RE/Search Conversations
RE/Search Conversations features interviews with artists, musicians, writers and countercultural figures. Hosted by V. Vale of RE/Search Publications.
Episodes
V. Vale
Marian Wallace
William Bennett
Edited by Floyd Tangeman
Host: V. Vale
Engineered and edited by Marian Wallace
See and hear "Bit By Bit" from 2012 Fab Mab Reunion Show on youtube
https://youtu.be/sI6Za9MBYyU
John Shirley is a cyberpunk pioneer (along with William Gibson, Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling). He tells of his life and how he started writing: basically, start writing your dreams! Dreams can go anywhere! Dreams became short stories, and some were expanded into full-length novels. Duck-and-cover, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the idea of nuclear war inspired literally hundreds of dreams where he was incinerated by a nuc...
Carolee Schneemann is a way-ahead-of-her-time artist featured in the RE/Search book “ANGRY WOMEN." She has a huge art show now (Feb through March 11, 2018) at MOMA PS1, New York. Fifty years of original art-making in many genres!
Wolf Eyes was in town and visited the RE/Search office to talk to us about their eclectic and long-standing musical collaboration. Alt-Jazz, improvisation, and the necessity for spontaneity are some of their modus operandi.
Vale interviews Sumeet Banerji and Jerry Connolly. The three talk about Sumeet’s novel “Ice Party,” physical versus digital design processes, live music’s power, evocative odors, the insidiousness of marketing, curated everything, anathema words, and emoji conversations.
All the way from Hamburg, the experimental documentary filmmaker Peter Sempel stops in for this episode to discuss his process of filmmaking, the longevity of punk, how Jonas Mekas helped kickstart Sempel’s career, his newest project, and favorite animals. Originally recorded as a TV episode of The Counterculture Hour.
Zine-maker Marc Fischer , maker of Temporary Services zines, and Museum of Capitalism's Timothy Furstnau stopped by the RE/Search office to share ideas. They discuss their recent publications, the art book fair circuit, printing technique pros and cons, and TSA confiscations.
The Museum of Capitalism is having their book-release party this Friday in Oakland (August 11, 2017). The exhibition will be coming down and Timothy ...
Robert Conway, who manages the trust of Bruce Conner, talks with RE/Search. The conversation includes Conway's interviews of friends and associates of Conner’s, the defining criteria of an artist and how we all might define ourselves as such, Conner’s inkblot series, and biography as art form.
Tyler Hubby's film "Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present" is now out and making the rounds. Tony Conrad was an experimental filmmaker and musician and an early "Performance Artist" before the term existed! Tyler visited the RE/Search office and filled us him filmmaking, Tony Conrad's work, and more. Produced by Marian Wallace. Edited by Miranda Aaland.
Bassist Mike Watt (the Minutemen, Iggy Pop Stooges Band, and more) visits RE/Search headquarters. The conversation involves Watt's musical childhood and his career as a musician, including anecdotes about gigs, stolen basses, and punk philosophies. Text from this interview is available in printed form at www.researchpubs.com.
Mabuhay impresario Dirk Dirksen goes deeper into the types of performance art, including comedic acts, that were "allowed" to play at the Mabuhay. Part 2 of 2. (Interview from 2004, two years before Dirk died, Nov 20, 2006.)
Dirk Dirksen was the entrepreneur and impresario of Mabuhay Gardens Punk Club in San Francisco. Here he talks about booking the club, the range of performances, and counterculture movements, punk and otherwise. Part 1 of 2.
We visit Diane DiPrima and she fills us in on her life as a working writer. Topics we covered are the struggles of women writers, counterculture movements, including the Bohemian movement, and balancing motherhood and art.
David J talks about Bauhaus and counterculture movements, including the goth scene and punk styles, in America and in the UK. He discusses his experiences touring in America and playing gigs in Europe as well as his favorite writers J. G. Ballard and William S. Burroughs.
David J of Bauhaus fame visits California on his Living Room Shows Tour and comes by RE/Search office for a visit. Bauhaus is most well known for it's original goth hit, "Bela Lugosi Is Dead". Who Killed Mister Moonlight is his 2014 biography.
Director Christopher Coppola visits the RE/Search office to discuss filmmaking with V. Vale and Marian Wallace. Follow Christopher Coppola by visiting his blog: http://www.christophercoppola.com/
Thorsten Schutte, director of Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words, joins V. Vale and Marian Wallace in the RE/Search office.
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words directed by Thorsten Schutte (2016)
Review by Marian Wallace
There is never a dull moment watching Frank Zappa, from age approximately 14 to just before his all-too-early death at 52.
“Eat That Question” shows that Frank Zappa was not only a...
Daniel Miller's first claim to fame was his home-made (done in his bedroom) underground hit single, "Hot Leatherette," an electronic pre-digital composition inspired by J.G. Ballard's "Crash." He was in San Francisco for a DJ gig, also doing some synthesizer research, and stopped by for a visit, so we seized the time and recorded him. Here is Part 2 of the conversation taped at RE/Search headquarters.
...Daniel Miller's first claim to fame was his home-made (done in his bedroom) underground hit single, "Hot Leatherette," an electronic pre-digital composition inspired by J.G. Ballard's "Crash." He was in San Francisco for a DJ gig, also doing some synthesizer research, and stopped by for a visit, so we seized the time and recorded him. Here is Part One of the conversation taped at RE/Search headquarters.
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