We are having a great Halloween party Friday night at Gonzoquest!
Come early at 7 PM to attend an art show reception on the ground floor!
We’ll also have pumpkin carving and costume-making fun!

The “Ursonate” will be broadcast live on the web,
Thursday August 6th, 8pm,
at the following links:

http://www.rfg3travel.com/bowerylive103008.html or
http://bowerypoetry.com/#Live_WebCast

ART
on
The Bowery
in
New York City

ONE EVENING
ONLY
Thursday
August 6th, 8:00PM
Bowery Poetry Club
Dada Masterpiece
Kurt Schwitters’s
classic “Sonata In Primeval Sounds”
URSONATE
Bowery Poetry Club (BPC)
308 Bowery, NYC
(Between Houston and Bleecker)

Dada artist Kurt Schwitters’s classic “Sonata In Primeval Sounds,”
also called
“Ursonate”,
is performed by
vocalist Bob Holman and The Ursonate Orchestra:
•
Andy Laties,
Rebecca Migdal
and percussionist
Eric Blitz
with artists
GLOVE,
and
Denis
Luzuriaga
plus special guests including
invented-instrument artist
Pronoblem

The “Ursonate” performance begins at
8pm, and is preceded by
a 7pm jam and webcast
honoring artist
Valerie Blitz,
featuring
Ursonate Urchestra
plus
artist
Seth Tobocman

308 Bowery (Between Houston and Bleecker)
F train to 2nd Ave, or 6 train to Bleecker.
Information at www.bowerypoetry.com

Published in 1932,
Kurt Schwitters’s “Sonata In Primeval Sounds” is the granddaddy of sound-art poems:
a 90-minute nonsense opus that develops 26 abstract themes in
classical sonata format.
Andy Laties’s rousing participatory interpretations
were honored in Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art’s major
“Art in Chicago 1945-1995″ retrospective.

•

Read Andy’s essay about his 25 years of Ursonate
performances here: www.artistorganizedart.org/commons/

Audio preview of this show is at:
www.fluxmass.org/music/ursonate/

•

The “Ursonate” will be broadcast live on the web,
Thursday August 6th, 8pm,
at the following links:

http://www.rfg3travel.com/bowerylive103008.html or
http://bowerypoetry.com/#Live_WebCast

Graphic Novelist Rebecca Migdal celebrates the launch of her daily webcomic “Rosetta Stone” (www.rosettastonecomic.com) with a screening of animated video readings including “Confessions of a Horny and Slightly Mad Cartoonist,” as part of GonzoQuest’s Final Fridays Open Mike Night, on Friday, April 24th at 8pm, Paper City Studios, 80 Race Street, in Holyoke.

Rosetta Stone is a singer and artist who is pursued by supernatural beings. The strange occurrences begin with a bizarre dream she has shortly after the death of her eldest sister. Rosetta’s adventures are intertwined with those of Nurdt Nobrain the Zombie Punk rocker, whose succubus of a ghost haunts her; and Cock Robin, a fertility deity whose intentions are anything but honorable. Meanwhile Rosetta’s guitar-god husband Enoch is annoyed by his wife’s sudden need for comfort and affection. He thinks she’s lost her mind–but has she?

The Final Fridays Open Mike additionally features performance poets, artists with slideshows, and musicians, and intersperses movements of Dada artist Kurt Schwitters’s classic “Sonata In Primeval Sounds” performed by Andy Laties, Rebecca Migdal and drummer Eric Blitz: open mike sign-up is at 7:30pm.

Published in 1932, Kurt Schwitters’s “Sonata In Primeval Sounds” is the granddaddy of sound-art poems: a 45-minute nonsense opus that develops 26 abstract themes in classical sonata format. Andy Laties’s rousing participatory interpretations were honored in Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art’s major “Chicago Artists 1945-1995″ retrospective.