Gertrude Stein, Gradually

An ever-growing collection: Gertrude Stein was the gravitational center of the bohemian art-scene in Paris from around 1907 to 1913. Not an artist, and a writer of jarringly experimental style, her social influence outshone her recognition as a writer until much later. The "Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" excerpts sound like familiar story-telling, while the other pieces are adaptations of Stein's experimental-language writings, and are near-hallucinatory audio landscapes and textures. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a 1933 autobiography of Gertrude Stein, written by Stein as if she were Alice B. Toklas. This material is actually prose with stories and descriptions, describing life in Paris during the years of transition from Impressionism into Cubism. In chatty, amusing, language we meet Picasso, Cezanne, Matisse, Monet, Seurat, Chagall, Guillame Apollinaire, and many more characters in bohemian Paris. 1) My Arrival In Paris [from Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas] [pt. 1, 33 minutes] 2) My Arrival In Paris [from Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas] [pt. 2, 22 minutes] 3) Descriptions of Literature [from Literary Music] [9 minutes, 40 seconds] 4) Francis Rose [from Reflection on the Atomic Bomb] [3 minutes] 5) Paris, 1907-14 [from Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas] [19 minutes, 36 seconds] 6) Matisse and the origins of Cubism [from Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas] [22 minutes, 58 seconds] 7) Patriarchal Poetry [Exerpts] [from 'Bee Time Vine' 1927] [1 hr, 4 minutes] 8) Portrait of Mabel Dodge at Villa Curonia [from 'A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein'] [16 minutes] 9) Preciosilla [from 'Composition as Explanation' 1926] [3 Minutes, 54 seconds] 10) Study Nature [from 'Bee Time Vine' 1914] [1 minute 34 seconds] 11) Susie Asado [from 'Geography and Plays' 1922] [2 minutes 17 seconds] 12) First Example [from 'Syntax and Elucidation' 1923] [5 minutes 45 seconds] a Rose is a Rose is a Rose 13) Are There Arithmetics. [from 'Reflection on the Atomic Bomb'] [6 minutes 40 seconds] To Listen, go here: http://www.archive.org/details/PortraitOfMabelDodgeAtVillaCuronia My fascination with Gertrude Stein began in 1973, and I attempted to create a tape-loop style audio version of this piece, and it didn't go very far because of the technical difficulties. Now, 35 years later, it's a reality! More files are added as they are completed. The original impulse to create layered readings was an attempt to achieve a greater understanding of Stein's work, to discover what patterns would emerge. Now, layering sound files on the computer, I have seen that indeed new ways to hear the words emerge in the aggregate readings. I'm offering these freely and semi-anonymously, framed as "Public Readings" - as tributes to Gertrude Stein and her incredible vision. feminist poetry incantation jazz language lyric poetry modernism modernist oral literature performance San Francisco Renaissance Sound Poetry Symbolism Technology And Literature Transcendental Poetry Visionary Poetry Women Poets This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio Author: Aldeberon Defoskifornia - Rafi Simcha Keywords: Gertrude Stein poetry experimental spoken word performance non sequitur as art dada early twentieth century cubism cubist experimental language words as parts of music matisse , toulouse lautrec , gaugin , daumier , delacroix , greco , cezanne Modernist Poetry

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