The sonorous rumblings of Artists Space’s deep, overdue investigation into the work of performance, sound, and digital composition pioneer Yasunao Tone takes us from the early 1960s to the present via the artist’s examinations into emerging technologies, and their use and misuse in the creation of sound. Curator Danielle A. Jackson has compiled a comprehensive exhibition of rare ephemera, ranging from Tone’s irreverent graphic scores to manipulated sound objects and gizmos to performative actions imaginatively documented.
An exhibition dedicated to the Japanese-American musician in New York proves that, even in comparison to glitch masters like Aphex Twin and Autechre, Tone’s compositions are still radical today
Jackson, the quarterly s editor since 2021, is writing “Honey s Grill: Sex, Freedom and Women of the Blues” after accepting what the magazine called a major book deal.
It has been 30 years since the Oxford American first showed up on newsstands, bringing its distinctly Southern accent to the American literary magazine landscape. This month, with its Spring issue, the plucky, Conway-based nonprofit begins a yearlong commemoration of three decades of sending into the world voices and stories from the South in all their strange, radiant, complicated glory.