Language Compositions Sound Poetry 1981-87

Lisker, Roy
Ferment Press
Spoken Word | Dec 2006

Reviews

Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2007-01-07
Spoken word, a kind of avant-garde poetry... While this is meant as serious art, there's a sense of humor to it, too. Lisker is an eccentric math(?) professor back in Connecticut -- I've found him on the Web at www.fermentmagazine.org.

2- Repeats the title phrase, or fragments of it, to twist around the meaning. Fun. Consider it the 'hit single' of the set

3- Another worldplay/phonetics-play track

8- Uses the same tools of repetition, but progresses forward in a narrative about the demise of the dinosaurs. Track 1 is about a dinosaur too, IIRC.
 
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2006-12-19
“Word Art” (I dunno) spoken word, poetry, “sound poetry”. Most of these tracks are him repeating one word in a bizarre way that reminds me more of the retarded kids I always had to play with growing up. Either that or Steve Reich, John Cage. Pretty avante stuff, drop a bit here and there into your set, a final nail in the coffin of bizarreness.

All tracks mostly the weird annoying repetitive stuff I described, chose any. Track number 7 is an exception: poetry’esque Economics lecture.

Recent airplay

The Dog Was Walking The Dog
Monologue For Dr. Gerald Debreu, Winner Of The Nobel Prize For Economics
Speak Me How to TeachJan 22, 2007
The Alvarez Hypothesis [excerpt]
Memory SelectJan 12, 2007
The Dog Was Walking The Dog
Closing TimeJan 12, 2007
The Dog Was Walking The Dog
Brownian MotionDec 30, 2006
The Dog Was Walking The Dog

Charting

2006-12-24 — 2007-02-25
Week EndingAirplays
Feb 18 1
Jan 28 1
Jan 14 2
Dec 31 4

Track listing

1. Megatherium
2. The Dog Was Walking The Dog
3. That Bad Bat
4. Battleaxe Battle
5. Junk Truck
6. Uranium Chant
7. Monologue For Dr. Gerald Debreu, Winner Of The Nobel Prize For Economics
8. The Alvarez Hypothesis
9. Autumn Chant
10. River Chant