[Local events] TONIGHT: Works on Paper: Mark So

[Passages Bookshop]

/Works on Paper: <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>Experiments in 
Language and Sound <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>/

/presents //an evening of tapes, readings, and text-objects by /

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    MARK SO*


    *//**Saturday, May 6*
    */4:00 pm – 10:00 pm, come and go as you wish/*


    ///*$10-20*//suggested donation; no one turned away/

    *Passages Bookshop* <https://www.passagesbookshop.com>
    1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
    503-388-7665

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A six-hour multichannel playback of So’s experimental taped 
through-reading of John Ashbery's booklength poem /Flow Chart/ provides 
a lively scrim for several discrete but related nucleii of his work to 
appear and coincide:

    • a group of his Ashbery scores which composer Manfred Werder
    performed for a month at a time, marked only by his sparse
    overtyping and occasional polaroids

    • several typescripts from late in the Ashbery series, no longer
    scores but radical transcriptions of entire poems, and

    • /readings 54, for Manfred/ (2016 – ), an ongoing
    reading/writing/recording process comprising both an ever-expanding
    text-from-reading compiled in notebooks, and an evolving 20-minute
    tape loop.

The program is conceived as neither performance nor exhibition, but a 
mutually complicating interspersion of broken/modular facets.

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Mark So lives in and out of Los Angeles. His music has mainly developed 
through varied language-based media practices relating to reading, 
writing, and recording.

So has collaborated on diverse projects with numerous artists, 
musicians, filmmakers, and writers, including Dicky Bahto, Robert Blatt, 
Kathleen Johnson, Eileen Myles, Stuart Krimko, Julie Tolentino, Erika 
Vogt, and Manfred Werder.

His work appears in the recent anthologies /Pathetic 
Literature/,/Walking from Scores/, and /peripheries no. 5/, and 
recordings have been released by caduc., Editions Wandelweiser, OPEN 
SPACE, and winds measure.

In 2016, Marfa Book Co. published /a box of wind/ — a collection of more 
than three hundred scores from his Ashbery series.

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*Works on Paper <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org> *supports 
activities that use concepts, characteristics, and histories of the 
book, and entanglements with text, as a frame for exploratory practice 
across the arts. The spring 2023 series, /Experiments in Language and 
Sound/, was curated by Robert Blatt and David Abel. For more 
information, please visit the Works on Paper site 
<https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>.

The Works on Paper series is funded in part by the Regional Arts & 
Culture Council.

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