket as "a bunch of monkeys let loose in a trombone factory."

    Reynols
    Photo-autobiography. Celebrated oddballs at home in Argentina, they've collaborated with Pauline Oliveros on the internet, released recordings of blank tapes and 10,000 chickens, and splashed around the limited edition noise CD-R cesspool in the States.

    Vote Robot
    Canadian duo with hotwired reel-to-reel decks and an uncanny knack for creating erotic electro-lullabyes. Interview by our own Earl Kuck.

    Cooks 'n' Chefs 'n' Their Assistants
    Meta-comix by the Duchess of Landers, Peg Murray (ex-U.S. Saucer).


  • Artist: BANANAFISH Title: Issue #15
    Format: MAG+CD Catalog
    Number:
    BF15
    Price: $9.50 Label: Tedium House Publications
    Release
    Date:
    6/4/01
    ***Christine Shields
    Interview with this issue's cover artist, the author behind surreal, dreamlike Blue Hole comic book, and banjo-player for Appalachia-influenced Grouse Mountain Skyride (also featuring Dame Darcy and Ian Christe). On the CD: "Monkey Goes to the Moon" and "The World Is My Home"

    Mal Sharpe
    Interview with author, jazz musician, and Man-on-the-Street interviewer most well known as half of '60s prankster duo Coyle and Sharpe, whose legendary put-ons have been released on CD by the 21361 and Thirsty Ear labels. On the CD: Coyle and Sharpe "Transporting Captured People"

    Ana-Maria Avram
    Translation of an interview by Costin Cazaban with Romanian acousmatic composer and Editions Modern recording artist whose uncompromising, demanding music gives heavyweights like Dumitrescu and Fernando Grillo a run for the money. On the CD: the 13-minute "Etude (I), computer assisted music."

    Volcano the Bear
    Interview by Neil Campbell with this mind-expanding UK surrealist quartet whose music straddles "a strange, ambiguous line between comforting and terrifying." Collaborations with Nurse With Wound and Aube, releases on United Dairies, Misra, and Pickled Egg. On the CD: "Phantom, tha will be done"

    mad-cow.org
    Interview with Dr. Thomas Pringle, webmaster of the Sperling Biomedical Foundation's site containing almost 8,000 articles on mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, prions, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, and numerous other crimes against nature that should drive any sane person to veganism.

    John Crouse
    Guest editorial plus one other previously unpublished text by this inspirational author whose writing has been described as "a non-stop torque conflating the distinctions of sky, people, forest, political costume store Ö He makes his own vocabulary rushing forward at full tilt, the 'camel of wow'." On the CD: Crouse reads an excerpt from Lapses (O Books, 1995) with Stanley Zappa on sax

    Rats With Wings
    Freeform essay and images by this emerging Australian noise artist with releases planned on Plate Lunch and Freedom From. On the CD: "Horse Eat Grass"

    Volvox
    Interview with two members of this Australian band with a posthumous CD released by Dual Plover. Ant-honey Riddell, the leader of the band, was brain-injured and comatose after a fall through a skylight several years ago. "Next to Milk," a chapter from his phenomenal novel Betrayed by the Senses (Menisicus, 1999), is also reprinted. On the CD: "Extraordinary Swordfish" amd "Milkhead," from Egg, Pluto Pup and You

    Agog
    Interview with Damien Bisciglia, noise artist and sculptor of Rohrshach-like, nightmarish creatures made of melted plastic and various found materials. On the CD: "Waters Black from the Dung of a Thousand Camels"


    Artist: BANANAFISH Title: Issue #16
    Format: MAG+CD Catalog
    Number:
    BF16
    Price: $9.50 Label: Tedium House Publications
    Release
    Date:
    4/15/02
    ***Oren Ambarchi

    Bill Burston interviews the founder of the Australian Noise Users' Society, who has made ultrarefined space-station scree with AMM's Keith Rowe, Sachiko M, Otomo Yoshihide, out-of-control spazzassins Phlegm, The Menstruation Sisters, Robbie Avenaim, et al. On the CD: Oren Ambarchi, "George"

    Leif Elggren

    Interview with Swedish electroacoustic musician, letter-writing prankster, dream theorist, national monarch of Elgaland-Vargaland, and conceptual artist whose work ranges from oblique performances to near-static installations. On the CD: Leif Elggren, "Soya"

    Robert Dayton

    Earl Kuck interviews one of Canada's most notorious extroverts (imagine Nardwuar as a real human being) about comics and diaries in the self-published Bunyon and his hilarious karaoke duo Canned Hamm. On the CD: Canned Hamm, "Teenagers are Growing Up" and July Fourth Toilet, "Noise Maker Pomposity"

    Repeat

    Jason Kahn debunks onkyo, discusses his electronic duo with Toshi Nakamura, and early work with Arnold Dreyblatt, Universal Congress Of, and Sainkho Namtchylak. On the CD: Repeat, "Brussels 2"

    Parmentier

    Dylan Nyoukis interviews hyper-relaxed New Zealand expats Rosy Parlane and Dion Workman about their bi-continental "work" as psychotropic electronic musicians. On the CD: Dion Workman, "06.00," and Rosy Parlane, "Lodown"

    Halim El-Dabh

    Selected excerpts from Denise Seachrist's upcoming biography of the Egyptian-born composer whose pioneering musique concrete predates that of Pierre Schaeffer, and is also noteworthy for an unusual Native American musical influence. On the CD: Halim El-Dabh with Mike Hovancsek, "Three Time Frames"

    Paul Winstanley

    Another New Zealander interviewed by Dylan Nyoukis, about his time in Texas performing electroacoustic improv/noise with Dave Dove Paul Duo, crashing Lone Star bohemian enclaves, and cruising with Pauline Oliveros's mother. On the CD: JDP Trio, "2/21/95 #2" and "2/21/95 #16"

    Lateral Agriculture Order

    Overview of this mysterious acronym-damaged Italian organization, including discography, particulars about performances, roster of artists (eighty different ones!) and other inexplicable details. On the CD: tracks by Figlia Villana, Fernanda Craniotome Divortula, Magia Der Callaro, Monarch, Torpid, Lateral Agriculture Order, Jeans Scirri and S.A.A.R.O. featuring Head Tumulata

    And the rest...

    "Rose Marie to Block," fiction by Roger Pinell; reviews; found mail


    Artist: BANANAFISH Title: Issue #17
    Format: MAG+CD Catalog
    Number:
    BF17
    Price: $9.50 Label: Tedium House Publications
    Release
    Date:
    9/29/03
    ***Jason McLean

    Canadian cartoonist and Bananafish #17 cover artist talks with Robert Dayton about his hallucinatory style and techniques, and the effect on his work of education, interior decoration, comics, Fluxus and other abstruse art movements, and mental illness. On the CD: All-Star Schnauzer Band "No Onkyo"

    Hetty Maclise

    The first of a two-part interview with Angus's wife and collaborator, who recounts how they met, her art editorship at The Oracle in the '60s, homeopathic uses of LSD, and her life as an artist in Spain, Morocco, Mexico, San Francisco, and New York. Part two will deal with the Kathmandu years. On the CD: Universal Mutant Repertory Company "Ira's Theater (NYC)"

    Lara Allen

    The exploits of a high school bad girl and the deprogramming subsequently inflicted upon her, problematic theatrical experiences, her series of consistently eerie paintings of old family photos, acting, and filmmaking. On the CD: The Ragtime Germs "I'm Gonna Kill Myself" (audio) and Allen's The Nightshade Family animation (MPEG)

    Jazzkammer

    Lasse Marhaug chats with David Cotner about mainstream Hollywood flicks, cult films, the Nordic singles scene (both 45s and dating), Norwegian culture, Viking blood, and communication through music and abstract sound with John Hegre, Tore Bøe, Del, and Origami Republika. On the CD: Jazzkammer "Take Me Off Yr Mailing List"

    Astro

    Hiroshi Hasegawa instructs Dylan Nyoukis in the ways of reaching "final paradise" and achieving "freedom from everything" via Moog synthesizer, field recordings and computers. He also discusses soundtrack work, collaborations with a who's who of Japanese space noise huffers, and the shocking truth about C.C.C.C. On the CD: Astro "Inamura Beach"

    The Towne Dandies

    Geoff Ellsworth's homemade, props-heavy musical theater, the history of the band, paying the rent (which can involve processing ham), life under a microscope in a small town, and fledging jingle-writing venture Barefoot Hockey Goalie. On the CD: Towne Dandies "Underpants Road" (audio) and "Welcome Wranglers" (MPEG)

    Paul Dutton

    Canadian soundsinger and author talks about his work with '70s sound poets The Four Horsemen and free improv trio CCMC, literary efforts and visual poems, the nature of expression through sound, and various giants in the gibberish tradition, from Schwitters and the dadaists through Bob Cobbing. On the CD: Paul Dutton "Two Due" and "May Dues," Paul Dutton, Jaap Blonk, Koichi Makigami, Phil Minton, and David Moss "Esprit d'Encore"

    Fake Party

    Carla Bozulich's Sound.-produced event at the Schindler House, self-described as "new music dressed up like a party meets a social event disguised as art," reimagined as comics. On the CD: "Fake Fake Excerpt"

    And the usuals... Reviews by Alesandro Moreschi III, Roland Woodbe, Stanley Zappa, Fred Rinne, and S. Glass; a letter from the publisher, found mail, guest editorial


    Artist: BANANAFISH Title: Issue #18
    Format: MAG+CD Catalog
    Number:
    BF18
    Price: $9.50 Label: Tedium House Publications
    Release
    Date:
    11/15/04
  • David Lester
    Mecca Normal guitarist's surreal, interdisciplinary comics that combine choreography, quasi-clip art, collage, painting, text and typography.
    On the CD: Mecca Normal, "War Between the Neighbors"

  • Monotract
    Dylan Nyoukis gets schooled in Big Apple wisdom by this group of beach-blanket acidheads and New York City improv tour guides.
    On the CD: Monotract, "Fitty Bomb"

  • Burning Star Core
    Autodidact C. Spencer Yeh tracks his development from adolescent pyromaniac to violin/electronics/voice iconoclast, with sidetrips as a writer of unreadable fiction, painter, documentarian, Cincinnati gallery brat, and live venue doyen.
    On the CD: Burning Star Core, "You Are Legend"

  • Nelson Gastaldi
    Lost and overlooked Argentinean psychospatial composer found and restored by South America's premier avant sideshow barkers Reynols. Topics include pure sound, ethnomusicology, paranormal occurances.
    On the CD: Nelson Gastaldi, excerpt from Symphony No.3: o El Poder de la Nada

  • Joe Colley
    Easily fixated Crawl Unit noise mumbler issues subdued proclamations on field recordings, arcane electronic gadgets, public invisibility, charalatans and quacks.
    On the CD: assorted excepts from Colley's Forensic Audio series

  • Jim Leftwich
    Texts, images, collages and other hors de guerre by experimental writer, visual poet, xtant editor and Juxta publisher.
    On the CD: Jim Leftwich, "Ouzo and Kudzu Are Dead"

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