Show description for Sunday 11/18/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Our guest this afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, Will Alexander.
Mr. Alexander works in multiple genres. In addition to being a poet, he is also a novelist, essayist, aphorist, playwright, philosopher, visual artist, and pianist. His influences range from poetic practitioners, such as Aimé Césaire, Bob Kaufman, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, and Philip Lamantia, to the encompassing paradigm of Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga, and the Egyptian worldview as understood by Cheikh Anta Diop and R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz. The latter is central to Alexander’s expanding inner range, which has allowed him access to levels of mind beyond the three-dimensional as boundary. He thereby explores the full dimensionality of each word. For him, each word has access to not only the median level of three-dimensional experience, but also partakes of experience on both the supra and subconscious planes. His praxis of language is not unlike the Mayan numerical world where each letter of the alphabet spontaneously engages in non-limit. Thus, all the fields of experience are open for exploration. Art, physics, botany, history, astronomy, architecture, poetics, each being a portion of the fields open for exploration. His books include Asia and Haiti, The Sri Lankan Loxodrome, Compression and Purity, Sunrise In Armageddon, Diary As Sin, Inside the Earthquake Palace, Towards The Primeval Lightning Field, and Mirach Speaks To His Grammatical Transparents.
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Ellington | Pitter Patter Panther | An Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940 | Smithsonian | ||
| Duke Ellington | Pyramid | An Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940 | Smithsonian | ||
| Duke Ellington | Portrait Of The Lion | An Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940 | Smithsonian | ||
| Duke Ellington | I'm Checking Out, Goombye | An Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940 | Smithsonian | ||
| Duke Ellington | Cottontail | An Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940 | Smithsonian | ||
| Duke Ellington | Blue Light (Take 2) | An Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940 | Smithsonian | ||
| Ron Carter | Rally | Where? | New Jazz | ||
| Eric Dolphy | Miss Ann | Far Cry | New Jazz | ||
| Adrienne Rich | Power | A Sign / I Was Not Alone | Out & Out Books | ||
| Jayne Cortez & Richard Davis | Solo | Celebrations & Solitudes | Strata-East | ||
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| Audre Lorde | Harriet | A Sign / I Was Not Alone | Out & Out Books | ||
| Andrew Hill | Siete Ocho | Judgement! | Blue Note | ||
| Andrew Hill | Ode To Von | Smokestack | Blue Note | ||
| Andrew Hill | Poinsettia | One For One | Blue Note - Reissue Series | ||
| Andrew Hill | Diddy Wah | One For One | Blue Note - Reissue Series | ||
| LaVern Baker | Soul On Fire | LaVern Baker | Atlantic | ||
| Ray Charles | The Right Time | Ray Charles at Newport | Atlantic | ||
| Ray Charles | I've Got A Woman | Ray Charles at Newport | Atlantic | ||
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| Carmen McRae | Bye, Bye Blackbird | By Special Request | Decca | ||
| Carmen McRae | Georgia Rose | By Special Request | Decca | ||
| Carmen McRae | Flamingo | By Special Request | Decca | ||
| Charles Mingus | Flamingo | Tijuana Moods | RCA | ||
| Charles Mingus | Los Mariachis (Alternate Take) | Tijuana Moods | RCA | ||
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| Jean-Claude Eloy | Equivalences (excerpt) | Pierre Boulez Conducts The Doumaine Musical Ensemble | Everest | ||
| Will Alexander Interviewed By Justin Desmangles | Will Alexander Interviewed By Justin Desmangles | Will Alexander Interviewed By Justin Desmangles | Will Alexander Interviewed By Justin Desmangles | ||
| Jean-Claude Eloy | Equivalences (excerpt) | Pierre Boulez Conducts The Doumaine Musical Ensemble | Everest | ||
| Henri Pousseur | Madrigal III (excerpt) | Pierre Boulez Conducts The Doumaine Musical Ensemble | Everest | ||
