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Julia Rommel
"I'm a painter. I have other obsessions but they never last." Julia Rommel's (b. 1980, Salisbury, Maryland, US) eponymous monograph gathers a decade of her painterly obsessions, with texts by the artist and writer Rebecca Bengal. 256 pages. Coming Fall 2021.
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From Xenakis's UPIC to Graphic Notation Today
On the legacy of Xenakis' innovations in music notation for contemporary composers Trained in mechanical engineering, Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) transformed mathematical models into architectonic musical entities. In the late 1970s Xenakis developed a digital apparatus that rendered waveforms drawn on a tablet as musical compositions. The device was called UPIC, or Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu, named for the French contemporary music research institute that Xenakis had helped found a decade earlier. The device proved to be an essential tool for the development of contemporary music--a version of the software is still used by today's composers. Featuring archival materials, this book examines the origins of Xenakis' UPIC. It also serves as a compositional tool: embedded QR codes allow readers to create their own sound-images from UPIC compositions.
Pfeiffer Country
Clay County, Arkansas, was a flatland with little improvements at the outset of the twentieth century. Into this primitive society came a St. Louis entrepreneur with a liking for agriculture. Paul Pfeiffer bought large tracts of land, set up tenant farmers, and reigned for nearly fifty years as a beneficent landlord. Laymon records the gratitude of many a family who remember with appreciation loans made to acquire equipment. When farming was interrupted by the coming of the railroad, both Pfeiffer and his tenants adapted to a lumbering economy—so long as the hardwood forest lasted. Interestingly, Laymon’s account includes the fate of tenants following the break-up of “Pfeiffer Country.”
Figures
Lucas Blalock's photographs don't look the way the world looks; they look the way the world feels. With Figures, Blalock (b. 1978, Asheville, North Carolina, USA) trains his camera on figures both his own and numerical, arranged by chance mathematical operations.
Local Warming
For Sebastian Black (b. 1985, New York, USA), this was a year like no other: a pandemic; three exhibitions; a move to Los Angeles; a presidential election; a baby, too. Twenty Twenty is Black's tale of it all, as recorded in his diary. Forthcoming from Zolo Press in Spring 2021.
The Buried Sea
In Rane Arroyo's poetry we hear echoes of Whitman, Lorca, Neruda. But more important, we hear Arroyo's own song of self rendered with a lyricism that belies its astonishing and redolent honesty. The Buried Sea: New and Selected Poems is a powerful addition to the American literary landscape. --Connie May Fowler.
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The Better Brain
A paradigm-shifting approach to treating mental disorders like anxiety, depression, and ADHD with food and nutrients, by two leading scientists who share their original, groundbreaking research with readers everywhere for the first time.
Idea Art for Kids
Mark A. Rodriguez (b. 1982, Chicago, IL, USA) first wrote Idea Art for Kids in 2006 while studying at California College of the Arts. Through lessons both droll and defiant-"Post missing signs for things that really aren't really missing"; "Teach a non-human how to read"-Rodriguez brings contemporary art production into the classroom. Fourteen years later-and with fourteen new lessons-Idea Art for Kids is published here for the first time. Produced in a limited run of 400 copies. Published by Zolo Press in 2020.
