MetaFilter posts tagged with ubu

"Ruthlessly simple and mind-boggling"

kenko — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:54:51 -0800

Never Again is a novel in which no word occurs more than once. Published in Ubuweb's contemporary collection. The post title comes from Harry Mathews' description of the novel's constraint in The Oulipo Compendium. However, the author, Doug Nufer, is not a member of the Oulipo.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

kenko — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:45:29 -0800

Primiti Too Taa is an animated excerpt from Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate. You can see the whole text, and hear the whole thing as voiced by Schwitters or many others, including a text-to-speech program and the author of Eunoia. The various performances are quite different; Christian Bök takes it extremely quickly, Jaap Blonk's 1986 version is very soft, and Adrian Khactu is more speechlike. Kun Jia's "Simultaneous Ursonate" is surprisingly musical.

Maybe she likes Wittgenstein...

clockwork — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:14:33 -0800

The Most Wanted Song - Finally, thanks to Ubuweb, Komar & Melamid's Most Wanted and Most Unwanted Songs (recorded in 1997) are now available online! Komar & Melamid have been featured on Metafilter before for The Most and Least Wanted Paintings. Thanks WMFU!

UbuWeb Film Now Streaming

treepour — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:20:10 -0800

UbuWeb has converted all of its rare and out-of-print film & video holdings to on-demand streaming formats. via WFMU.

Get me... a toothpick

Joey Michaels — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:12:21 -0800

Alfred Jarry. Writer, creator of pataphysics (the science of imaginary solutions), adopted father of the surrealists and extreme bike rider (in reality as well as in Howard Waldrop's Fin de Cycle). His best known work, Ubu Roi, inspired painter Joan Miro, playwright Samuel Beckett (among others) and gave a music group its name. (More Inside)

Rantastic!

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 06:59:09 -0800

The rantacular Francis E Dec : "Gangster Computer God Worldwide Secret Containment policy made possible solely by Worldwide Computer God Frankenstein Controls. Especially lifelong constant threshold brainwash radio. Quiet and motionless, I can slightly hear it. Repeatedly this has saved my life on the streets. Four billion wordwide population, all living, have a Computer God Containment Policy brain bank brain, a real brain in the brain bank cities on the far side of the moon we never see. Primarily, based on your lifelong Frankenstein Radio Controls, especially your Eyesight TV, sight and sound recorded by your brain, your moon brain of the Computer God activates your Frankenstein threshold brainwash radio lifelong, inculcating conformist propaganda, even frightening you and mixing you up and the usual, "Don't worry about it." For your setbacks, mistakes, even when you receive deadly injuries. This is the Worldwide Computer God Secret Containment Policy." Ubuweb has many sounds. Sounds are good.