Kenneth Goldsmith’s writing has been called some of the most “exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry” by Publishers Weekly. Goldsmith is the author of nine books of poetry, founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb (http://ubu.com), and the editor of “I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews,” which is the basis for an opera, “Trans-Warhol,” premiered in Geneva in March of 2007. An hour-long documentary on his work, “sucking on words: Kenneth Goldsmith” premiered at the British Library in 2007. Kenneth Goldsmith is the host of a weekly radio show on New York City’s WFMU. He teaches writing at The University of Pennsylvania, where he is a senior editor of Penn Sound, an online poetry archive. More about Goldsmith can be found on his author’s page at the University of Buffalo’s Electronic Poetry Center:
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith.
Kenneth Goldsmith will be singing the classics of theory, accompanied live by Tianna Kennedy, Alan Licht and friends.
C. Spencer Yeh was born in Taipei, Taiwan, moved to the US in 1980; and is now based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Yeh is active both as a solo and ensemble artist, as well as with his primary organized sound project, Burning Star Core. As an improviser, Yeh has focused on developing a personal vocabulary using violin, voice, and electronics. Collaborations live and in studio have included various contemporary groups including Comets on Fire, Dead Machines, Double Leopards, the Hototogisu, Smegma, MV+EE, Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Trio All-Stars, as well as individuals including Thurston Moore, John Olson, Okkyung Lee, Tatsuya Nakatani, Audrey Chen, and many others. Currently when possible, Yeh plays in a trio with Chris Corsano and Paul Flaherty, as a guest member of Graveyards (led by John Olson), and is currently in deep collaboration with John Wiese. Yeh has played in various projects at events including Victoriaville (Canada, Frieze Arts/Music at London Hippodrome (UK), SXSW (US), All Tomorrow’s Parties at Butlins Holiday Centre (UK), and the ongoing No Fun festivals (US), among others. He has also had works in the Harry Smith Anthology Remixed (alt.gallery, Newcastle UK), Leaderless: Underground Cassette Culture Now (Printed Matter, New York, NY) and Music Show II (Publico Gallery/Shake It Records, Cincinnati OH).