On April 2, 2011, Triple Canopy and Dalkey Archive Press presented an afternoon of failure at MoMA PS1 to celebrate the release of The Review of Contemporary Fiction's "Failure" issue, guest-edited by Joshua Cohen and available for purchase here.
In this recording, US Girls plays a set of refracted, mangled pop songs. The melodies are (mostly) intact, but they're down in the substratum and cranked through a pile of junk.
A series exploring the politics of urban sound in Bangkok and beyond, through first-person reporting, field recordings, and analysis. This episode describes twelve hours in the auditory lives of a unique class of laborers, Bangkok's motosai, the motorcycle taxi drivers known as the ears of the street. They absorb the city's noise and rumor, from the roar of traffic to the gossip of street vendors, long workday after long workday.
On April 2, 2011, Triple Canopy and Dalkey Archive Press presented an afternoon of failure at MoMA PS1 to celebrate the release of The Review of Contemporary Fiction's "Failure" issue, guest-edited by Joshua Cohen and available for purchase here.
In this first of two installments of recordings from the event, poet Eileen Myles reads "Solo Performance" from her new book Inferno (a poet's novel), published last year by OR Books; novelist, poet, and critic Travis Jeppesen delivers his essay "Itchy Homo, or Why I Am So Terrible"; and author Helen Dewitt Skypes in (via faulty wireless connection) from Berlin to read "Re: Awesomeness, or The Internet as Consolation."
