MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH…
Kenneth Goldsmith. Part II
Music selected by Kenneth Goldsmith. Mix produced by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
This is a collection of various strange bumpers that I used on my WFMU radio show, which ran from 1996–2010. Many of them became weekly signature sounds signifying for many listeners that it was time to turn off the radio for the next three hours.
My show – known variously over the years as ‘Unpopular Music’ or ‘Anal Magic’ – was perhaps the most-hated show ever broadcast on WFMU. I have over a thousand bumpers, but for this podcast, I’ve selected about 40 of the best ones. Sometimes, I would do three hour radio shows, just stringing together one bumper after another.
Most of these clips are of indeterminate origin, grabbed willy-nilly over the course of fifteen years, snagged from various LPs, cassette tapes, CDs and gems plucked from Napster.
Conversation with Anki Toner on his sound collection
This is a conversation by email with the Spanish Gramophonic collector Anki Toner, which took place in Summer 2012.
Transcript of Kenneth Goldsmith's lecture: "From collector to archivist: seven thoughts".
Kenneth Goldsmith
Kenneth Goldsmith talks about Modernism and the digital, challenging and unchallenging literature, appropriation literary communism and what he calls his “third act”.
Conversation with Kenneth Goldsmith on his sound collection
This is a conversation by email with record and sound collector Kenneth Goldsmith, which took place on April 2012, to prepare a monograph on his sound collection.
Kenneth Goldsmith. Part I
Kenneth Goldsmith, founder of Ubuweb, takes us on a journey through his personal history as a collector of sounds that spans from his childhood to adult life and the creation of Ubuweb.
Kenneth Goldsmith. Teaser
As a teaser for his lecture, Kenneth Goldsmith compiles fifteen gems from his very own sound collection.
The Beauty in Breathing
The mix presented here investigates the artistic use of breath.
Kenneth Goldsmith
Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith, founder and main editor of Ubuweb, the Internet's largest archive of artistic avant-garde material.