Richard Kostelanetz

Born in 1940 in New York, Kostelanetz has published many books of poetry, fiction, criticism and cultural history , including John Cage (1970), Conversing With Cage (1988), On Innovative Music(ian)s (1989). Merce Cunningham (1992), Writing about Cage (1993), John Cage: Writer(1993) and A Dictionary of the Avante-Garde (1993). He recently edited Nicholas Slonimsky: The First 100 Years (1994) and A Portable Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1995). He has been working with audio since 1975, video since 1976, film since 1977, holography since 1978, and his personal computer since 1982. His audio tapes and audio-videotapes have been broadcast and exhibited around the world.


Richard Kostelanetz
Openings & Closings (1976)

Single-sentence stories (from a 1975 book of the same title) that are either the openings of hypothetical fictions or the closings, read by the author in inventively amplified stereo. (Duration, 60 minutes)


Tape
Price: $10.00

Richard Kostelanetz
Audio Writing (1984)

An introductory, comprehensive lecture-demonstration of his "publishing" with audiotape, with examples from over a dozen works. (Duration, 91 minutes)


Tape
Price: $11.00

Richard Kostelanetz
Partitions (1986)

A hifi stereo videotape of long words in which shorter words are embedded, in increasingly complex configurations, based upon an uncollected long poem by Kostelanetz. Music by Gordon Jillson. (Duration, ca. 28 minutes)

1/2" VHS


DVD-Video
Price: $50.00

Richard Kostelanetz
Video Strings (1989)

Several endless streams of letters composed of overlapping words (including one string in German) enhanced in different ways to the music of Gordon Jillson. (Duration, ca. 30 minutes)

1/2" VHS tape


DVD-Video
Price: $40.00

Richard Kostelanetz
Seductions/Relationships (1981-83)

An audiocassette of two formally experimental erotic narratives, respectively from More Short Fictions and Autobiographies. (Duration, 25 and 31 minutes)


Tape
Price: $10.00

Richard Kostelanetz
Americas' Game (1988)

A 60 minute hifi stereo multitrack composition of, and about the sound of, baseball as a reflection of the Americas.

1/2" Hifi stereo VHS


DVD-Video
Price: $75.00

Richard Kostelanetz
Die Evangelien

An elaborate, multi-dimensional video synthesis to accompany a continuous reading in German of the first four books of the New Testament as though they were a fugue.

Video tape


DVD-Video
Price: $65.00

Richard Kostelanetz
Foreshortenings & Other Stories (1977)

A work which rearranges 84 sentence-modules in systematically different ways, with two completely different readings-realizations of the text (which appeared from Tuumba Press, 1978). (Duration, 60 minutes)


Tape
Price: $8.00

Richard Kostelanetz
Audio Writing/A Retrospective (1978)

An earlier self-retrospective, 45 minutes.


Tape
Price: $11.00

Richard Kostelanetz
Video Writing (1987)

A 55-minute retrospective of early video art, narrated by Kostelanetz and directed by Robert Boynton Weyr.

1/2" VHS


DVD-Video
Price: $75.00

Richard Kostelanetz
Asdescent/Anacatabasis (1978)

Electronically modified readings of texts radically reworked from the KJV (and since reprinted in Prose Pieces, Atticus Press, 1985.) (Duration, 46 minutes)


Tape
Price: $8.00

Richard Kostelanetz
Partitions (1986)

A hifi stereo videotape of long words in which shorter words are embedded, in increasingly complex configurations, based upon an uncollected long poem by Kostelanetz. Music by Gordon Jillson. (Duration, ca. 28 minutes)
3/4" Video tape


DVD-Video
Price: $125.00

Richard Kostelanetz
Seductions/Relationships (1981-83)

An videocassette of two formally experimental erotic narratives, respectively from More Short Fictions and Autobiographies. (Duration, 25 and 31 minutes)

Videocassette with hifi stereo sound and kinetic syntheses (1988)
1/2" VHS


DVD-Video
Price: $75.00

Richard Kostelanetz
Americas' Game (1988)

A 60 minute hifi stereo multitrack composition of, and about the sound of, baseball as a reflection of the Americas.


Tape
Price: $10.00

Richard Kostelanetz
Invocations (1981)

An audio-art piece (in six versions) about the sound of the language of prayer, 61 minutes long, in 25 languages, recorded in West Berlin and mixed at the Electronic Music Studio of Stockholm and subsequently broadcast over radio stations in Germany, Holland, Canada, Australia and America.


DVD-Video
Price: $12.00

Richard Kostelanetz
Turfs/Grounds/Lawns

A succession of four-word poems, eight-word poems, and sixteen-word poems, sometimes accompanied by aural realizations of the same texts.


DVD-Video
Price: $65.00