[Microsound-announce] Frankfurter Ahnung

[Richard Whitelaw]

Sonic Arts Network releases the latest instalment in the guest curated SAN
CD publication series:

Frankfurter Ahnung
curated by Ben Watson

Ben Watson ‹ Critic in his won lunchtime (opinions currently too crisp and
mirthinducing for the actually-existing music press) ‹ has complied a CD of
music which actually matters. Asked to explain himself, he shot back: ³My
finelypressed gang of musical irritants ‹ a.k.a. the Esemplasm ‹ take issue
with the Neo-Kantian precepts underlying cultural conditioning today.
Frankfurter Ahnung actively inkles that the oh-so-knowing circuits of
defusion and confusion which degalvinise the frog-leg salad of the
contemporary farce are not the limitless gambits of Sir Brain End.
Historical materialism will rise again to embalm you in your sleep, running
sores of festooned market system!²

Ben Watson was born in 1956. In 1968, he discovered social revolution and
Finnegans Wake. In 1977, he studied punk rock with poet J.H. Prynne. Today,
he broadcasts Late Lunch With Out To Lunch on Resonance 104.4 FM. His
publications include Frank Zappa: the Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play;
Art, Class & Cleavage; and Derek Bailey & the Story of Free Improvisation.

The CD contains music by Lol Coxhill, Derek Bailey, Winifred Atwell, Evil
Dick and the Banned Members, T.H.F. Drenching and Kenny Process Team plus a
cornucopia of image and text spawned for the mind of Mr Watson himself.

Previous Sonic Arts Network CD publications in this critically acclaimed
series have been curated by Kenny Goldsmith, a writer and founder of Ubuweb;
Nicolas Collins, Chair of the Department of Sound at the Art Institute of
Chicago; Irwin Chusid, an author and producer who codified a new musical
genre with his first book, Songs in the Key of Z; Tim Steiner, a musician,
broadcaster and advocate for the long forgotten ŒFitzgerald¹s Manifesto¹ and
the renowned Œpataphysician Dr. Andrew Hugill.

The CD can be purchased through the Sonic Arts Network website.
Alternatively, by becoming a member of SAN you will receive complimentary
issues of the CD series three times a year.
 
For more information visit www.sonicartsnetwork.org
 
For press contact: David Rogerson (david at sonicartsnetwork.org)