twenty-two years pass...
Was doing a binge on Rhys Chatham material, and I found this video... I don't know if this is the best thread, but I think they're back?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QCQYduxv8Y
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tote/table-of-the-elements?ref=discovery&term=table%20of%20the%20elements&total_hits=40&category_id=54
The list of things in production is pretty cool:
TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS 2025
PHYSICAL PRODUCT IN PREPRODUCTION:
Everloving
WFMU Sessions – LP
David Grubbs
Banana Lettuce, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange – LP
Matthew Welch
The Upside Down World (for Glenn Branca) – LP
Dave Soldier + Johannes Kepler
Motet, Harmony of the World – Book, CD
Jon Mueller + Tom Lecky
All Colors Present – Book, 2×CDs
Hal Rammel
Views Through a Kaleidophone – Book
Anthony Moore
Jamjemjimjomjum – LP
Joseph Nechvatal
Selected Sound Works (1981–2021) – Book, CD
Matthew Welch
The Library of Babel – LP
Joseph Nechvatal
The Marriage of Orlando and Artaud, Even – Book, 2×CDs
Leif Inge
9 Beet Stretch – Live event, boxed data drive
Gabrels • Kane • Parker Wells
Gabrels • Kane • Parker Wells – LP
Imaad Wasif & Nick Zinner
Folding City (Soundtrack) – LP
Rhys Chatham
A Crimson Grail (for 400 Electric Guitars) – 2×LPs
Rhys Chatham & His Guitar Trio All-Stars
Guitar Trio Is My Life! – 4×LPs, CD
Zeena Parkins
Nightmare Alley – LP
John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus MacLise, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela
Inside the Dream Syndicate Vol. I: Day of Niagara (1965) – LP
Patrick Nickleson
Protestations on the Dreamhouse Door – Book
Charlemagne Palestine
CCCCOOONNNTTTIIINNNUUUIIITTTIIIEEESSSS – Plush toys, data drive
Art Kane, with Jonathan Kane, Reeves Gabrels
What the Pictures Sound Like: Sonic Explorations of Art Kane Photographs – Live event, multimedia
Jennifer Walshe
TBD
Jackie Higgins • Leif Inge
9 Beet Sentient – Live event, presentation
Mary Jane Leach
TBD
TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS 2025
PROJECTS IN PRODUCTION:
• WHAT THE PICTURES SOUND LIKE: SONIC EXPLORATIONS OF ART KANE PHOTOGRAPHS featuring live interpretations by Jonathan Kane and Reeves Gabrels
• INSIDE/OUT, a podcast series in which TotE artists converse with curators, writers, peers, provocateurs, and fellow cultural icons
• IMPERFECT SOUND FOREVER, a podcast hosted by Patrick Nickleson that evaluates the 150+ releases from TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS ARCHIVE (1993-2010)
• DREAMWEAPON DAWN by founder Jeff Hunt, which extends the TOTE GUITAR SERIES into a daily, wake-up MICROCAST
• VIEWS THROUGH A KALEIDOPHONE, a coffee-table monograph of photographs by polymathic artist Hal Rammel
• An official DEEP-DIVE CAREER RETROSPECTIVE into the life and works of composer Charlemagne Palestine
• Ongoing 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION of Tony Conrad's 1995 classic, SLAPPING PYTHAGORAS
• Premium introductions to 9 BEET SENTIENT, a long-form sensory immersion between artist/composer Leif Inge and writer/director Jackie Higgins
― fpsa, Wednesday, 27 August 2025 14:54 (six months ago)